Strengthening your mind!!! (QUARANTINE: DAY 9)

Don't you feel we are getting stronger and stronger? Our minds are getting used to being enclosed and we are beginning to build up our own routines. This is going to work out well!!!  You'll see.

Five ways to improve your mental health in 2020 (CNN)

 

In spite of not doing any physical exercise outdoors:

Moving the body, boosting the mind: running your way to better mental health (The Guardian)

We cannot go jogging outdoors, but we can dance indoors!!!! Turn the volume at the highest!!!

Kelly Clarkson - Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE QUARANTINE

 Tuesday, 24^th March

  Tasks for today:

>>>  Revise page 65

MODAL VERBS  >>>  can/can't, must/mustn't, should/shouldn't

Unit 5. Translate these sentences into English. 

• No debieras comerte un almuerzo grande antes de un partido de fútbol.

• Debes llevar sandalias dentro de la piscina. No debes llevar zapatos o zapatillas de deporte.

• Un pez no sabe andar, pero algunos pueden saltar muy alto  fuera del agua.

• ¿Sabes hablar alemán? No, pero sé hablar francés bien.

• Los alumnos debieran hacer el comic de la Vuelta al Mundo en 80 días rápido.

• Tú puedes estudiar duro durante el curso y aprobar en junio, o tú puedes vivir felizmente sin trabajar. Entonces debes estudiar durante el verano para los exámenes de septiembre.

• La gente no puede jugar al golf en Itrabo.

  
  

  >>>  Watch this video about SPORT

  English - Sport in the UK (A1 - A2 with subtitles)

   

 

These are the tasks for today:

• Unit 7 (Smart Planet 4)    >>>   Revise the text on pages 73 and ask me any doubts you have.     

• Do page 58 (workbook)  Smart Planet digital books

• And finally.....

Here's a verb exam for you to do. Try to do it in 10 minutes. You just have to tell me how many mistakes you committed. Please, BE HONEST!!!

   

VERB EXAM 01. Write the past and past participle forms of each verb

1. ARISE     2. BEAR   3.  BEND     4.  BRING   5. SHOP     6. CATCH    

7.  CREEP  8. DIG  9. DRINK  10. FEED    11. CARRY     12. WIN    13. RING    

14. TAKE     15. SMELL   16. TEACH     17. THINK   18. WITHDRAW    

19. MEET   20. LIE (MENTIR)    21. LEARN    22. FORGIVE    23.GROW    

24. HEAR   25. WATCH  26. DWELL    27. FIT  28. MISREAD   29. OUTDO 

30. RIDE  31. STRIKE   32. BEGIN     33. GRIND     34. SPEAK    35. SIT      

36. THINK     37. WRITE  38. FORGET   39. SAY   40. SWEAR   41. SLEEP     

42. SEND    43. SELL    44. BORROW  45. SHOOT   46. DEAL   47. BLOW   

48. CHOOSE   49. KNOW 50. HIT

 

English in a Minute:  'ALL' vs 'EVERY' vs 'WHOLE'   (BBC Learning English)

Here's a listening exercise for you to do: How meditation changes the mind  (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)

 

 

Students must do the verb exam above and send me the mistakes committed >>>

 

Homework for today:

  Unit 6  (page 71) 

 

 Evolution of Television 1920-2020

 

Here's a post with some B2 exercises:  Emoji? An international language?  

BREAKING NEWS  >>>Coronavirus: Almost 800 more dead in Italy - BBC News

 

 

 

MIND AND BODY: Buddhist retreat centre in Las Alpujarras

At the moment we are studying in 2º ESO how to train our brain and how yoga can help students by means of strengthening the links between our mind and our body.

Here are some interesting links and videos about the world-famous Buddhist retreat centre we have in Las Alpujarras, a perfect place for meditation:

O.SEL.LING Retreat Center  (note the American spelling) 
Another link to the Centre  

VIDEO:      Introduction to Kaliyoga Retreat Centre in Las Alpujarras, Spain

Relaxation Techniques for Stress Relief

Give me some advice to relax. How do you relax when you go to the dentist's or have an exam?

CROSSWORD on YOGA   and QUIZNET on MODALS OF OBLIGATION