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Alice Munro in her own words
Alice Munro could not travel to receive her Nobel Prize, so a video of an interview with her was shown instead. She comes across as a fantastic person, nothing to do with the image one normally has of...
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Sir Ken Robinson gives best talk yet at TED Talks Education
“Creativity and education expert Sir Ken Robinson delivered two amazingly popular TED Talks prior to 2013. His first talk http://bit.ly/1fjhkH6 —presented sans multimedia in the true Sir Ken Robinson...
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Skype and cheap calls give an illusion of closeness, but homesickness is...
See on Scoop.it – Debates and discussions Ian Jack: People are keener than ever to leave for new and faraway places; does technology keep them close to what they have left, or make them pine for it all...
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Validation
A beautiful, uplifting story about smiles, positive feelings and kind words. See on film-english.comFiled under: Listening, Speaking, Story, Videos
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Is Technology a Threat? Bullying and the Internet
Consider the following questions: How important is technology in your life? What’s the most important gadget in your everyday life, the one without which you would feel lost? How has Internet changed...
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Views on Education
Some interesting resources to illustrate different aspects of education. 1. First of all, the classic talk by Ken Robinson, one of the most popular video in TED: Do schools kill creativity?’ Also by...
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Who Gets the Best Jobs?
Interesting BBC documentary about jobs and class differences in the UK. It presents the British society as a difficult one to move on in life, with the best jobs being largely restricted to the...
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Reality Shows and Violence
Is reality TV going too far? Watch a video about the develpment of this kind of shows in reference to violence. Take notes about the following aspects: Has violence always been accepted as appropriate...
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The top 10 artworks of the 20th century
See on Scoop.it – Debates and discussions Jonathan Jones: From Picasso’s formidable whores and Magritte’s provocative pipe to Pollock painting like an angel, the best 20th-century art reflects a world...
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Leave ‘Organic’ Out of It
See on Scoop.it – Debates and discussions To be more effective, food activists should steer clear of buzzwords that only confuse the issues. See on www.nytimes.comFiled under: General
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Health and medicine
1. Homeopathy: a danger for patients or a safe alternative? Homeopathy used to be a respected alternative to main stream medicine, but the latest research seems to have cast doubt of this kind of...
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Creating stories with a random touch
One challenge we have to face when teaching is trying not to repeat ourselves to make our lessons a little bit more entertaining, particularly when you have to revise grammar. In my case, tenses. It...
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What about writing about a mystery or about a possible crime having been committed? The short films below are part of an old self-promotional campaign shown on the theme TV channel Calle 13, which...
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Lesson plan: Internet, Technology and Human Relations
Is Internet ruining our society? Let’s not be dramatic, but we must admit that nothing has been the same after this invention became part of our everyday life. In this lesson we will discuss the...
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Lesson plan: Environment and Climate Change
It’s not just that it’s part of the curriculum: talking about climate change is unavoidable in real life as well, but how much do we really know about it? This lesson plan intends to cover some of the...
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Preparing a Lesson Plan with ChatGPT on Social Issues
In this post I’m sharing with you a lesson plan about social issues that I have prepared and have already used with my students. It’s not that original, I know, but I have a confession to make: I’ve...
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Personality Types: A C2 lesson
I would like to share with you a presentation with material for the first few days of C2 course. I used IA for the vocabulary (I asked ChatGPT for definitions and examples) and for the listening...
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Creating a podcast: giving voice to an object
One of my favourite podcasts is the series Everything Is Alive. It’s extremely original and funny: some everyday objects are interviewed about their life and experiences. Each episode is about 15...
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