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.
Don't you have the feeling that you are being watched everywhere and at every minute? You've got cameras at school, in the supermarket, in the shopping centre.... almost everywhere. They can track you using your mobile phone. They can even listen to your private conversations through toys, your personal computer or even using those radio sets you can talk to!!!
I-team: How much are we being watched?
Listen to this song (Every breath you take) by The Police and pay attention to the lyrics
Here are some articles for you to read and videos to watch related to the issue:
What do I mean? Am I asking you if you are able to "make a summary of the activity"? WRONG!!!
When you are doing an activity, usually physical, for example trekking in the mountains, and you are using a device to keep a record of your activity ( a smart phone, or an app such as 'runtastic') and you pause it because you stop to have a break. Then when you keep on with your walking or whatever you will have to press the button 'resume activity' to switch on your device.
So most of my students have been great PROCASTINATORS this summer (you remember a previous post that talked about people who always leave whatever they have to do for a later time) and they really need to start getting ready for the coming school year.
PROCASTINATING would be impossible in the animal world. A cheetah can never stop hunting to live and stay strong...
...or a hummingbird drinking nectar from flowers or in water holes and they never stop flying!!
Some amazing facts about hummingbirds >> another video!!!
Talking about feeding, as we need so much energy these days, have you ever heard of the SUPERFOODS? Is it really true all what is said?
41. TENSES. Put the verbs in
brackets into their correct past tense, and fill in the gaps (...)with the following words:now, anywhere, never , still , last, ago, yet
(note there are threetoo many)
1. (see) __________ you
_____________ my watch? I can't find it .........................
No, I ___________ . When (see) __________
you ................... _______________ it?
2. (speak) _________ you
____________ to your teacher about your homework?
No, I (not speak) ___________________ to
her ................... .
3. She (play) ___________
.................... __________________ Strip-poker with me.
42. TENSES. Put the verbs in
brackets into their correct tense, and fill in the gaps (...) with thefollowing words: if,when,until
1. The doctor (not let)
_________________ him get up ................. he (get) ___________ better.
2. Albert said:
"................... we (finish) _______________ Unit 50, we (begin)
______________the final exams.
3. ................. I (pass)
______________ English and all the other subjects, I (go) ____________to the beach every day.
"All work and no play makes Jack/Jill a dull boy/girl"
SOLUTIONS to the exercises in the previous post /for further exercises of this level go to Mock exams (1º Bach)/:
151.
1. worse and worse 2. further 3. the funniest 4. The more polluted, the bigger
152.
1. Shall I buy you a drink? I'll buy you a drink (if you like)
2. I'm terribly sorry, but I must go. I am late for a meeting. 3. What do you think of the film you've just seen?
153.
1. I wish it rained coffee and that I passed English!
2. There are fewer exercises in this exam than in the previous one. 3. He had to have the battery replaced at the petrol station that is between Torrenueva and Calahonda. 4. Shall I lay the table? I've got to listen to the news. I mustn't miss them. 5. If I were you, I would revise the exam again well. 6. When the exercises began to get more and more difficult, I asked my elder brother. 7. I've just remembered that I have to go to the bank right now. 8. Arthur didn't feel like going to class, neither did she. 9. Peter likes football a lot and so does Ron.
Leave those kids alone: 'helicopter parenting' linked to behavioural problems (The Guardian)
