ULTIMATE SCHOOL

WELCOME BACK TO SCHOOL

Are you ready? You will need:

School email address: Please (1)_____ for an account using your school email address.

Collaboration platforms:(2)_____ to your PicktoChart Classroom using your school email address.

Computer (3)_____ Web Camera: Insert a brief description of the requirements here.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE TEAM BUILDING EVENT

The school Young Pioneer Manager would like to announce

Ø All pioneers are (4)______ present by 5:30 on Dec 29.

Ø No mobile devices. Just (5)______ the organization’s uniform.

Ø Parents(6)_______ the Manager at 0356.211.439 for further information.

You are invited to (7)_____ us

YEAR-END PARTY

January 09, 2024. 17:00 P.M. School Hall

Ho! Ho! Ho! It’s that time of year (8)_____.

We’re so excited (9)_____ no one will be absent.

I. LIST OUT YOUR TOP PERKS AND BENEFITS

 What’s in it for the candidate? Most jobseekers (83%) agree that (10)____ company’s benefits and perks have a significant impact (11)____their decision of whether or not to accept a job offer there.* Encourage more people to apply by sharing the attractive rewards and benefits you offer your employees, such as:

-Unlimited PTO

-Flexible hours

-Medical, dental and vision care (12)_____

-Office snacks

-Tuition reimbursement

ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE MID-TERM TESTS

The school administrators would like to announce

All students (13) ______ present by 7:30, from Dec 26 up to Dec 29.

(14) ______ cheating during your tests.

Bringing along mobile devices (15) _______ stopping your tests.

Viruses cause many human (1) __________, ranging from the common cold and the flu to more serious ones such as AIDS and Covid-19. On their (2) __________, viruses are not alive. They become active when they infect or enter our bodies. They can do that easily because they are very (3) __________. Then, they start to act like living things and make (4) __________ of themselves. People have natural defenses against viruses. For example, a fever can make some viruses inactive. The body’s immune system also fights viruses.

Vaccines cannot treat diseases caused by viruses, but they can help (5) __________ the spread of disease. Vaccines contain viruses which are weakened or (6) __________, and help the body’s immune system make substances called antibodies, which fight disease. If the same virus enters our body later on, the immune system will (7) __________ it and will know how to fight it off.

Giving people vaccines can (8) __________ a lot of lives. For example, two million people died of smallpox in 1967. (9) __________, vaccines helped to stop this disease and made it disappear. Most recently, vaccines have played an important role in (10) __________ deaths and severe illness caused by Covid-19 all over the world.

‘Generation gap’ is a popular term used to describe the differences between generations. The young and the old do not (1) __________ each other well because of their (2) __________ experiences, opinions, habits, and behaviour. That is why parents often try to (3) __________ their children from doing things that they believe would harm them.

On the other hand, children do their best to (4) __________ that they are responsible and can take (5) __________ of their own lives. Neither parents nor children are wrong. They are both right in their own (6) __________. Parents, blinded by their love for their children, would rather have their own experiences (7) __________ the experiences of their kids.

In contrast, their children are completely (8) __________ that their decisions are right and are based on current situations that their parents may not be aware of.

Life expectancy is the period of time that a person can expect to live. Life expectancy varies greatly between genders and cultures. It used to be that women had a lower life expectancy than men (1 in every 4 women died in childbirth), but now they live an average of four to five years longer than men. Life expectancy has been increasing rapidly over the last centuries. With the advent of such modern miracles as sewers, medicine and a greater understanding of how diseases are spread, our life expectancy has increased by 25-30 years.

In developing countries like Swaziland, where there is a high HIV/ AIDS rate, life expectancy is as low as 32.6 years. In developed countries like Australia, life expectancy rates are as high as 81 years. There are an increasing number of factors which can cancel out the disadvantages you have. The one that we are looking at now is how your career can affect your life expectancy. Choosing the wrong career can result in a shorter life!

If you want your career to positively influence your life expectancy, you have to be made of money. That's right. Rich people in wealthy areas of England and France live 10 years longer than the people in poorer areas. Having a successful career has its drawbacks, too if the result of hard work is stress.

