Cassandra´s dream

A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. Una oración nos puede ofrecer un momento de paz y quietud o puede vibrar con energía, puede yacer inmóvil, irrelevante y anodina .   What makes the difference?  ¿Qué hace que puedan ser tan distintas las oraciones? The verb. El verbo. Verbs kick-start sentences: Without them, words would simply cluster together in suspended animation.  We often call them action words, but verbs also can carry  sentiments ( love, fear, lust, disgust ),  hint at cognition ( realize, know, recognize ),  bend ideas together ( falsify, prove, hypothesize ),  assert possession ( own, have )  and conjure existence itself ( is, are ). Fundamentally, verbs fall into two classes: static ( to be, to seem, to become ) and dynamic ( to whistle, to waffle, to wonder ).  These two classes are sometimes called “passive” and “active,” and the former ar

Faith Jegede tells us about her experience with two autistic brothers. It is worth listening (and reading because in Youtube you can get the transcript). In our high school we have autistic students with this very problem. Open up your ears, don´t be prejudiced and narrow-minded and try to understand, because it is EASY. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------