Look at the image below. What do you think it could be?
Can you think of the usefulness of such an object?
Recently one was opened and this encouraged a group of students to create their own one.
Watch the newshttps:
Have a look at the photo below. What is this machine?
Do you think that time travel is possible? Let’s find
What could be the benefits and the inconveniences of time travel?
Who should you listened to and get advice from? Who can give you the help, advice and the emotional support you need in achieving your goals?
The important thing is to listen to the right people.
Do you believe yourself good at giving advice? Well, lets see if this website can help you!
Friends and family are often well intentioned but like all of us, they see the world through their own eyes. There will be times when friends and family can be of great help, but be careful taking advice if they have not already experienced or understand clearly what you are going through.
Now, think about yourself. Who do you usually seek advice from? Do you seek the advice of different people depending on the problem you have?
Many people make use of websites that offer help. They are called problem page or agony aunt.
Here you are some of them:
Now you can try an exercise by clicking on the link below:
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Imagine you had to write a letter of advice.It’s true that writing letter is not very popular nowadays, but it’s always advisable to know how to write a letter.
Structuring a letter giving advice
Click on the image below to learn more about writing letters.
Useful Language for Letters Asking for Advice
If I were you, I would ………
Let’s check about this estructure by clicking on the image below
Is it possible to persuade someone to do things they wouldn’t ever have dreamt of? Do we know what reasons make us do what we do?
This is exactly the question a programme from the BBC, The People Watchers, tries to answer.
Let’s watch the beginning of the first episode:
Task: Take notes of what goes on in the clip and then answer the following questions:
1) Who are the members of the People Watchers team?
2) What is the purpose of the programme?
In the video you will see three of the experiments they carried out. Identify:
a) What they want to discover or prove
b) The experiment(s) they conduct: place, dynamics, …
c) The results of the experiment(s)
d) The conclusion or explanation
Think about yourself or people who are closed to you, would you have reacted the same way?
What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? If you think it’s fame and money, you’re not alone – but, according to psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, you’re mistaken. As the director of 75-year-old study on adult development, Waldinger has unprecedented access to data on true happiness and satisfaction. In this talk, he shares three important lessons learned from the study as well as some practical, old-as-the-hills wisdom on how to build a fulfilling, long life.
Use the information you gathered at the talk to write a short newspaper article. This time your article must take the shape of an interview:
Click on the pic below to learn a bit more about how to write one
One of the most useful language tools when transcribing an interview is the REPORTED SPEECH.
Click on the image below to learn how to use it:
How many different emotions can humans feel?
The idea that emotions are biologically determined and universal to human cultural dates back to Charles Darwin who in 1857 published a book titled The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. Years later, an American psychologist, Paul Ekman, found the facial expression of basic emotions to be universal.
Have a look at the facial expressions below. Can you identify the different emotions?
Here you have the descriptions of these six basic emotions. Match them to the facial expressions:
How could we use our knowledge about emotions to guide our thinking and behaviour? This is what has been called Emotional Intelligence:
How you ever eaten marshmallows?
Could you resist the temptation of eating one?
Let’s see what happened to a group of kids:
Read the article in the link below to find out more about this test
Use the links below to learn some useful expressions when talkimg about emotions:
FEELINGS – EMOTIONS – REACTIONS
Feelings & Emotions Vocabulary
Listen to a talk by a university professor about how to improve your emotional intelligence
Gustav. Klimt. “Muerte y vida”
La vida es vulgar, tediosa, dolorosa. El Modernismo y la generación del 98 son movimientos literarios coetáneos que comparten un mismo principio: la vida es vulgar, tediosa, dolorosa, bajo el terrible imperio de la muerte. Sin embargo, difieren en la forma de abordar este tedio.
La generación del 98, frente al modernismo, aborda las causas del tedio de vivir de forma existencialista, es pesimista, huye del esteticismo, se muestra profundamente preocupada por la situación política y social y no recrea la realidad sino que la reproduce con su vulgaridad y fealdad.
