I asked mum (to teach/taugh) me to bake cakes.

t's 7:30 pm at Lisa's house and she's in her room doing her homework. However , homework is just one of the things she's doing while her eyes are fixed on the computer screen. As well as studying for her Biology exam, Lisa is also listening to music, chatting with her best friend online, downloading songs and occasionally texting people on her mobile phone. '' My parents keep telling me off for multi-tasking while studying, but they don't understand that it helps me concentrate,'' she says. It's not unusual for human beings to do several things at the same time but in our fast-paced technological society, the situation has come to a head. Young people today spend nearly 6 1/2 hours a day using various types of media, doing different things at the same time. This is the reason why they are called the multi-tasking generation, or Generation M. But how do their brains deal with multi-tasking? Automatic actions like walking and chatting on the phone can be done at the same time, but when it comes to learning new information , multi-tasking has a bad impact. ''Multi-tasking affects how you learn in a negative way,'' says Russell Poldrack , Associate Professor of Psychology at UCLA. Dividing your attention between too many activities makes the knowledge you gain harder to use later on. The researchers are not saying you shouldn't multi-task, just don't multi-task while you are trying to learn something new. According to specialists, it is also essential to take time away from electronic media. ''At the sound of the bell, all my students reach into their bags and grab their mobile phones to text message their friends. It is as if they're afraid of silence,'' says Casey Roberts, a secondary school teacher. ''Their MP3 players, laptops and games consoles have become extensions of themselves. I really thing that Generation M should take time to relax and reflect. There's life beyond the screen and the pleasure of face-to-face communication can be neither denied nor replaced''.

when will your new shower be installed?14 bruce my ask a builder to repair his roof. 15 are you going to ask someone to service your motorbike?16 i've asked the secretary to rewrite the whole report 17 her children are being taught computer science.18 james asked the messenger to send the flowers round to his girlfriend's house 19 can't you ask someone to repair the washing machine?20 you should ask them to install a telephone

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rest. a) to have b) have c) having 3. They always made ______ at home. a) to stay b) stay c) staying 4. She enjoys _________ to music. a) to listen b) listen c) listening 5. Math ________ a difficult subject for me. a) am b) is c) are 6. He has been sleeping __________ two hours. a) at b)for c) since 7. Is there_________ meat? We need to buy _______. a) some b) any c) no 8. This problem __________discussed at our last meeting. a) will be b) has be c) was 9. She has been reading the book _______ 5 o’clock. a) for b) since c) at 10.________ you go to the disco last week. a) do b) will c) did 11. She said: “I am having breakfast”. a) She said she has been having breakfast. b) She said she was having breakfast. 12. I usually go to _______ bed early. a) the b) - c) a d) an 13. I_____________ come with you if __________finish translating this article. a) will/will b) -/will c) will/- d) -/- 14. Sportsmen arrived in ______ Almaty on ______ twenty-first of July. a) the/the b) the/- c)-/- d) -/the 15. Spring begins ________ March. a) of b) in c) on 16. We asked if he ________ to join us. a) wants b) wanted c) will want 17. Turn _________ the light. It is 11 o’clock already. a) on b) off c) down d) up 18. I was born ________ 1978. a) on b) at c) to d) in 19. In winter the days are _______ than in autumn. a) short b) shortest c) as short d) shorter 20. When I entered the classroom the lesson _______ . a) had already start b) was already started c) had already started 21. One day Mark Twain was traveling in France by train. He was going to a small town near Paris. He asked the conductor to wake him up when they got to the town and went to sleep. It was early morning when he woke up. The train was already near Paris. Mark Twain ran up to the conductor and cried: “I asked you to wake me up! Why didn’t you do it?” The conductor answered: “You may be angry, sir, but not so angry as the American whom I put off the train instead of you”. Mark Twain asked the conductor: a) to help him with his suitcase b) to bring a cup of coffee c) to wake him up d) to show the map e) to walk with him

We're discussing homework at the moment. The staff have mixed views ; some are for it , especially in classes taking national exams, but it is less regarded for other age groups. We have decided to ask parents to take part in the discussion. There is no research to show that homework has a positive effect. Some children want to do homework and that's great. We're going to find out those children who don't have support at home and offer extra support. We will also offer a homework class, which children can take part into. I'll be thrilden if everyone comes, but it's their decision.

Galium Rampley.
We get homework on Monday and we have to hand it in by Friday. We get a maths sheet every time-it's just one sheet, normally it's quite easy, but sometimes it's quite challenging-and we get a literacy sheet. Or we have to discover something about a famous person. And we have spelling we have to learn. The maths sheet i always do on my own. For the literacy. sometimes, if i have to use the computer to research something. I ask my mum to give me a hand. She doesn't mind if i dont ask her to do all the work. I think homework is important in secondary school but not in primary school. There's school near where i live where they have things to do at home, but not homework like maths, and i think that's a good idea because it teaches you things to do but it's fun.

Dawn Eagle.
My son is four and is just learning all the phonetic reading and writing skills. He already brings home reading lists; it's only 10 minutes every now and then, but a small amount of homework gives you an idea of what they're doing at school and allows you to pick up on using the same techniques as the teachers. I would hate primary school children to have several hours of homework very night, like secondary pupils, but something like half an hour, or perhaps an hour, but not every night,is fine. On the other hand, i like him to be playing outside in the summer. on his bike; it's getting the blance right