I normally use single slides to start class. This slideshow was inspired by sentences from the book "Language Hungry" by Murphey.

1. Research shows that usually you remember : 10% of what you read 26% of what you hear 30% of what you see 50% of what you see and hear together 70% of what you say 90% of what you say while doing something such as teaching . (Silverman 1987) When you really want to learn well, teach others.

2. “ Mistakes are actually wonderful things; they can even help the learning process.”

3. “ If we´re not making mistakes, we´re not going anywhere.” Gordon Forward

4. “ Many people dream of success. To me success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection. “ Soichiro Honda, founder.

5. Learning English is a great adventure.

6. Smiling is a great part of language.

7. Mistakes show I´m trying. I like mistakes.

8. I´m learning more and more English everyday.

9. OPPORTUNITYISNOWHERE? “ No Where” or “Now Here” ?

10. Life is a feast of learning and food is everywhere.

11. It is you yourself, and what you are doing with your own brain, that create learning.

12. “ The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind” William James 1890

13. “ Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.” Aldous Huxley 1939

14. What we feed our minds also nourishes our bodies.

15. “ It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.” Descartes 1637

16. “ Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.” Viktor Frankl

17. “ If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always got.”