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.
Listen to the song below and try to fill in the gaps (don't look at the lyrics until you have tried to do the exercise)
I waited
'til I saw the ________
I don't know why I didn't come
I __________ you by the house of fun
Don't know why I didn't come...
When I __________
the break of day
I wished that I _____________________
________
Instead of kneeling in the ____________
Catching tear-drops in my __________
My heart is
drenched in wine
But you'll be on my mind for ever
Out across
the endless ____________
I would die in ecstasy
But I'll be a _________ of bones
_________________ the road alone
My heart is
drenched in wine
But you'll be on my mind for ever
We don't want our students to be one-hit wonders, but to succeed in life and their future careers (professional lives). However, do you know what a "one-hit wonder" is? Think about it for a minute.
Well a one-hit wonder is a singer or a group who had a big hit in music, but that is all we can remember of them. For instance, can you remember this song? and do you know any more songs by this singer?
205. CONDITIONALS. Complete the sentences with the appropriate tenses (___) and with the following words (...) : unless, if, when, provided/providing (that), as long as
1. Your girl (BE) __________ safe .............. you (FOLLOW) __________ our instructions.
2. I'll buy a sandwich at the school canteen ............ the class (FINISH) __________.
3. We can go to the playground ............ the History teacher (NOT COME) ____________ today.
4. ............ we (STUDY) __________ more, we (NOT PASS) __________ our English exam.
5. ............ you (COME) __________ home before nine, I don't care where you go.
6. ............ I had a Ferrari, nobody in Salobreña (DRIVE) __________ faster than me.
7.
............ Indurain (NOT RETIRE) _______________________, he
(PROBABLY WIN) ____________________ the Tour de France for the sixth
time.
Now write three sentences using the following words and expressing these two ideas (make any changes if necessary): I'll finish the job today. You give me £1,000.
206. PROBABILITY. Complete the following sentences:
1. I __________ be getting a new job. I don't know yet.
2. "Here's a letter for you" "It's from Greece. It __________ be from Sonia. I don't know anybody else in Greece"
3. "I'm afraid I've crashed your car" "Oh, no! I __________ believe it"
Now
think about Jude Bellingham and Taylor Swift. Let's suppose they get
married and that they are going to have a baby. What do you think the
baby will be like? You can write about his/her possible physical
appearance or any other aspect of his/her personality you think of using as many probability structures as you know.
207. Suggest doing something next weekend using different structures.
208.
COMPARATIVES. Fill in the gaps with the comparatives of superiority and
the superlatives of the adjectives you are given in brackets:
1. It's terrible! The petrol is becoming (expensive) ________________________________ .
2. I think Saudi Arabia is one of (hot) ____________________ countries in the world.
3. (much) _______________ you write, (good) ________________ for you.
4. This is (bad) _______________ football match I've ever watched.
5. I love you (much) ______________ than yesterday and (little) ____________ than tomorrow.
Translate the following sentences into English:
6. Ella no llegó tan tarde como de costumbre. ________________________________________
7. Había menos gente en la fiesta que en la iglesia.______________________________________
8. Para más detalles debéis preguntarle a su hermano mayor.
2.
"My young brother wants to be a tax inspector", said Mary. "I can't
think why. None of my family has ever been a tax inspector". (use the
suitable connectors to link the three sentences)
