What if I ask you what's your favourite sport?

A topic that often gets sport fans squabbling is when they are asked to name what they think is the best sport in the world.
There are thousands of sports payed around the world and of course it's difficult to choose just one among all of them. Especially when every sport has its ins and outs. Every sport except one : yoga. 


Developed in an ancient India, yoga is not only a spiritual practise that has been evolving for the last who know how many years but its also one of the few disciplines that has no point against. Along the years lots of sports came but sooner or later they had to leave. However yoga is one of  the few sports which came to stay.


There are many reasons to practise yoga. It can not only improve your physical conditions but it also enriches and enhance your most beloved thing , the one and only : your spirit.
It's a discipline that though meditation helps you to gain a moral asceticism and the physical exercises help you to develop a higher level of conscience and to integrate physical, mental and spiritual aspects of a person.
It's true that the benefits are noticeable after a prolonged time. But that's because yoga "repairs" your body from its  roots, from every cell. So it's worth waiting.And if this isn't enough it also increases life expectancy. The fact that by doing it just once a day it influences in your behaviour and mental health is surely its most attractive benefit.

Grey's anatomy

Grey's anatomy is my favourite programme, it is a medical drama.
This series is about the world of medicine about the relationship of the actors, the love affairs residents, and the relations between the interns.

Cristina, Isobel Stevens and Meredith are interns in the surgery programme in the Seattle Grace Hospital.

Derek, Pretson and Mark Sloan are the residents, they are surgeons.
Àlex Karev and George O'Malley are the interns also in the programme of their friends, their residents is Miranda.

Meredith Grey falls in love with Derek Sheperd, the neurosurgeon. They fall in love and they transvers the ploblems about the love.

Cristina Yang and Preston Burke fall in love and they will get married, but Preston in the ceremony leaves and Cristina gets depressed. After that, she loves an other resident.
Isobel Stevens loves Àlex Karev and her best friend, George, when george gets maried with the resident Callie Torres, Stevens realizes that she really loves George. Finally she has a cancer and she gets maried to Àlex, and George died in a accident.

This TV programme has love, real priblems in the real life... It is the best series about medicine after DR. House.

Hexagon Race

Idea taken from Reward Intermediate Resource Pack.

Procedure:

1. The object of the game is to get a line of connecting hexagons, either from the top of the board to the bottom or from one side to the other. 
2. A team gets an hexagon by answering a question correctly. 
3. The first team chooses an hexagon from the top row of the game board. This is where their line will begin. 
4. It is a good idea to try to block the other team.
5. The first team to get a line of hexagons from top to bottom or from one side to the other is the winner.

Solutions

Here are the answers to the previous riddles. Don't read this if you haven't tried to solve the riddles yet.


Riddle 1:
Inkstand (sorry that was verbatim, yeah I know "bad joke")


Riddle 2:
The letter M ( hehehe got you again)


Riddle 3
Queue


Riddle 4
1,2,5 have a back sticker, and 3,4 have a white sticker. This one was hard, actually it was very hard. congratulations if you've solved it.

Games

OK guys, time to have some fun so lets play a game or better said a challenge! Let's see who can solve these riddles. Give it a try ^^ but please take it easy .

OK here's riddle number 1. Pay attention:

1.You have to write an 8 letter word that has kst in the half of the word, in the beginning , and at the end.


Already solved it ? Here's another one:

2.What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a billion years?

This one is very difficult.

3.There's an english word that has the same pronunciation even if you subtract 4 of its 5 letters. What word am I talking about?


This one is the last.

4.We have five people. Person 1, person 2 , person 3, person 4, person 5. These five people have a sticker in their forehead but they can't see it. However they can see the one on others. The people with the white sticker never lie, but the people with the black sticker always tell a lie.

We asked these five persons, and they've said this:
1: I can see three white stickers and one black.
2: I can see four black stickers.
3: I can see three black and one white sticker
5: I can see four white stickers.

What colour has the sticker on each 1, 2, 3, 4 's forehead?

Clue: Only one of these statements is correct.

A TV programme

My favourite TV programme is Merlin. The show is originally telecast in BBC and of course the original language is English. It represents the  the legend of a powerful magician : Merlin and a future king: Arthur Pendragon. The show is situated in Camelot one of the most powerful nations of that moment. Like almost every show this one has also got a negative character: Morgana.

She’s the step-sister of Arthur.

