7 B2 | 7. Klasse | Unit 01: Ready to rumble simply can’t get there. (f) Though , this is very problematic for our team, and it makes me sad because the girls used to be so enthusiastic. Now they seem stressed about football, and that’s just wrong. A hobby should allow you to (6) and let everything go, not add to your stress. If we want diverse teams in the future, we will have to give more support to young players, (g) whether their background is. If you have an idea how we could do that, let me know in the comments! Writing your own blog comment In the following tasks, you will prepare to write your own blog comment. Revise what you already know about writing a blog post and a blog comment. Use the information in the box to get you started. WRITING 5 Read the text below and choose the correct word. The information in this text will be useful for writing your own blog comment later. In an internationally acclaimed TED Talk, internet writer Tim Urban explains what happens in the mind of a (1) procrastinate / procrastinator / procrastination and why putting things (2) on / off / of leaves a lot of people feeling unfulfilled. Everybody’s brain has the ability to make rational decisions, he says. It’s just that procrastinators tend to choose fun tasks over productive and (3) sensible / sensitive / senseless ones. Of course, rational (4) decisions / decides / decisive and fun are both needed – just at the right times. When we feel that we should be doing things that are more challenging and less (5) pleasing / pleasant / pleased instead of having fun, we experience an inner conflict. When a deadline approaches and we are still wasting time having fun, we panic. According to Tim Urban, it is (6) long-form / long-term / long-period procrastination that is the central problem. “It makes people feel like a (7) speculator / audience / spectator in their own lives,” Urban says. “The (8) disappointment / frustration / demotivation is not that they couldn’t achieve their dreams; it’s that they weren’t even able to start chasing them.” 6 A blog post is a text a writer posts on their own blog about a topic that they are interested in or care about. A blog comment is somebody’s reaction to a post on a blog. It always refers to the original post and contains the commenter’s thoughts on it. It often develops the ideas in the original post further. Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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