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.
Episode 210217 / 17 February 2021 >>> Night walking in the UK - Language related to
'darkness'. Need-to-know language: descends, after dark, night walker & forbidding.
The V- Day came and Covid vaccines have started to be administered at hospitals in the UK. In a few days' time we will also begin here in Spain, as well as in most European countries. Is it the light at the end of this long dark tunnel?
And this is what this elderly lady said after being vaccinated: "Go for it. It's free .... If I can do it, so can you". Now we will have to keep alert to see its possible side effects.
Good news now that Christmas is coming. Here's a song by Train: Shake Up Christmas (version with lyrics)
REVISION FOR Bachillerato
161. TENSES. Put the verbs in brackets into
the correct tense. Some are active, some are passive. Then fill in the dotted
gaps (....) with appropriate words.
Reuters News Agency
Martin Webb (1)____________ (work) for the Reuters News Agency (a)
............. ten years. He describes the company.
'Reuters is one (b) .............. the world's biggest news agencies. It
(2) ____________ (supply) news and stock market prices to media world. It (3)
_____________ (start) by Paul Reuter in 1849 - with pigeons! Reuter (4)
_______________ (be born) in 1816 in Germany. During the 1840s he (5)
_______________ (employ) as a bank clerk in Berlin. German bankers
(6)______________ (need) to know the prices on the Paris stock exchange, but
the French telegraph system only went as far as Belgium. From there the
information (7) _______________ (send) to Germany (c) .............. train. The
journey (8) _______________ (take) nine hours. The same information (9)
______________ (carry) by Paul Reuter's pigeons in only two hours!
Reuters (10) _______________ (change) a lot (d) .................. those
days. Over the past fifty years, we've opened offices in many different
countries - and we (11) ____________ still ____________ (expand). Now, news and
stock market prices (12) _________________ (send) all over the world within
seconds.'
162. Look at the previous text again and do
what you are asked:
2. Find a word in
the text for the following definition: "a person whose job is to do
written work or look after records or accounts in an office, bank, court of
law, etc. ___________
163. TENSES. Think about last school term and
write sentences with the clues given imagining it is Tuesday. 22nd
December, that is to say, right at the of the term:
1. Albert / tell / us / to work every
day__________________________________________
2. We / have/ only one exam / before our
term exams.
Episode 201216 / 16 December 2020 >>> Tackling a tide of plastic - Language related to
'helping the planet'. Need-to-know language: the final straw, strong sign, responsability, functioning & trajectory.
What a damned year! Again another great legend, the Italian football player Paolo Rossi has passed away.
Do you know what "For What It's Worth" means? It is also the title of a song by the Buffalo Springfield and it has always been an anti-war protest song. Actually, it wasn't in the beginning. It was a consequence of a curfew, like the one we have nowadays due to the pandemic.
In a few days' time we are coming to our deadline to hand in compositions/writing exercises, making comments... so pay attention to the listening exercise I propose and the other activities:
A listening exercise for you to do: Let's talk about lateness(6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)
Here's the song by Elton John: "I'm still standing" (with English subtitles) 
