Make me feel

 The way people make others feel is essential to keep them motivated and go on working. In the case of lovers, the simple sight of your partner makes you feel different. 

And what about Nadal? The way he has made us feel when he was on court was unforgettable. Do you think his match against Zverev was his last dance at Roland Garros?

 

Rafael Nadal loses to Alexander Zverev in what may be his French Open farewell (The Guardian)

 

Alexander Zverev vs Rafael Nadal | Round 1 | French Open 2024 Extended Highlights 🇫🇷

 

Here are some activities for you to do: 

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  Real Easy English: Talking about holidays  (BBC Learning English)

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  English in a Minute:   Meanings of SCHEDULE  (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English) 

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  Georgie talking about: Prepositions for TRANSPORT  (BBC Learning English) 
  

• A listening exercise for you to do:   Sewing to fight period poverty  (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)

Quizz: Which is correct?  

Activities for my students.....

in 2º ESO: Watch these episodes of OLD THAT'S ENGLISH programme and revise the modal verbs....

 

MODULE 4    (Notes)

• Unit 6   >>   Programmes    1 082    2  083   3  084 
  

 

in 3º ESO:  Passive Voice    Active or Passive?   1   2 

           Introducing REPORTED SPEECH

mmmEnglish talking about: Can you use REPORTED SPEECH? Grammar Lesson + Examples

News Review: Computer made with brain cells (BBC Learning English)

Here are some articles for you to read and a postcast to listen to about the issue:

• The big idea: should we all be putting chips in our brains? (The Guardian)
• Podcast: Computer made with brain cells (BBC News)
• Scientists teach brain cells to play video game Pong (The Guardian)

 

And, obviously, my musical hint for today is:   The Way You Make Me Feel by Michael Jackson. Come on, sing along with this version with the lyrics!

 

Other related songs: Janelle Monáe – Make Me Feel [Official Music Video]  ,  Sylvester - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)  ,   Aretha Franklin - (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman (Official Lyric Video)   Which one do you like the most?

Teachers are unbeatable!!!

Neither translators nor computers nor any other machine can beat a good teacher. Believe it or not, there are so many things machines can't do. Can you tell me about them?

Here are some articles to read about the issue:

• Computers can't replace real teachers (CNN)

• What Machines Can’t Do (The New York Times)

• Are we becoming too reliant on computers? (The Guardian)

• Man v machine: can computers cook, write and paint better than us? (The Guardian)

 

Machines can't even make jokes >>>>

On the way to SELECTIVITY   >>>  Replace the underlined phrases with the correct form of these phrasal verbs connected with RELATIONSHIPS: ask someone out, turn someone down, break up, chat someone up, get over something, find out, fall out, go out with someone.

1. He invited her to go on a date with him, but she refused his invitation.

2. She spoke to him because she was attracted to him, but when she discovered he already had a girlfriend she lost interest.

3. She had a relationship with him for more than a year, but then she had an argument with him.

4. They decided to end the relationship. When it finished she took a long time to recover.

 

Listening exercise to do: What can't computers do? (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English) Something that they can't certainly do is TRANSLATE!!!  At least so far. So stop using translators to write your compositions.

 

Stop translating in your head with Lucy

 

 

LINGOHACK  >>>

• Episode 170927 / 27 September 2017    >>>  Language related to 'technology'.

Computers, artificial intelligence... Be careful!

Our fears for new technologies >> two listening exercises to do:

• Are computers making us dumb? (BBC Learning English)

• Do you fear artificial intelligence? (BBC Learning English)

And some articles to read:

• Will computers kill handwriting?   

• The lost art of handwriting (The Guardian)

So what do you think about all of this? Do you handwrite your projects, your compositions... or do you type everything on your computer?

Listening exercise to do: Mobile phones 

Would you buy a Mac or a PC?

Here are some ads J.J. Rovira (1º Bach A) has just sent me. Watch them and tell me if you can get something clear out of it?