I loved the show from its first episode. The show has four sessions so far. The first session focused more on Arthur and Merlin’s relationship; Merlin was new in Camelot, his mother sent him there to work with Gaius an old but clever men. Soon Merlin got a job in the royal castle as Arthur’s servant.  Arthur never showed it but for him Merlin was more like a friend than a servant. He always believed in him. As for Merlin he protected Arthur from all the evil around him with his magic. Several times he had to put in danger his own life but he never cared about that.  His loyalty toward Arthur was admirable.

The second session concentrated more in Arthur and Guinevere (the future queen )’s relationship. At first Arthur avoided his feelings for Guinevere as she was only a servant but after all he's human. It doesn’t matter how much he wanted to avoid it, finally he couldn’t resist.

The third session focused in Morgana  and her betrayal.

Camelot is a place where magic was strictly not allowed. But the own daughter of the king: lady Morgana had magic. At first the lady was scared about what she was. She knew more than anyone else that her father would have killed her if he knew about her quality. Morgana decided to kill her father . She wanted to be the queen in order to protect her life and the lives of all the people who were like her.

She didn’t care about her brother , father or any relative. Morgana tried to kill her brother several times but  Merlin always defeated her.

The fourth and current session is about Arthur as a king.

Uther Pendragon, Arthur’s father died so Arthur became the king. At a very young age Arthur proved how caring he can be toward his kingdom.

The show is absolutely amazing. But there’s one thing I don’t like about it; Arthur and Morgana’s relationship. They used to care a lot about each other and then suddenly everything changes? How can Morgana forget her family just like that?. Arthur should talk to his sister and make her understand that she’s wrong. Its his duty to do that but instead of that her let her do whatever she wants. Come on don’t make me laugh!, he is her brother. Morgana helped him a  lot of times, now its his turn but all he does is blame Morgana. I know she’s wrong but anyone can make a mistake.

Another thing I don’t like is Guinevere’s clothes. I know she is a servant but she’s always wearing blue cheap dresses. Al least change the colour . I am tired to see the same colour everywhere it's getting boring now.

Oups I forgot to say (“write”) who’s my favourite character. Its Merlin obviously. I am his fan (maybe not). I love the way he handles the situation. And he’s very funny, he’s always stumbling with something that appears from nowhere.

Some people are born to be a king , others are born to make a king. Merlin was one of those.

Some useful tools for your research project

I just wanted to embed here the wonderful prezi JM Vigatà prepared for you.
It is all about useful tools you may need and want to use during the research and presentation of the project.

Don't miss the google doc of the second part "More tools for your research project"

You are also expected to take a survey that Josep Maria has designed to have some feedback on the two training sessions. Click on the link: Survey.

Happy research!

Algunes eines per a fer un TR digne on Prezi

Causative Passive: "have something done"

This is a very simple, clear and short explanation of the very English structure: "have something done"

Thanks to Abel, a teacher from Terrassa who created this presentation.

Causative passive

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Passive Voice

Can you rewrite the following sentence into the passive voice?
You can form two passive sencences because there are two objects, although it is more common to start the passive sentence with the indirect object.

Camèlia gave us the good news. 

1. ______________________________

2. ______________________________

Complete with the passive form of the verb make:

• make                        ____________________
• is making                  ____________________ 
• will make                  ____________________ 
• is going to make        ____________________ 
• made                         ____________________ 
• was making               ____________________ 
• has made                   ____________________ 
• had made                   ____________________ 
• to make                     ____________________ 

We use the passive voice when it is not clear or important who does the action, e.g. My bike has been stolen. 

If you want to say who did the action, use by. 

Passive Voice video explanation

This is a wonderful explanation of the passive voice by American teacher Jennifer.
You may want to visit her Youtube Channel: Quality English Lessons Online by JenniferESL.
Happy learning!

Passive voice (exercises online)

Click on the links below for further grammar practice at home:

Active or passive
Passive voice -various tenses

If i had a million euros

If I had a million euros I would like to buy a lot of things that I’ve always wanted to have, for example a better car or a better house, maybe I’ve buy one for me and another for my mom, also I’d like to travel around many countries like England, the United States of America or maybe Japan .

But what I would like to do most, is living without being worried about money, otherwise I would have to be carefull about wasting the money because although it’s a lot of money one million euros not last for ever and I couldn’t waste the opportunity of investing on buying or doing a lot of things.

In conclusion a million euros would not exchange my way to do things but it could be a great opportunity like I said before, to travel, to buy things and ultimately to enjoy a period of time.

Jose Consuegra, 1rC