Hello, dear 2B students!
How are you today? Ready for some composition day? Here is a little video by Tom from Eat, Sleep, Learn, giving us some advice about how to turn this negative situation into something positive.
This is what we are going to do:
1) FIRST, watch the video and answer (5) of the following comprehension questions TODAY Friday 27th.
The video lasts 11:30 minutes, make sure you can follow the video without being interrupted.
To do that read the questions first and be ready to take notes. You can stop the video or re-play it as often as you need. Do not use subtitles, if you can avoid them.
1. What are the 10 recommendations that he gives?
2. What is the speaker's recommendation to avoid the noise? Summarize your answer.
3. According to research, what effects does the phone has on you it is at sight?
4. What is his recommendation about exercise?
5. What is recommendation #5?
6. Why is number 6 especially advantageous?
7. What is a study buddy?
8. What is the meaning of losing momentum?
9. What two Tv series does he recommend to learn English?
10. What learning platform to learn English does he recommends?
2) SECOND. Write a composition of about 120 words on the following topic.
"HOW TO STUDY AT HOME DURING THE QUARANTINE PERIOD". Use the previous video as inspiration and try to give some advice and /or explain your own situation. Remember to use topic-related vocabulary, a variety of different grammar structures and appropriate linkers. Give your text a structure. Compositions will be sent to arantxaealo@gmail.com. The deadline for the composition is Friday 3rd April.
I hope you like the material and make the most of it.
#stayathome
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ReplyDelete1-Study thirty minutes maybe a couple of times a day.
2-if you like music, you can study with music, better with instrumental but if you don’t like Music but you laso don’t like silence, you have a free app that simulates environmental sounds (Coffitivity).
3-save your phone.
4-exercise between study and study, you need a move.
5-set an alarm once in a while to put yourself in a proper position.
6-use your washing machine or dishwasher to control your study time.
7-take notes.
8-the best evidence that you have learned something is that you can teach someone else that information.
9-use skype or any other system to talk to your classmates, study and practice english.
10-have a specific goal for very study session.
2. Listen to music or ambient sounds.
3. Studies have shown that if you have your phone within sight of you the productivity is reduced by 40%.
4. Exercise between study and study.
5. A recommendation to maintain a suitable position for our back.
6. Because while you study and timed you wash your clothes or dishes.
7. A person who studies with you, help each other and facilitate the study of each other.
8. -
9. Friends and Fleabag.
10. Lingoda.
Well done, Nerea!
DeleteYou can check the meaning of "lose momentum" on an online dictionary. Now you can prepare your composition. There is plenty of time!
1.Study thirty minutes maybe a couple of times a day; if you like music go for a instrumental playlist, but if you don’t like Music but you also don’t like silence, you have a free app that simulates environmental sounds (Coffitivity);save your phone; do some exercise between study and study, it's really important; check your poture frecuently; use your washing machine or dishwasher to control the time; take notes;try to teach someone else the thind you have studied to check if you have learnt it; use skype or any other app to make online study sessions with friends; have a specific goal for very study session.
ReplyDelete2. Listen to music (better instrumental) or ambient sounds.
3. Studies have shown that if you have your phone within sight of you then productivity is reduced by 40%.
4. Exercise between study and study.
5. He advice you to check your posture frequently.
6. Because you got your clothes or dishes washed while studing
7. A person who studies with you, help each other and facilitate the study of each other.
8. To move more slowly
9. Fleabag and Friends
10. Lingoda
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DeleteAna García Ruiz.
ReplyDelete1- 1) Study sustainable amounts of time (maybe 30 minutes).
2) Set your background noise/ music.
3) Put you phone away.
4) Get up and move your body regularly.
5) Check your posture frequently.
6) Use your washing machine as a timer.
7) Take notes and learn actively.
8) Teach someone the things you learn.
9) Organised online study sessions with friends.
10) Have a specific gaol for you study sessions.
2- If you like music, you can listen to instrumental music in YouTube or Spotify, or you can also try Coffe.tv for listening to ambient noises.
3- Your productivity get reduce by a 30%.
4- After 45 minutes you need to move (walk around the room etc…).
5- Check you posture frequently.
6- Because you study for and entirely hour and also have your clothes done.
7- A person who you can study with and also practise English.
8- Losing your focus and get distracted.
9- Fleabag and FRIENDS.
10- Lingoda and Lyricstraining.
1)Study thirty minutes a couple of times a day.
ReplyDelete2)If you like music. Study with music, better with instrumental music and if you prefer not to study with music and you prefer to study in silence. There are applications of ambient sounds (coffetivity).
3)Save your pone
4)Exercise between study and study, it helps you get moving.
5)Set on alarm every thirty minutes to put yourself in a proper position.
6)Use your washing machine as a time for your studies.
7)Take notes.
8)Teach someone the things you learn.
9)Fleabag and Friends
10)Lingoda
María Feria
ReplyDelete1. What are the 10 recommendations that he gives?
-Study in short sustainable amounts
-Set you background noise/music.
-Put your pone away.
-Get up and move your body regulary.
-Check your posture frequently.
