Roger Schank

"Tell me and I’ll forget
Show me, and I may not remember.
Involve me, and I’ll understand "

(Chinese proverb?)


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Shopping, shopping, shopping!

Here we are again! Christmas has just arrived at “El corte Inglés” once more! And we are ready to spend our money on things we don’t really need.
Presents, objects,clothes and perfumes, bags and jewellery, electronic devices, new mobiles and computers... We need them!

But when you grow older you realize that, sometimes, things and objects can become a real burden... At the moment I’m in the process of getting rid of things I don’t really use... Too many CDs, too many books, too many clothes...


I love Japanese classical home decoration... I need emptiness... I need a place with no images, a white wall... an empty space in my living room, to dance, to rest, to get some refreshing air for my soul...


Xmas is here again! What can we do?


“If you understand, things are just as they are
If you don’t understand, things are just as they are”

This is my inspirational quote at this stage of my life.



When I was a teenager I wanted to train my body (sports, martials arts and so on). I loved Aikido and Taichi (I learnt to be really fast and flexible with the former, and to be calm and relaxed when facing a problem with the latter )

















In my youth years I started training my emotions. Difficult task! We are full of contradictions: love and hate, joy and fear, activity and laziness. Sometimes it seems that the opposite forces can make your boat sink... I gave up martial arts and I started dancing...to express my emotions... we are like waves... going up and down, up and down restlessly...


And then it came a time when I started training my mind. And I was lucky to see a beautiful lighthouse in the distance and ... I followed the light...



I am a really curious person and I want to understand things at a deeper level, life and death, purpose of life, and so on...
And one day I realized I couldn’t understand everthing using just my mind.



“If you understand, things are just as they are
If you don’t understand, things are just as they are”

You cannot measure the water of the ocean using a tiny bucket (our individual minds). So why are we wasting our time instead of enjoying the beauty of the sea??








WRITING 3

I would like you to go shopping in a very special way: I don’t want you to spend money on things we don’t really need.
I’d like you to share 3 presents with your classmates. The first one is for your mind, the second for your emotions and the third one is for your body.

1.Tell us about your favourite inspirational quote at the moment. Explain.

2. Your favourite song. A song with a special meaning... Share the you tube video and the lyrics.

3. A place where you would like to be right now. Post the image and explain. (Save the image because you will need it in the future, for writing 5 in April, a description of a place)

Next to the image I ‘d like you to write a poem called “the five senses poem”
Start the lines with

I can see..........................
I can hear........................
I can smell..........................
I can taste.........................
I can feel................................


Merry Christmas and a happy new 2010!

Jobs

Writing number 2 has four steps but it is not necessary to post the formal letter (step four),

1. PAST: Write about your parents’ jobs and about what your grandparents did for a living . Would you like to work in some of the jobs you have just mentioned? Explain.

2. PRESENT: Think about your character and describe yourself using pesonality adjectives. Write about the positive and the negative side of your personality.


3. FUTURE: Write about your dreams, hopes and ambitions. What would you like to do in the future? Where would you like to work?

Imagine yourself in ten years time: What will you be doing? Where will you be working? Describe the place and your job: How much do you get paid? How many hours a day/week do you work? What qualities helped you to get the job?

4. Write a formal letter applying for a job as a ...............................
(Invent a name for the company, an address and a country)
Use four paragraphs:
Reason for writing
Relevant personal details (name, age, studies)
Positive personality characteristics
A request for a response

Instructions for your first writing

As you already know your first writing is going to be about HEALTH. Please, follow the instructions carefully,

1. Title: Health (write your name in brackets)

2. Label: Opinion essay

3. Use paragraphs in your writing.

First paragraph: Introduce yourself: name, birthday, place you were born+ photo

Second paragraph: Is health important in your life? What do you do ir order to be a healthy person? Do you play any sport? What do you do to keep fit?
Write about a sport you play or about a sport you like watching (but don't play)

Third paragraph: do you have a healthy diet? What do you usually eat? Write about your food preferences. How often do you eat in fast food restaurants? What about drinking? Do you usually drink alcohol at weekends? do you smoke? give your opinion about drinking and smoking .

Optional (1): Share a photo, a video, a song, a poem, (or a recipe) related to sport and/or food.
Optional (2) : Imagine you were a doctor: What type of advice would you give to a person with a problem of overweight?
and to a really thin person suffering from anorexia?

Welcome to the blog of 2nd Batx.E

Welcome to the blog for students of 2 º Bachillerato from IES Bendinat !

The purpose of this blog is to share our writings, essays and compositions about the different topics that we are going to study in this school year 2009-2010.

We may also share videos, songs, quotations, poems, recipes, tales, and so on ...

And remember, if you want to get a good mark, it is important to read what your classmates have posted and then write a comment at the end of the post.

For this reason it is very important to sign (write your name) when you have finished your writing (or comment) You can use all the colors of the rainbow to write in this blog, EXCEPT purple (or violet), because this is the color I am going to use.

You can now read my second post for instructions.
God luck!
Linis

The photo was taken in Kamakura - Japan in April 2007 (by Linis)