Lectura de fragmentos de la obra siguiendo este guion:
How you ever wondered how much human communication has changed since the development of language?
In this post we are going to explore some of the inventions and discoveries that have had an impact on the way people exchange their ideas.
Also, with the help of the reading materials you have, you’ll have to create an infograph showing how communication technology has evolved since language was first created by humans.
In order to help you, first have a look at these infographs: (you can click on them to go to the original source)
Have a careful llok at the last infograph, A brief history of telecommunication and answer the following questions:
a) What is telecommunication?
b) What role does telecommunication play in our lives?
c) Why was the progress of communication so slow at the beginning?
d) What are the advantages of smart phones?
e) How will communication change in he future?
Click on the infograph to get some help.
Now, let’s find out what have been the crucial developments in the history of communication and the changes they brought about:https://www.youtube.com/embed/wOGkRSaK_QU?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparent
You must be more than ready to start thinking in your infographic. To create yours, you can make use of any of the following tools – there are many of them, so these below are just a suggestion. You can do a google search to look for more: (in case you need some tips about how to make your infographic cool click here, 12 Infographic Tips) or have a look at the infograph below.
What do you know about some of the social media you use? Who were the people who created them? What reason made them so popular? Write the paragraph below to find out
Have a look at sentences like:
Can you see the part of the sentence in blue? What does it refer to? It provides extra information about the three friends.
Sentences like that are called relative clauses. If you’d like to learn a bit more, click on the link below:
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La educación literaria de los realistas europeos fue romántica. Poco a poco se apartaron de la subjetividad y exageración romántica y fueron prefiriendo la observación de la realidad física, social y psicológica. Con frecuencia escribieron relatos breves con una intención paródica del romanticismo. El novelista ruso Gogol les ofreció a los realistas el modelo literario: el absurdo (aquí tenéis disponible La nariz). Leamos los siguientes cuentos paródicos:
Los realistas intentan presentar todas las facetas de la realidad, por lo que cultivan con esmero la descripción. Sus descripciones son tanto físicas como psicológicas y sociales. Destacan las descripciones de lugares, que influyen en la personalidad de los personajes. Observad en el siguiente texto de Balzac cómo en la descripción de unas casas se combinan datos físicos, psicológicos y sociales.
Uno de los temas fundamentales del realismo, especialmente el español, es el contraste entre modos de vida asentados en fuentes económicas tradicionales (agricultura, posesión de tierras) y modos de vida asentados en la industria y el comercio. La revolución industrial de finales del siglo XIX, por exceso o por defecto, traspasa casi todas las obras realistas.
El realismo intenta analizar la realidad política de la época, con el fin de criticar el abuso de poder, la lentitud de la burocracia, la insensibilidad de los políticos, el caciquismo, etc.
Las relaciones individuo-sociedad son complejas. Aunque el realismo no niega el poder que tiene el individuo para decidir su destino (sin llegar al extremo romántico de que el individuo se sobrepone a la sociedad), está condicionado por su contexto social y por su educación.
El Naturalismo está influido por el cientificismo y pretende llevar el método científico a la literatura, de tal forma que el novelista se convierte en un “médico” de la sociedad, capaz de analizar sus males. Parte del supuesto de que el individuo está determinado por su herencia familiar y sus condiciones económico-sociales. Sólo cambiando el contexto socioeconómico puede cambiarse al individuo. Se presta especial atención a la vida de los suburbios de las ciudades, del mundo fabril, del campesinado, etc., allí donde las durísimas condiciones de vida más condicionan-determinan la vida de los hombres, donde la fealdad, la vulgaridad, lo desagradable abundan y donde resulta a los personajes imposible abandonar su clase social. El naturalismo está muy influido por las nuevas teorías sociales del siglo XIX, principalmente el socialismo y el comunismo.
Pero la literatura realista no siempre es tan ambiciosa; también busca la evasión y se centra en situaciones divertidas, intranscendentes, de enredo. Tal es el caso de esta maravillosa historia
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