Goodbye for the Summer 2019

Hectic weeks at the end of the year seem to have become the norm lately, at least for me, so I will just wish you all the best for a relaxing summer break.

See you in September!

Asperger´s Syndrome

Some of my students are reading Mark Haddon´s  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time for end-of-the-year extra-credit.

This video may help you understand people who suffer from Asperger´s Syndrome;  click to get the subtitles - if you need them.

Maths

For lovers of mathematics: watch the video below and click on the English subtitles to make sure you fully understand it. You will learn a lot of vocabulary related to maths - and the pronunciation of those words in English

 

Writing: The Power Of Words

Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo

E-mail Etiquette

 Thanks to `Help Teaching´ for the video

Class of 2019

With my best wishes and with lots of love

Motivation

Now that the end of high school is here for many of our students, this motivational video may come in useful and effective. Here are Arnold Schwarzenegger´s five rules:

1. Find your vision ( your goal) and follow it
2. Think big; never ever think small; go and shoot for the stars
3. Ignore the naysayers
4. Work hard ( he uses a more `colloquial´expression)
5. Don´t just take, give something back and change the world (I could not agree more with this one...)

 

Thanks, Francisco, for the link!

English Quiz

How good are you at English? Watch this video by Vicki Hollett and do the quiz; you should do really well - if you have been working in our lessons...

 

Procrastinators

Are you a procrastinator? What type are you?

Procrastinators. from Nas Alhusain on Vimeo.

Song Of The Week: Bruce Springsteen´s `Hello, Sunshine!´

Here is `Hello,Sunshine!´, a song from Bruce Springsteen´s latest album, `Western Stars´, which will come out on June14.