BEING A TEACHER IS A DIFFICULT TASK NOWADAYS, SO I DECIDED TO FOLLOW THIS PIECE OF ADVICE BY BRUCE LEE:
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
How would you transform this passive sentence into the active voice?
Hundreds of millions of people are expected to be on the move this week.
Listening exercise to do: Family history (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)
Rachel's English (American English) episode is dealing this time with the phrasal verbs we can form with the verb HOLD.
HIGHWAY TO B2.....
A. VERBS AND PREPOSITIONS. Complete these sentences with the correct preposition.
1. Mrs Smith was accused ...... treating her dogs badly. 2. Many of her neighbours had complained ....... her ...... this. 3. The forty-four dogs all belonged ....... her. 4. The dogs suffered ....... malnutrition. 5. Her neighbours blamed her ...... the poor condition of the dogs. 6. They wanted to prevent her ....... getting any more. 7. In court, she was charged ...... causing the dogs unnecessary suffering. 8. Sometimes people are fined large sums of money ....... this. 9. The court has not yet decided ...... her case. 10. The judge, however, has said that he does not believe .......... punishment in cases like this.
B. VOCABULARY. Complete the following sentences with the correct form of the word in CAPITALS.
1. She had ignored her neighbours' .............. COMPLAIN 2. They had been disturbed by the dog's ............ BARK 3. It could be heard all over the .............. NEIGHBOUR 4. Her lawyer said in her ....... that she was lonely and confused. DEFEND 5. He said this was not a case of deliberate ...... CRUEL 6. In other words, she had no ....... of causing any suffering. INTEND 7. He said he hoped the court would show some .......... of her condition. UNDERSTAND 8. However, the court found her ....... GUILT 9. The judge gave her ........ to keep only one dog for ten years. PERMIT 10. Do you agree with this .......... ? DECIDE
Did you know that today is Chinese New Year (so let me send the best of wishes to all our Chinese visitors)?
Year of the Pig >>> "Pigs have a beautiful personality and are blessed with good fortune in life." 
John McEnroe, The Commissioner of Tennis, still talking about the Australian Open >>>
