Divergent Contest 1st ESO VS 3rd ESO

Follow the link in order to discover which faction you belong to!

http://divergentthemovie.com/aptitudetest

Now write down 20 questions about the film to check if you know better than your opponents the secrets of these wonderful movie!

How to sit correctly in front of the computer

What can you do for your brain?

Link: http://huff.to/1GU7EDo

Very few of us have been taught how to keep our brains healthy. 

We know too many sweets are bad for our weight. It's easy to remember too little sleep will affect our mood. Every child knows that a Band-Aid is the answer for a scrape or cut. But what about our brains? What are we supposed to do when our minds won't stop spinning? What do we do when we feel stressed all the time? 

Each of these nine behaviors will not only make your brain healthier, they are free and everyone can learn how to practice them.

Which one do you like best and why? Which one is more appealing to you?

1. Talk to strangers

2. Go away

3. Reframe everything negative

4. Reappraise everything painful

5. Meditate in a way you look forward to

6. Transfer blame

7. Find the mindfulness that works for you

8. Leave the crazy people

9. Forgive everyone

Jacques Prévert

Els alumnes de tercer d'ESO han escrit un poema inspirant-se en "Le message" de Jacques Prévert. La idea de escenificar-ho ha estat tota seva, i el resultat és tan bó que no ens podem estar de mostrar-vos-el.

Esperem que us ho passeu tan bé com nosaltres a l'hora de fer-ho!

Dear students and families!

I thought of all of you when I saw this video and I want to share it.

I wish you the best Christmas and New Year so far.

Cheers,

A.

10 Questions to ask around the table

Please answer these questions for next Friday the 9th of January:

What are you grateful for?
What are you proudest of?
What’s been the happiest moment of your life so far?
What’s been the hardest moment of your life, and how did you get through it?
What are the most important lessons you’ve learned in life?
How would you describe yourself as a child? Were you happy?
Who has been kindest to you?
How do you want to be remembered?
If your great great grandchildren could listen to this years from now: is there any wisdom you’d want to pass on to them? What would you want them to know?
If you could honor one person in your life — living or dead — by listening to their story, who would that be, what would you ask them and why?

What are those floaty things in your eye?

Sometimes, against a uniform, bright background such as a clear sky or a blank computer screen, you might see things floating across your field of vision. What are these moving objects, and how are you seeing them? Your eyes can play tricks on you from time to time!

This video will cast some light on that that you always wanted to know but never knew how. Enjoy!

American British English

Recently I have read an article about an English journalist who had been working at The Guardian in New York for three years. She speaks about how English and American are divided by a common language, and, in the end she has decided to use communication accommodation, which is a real science to back this problem up. This theory says that, when people interact they adjust their speech, their vocal pattern and their gestures to accommodate to others. Scientists say the phenomenon of adopting first vocabulary and then even taking on a foreign accent is born out of empathy, or a subconscious desire to fit it.

Oscar Wilde in The Canterville Ghost  - the story about an American family who wants to buy an English haunted castle - wrote “ We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course the language”.

Thinking about all that, I have reminded a song by Sting, An Englishman in New York.


I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear
I like my toast done on one side
And you can hear it in my accent when I talk
I'm an Englishman in New York…
I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York…

Well, now just in case you have to go to New York and you don’t want to feel like an alien, find out how to say these words in American English.

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