Stress can lead to a number of psychological disorders such as depression, anxiety, fatigue, tension and aggression. These conditions may result in a lack of concentration and an increase in serious injuries at work. They can also lead to high blood pressure and heart attacks which seriously affect life expectancy.

If you are worried that your job might decrease your life expectancy, you probably need to avoid careers on "dangerous jobs" list such as timber cutters, pilots, construction workers, roofer, truck drivers.

So if you don't want to kick the bucket at an early age, choose a career in something other than timber cutting, but above all, remember to relax.

From Pre-Essence Reading by Rachel Lee, Longman

Health Benefits of Yoga

Yoga is a healthy lifestyle. One of the benefits of yoga is that you can choose a yoga style that is suitable for your lifestyle, such as hot yoga, power yoga, relaxation yoga, etc. If you are a yoga beginner, Hatha Yoga, which focuses on basic postures at a comfortable pace, would be great for you. If you want to increase strength through using more of your own body's resistance, Power Yoga may be right for you. Whether you prefer you're at home, in a private session, watching a DVD or at a studio or gym, there are a huge variety of options available to suit your goals and needs. Improved flexibility is one of the first and most obvious benefits of yoga. During your first class, you probably won't be able to touch your toes. But if you stick with it, you'll notice a gradual loosening, and eventually, seemingly impossible poses will become possible. Each of the yoga poses is built to reinforce the muscles around the spine, the very center of your body, which is the core from which everything else operates.  

When the core is working properly, posture is improved, thus alleviating back, shoulder, and neck pain. Strong muscles do more than look good. They also protect us from conditions like arthritis and back pain, and help prevent falls in elderly people. And when you build strength through yoga, you balance it with flexibility. If you just went to the gym and lifted weights, you might build strength at the expense of flexibility. Yoga gets your blood flowing. More specifically, the relaxation exercises you learn in yoga can help your circulation, especially in your hands and feet. Yoga also gets more oxygen to your cells, which function better as a result. Twisting poses are thought to wring out venous blood from internal organs and allow oxygenated blood to flow in once the twist is released. Many studies found that a consistent yoga practice improved depression and led to greater levels of happiness and better immune function.

Generation gap refers to a vast difference in cultural norms between a younger generation and their elders. It’s a distressing thing for the phenomenon (1) _______ occurs around the world. The (2) _______ of communication, different views on certain problems and different attitudes towards life may cause the generation gap or even widen it. First, one of the major factors for this misunderstanding between two generations is that parents and children lack communication. Young people (3) _______ reveal their feelings to their parents, and often complain that their parents are out of (4) _______  and that they talk too much about certain problems. So when young people meet some problems, they would rather (5) _______ to their classmates or their friends for help. The lack of communication widens the generation gap.

It is natural for young people to be critical of their parents at times and to blame them for most of the misunderstandings between them. They have always complained, more or less justly, that their parents are old-fashioned, possessive and dominant; that they do not trust their children to deal with obstacles; that they talk too much about certain problems and that they have no sense of humor, at least in parent-child relationships. I think it is true that parents often underestimate their teenage children and also forget how they themselves felt when young. 

Young people often irritate their parents with their choices in clothes and hairstyles, in entertainers and music. This is not their motive. They feel cut off from the adult world into which they have not yet been accepted. So they create a culture and society of their own. Then, if it turns out that their music or entertainers or vocabulary or clothes or hairstyles irritate their parents, this gives them additional enjoyment. They feel they are superior, at least in a small way, and that they are leaders in style and taste. 

Sometimes you are resistant and proud because you do not want your parents to approve of what you do. If they did approve, it looks as if you are betraying your own age group. But in that case, you are assuming that you are the underdog: you can you can keep your honor. This is a passive way of looking at things. It is natural enough after long years of childhood, when you were completely under your parents' control. But it ignores the fact that you are now beginning to be responsible for yourself. 

If you plan to control your life, co-operation can be part of that plan. You can charm others, especially parents, into doing things the ways you want. You can impress others with your sense of responsibility and initiative, so that they will give you the authority to do what you want to do.