Topic EDUCATION TARGET In this lesson you will

Topic: EDUCATION

TARGET

In this lesson you will: • Expand your language habits. • Express your own ideas about education and teaching.

FLASH BACK

1. - “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ” M. Gandhi 2. - “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. ” Mandela 3. - “Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. ” M. Luther King Jr.

4. - “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. ” C. S. Lewis 5. - “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. ” Aristotle 6. - “ Teaching … is above all a job of endless love. ” Martí

7. - A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry B Adams 8. - Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand. Chinese proverb

10. “Anyone can instruct, only a true living gospel (evangelio) can educate. ” Luz y Caballero 11. - “ Teach and you will have someone who knows; educate and you will have someone who does. ” Simón Rodríguez 12. - Educating means eliminating the obstacles that hinder thinking. F. Varela

Practice

Match • • • forever powerful weapon true education cut down jungles irrigate deserts • arma potente • talar los bosques • por siempre/ para siempre • educación verdadera • irrigar desiertos

Match • endless love • above all • involve • hinder • • involucrar infinito amor obstaculizar sobre todas las cosas

ANSWE R

Match 1. - forever 2. - powerful weapon 3. - true education 4. - cut down jungles 5. - irrigate deserts • arma potente 2 • talar los bosques 4 • por siempre/ para siempre 1 • educación verdadera 3 • irrigar desiertos 5

Match 6. - endless love 7. above all 8. - involve 9. - hinder • • involucrar 8 infinito amor 6 obstaculizar 9 sobre todas las cosas 7

Close up

• “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ”

Complete 1. If I____ his number I could phone him. 2. - If I were you I _____ study harder. 3. - Study as if the test_____ tomorrow.

Answer 1. If I had his number I could phone him. 2. - If I were you I would study harder. 3. - Study as if the test were tomorrow.

• “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. ”

Underline the appropriate form 1. - Enrique J. Varona is one of (the most, more) important Cuban pedagogues. 2. - For me, teaching is (the most, more) important profession for a country.

Answer 1. - Enrique J. Varona is one of (the most, more) important Cuban pedagogues. 2. - For me, teaching is (the most, more) important profession for a country.

The use of ing-forms “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. ” “ Teaching … is above all a job of endless love. ”

Provide the missing word according to the context You can find useful information in books. So _____ is very important to increase culture, although some people prefer ______ audiovisuals. ( learning, reading, listening, watching)

Answer • You can find useful information in books. So reading is very important to increase culture, although some people prefer watching audiovisuals.

Practice Provide at least two other examples of your own.

Prepositions + -ing • “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. ”

Select 1. Practicing is important for ( improveimproving) your language skills. 2. By ( listening –listen ) to songs you can develop your listening skills. 3. Don´t be afraid of ( talking, talk) to your friends in English.

Answer 1. Practicing is important for ( improveimproving) your language skills. 2. -By ( listening –listen ) to songs you can develop your listening skills. 3. Don´t be afraid of ( talking, talk) to your friends in English.

• • Torch Engaging Active Creativity Hard-working Imagination Natural Generosity Writing an acrostic

English Club

Do any of the following tasks: • Write an acrostic poem to send to a teacher ( either your teacher or a relatives’s teacher). • Select an inspirational quotation and say briefly in English why you like it. • Find other inspirational quotations in English. • Create your own educational phrase(s) in English.

Send your answers to inglescubatv@infomed. sld. cu