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.
Crowd funding (micromecenazgo) .- the
practice of funding a project or venture by raising money from a large
number of people who each contribute a relatively small amount,
typically via the internet.
"musicians, filmmakers, and artists have successfully raised funds and fostered awareness through crowdfunding"
Crowdfunding is an excellent idea. Have a look at these articles:
However, crowdfunding has also got its dark side. A few days ago, we have seen in Spain the case of an online crowdfunding for medical expenses which turned out to be a fraud. A man with 2,000 tumors asked famous people for money to cover all the medical expenses due to his illness.
Episode 210324 / 24 March 2021 >>> Discovering the Universe's best kept secrets - Language related to
'Science'. Need-to-know language: particles, detect, capturing & evolved.
Summer is a time to travel not only in Spain, but abroad. We are not used to paying cash and we use our credit cards instead. We are also used to buying flight tickets, hotel rooms, any item... using our credit cards. However, we must be very careful with certain pages as they may be tricky and frauds are everywhere.
Here are some articles for you to read about the issue and a listening exercise:
Breaking news: Congratulations to Ana Muñoz (4° ESO A), as I have just been told that she passed her B1 exams at the Official Language School as a freelance student last June.
SOLUTIONS to the exercises in the previous post /for further exercises of this level go to Mock exams (1º Bach)/:
143. 1. works 2. has taught / has been teaching 3. left 4. enjoyed 5. Have you ever worked 6. spent 7. was made 8. could continue / would like to continue 9. happened 10. was working 11. to help 12. met 13. had told 14. was 15. am going to begin 16. will become 17. are getting 18. would do 19. had 20. is running
144.
1. Real Madrid have won the Champions League
Cup thirteen times, which doesn't please Barcelona supporters.
2. Leonardo DiCaprio, who began his career as an actor working with Robert DeNiro, played an important role
in the film Titanic.
3. I was in the cinema where your father sometimes
works.
4. The chair (which/that) I was sitting on was not very stable.
5. Albert, whose talent to predict the future is similar to Rappel's, guessed the result of the
match.
12 year old Victoria Grant spells out the fraud the banks are committing
against the people and explains why her homeland, Canada, and most of
the world, is in debt.
Crowd funding (micromecenazgo) .- the
practice of funding a project or venture by raising money from a large
number of people who each contribute a relatively small amount,
typically via the internet.
Paco Sanz, the perillán who swindled more than 14,000 people by simulating "2,000 tumors" (spainsnews.com)
Here's the song The Heat is on by Glenn Frey with lyrics for you to sing along: 
