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This is only the beginning ...

I very often read the first comments and  urgent requests for help in our blogs, and  then  how we congratulate each other, and it makes me smile. Technogeeks will probably laugh at us, poor digital immigrants. However, through trial and error, as Patricia says and encourages us to go on, we are entering this new world of technology in order to improve our teaching, using new tools.
I feel as if I had visited Europe in a week, rushing from here to there in such a little time. But now I  am learning where to come back and what to do there.  Technological resources are infinite, we have to make a good use of them.
I am aware that the project I have been working on is not good, the teaching sequence is poor. I'm not satisfied, I have to polish it. I promise I'll do it. Besides, there are some things I haven't been able to upload yet, but I'm trying. I won't give in!
Although we have several means to be in contact with each other, I hope we can have more meetings as they have been so useful, I really need them.
Every time I open Pat's blog, I read  "If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow". This has to make us go on trying, get involved, share experiences and enjoy our work.

Information can be shown in different ways

Look at my poster!

The aim is that students show  a contrast between eating disorders and healthy eating

TEACHING SEQUENCE ON EATING DISORDERS

Susana and me plan:
- to use a video to motivate students
- to use information from the Internet
- to practise language
- to make a graphic
- to make a poster
- to create a movie clip

Healthy eating - What should we eat?

Why not showing it in a graphic?

Let's answer some questions

Teacher and students read an article about eating disorders and answer these questions.

1.- Are you limiting your food intake?
2.- Are you losing weight?
3.- Are you talking about dieting and focusing on calories and fat?
4.- Are you obsessed with exercise?
5.- Is anybody in your family with a history of eating disorders?
6.- Have you ever used diet pills, laxatives or other diuretics for weight control purposes?
7.- Do you tease or criticize other peope because you think they are too fat?

You will find good information in these links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorexia_nervosa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulimia_nervosa
http://kidshealth.org/parent/nutrition_center/healthy_eating/habits.htm
http://kidshealth.org/parent/emotions/feelings/eating_disorders.html#cat20116
http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz3063092311360.html

Let's see the video!

Someone I once knew by Dead Celebrity Status

The lyrics is rather too long. As well as with the video, we are going to work with parts of it.

"Someone I Once Knew"

She wasn't born anorexic, but nowadays she suffers,

staring at these half-naked stars on magazine covers.

feeling pressured by the public.

She only weighs 90 pounds but still sucks in her stomach.

On the inside she's dieing, lying to herself, thinking:

- 5 more pounds won't jeopardize my health.

One day she might just collapse, she can't avoid it.

Too many sleepless nights spent bent over a toilet.

Spewing vomit, like she was an alcoholic.

Praying to a God she never believed in to stop it.

Hasn't eaten in weeks, drinks water by the heaps.

Now she looks like the skeleton she sees in her closet.

So close to death she can taste it, body looks wasted.

Hates life, hates you, hates the way she looks naked.

Now she's feeling drowsy, lousy,

thinking maybe this world's better off without me

I'm so sorry for all that I've done,

I'm so sorry for what I've become.

I'm so sorry, so sorry for wasting your time,

I can't hold you back 'cuz I'm losing my mind.

I'm so sorry for all that I've done,

I'm so sorry for what I've become.

I'm so sorry, so sorry for wasting your time,

I can't hold you back 'cuz I'm losing my mind.

She's staring at her belly, she's so scared to touch it,

imagining the feeling when it kicks inside her stomach.

Too late for safe sex, should have used a latex.

She can't afford a baby on minimum wage paychecks.

Her waistline climbs by inches,

'cuz she traded in the morning workouts for morning sickness.

Feeling nauseous, sleeps on a mat because she's cautious.

Give life or take life, that's her only options.

Only if she had a magic wand, she'd go back to that night

and put her clothes back on.

But she can't change time, or what's growing inside.

How could she love something that's barely alive?

Her body's aching, shaking, from sweaty palms, and cold sweat.

Mentally exhausting like phone sex.

No regrets, life or death, it's high stakes.

'cuz right or wrong, it's only her choice to make.

I'm so sorry for all that I've done,

I'm so sorry for what I've become.

I'm so sorry, so sorry for wasting your time,

I can't hold you back 'cuz I'm losing my mind.

I'm so sorry for all that I've done,

I'm so sorry for what I've become.

I'm so sorry, so sorry for wasting your time,

I can't hold you back 'cuz I'm losing my mind.

[Side]

- Help!

[Girl:] You smell like perfume. That's NOT mine.

[Guy:] Your head's going fucking crazy, Your head is going crazy.

Gotta get outta here and look after myself.

[Girl:] What? What's so wrong with me that you can't love me?

[Guy:] Look-

[Girl:] What is wrong with me? I do everything for you.

I, I, I make myself look good, I go to the gym.

I, I eat like a fucking rabbit.

I don't, I don't know what else to do.

Tell me.

[Guy:] Baby, you don't understand because-

[Girl:] What it is I have to do to make you love me.

I'm so sorry for all that I've done,

I'm so sorry for what I've become.

I'm so sorry, so sorry for wasting your time,

I can't hold you back 'cuz I'm losing my mind.

I'm so sorry for all that I've done,

I'm so sorry for what I've become.

I'm so sorry, so sorry for wasting your time,

I can't hold you back 'cuz I'm losing my mind.

I'm so sorry for all that I've done,

I'm so sorry for what I've become.

I'm so sorry, so sorry for wasting your time,

I can't hold you back 'cuz I'm losing my mind. 

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