-Use your washing machine as a timer.
-Take notes and lean actively
-Teach someone the things
-Organise online study sesión with Friends.
-Have specific goal for your study sesión.
4. What is his recommendation about exercise?
He recommends exercising while studying
5. What is recommendation #5?
Check your posture frequently.
6. Why is number 6 especially advantageous?
Use your whasing machine as timer.
7. What is a study buddy?
This is a person for you to teach her what you have learned.
HI María,
DeleteWhat is the second advantage of using the washing machine, according to the video?
1.)
ReplyDelete1-Study thirty minutes maybe a couple of times a day.
2-if you like music, you can study with music, better with instrumental but if you don’t like Music but you laso don’t like silence, you have a free app that simulates environmental sounds (Coffitivity).
3-save your phone.
4-exercise between study and study, you need a move.
5-set an alarm once in a while to put yourself in a proper position.
6-use your washing machine or dishwasher to control your study time.
7-take notes.
8-the best evidence that you have learned something is that you can teach someone else that information.
9-use skype or any other system to talk to your classmates, study and practice english.
10-have a specific goal for very study session.
2.) Listen to music or ambient sounds.
3.) Studies have shown that if you have your phone within sight of you the productivity is reduced by 40%.
4.) Exercise between study and study.
5.) A recommendation to maintain a suitable position for our back.
6.) Because while you study and timed you wash your clothes or dishes.
7.) A person who studies with you, help each other and facilitate the study of each other.
8.) To move more slowly
9.) Friends and Fleabag.
10.) Lingoda.
Alba Martín Maraver
ReplyDelete1- 1) Study short periods of time
2) Pay attention to the background sound or music
3) move your phone away from your study area
4) pause to move your body.
5) check your body position.
6) Use the appliances as a timer.
7) Take notes of what you study.
8) Explain what you have learned.
9) Conduct a joint study session.
10) Study in a specific place.
2- If you like music, you can listen to instrumental music on YouTube or Spotify.
3- Your productivity is reduced by 40%.
4- After 45 minutes you need to move.
5- Check your body position
6- Because you study for a whole hour and you also make your clothes.
7- the people who study with you can explain and practice,
8- Losing your focus
9- Fleabag and friends.
10- Lingoda and Lyricstraining.
1) Study in short sustainable amounts
ReplyDelete2) See your back ground noise/music
3) Put your phone away
4) Get up and move your body regulary
5) Cheek your posture frequently
6) Use your waching machine as a tower
7) Pages notes and learn actively
8) Teach someone the learn things you learn
9) Organise online study sessions with friends
10) Have a specific goal for your study session
2) You should do a playlist is a app to scape to the noise around is
3) It has reduced the 40% of the time of the study
4) You should move your body at least forty five minutes
5) You should have a good posture to reduce a hurt.
6) Because it is a wacth and you wait the washing machine finish to leave to study.
7) It is a study completed
8) You move more slowly
9) They are fleabag and friends
10) Lingoda and lyricstraining
HI Lidia! Thanks for your comment. Please check #6 of the first set of questions and #7 of the second set.
DeleteThanks
What are the 10 recommendations that he gives?
ReplyDelete1-Study in short sustainable amounts
2-set your background noise/music
3-put your phone away
4-Get up and move your body regularly
5-Check your posture frequently
6-Use your washing machine as a timer
7-take notes and learn actively
8-teach someone the things you learn
9-organice online study sessions with friends
10-have a specific goal for you study session.
2. What is the speaker's recommendation to avoid the noise? Summarize your answer.
You can listen to beat music or ambiental noises in platforms like Spotify.
3. According to research, what effects does the phone has on you it is at sight?
Your productivity is reduced by 40%.
4. What is his recommendation about exercise?
He recommends to move you every 45 minutes, going upstairs or walking around the room. You can remind it putting your timer on your phone.
5. What is recommendation #5?
Reduce your posture every 30 minutes while you are studying, and squeeze your shoulders back.
6. Why is number 6 especially advantageous?
Because you study the entire time and at the end you also have clean clothes.
7. What is a study buddy?
A person who study with you on video chat.
8. What is the meaning of losing momentum?
The act of decreasing your attention gently.
9. What two Tv series does he recommend to learn English?
Fleabag and Friends.
10. What learning platform to learn English does he recommends?
Lingoda.
1. What are the 10 recommendations that he gives?
ReplyDeleteHe gives the next 10 recommendations :
Nº1 : Studying in short sustainable amounts. He tells us that it doesn't mean that if you study 3 hours for one day you don't need to study the next of the week. We need to study each day for a short period of time like 10, 20 but he really recomends the perfect amount of time it would be 30 min.
Nº2 : NOISE. He tells you different ways to avoid noise of outside with instrumental playlists as Focus or if you don't like studying with music you could use Coffivity a page where you can listen differents sounds as water, birds singing...
Nº3 : PUT YOUR PHONE AWAY.
Nº4 : AFTER 4-5 MINUTES YOU NEED TO MOVE.
Nº5 : CHECK YOUR POSTURE EVERY 3O MINUTES.
