SESSION 1:
EXERCISING SELF-DISCIPLINE
Self-discipline is defined as the ability to control one's feelings and overcome one's weaknesses. It is the ability to push yourself forward, stay motivated, and take action, regardless of how you're feeling, physically or emotionally. You are showing it when you intentionally choose to pursue something better for yourself, and you do it in spite of factors like distractions, hard work, or bad situations. It's what pushes you to do high-quality work, even when you don't feel like it. It can also improve learning and enhance performance. In fact, research has shown that a person's level of self-discipline
is a more accurate predictor of success than their IQ!
But how can I develop self-discipline? First of all, you are not a hopeless case! But you need to get up and move!
1. Follow these steps. Choose a verb and complete the tips below:
................... a goal.
................... your motivation.
...................... obstacles.
.................... old habits.
....................... your progress.
As always, it is easier to see how when you see an example. Let's meet Lucas, he is about to enter college and does not have any control of their life. Will he be able to be more disciplined?
2. Watch this video and answer the questions below:
What was his life like but what unfortunate event changed his mindset forever?
How did he react towards the new situation?
What was Lucas' motivation?
How did he pass from being lazy and out-of-control to a successful person?
What three factors that contribute to self-discipline did Lucas put into practise?
Now go to page 108 and read the blog post and do exercises 3 and 4.
Self-reflection
What are the areas in your life where you could be more-discipline? Following the tips we've learnt today. Write a 50-word paragraph saying how you would do it.
SESSION 2:
Time for a recap!
WISHES & REGRETS
Revise the rules below and do exercise 1 and 2 below:
Regrets about the past :
1. Choose one of the health problems you have below and try to write as many I wish/ If only clauses as you can in one minute. Then, choose a second problem and do the same.
Wish about present and future:
2. Say a wish clause for each situation
I don’t speak Italian.......................................................................................................
I don’t have a big car.....................................................................................................
I’m in the office.............................................................................................................
It’s only Wednesday.......................................................................................................
It is raining ......................................................................................................................
You are leaving tomorrow................................................................................................
You are smoking at the moment and it is annoying me...................................................
I’m impatient because it is raining and I want to go outside............................................
I am annoyed because she is speaking..........................................................................
MIXED CONDITIONALS
(2nd-3rd / 3rd-2nd)
Let's refresh our memory!
These are common conditional sentences:
Type 0:
NATURAL LAWS: present-present
"If I heat water, it boils"
Type 1:
REAL: present-future
"If I study hard, I will pass the exam"
Type 2:
HYPOTHETICAL: past simple-conditional simple
"If I were you, I would tell her the truth"
Type 3:
IMPOSSIBLE: past perfect-conditional perfect
"If he had been on time, he would not have lost the job"
But, what happens when we mix conditional types 2 and 3?
We connect present and past conditions. We can do it in two different ways:
A. Second-Third : IMAGINED PAST ACTION + PRESENT RESULT
" If I had studied for the exam I would not regret my mark now"
B. Third-Second : HYPOTHETICAL PAST ACTION + PAST RESULT
"If it wasn't so cold in this country, we would have gone out yesterday"
3. Watch this video and make mixed conditional sentences:
If Mr Bean was clever…..
If he wasn’t scared of heights…..
If he hadn’t gone to the swimming pool…..
If the lifeguard hadn’t stopped him…….
4. PUT YOURSELF TO TEST: JEOPARDY GAME (don't forget to send me your score)
Assignment!
Have a look at the picture below and answer the questions:
What could have happened?
What might the person be thinking at the moment?
Use wish/ if only and conditional clauses to describe it.
SESSION 3:
SPREADING THE NEWS
Today we start a new unit! Unit 10 will turn around the news
and how we spread them.
News happens very fast nowadays. Today’s story will be tomorrow’s forgotten story. It is easy to miss things now because of how quick stories can get turned around and shared. While having so much information at our fingertips is great - somebody would say it rather excessive- it is worth always checking sources and not taking headlines as truth. With social media as our new source of news, it is extremely necessary that we learn to spot fake content.
Questions:
How do you get your news? Do you contrast information or you use social media as a confirmation bias? How much information do you get?
We have everything we need at the touch of an app but, can we trust everything they say? Today our assistants Jimmy, Maddie and Diego will talk about how they get their news and the need to discriminate fake from true before sharing, in other words, how to break out of your social media echo chamber.
About the audio:
How do Jimmy, Maddie and Diego get their news?
What advice does each give with respect social media as a source for news?
What is Reddit ? How does Diego use it?
What is the echo chamber effect and how can it provoke ideological isolation?
SESSION 4:
CELEBRITIES AS SUPER-SPREADERS
According to Forbes, social media has become the main source of news online with more than 2.4 billion internet users, nearly 64.5 percent receive breaking news from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat and Instagram instead of traditional media. In a recent survey, 50 percent of Internet users surveyed said that they hear about the latest news via social media before ever hearing about it on a news station. Many internet users will see the breaking stories on their feed and go to the news sites to learn more. Unfortunately, fake news is actually more likely to spread than the truth.
Added to this, we have celebs spreading news. For instance, a number of them have been caught up in fake coronavirus news scandals recently. But it is not always empty-minded twits they spread, sometimes there are celebrities that take up very honorable causes like the one you have on page 109 from your books, Citizen Z B2:
Who is she? Describe what you see.
What does UNHCR stand for? What does this programme do?
What do you think about celebrities taking up global causes and using their fame and connections to spread people's awareness? Will an expert be more effective?
Do you know any other celebrities that have become advocates for a particular global issue? Browse the net and look for one celebrity that has taken up one of these causes and explain what they are advocates for. Here you have one example:
Meghan Markle has been fighting for gender equality since she was a little girl. Explain how.
SESSION 5:
VIRGINIA WOOLF'S MRS DALLOWAY:
AN INTRO
This term we will read Mrs Dalloway (published on 14 May 1925). Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post–First World War England. It is one of Woolf's best-known novels.
Today we will introduce who Virginia Woolf was, her style and what her works meant for literature.
Watch this presentation and answer the questions below:
Questions:
Woolf suggests that one needs sink into his or her unconscious to write. What do you think is the relationship between the unconscious mind and creativity?
Why do you think Woolf says, “I prefer, where truth is important, to write fiction”? Do you think fiction offers a different kind of truth than fact? What kind of truth? What can fiction do that fact cannot?
Have you ever tried to write an article for a magazine? Do you think writing journalism could detract from or even harm your creative writing? Do you think it is of lesser value than fiction or poetry?
Do you think walking is valuable for a writer?
Woolf claims that telling the truth about oneself is essential in the memoir or autobiography. How difficult do you think this would be to do? Why is it so important to reveal yourself and not just the world around you?
What is the difference between stream of consciousness and interior monologue?
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