The holiday is over. It is time to think of the new school
year. And while some are eager to know their new teacher and meet their
friends to tell them about all their summer adventures, others are more
worried about the new class. Here are some tips for a smooth school
year start that will help you beat the stress and organize your study
environment.
Tuesday, 18 March 2014
Learning
Set small, achievable goals
Start with small steps to reach higher targets.
Setting small targets is much better than setting huge goals that you cannot achieve. Remember that "small drops of water make the mighty ocean"
- For example, try to learn 5 new English vocabulary items every day.
- Set a 30 minutes study session every day.
- Learn the lyrics of an English song every now and then.
- Read a short English text every day.
Plan your studies
Planning your studies gives meaning to your work. If you know all the steps necessary to achieve a goal and these steps are written down on a piece of paper, it will be easy for you, then, to see the whole picture.
Be motivated
The secret to success is that you should be motivated to learn. Try to avoid boredom by having fun in what you do. Try to find a positive aspect to studying English.
Remember, we learn better and fast things we really want to learn.
- Read about what you are interested in (hobbies, fields of interest...)
- Watch your favourite films in English
- Listen to your favourite English songs and learn the lyrics.
- Write your diary in English.
- Read about your favorite stars in...
Manage your time
In order to manage your time successfully, having an awareness of what your goals are will assist you in prioritizing your activities. Time management provides you with the opportunity to create a schedule that works for you, not for others. This personal touch gives you the flexibility to include the things that are most important to you.
Set a reward for yourself
Set a reward for yourself that you can look forward to. For example, when you reach a goal, give yourself a reward:
- Watch a movie.
- have a delicious snack.
- Meet your friends.
- Go to the café.
Funny Exam Quotes
ATTITUDE DURING EXAMS:
They gave me the questions which i don't know,
So i wrote answers which they don't know.
Tit for Tat dis is called ATTITUDE.
Pupil: Great news, teacher says we have an exam today come rain or shine.
Classmate: So what's so great about that ?
Pupil: It's snowing outside !
Father: How did your exams go?
Son: I got nearly 100 in every subject
Father: What do you mean, nearly 100?
Son: The questions didn't give me any trouble, just the answers!
Pupil: I don't think I deserved zero on this exam.
Class teacher : I agree, but that's the lowest mark I could give you !
A college student in a philosophy class was taking his first examination.
On the paper there was a single line which simply said: "Is this a question?" - Discuss.
After a short time he wrote: "If that is a question, then this is an answer."
The student received an "A" on the exam.
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/johnny_depp.html#fPId3br720sLcFiP.99
They gave me the questions which i don't know,
So i wrote answers which they don't know.
Tit for Tat dis is called ATTITUDE.
Pupil: Great news, teacher says we have an exam today come rain or shine.
Classmate: So what's so great about that ?
Pupil: It's snowing outside !
Father: How did your exams go?
Son: I got nearly 100 in every subject
Father: What do you mean, nearly 100?
Son: The questions didn't give me any trouble, just the answers!
Pupil: I don't think I deserved zero on this exam.
Class teacher : I agree, but that's the lowest mark I could give you !
A college student in a philosophy class was taking his first examination.
On the paper there was a single line which simply said: "Is this a question?" - Discuss.
After a short time he wrote: "If that is a question, then this is an answer."
The student received an "A" on the exam.
I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/johnny_depp.html#fPId3br720sLcFiP.99
Me,
I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be
dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/johnny_depp.html#fPId3br720sLcFiP.99
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Life
- Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs
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“Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.” – John Muir
- “A ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for.” – Gael Attal
Quotes
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
—
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
—
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
—
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
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Perhaps it’s my
natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel
these days is to see things while you still can.
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To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
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I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe
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All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
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Remember that happiness is a way of travel—not a destination.
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When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
—
I still find
each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I
want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want
to see.
—
The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
—
A friend of
mine would never leave a place until he’d had a good time there. Another
friend would not leave a destination until he had learnt something
encouraging about the people and their culture. Both are currently stuck
in Brisbane.
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We’re on earth to fart around. Don’t let anybody tell you any different.
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
—
One of the
gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a
distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort
the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many
cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.
—
The border
means more than a customs house, a passport officer, a man with a gun.
Over there everything is going to be different; life is never going to
be quite the same again after your passport has been stamped.
—
All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
—
To a man with imagination, a map is a window to adventure.
—
To my mind, the
greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience
everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which
almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.
—
Adventure is a
path. Real adventure—self-determined, self-motivated, often risky—forces
you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it
is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth
and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple
with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind—and
perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change
you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.
—
If a man will
begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be
content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
—
To get away
from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s
self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
—
I think travel
just really wakes me up. It puts me in a state of hyper-awareness that’s
hard to get to in daily life. I’m so intrigued by other cultures—when
I’m traveling away from home I get more insight into my own life and
culture as well, just by contrast, and by that alertness of mind that
sort of comes to me like a drug when I’m out of the country. I find that
the freedom of anonymity tends to propel me into interesting
situations.
—
That is the
charm of a map. It represents the other side of the horizon where
everything is possible. It has the magic of anticipation without the
toil and sweat of realization. The greatest romance ever written pales
before the possibilities of adventure that lie in the faint blue trails
from sea to sea. The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is
always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next
mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to
explore. Achievement is the price which the wanderer pays for the right
to venture.
—
The need to
travel is a mysterious force. A desire to go runs through me equally
with an intense desire to stay at home. An equal and opposite
thermodynamic principle. When I travel, I think of home and what it
means. At home I’m dreaming of catching trains at night in the gray
light of Old Europe, or pushing open shutters to see Florence awaken.
The balance just slightly tips in the direction of the airport.
—
Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected for the rest of my life.
—
None but those
who have traveled, can appreciate the delight experienced from recalling
in this way the interesting points of an interesting journey, and
fighting, as it were, their battles over again.
—
…travel may be
viewed as a rebellious, even a subversive act, part of the process of
self-actualization I travel to define and assert my existential
identity. I travel. Therefore I am.
—
Travel is the best way we have of rescuing the humanity of places, and saving them from abstraction and ideology.
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For me they go hand in hand. When I travel it makes me want to write, when I read it makes me want to travel.
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Only by going too far can one possibly find out how far one can go.
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Remember, If you don’t know where you’re going, it doesn’t matter how you get there.
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Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
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Travels
- “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” – James Michener
- “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Scott Cameron
- “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc
- “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain
- “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard
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“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
- “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton
- “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
- “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” Jack Kerouac
- “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled.” – Mohammed
- “Half the fun of travel is the esthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury
- “One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.” – Mark Twain
- “A wise man travels to discover himself.” – James Russsell Lowell
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“Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
- “Travel teaches toleration.” – Benjamin Disrael
- “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends… The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy
- “Every exit is an entry somewhere else.” – Tom Stoppard
- “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.” – Fitzhugh Mullan
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