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.
Happy New Year to you all!!! but are you ready for the New Year? Especially my students in 2º Bachillerato, I hope they are having a good rest and that they are trying to do some work in advance as we will be increasingly speeding in this second term.
The first thing to do is try to think about some resolutions, that is to say, you have to resolve to do things or just to do them in a better way. For example, you have to improve your writing skills by means of your compositions written at home and your comments in this blog. However, cheating is not very advisable as you will have to do them under exam conditions, as in the Selectivity exam. So it is up to you!!!
The TOP 10 WORDS in English in 2021, according to BBC Learning English: mask, woke (politically speaking), binge-watch, conservatorship, home, GOAT, anti-, space, climate & vaccine.
What was the best thing that happened in 2021? Which would be the best song for you in English? Here some of the best goals!!
And what about the worst?
Here's my musical hint for these days before going back to school:Back to School song
He wasn't and he isn't one of my favourite tennis players, but he was and he is such a gentleman as you can appreciate here: Stan Smith talking on His 1972 Wimbledon Win
The title of this song gave me a hint for this new post. What or who can make a person happy? For lovers the answer is obvious, as it is the case of the song, but there are many other circumstances.
That could be the case of a teacher and his students, a parent and his/her children, etc. However, it is not only people who can bring happiness, but also things or animals, for instance pets, money...
So what or who can make you happy?
You will make me really happy if you do these activities:
Towards Advanced grammar: RELATIVE CLAUSES(6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)
'For the moment being' (look up this interesting expression in LINGUEE) and try to use it in your comments.
For the moment being, the return to school has presented no problems at all. We will just have to still comply with all the Covid protocol and regulations and I am sure we will all sort out any difficulties we may come across. Anyway, the flock or herd imminuty required to reach a high level of safety is closer and closer with the vaccination of the younger population.
Again fantastic news!!! I have just learned that Mª Trini Ortiz (2º Bach last year) has passed her B1 exam (Cambridge) CONGRATULATIONS to her!!!
This therapist is working on a free mental health project focused on educating people as part of a programme developed by Betterhelp. I highly recommend you to have a look at this page, especially the advice section, as it has relevant vocabulary related to the issue which may useful for our Selectivity exam.
Do you email or message people in another country?
Have you got a personal blog or a personal webpage?
Do you ever chat with strangers on the internet? Do you play games with people online? How many hours do you spend surfing the internet?
And here's a really interesting video for you to watch about SO, TOO, REALLY & VERY >>>
And now an article about volcanoes (the Lingohack section also deals with the topic) >>>>
67.1. People will not probably
need food ....2. The submarine took the men to
Manila.
3. Nobody had delivered the message yet.
68.1. sleeping - to camp 2. studying - spend - watching 3. to pass - to come - dreaming
69.(a) John and Paul, who were
working on the roof, left the ladderagainst the house.
(b) Bill, whose fingerprints
were on the screwdriver, was latercaught by the police.
(c) The bed I slept on has no
mattress.(d) Tom, who had been driving
all day, was tired and .....
(e) He spoke in French,but
the people he was speaking to didn't know French.
70.Of course, I will go to the party. I took a two-week course on robotics.
He asked me a question. He asked me to stand up.
I am still writing. You could hear strange sounds in the still of the night. Stay still till I tell you so.
71.(a) She asked me to pass her the salt.(b) Jim answered she was not the right woman to do that.
(c) The driver said he couldn't find the
road in the map. (d) Peter suggested having
dinner somewhere after the theatre. Ann accepted and suggested going to that place Jackwas always talking
about.
(e) Ann saidJack's parents
had asked her to supper the following night, but she didn't know what to wear (but she wondered what she should wear)
72.1. I prefer driving rather than travelling by train if you don't mind. 2. According to certain people, may parents would prefer that their children had less homework. (fewer exercises to do)
3. When I went to England I wasn't used to having breakfast so early, but shortly after I got used to getting up and having breakfast early
4. There's no point (in) worrying about money because you never know what is going to happen tomorrow.
5. We've almost run out of petrol. We'd better stop at the next petrol station to fill it in.
6. May, who is the new
British Prime Minister, also stated that it is (high) time something is done / to do something about pollution and the Bosnian problem.
7. I didn't see anybody going into the house, but I could hear how someone was walking on the second floor.
8. At the beginning she didn't want to have dinner with Albert, but in the end he could / was able to convince her.
9. He must have gone out because I have been phoning him since five and nobody answers. Do you think you could lend me a hand with my English homework?
10. We've got plenty of time, so we needn't/don't need to/don't have to hurry up.
Episode 171129 / 29 November 2017
>>> Monitoring a deadly volcano - Language related to
'volcanoes'. Need-to-know language: towers above, active, peak,
eruption, lava.
