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What happens if you lose self- confidence.

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  According to psychologist Martin Seligman, learned helplessness is the state of mind created when an animal or human being learns to behave helplessly, even with the means to escape or avoid an unpleasant situation. 
  
  
  HELP-LESS-NESS = indefensión
  BEHAVE = comportarse
  HELP-LESS-LY = con impotencia, sin fuerzas
  UN-PLEASANT = desagradable
  
  
  Watch this interesting video and see what happens when you lose self-confidence:
  
  
  
  
  Definition of learned helplessness  (Oxford Dictionaries)

  
  
  
  
  

  noun

  [mass noun] Psychiatry

  • a condition in which a person suffers from a sense of powerlessness, arising from a traumatic event or persistent failure to succeed. It is thought to be one of the underlying causes of depression.
    
    
    POWER-LESS-NESS = impotencia
    FAILURE = fallo, fracaso

    
    
    

    ................................NEVER UNDERVALUE YOURSELF!

  
  

Mark Twain, about teaching...

2º BACH's headache: GERUND or INFINITIVE?

Difficult TO understand? TRY practisING  these:
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GERUND &INFINITIVE EXERCISES - Ege Academy Blog                     

DIFFERENT MEANINGS - imparareinglese

GERUNDS and INFINITIVES TUTORIAL - English Page

GERUNDS/INFINITIVES - Study Zone

GERUNDS/INFINITIVES Practice - English Quizzes.com

GERUNDS and INFINITIVES TEST - English Page

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Useful proverbs

Obama makes history, again.

Americans elected President Barack Obama to a second term. 

Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama rode a wave of broad support from moderates, women and minorities to win re-election Tuesday by defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney.

DEFEAT = derrotar

CHALLENGER = contendiente, aspirante al título

"Tonight, in this election, you, the American people, reminded us that while our road has been hard, while our journey has been long, we have picked ourselves up, we have fought our way back, and we know in our hearts that for the United States of America, the best is yet to come," Obama said to prolonged cheers.

Remember, remember the fifth of November...

 Guy Fawkes and Bonfire Night

In 1605, thirteen young men planned to blow up the Houses of Parliament. Among them was Guy Fawkes, Britain's most notorious traitor. 

After Queen Elizabeth I died in 1603, English Catholics who had been persecuted under her rule had hoped that her successor, James I, would be more tolerant of their religion. James I had, after all, had a Catholic mother. Unfortunately, James did not turn out to be more tolerant than Elizabeth and a number of young men, 13 to be exact, decided that violent action was the answer.

RULE = mandato
TURN OUT = resultar

(...) The thing to do was to blow up the Houses of Parliament. In doing so, they would kill the King, maybe even the Prince of Wales, and the Members of Parliament who were making life difficult for the Catholics. 

BLOW UP = estallar, hacer volar
(...) But Guy Fawkes and the other conspirators got caught before trying to ignite the powder.

IGNITE THE POWER = prender fuego a la pólvora

(...) On the very night that the Gunpowder Plot was foiled, on November 5th, 1605, bonfires were set alight to celebrate the safety of the King. Since then, November 5th has become known as Bonfire Night.

FOIL = frustar
BONFIRE = hoguera

...........................................................................From: http://www.bonfirenight.net/gunpowder.php 

This fragment of the movie "V for Vendetta" shows the beginning of a very old traditional rhyme which says (in one of its versions):

Remember, remember the fifth of November        
The gunpowder treason and plot.
I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.

Remember, remember, the fifth of November,
The gunpowder treason and plot.
A stick or a stake for King James' sake
Will you please to give us a fagot
If you can't give us one, we'll take two;
The better for us and the worse for you!