Nº6 : USING YOUR WASHING MACHINE OR DISHES WASHER AS A TIMER.
Nº7 : TAKING NOTES AND LEARN ACTIVELY. (VOCABULARY IS IMPORTANT).
Nº8 : TEACHING SOMEONE ELSE (A FRIEND, A MEMBER OF YOUR FAMILY, MAKING A VIDEO TO YOURSELF AS HE DOES) THE THINGS THAT YOU'VE LEARNT
Nº9 : ORGANISING ONLINE STUDY SESSIONS WITH FRIENDS. Due to it allows you socialize with people, practice your english and study.
Nº10 : Having a specific goal for your study lesson when you had ended of studying.
2.What is the speaker's recommendation to avoid the noise? Summarize your answer.
If you need to avoid noise of the outside you could listen instrumental music which you could be found in youtube or spotify. If you don't like music you could use coffivity that helps you to concentrate of the outside's noise.
3. According to research, what effects does the phone has on you it is at sight?
It doesn't allow you to focus on stuying that's why some studies shows that if you have your phone with inside you it would be reduced by a 40%.
4. What is his recommendation about exercise?
Each 4-5 minutes we need to move due to it helps you to raice your brain. You could also going upstairs, walking around the room, doing to press ups, going to take a cup of tea...
5. What is recommendation #5?
The recommendation #5 is about checking our back's posture each 30 minutes.
6. Why is number 6 especially advantageous?
Because of it is a really fun activity. You have to use your washine machine or dish washer as a timer for our studies. We press the bottom of the dish washer or washine machine and we decide the time dishes or clothes are going to be washing, due to it is going to be the time we're going to study and when it ends you will end of studying too.
7. What is a study buddy?
A study buddy is a person that helps you to study the subjects that are very complicated to you to learn.
8. What is the meaning of losing momentum?
It means you are wasting your time doing different activities instead of being studying and learning.
9. What two Tv series does he recommend to learn English?
Fleabag and Friends.
10. What learning platform to learn English does he recommends?
In Youtube you could learn with ''learn english with papa teach me'' for example , Instagram, online language schools as Lingoda and websites as Lyricstraining.
FIRST QUESTION:
ReplyDelete1.- Study sustainable amounts of time (maybe 30 minutes).
2.-Set your background noise/ music.
3.-Put you phone away
4.-Get up and move your body regularly.
5.-Check your posture frequently.
6.-Use your washing machine as a timer.
7.-Take notes and learn actively.
8.-Teach someone the things you learn.
9.- Organised online study sessions with friends.
10.- Have a specific goal for you study sessions.
SECOND QUESTION:
If you like music, you can listen to instrumental music in YouTube or Spotify, or you can also try Coffe.tv for listening to ambient noises.
THIRD QUESTION:
Your productivity get reduce by a 30%.
FOURTH QUESTION:
After 45 minutes you need to move (walk around the room etc…).
FIFTH QUESTION:
Check you posture frequently.
SIXTH QUESTION:
Because you study for and entirely hour and also have your clothes done.
SEVENTH QUESTION:
A person who you can study with and also practise English.
EIGHTH QUESTION:
Losing your focus and get distracted.
NINETH QUESTION:
Fleabag and friends.
TENTH QUESTION:
Lingoda and Lyricstraining.
Paola Tavira
ReplyDelete1.
1-study thirty minutes maybe a couple of times a day
2-set your background noise or music
3-put your phone away
4-get up and move your body
5-check your posture every 45 minutes
6-use your washing machine as a timer
7-take notes and stay active
8-teach someone the things you learn
9-organise online study sessions with friends
10-have a specific goal for each session
2. If you like music you can put a focus/instrumental playlist and if you don’t like it but silence neater, you can put any kind of sounds with ‘coffitivity’
3. Studies have shown that having your phone within, productivity is reduced by 40%
4. Every 45 minutes you need to move your body and raise up your brain.
5. Every 30 minutes you must check your posture and think about squeezing an orange with your shoulder plates.
6. Because you get your clothes washed while you study.
7. Organise study sessions with friends by Skype to keep social.
8. To get distracted of your goal.
9. Fleabag and f•r•i•e•n•d•s.
10. Lingoda and lyricstraining.
Paola Tavira
ReplyDelete1.
1study sustainable amounts of time
2set your background music or noise
3put your phone away
4get up and move your body
5check your posture frequently
6use your mashing machine as a timer
7takes note and be active
8teach someone the things you learn
9organise online sessions with friends
10have a specific goal for each one
2. If you like music, you can put an instrumental playlist to focus, and if you don’t like music but neater silence, you can use coffitivity to put any kind of sounds.
3. Studies have shown that having your phone within, productivity is reduced by 40%.
4. Every 45 min you need to move your body and raise up your brain.
5. Every 30 min you must check your posture and try to squeeze an imaginary orange with your shoulder plates.
6. Because you get your clothes washed while you study.
7. Organise study sessions with your friends to keep social and be productive.
8. Get distracted of your goal.
9. Fleabag and f•r•i•e•n•d•s
10. Lyricstraining and Lingoda