Showing posts with label c.2.- The current world. Show all posts
Showing posts with label c.2.- The current world. Show all posts

10 Jan 2014

RECYCLING ROLE PLAY

Students A are the bosses of companies that manufacture plastic shopping bags. You don’t care about the environment. You only care about profits.

Students B are environmentalists. You think plastic bags are a huge environmental threat.
In pairs, role play a discussion between manufacturers and environmentalists.



1 Dec 2013

Top 100 First World Problems

We have to live a hard time. Economic and financial crisis, unemployment, financial problems, forced evictions, … Our mind  is thinking about this kind of problems but… Always?  Perhaps in our daily life we are busy with light situations, small discomforts, not important news…

 In the next video titled “Top 100 First World Problems”, we can see (in a funny way), some daily situations; in this case in a US life-style. During the video I can translate some expressions, persons and trademarks of difficult translation.

I propose the following work at class for today. After watching the video everyone can think for a while what in our daily life disturb us a lot!, and convey it to the rest of the group (things about housework, work, family manners, public transport, about the traffic, and so on.)

Alfonso Dolset


RECYCLING FOR NATURE



After watching these incredible images, let's speak a bit!

OPEN HERE and establish a dialogue with your partner.


24 Nov 2013

OUR ENVIRONMENT

The environment is part of our life, we should protect it because it is very important and as a consequence, if we continue damaging the environment as we have done until now, the result will be humans and animals in danger of extinction.

Our habits have much to do with pollution.  We only have to change some of our habits and to reduce, re-use and recycle everything that could harm our planet.

If we protect our world, we will live better than before without being afraid of the end of the world.  In other words, if people made an effort to protect the environment, the world would be a healthier place to live in.

My opinion is that we have to look towards the future in a positive way.  People awareness may be negative and pessimistic but in same way or another it has to be changed to get a favourable planet.

NATALIA


23 Nov 2013

A WEEKDAY VEGETARIAN?

We all know the arguments that being vegetarian is better for the environment and for the animals -- but in a carnivorous culture, it can be hard to make the change. Graham Hill has a powerful, pragmatic suggestion: Be a weekday veg.

It's quite understandable, but if you need it, you have the possibility of showing the subtitles in 40 different languages or getting the whole script just below the video.

Take care,
Loli


9 Jun 2013

GOOGLE GLASS, Cool or Creepy?

Have you heard about the Google glass?

Just have a look at this link and watch the proposed videos.


What do you think about this amazing device?
Is it cool or creepy?





29 May 2013

BOSTON MARATHON 2013

 The Boston Marathon ends up with an appalling incident.  Unfortunately there were some deceased and many injured people.  Learn more about it.



26 May 2013

JOKES ABOUT THE CRISIS


and smile a bit with it!



Image Source: http://guayoyoycanele.blogspot.com.es/2013/03/cuestion-de-crisis.html

 

22 May 2013

15 May 2013

OUR 3rd TOPIC.- CURRENT AFFAIRS

Hi everybody,

After our second topic which has been very extensive and interesting, it's time to start our next topic 'Current affairs'.  As you remember this was one of our choices at the beginning of this course, and I would say it's even larger than the previous one since everything that happens around us can be considerated being part of this topic, don't you think so?

So, have a look at everything happening in this world, have a look at the news on TV, at the newspapers, at the people's comments by the street, at your immediate environment, have a look at yourself,... and prepare something which may be interesting and worthy to be told or commented at class.

It would be nice to work in groups as ever because that way more ideas are added and the result is always amazing.

So, have you got a person you want to work with?  Have you got any possible idea to start working about this new topic?

Stand up and find some other student or students in the class and start speaking about some current affair and maybe this conversation can be the starting point to your task.

Remember you choose the way to expose the post, being what you want: a simple post, a link to something, a letter, a power-point, a presentation, a dialogue, a quiz, a game,...

Power to the imagination at these hard times!


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Source:  blackandroman.blogspot.com          Source: www.funnyuse.com                   



18 Jan 2013

INTERNET SHOPPING


    In these holidays, I wanted to do a writing about our this year subject:  The current life.  By the way, I have been thinking about an aspect of our current life style: “Internet Shopping”, a subject which appeared in the article “Next Future Technology” and which I prefer to highlight for its more and more growing importance. 

     Perhaps globalisation and the “American way of life” have contributed to this way of shopping extended all over the world. Everything can be bought in a “click”, everything, even the furthest  one, is just next to you and is possible in the net. 

   Absolutely, I know some advantages: you can compare prices from different online shops, sometimes you can find cheaper items and the best of all, to do the shopping at home without queues. 

  By the other side, there are some disadvantages in it: for example, you have to pay for the delivery and sometimes, the stuff bought isn’t right or it isn’t what you wanted. Furthermore, if we don’t go shopping in the shops, a lot of employments will be destroyed. Although a good solution to avoid unemployment could be these funny future shops: 
 


or:
 
   In my case, I often use to buy by the internet and I do it so from some years ago, however I like going shopping in the shops, too.
  If you are thinking of buying online for the first time, in this link some pieces of advice are given about internet shopping:


   Finally,  I enclose a video about your guaranteed shop



See you soon, Sonia


UNEMPLOYMENT

 Let's speak a bit.



SPANISH REVOLUTION.- José Luis Sampedro

UNDERSTANDING THE FINANCIAL CRISIS


After watching this video, are there anything that comes to your mind and you want to remark?
 
Work first with your partner just discussing some ideas to put them in common with the rest of the class later.  You can use the comment tool just below.


Video: A Brave New World