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.
Write comments about the situation women live in certain countries around the world and the solutions you propose. Is death penalty a solution as they suggest in India?
"Better as a team", said Nadal. He was really proud of having participated and won the Davis Cup last weekend, and emphasized the fact he felt even better because the victory came from a team. Tennis is an individual sport and he is used to fighting, winning and losing on his own, so he has come to the conclusion that nothing beats a victory when it is achieved as a team.
Here some quotes from "15 Quotes to Inspire Great Teamwork" (Inc.) related to the greatness of teamwork:
"Individual commitment to a group effort--that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." --Vince Lombardi
"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships." --Michael Jordan
"Teamwork
is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to
direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It
is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results." --Andrew Carnegie
"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much." --Helen Keller
"None of us is as smart as all of us." --Ken Blanchard
"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." --Henry Ford
"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself." --Henry Ford
"The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team." --Phil Jackson
"It takes two flints to make a fire." --Louisa May Alcott
"Unity is strength. . . when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved." --Mattie Stepanek
And as a team, Spain has won their 6th Davis Cup....
Episode 191113 / 13 November 2019 >>> Do we need toys to play? (Toy-free play trial): Language related to
'play'. Need-to-know language: nursery, imagination, dexterity, deprive & gender.
Objectification of human beings is supposed to be one of the problems our society must tackle as soon as possible. We must all stand up against this problem if we want a fairer society for our children.
In the world of advertising it is not all gold that glitters.
UN Women | My Story: End Violence against Women & Girls
And now you can create your own story by clicking here: My own story
Episode 181114 / 14 November 2018
>>> First woman Physics Nobel Prize winner in 55 years - Language related to
'inventions'. Need-to-know language: ground-breaking, devised, to get recognised & in the field.
The important thing when you commit a mistake is that you learn the lesson and that you don't commit the same mistake again. That is what Magic Johnson (NBA basketball player) said in the chat show at the bottom of this post when being interviewed alongside Larry Bird about their careers.
Therefore, it is important for my students to learn the lesson and not to commit the same mistakes again. For instance, they should write genuine comments so as to improve their writing skills.
Solutions to the exercises in the previous post.....
Complete each of the sentences in such a way that it means the same as the sentence before it.
1.If only I HAD DONE 2.They wish they HADN'T COMMITTED 3.I wish this kid WEREN'T / WASN'T 4.I wish he DID 5.If only Jason PAID/WOULD PAY (change of habit) 6.If only he STOPPED 7.I wish I HADN'T 8.He wishes he HAD READ 9.Steve wishes he HAD PROPOSED 10. She wishes she HAD DONE 11. I wish he DIDN'T BELCH (SO) loudly 12. If only she HAD HEEDED
Road towards success in the new PAU (Selectivity exam).....
1)
Turn
the following sentence into reported speech.
The director said: “We are very
privileged to have nursed her.”
2)
Join the
following sentences using an appropriate linker (do not use AND
or BUT). Make changes if necessary.
She lived for a long time. She
had a whisky everyday.
3)
Put the
following words in the correct order to make a meaningful sentence.
people / homes / old / in / live
/ nursing
4)
Give a
question for the underlined words.
She is said to be 115years old.
5)
Complete the
following sentence:
If Eva had lived six more days…
Model of the new PAU exam for 2025 made in Galicia
This
exam comprises four questions: 1. and 2. contain two subsections which
you must answer in full; 3. contains only one section which you must
answer; in 4., answer only one of the two subsections.
PART ONE
Read the following text:
In
common with many gender-based languages, Spanish resorts to a generic
masculine when it isn’t specified whether the subject is male or female.
For example, a girl is a “niña” and a boy is a “niño”, but
collectively, children are “niños”. One solution hit upon by supporters
of inclusive language is to “double up” on genders so that “the
neighbourhood children” becomes “the neighbourhood boys and girls”, but
such innovations can infuriate traditionalists. The conservative-minded
RAE has so far managed to evade the question but has previously defended
the gender neutrality of masculine nouns. “Doubling up is artificial
and unnecessary from a linguistic perspective,” it said in an official
statement. “The explicit use of the feminine is only justified when the
opposition of the sexes is relevant.”
The
battle over language is only the latest fought by Spanish feminists,
whose movement flowered in the 1930s during the Second Republic when
women such as Clara Campoamor campaigned for women’s suffrage and
Dolores Ibárruri, better known as La Pasionaria, was a leader of the
Communist party and the anti-fascist movement. When the fascist victory
in 1939 installed a Catholic dictatorship, feminism was delayed but has
since been making up for lost time. In fact, the first feminist congress
was held just 17 days after General Franco’s death in 1975. Today, the
spokeswomen for the #MeToo movement in the European parliament, Amelia
Martínez Lobo and Arantxa Calvera, are both Spanish. Now, in what is
considered its fourth wave, the movement has become more militant. Over
the past two years this growing militancy has seen millions of women
take to the streets on International Women’s Day, which takes place on
8th March. The movement’s main focus is on sexual consent, equal pay,
parental leave and violence against women.
1. Answer both subsections in this question. (2,5 points) 1.1.
Indicate whether the following statements are True, False or the
information is Not Given in the text (T/F/NG). In true and false cases,
copy the part of the text which justifies your answer. (1,5 points)
1. Spanish is a language with a grammatical gender system. 2. The President of the European Parliament agrees that languages must be inclusive. 3. The Spanish Language Academy is in favour of using masculine AND feminine nouns whenever possible. 4. Many feminist writers and thinkers were sent to prison during the Francoist regime because of their ideas. 5. The Feminist movement blossomed during the Second Spanish Republic. 6. Using non-inclusive forms of the language will contribute to social inequality in the future.
1.2. Find a synonym for each of the following words. (1 point)
India inspiring others to fight violence against women: US playwright-activist Eve Ensler
