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.
Teaching is not a particularly easy job to carry out. Actually, there are more and more cases of people who try it and give it up after a while. We have had some examples at school.
It is true that it is a very demanding job as you have to be proficient in the subject you teach, you have to be highly motivating, you have to cope with students' misbehaviour in an appropriate way, you have to be a Super Teacher using ITC tools, there are more and more laws, changing every minute, you have to keep families informed... and so on.
What should teachers be like? Many students would prefer a super-teacher who would be telling jokes the whole time, giving high marks to everyone and not making them work (among other things). On the contrary, as you grow older, or when you miss chances in life because you are not well-prepared, you appreciate other characteristics, but perhaps it is already too late.
Episode 191211 / 11 December 2019 >>> Discovering the code of all life:
Language related to
'life'. Need-to-know language: teeming with life, biomedical sciences,
DNA sequence, breed crops & decipher the genetic code.
It's no rubbish!! There's rubbish everywhere: at school, in the streets, in the sea, in the space... Something must be done immediately if we don't want things to go any worse!!
How many words do you know that are connected with 'rubbish'? Look far below in this post and you'll find some of them. But try first, and then have a look at this interesting LINGOHACK episode:
Episode 191120 / 20 November 2019 >>> Learn 'rubbish' vocabulary (French restaurants fighting climate change): Language related to
'rubbish'. Need-to-know language: waste food, compost, organic, landfill and greenhouse gas.
And rubbish is obviously connected to some big issues, such as: nuclear waste, climate change, recycling, reusing, upcycling, pollution, landfill, methane gas...
Words connected with rubbish: rubbish bin, dustbin, litter, space junk, debris, garbage, trash, compost, waste... You can even have a look at some posts related with this:
Yes, yes, it is not a mistake. I said 'hangry'. It is the combination of being hungry and feeling angry because of that. Might this be the cause of the behaviour of some of our students, especially those in 2º ESO B????
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Revision for SELECTIVITY. Some exercises connected with the section USE OF ENGLISH.
Solutions to the exercises in the previous post:
1. routine(Twenty-eight
monks live at Mepkin Abbey, following the same routine established in France
900 years ago: praying, reading the Bible, and working.)2. quietly 3. Peace and joy are found at the monastery by visitors.4. Lindsay is the eldest child, so she has to look after the other children. 5. on6. How much did the dictionary cost ten years ago? 7. , they can also visit the museum. 8. peacefully (Example: “Eva died
peacefully in her sleep,” a spokesperson at the home said.) 9. spokesperson, spokesman 10. The director said they were very privileged to have nursed her. 11. She lived for a long time since she had a whisky everyday. 12. Old people live in nursing homes 13. How old is she said to be? 14. he would have celebrated her 120th birthday. 15. brightness , reporter 16. The UFO enthusiast explained he had never known anything like it. // The butcher exclaimed that he couldn't get those pies anywhere else in the universe. 17. into 18. How long have people been seeing strange objects in the sky?
Episode 180502 / 02 May 2018
>>> Fishermen fear oil drilling in African lake - Language related
to 'Economic survival'. Need-to-know language: lifeblood, sustenance, make a living, way of life &
in the doldrums.
Another funny episode of John McEnroe talking about tennis in "The self-appointed Commissioner of Tennis":
It is true that it is a very demanding job as you have to be proficient in the subject you teach, you have to be highly motivating, you have to cope with students' misbehaviour in an appropriate way, you have to be a Super Teacher using ITC tools, there are more and more laws, changing every minute, you have to keep families informed... and so on. 
What should teachers be like? Many students would prefer a super-teacher who would be telling jokes the whole time, giving high marks to everyone and not making them work (among other things). On the contrary, as you grow older, or when you miss chances in life because you are not well-prepared, you appreciate other characteristics, but perhaps it is already too late.
Before going on, let's just stop for a minute and see the difference between 'ADVICE' and 'ADVISE' (Learners' questions, BBC Learning English)
