HOMEWORK for week 30TH MARCH

Dear students,
It has made me VERY happy to receive your answers about the documentary. I hope that these days are days to reflect on life and enjoy your family and yourself.
This week will be light since Easter time is approaching. I just include a short video with a nice parable and the link to participate in Saint Jordi competition.

My mail again for the correction: anaguismaremar@gmail.com

1- Inspirational VIDEO

The Parable of the Farmer and the Horse. This story is a great reminder of what Dale Carnegie once said, "when dealing with people, we must remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity."

2-  Short writing for SAINT JORDI

The video above may give you ideas for your writing. 

If you feel inspired you can just drop me few lines for correcting before participating.

I WILL BE VERY HAPPY TO RECEIVE YOUR LINES!!!!!!

HERE YOU ARE THE LINK TO PARTICIPATE:

(Us faig arribar l'enllaç on estan les bases del concurs de Sant Jordi d'aquest curs)

https://agora.xtec.cat/iesmaremar/projectes-del-centre/diada-sant-jordi-2020/

3 - SOME OF YOU have not sent me the answers to the documentary HAPPY yet. 

STILL IN TIME TO DO IT. I encourage you to watch the video.

I hope you enjoy it.

My mail: anaguismaremar@gmail.com

4- Short meditation in case you want/need to relax (5 minutes):

Short meditations

The Taoist Parable of the Butterfly (by Zhuangzi )
1 minute and 30'

3 minutes

5 minutes

5 minutes

5 minutes
male voice

10 minutes

20 minutes

The Taoist Farmer - short story

The Parable of the Farmer and the Horse. This story is a great reminder of what Dale Carnegie once said, "when dealing with people, we must remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity."

writing- oral PROJECT - A PERSON YOU LOOK UP TO (=ADMIRE)

1- PICK UP A PERSON YOU ADMIRE, SOMEBODY WHO HAS DONE SOMETHING POSITIVE FOR HIMSELF/HERSELF AND FOR THE COMMUNITY.
SOMEBODY WHO IS SUCCESSFUL, WHO HAS A GOOD INCOME, A GOOD PROJECT OR PRODUCT THAT FUNCTIONS WELL

2- EXPLAIN IN WRITING:

• WHO IS THE PERSON
• WHICH IS HIS/HER ACTIVITY OR PROJECT OR PRODUCT
• HOW WAS HIS/HER BEGINNING
• WHAT HE/SHE DID TO ACHIEVE HIS/HER DREAM
• HOW MUCH TIME HE/SHE TOOK
• HIS/HER STRATEGIES
• HIS/HER DIFFICULTIES AT SOME POINT
• AN ANECDOTE OF HIS/HER LIFE, FAMILY...
• A CURIOSITY

3- ORAL EXPLANATION. 

My example:

- A poor Russian boy who loved reading

- He has developed an application where he summarises books for people in a very short and visual way. FIGHT MEDIOCRITY (youtube) and application

https://www.blinkist.com/nc/partners/fightmediocrity

- He started selling all kinds of things for money. After a while he started summarising books completely free in a youtube channel

- He worked very hard and when he had a lot of followers he set up (or started) the app charging money to people

- He took around 5 years (I am not very sure)

- Work hard and for free first and later be paid for his services. Do an excellent job. Give a lot of quality.

- His father criticised him a lot for selling things for money when he was young. The mentality of his family, friends, school, community was communist so not money-oriented or business-oriented.

- His father was a poor man who apparently worked a lot for money.

- He moves to the USA and lives there now. His project is a great success!

A SURVEY about teens!!!!!

We are going to work on a survey in order to get information about TEENS.

1 - Make questions to your classmates about many topics of your interest: 

examples:

alcohol

when was the first time you tasted alcohol?
was it with your family or with your friends?
did you like it?
how did you feel? (dizzy, happy, unhappy, excited, miserable, stressed, depressed, down...)

studies

sex

fears

expectations

wishes

relationship with parents

relationship with teachers

relatioship with classmates

hobbies

drugs

activities out of school

reactions after getting marks in school

plans for the future

others


2- Write a report explaining the results of your survey

paragraph 1  introduction: who took part in the survey and what the survey was about

paragraph 2  result of the survey

paragraph 3  conclusion and your recommendations

REPORTED SPEECH

1 - watch these videos

http://youtu.be/t__Kbprp-8Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2TxjJ2zdM0



2- 30 minutes:
In pairs, they must prepare a gossip situation (short dialogue) in which they get some 'hot' news and have to report to another person (friend, classmate, parents, teacher, etc.)

3- 20 minutes:
read the dialogues for the class

PASSIVE VOICE

SONG!!!!!

A company has been bought! Who bought it? The company was bought by whom?

GAME

NEWS about aliens!!!! 7'

Conversation 2'


EXERCISES

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/passiv.htm

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/passive-exercises.html

https://agendaweb.org/verbs/passive-exercises.html

https://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/esl-passive-voice-exercise2.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/passive-exercise-5.html

https://www.grammarbank.com/passive-voice-exercises.html