TED talk: Inside the mind of a master procrastinator ( TUESDAY and THURSDAY groups)

TED talk: I´m not your inspiration...( TUESDAY group)

Teach like Finland ( THURSDAY group)

Thoughts on the book:

A Finnish teachers´ lounge:

Recommended films (TUESDAY group)

These are the fims we recommended in today 's class:

Defiance (starring Daniel Craig and Liv Schreiber, it came up because Amalia met Liv S. in a hotel in Spain- true story!):

Jungle (starring Daniel Radcliffe, based on the true story of Rosa's friend):

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (starring Annette Benning, proposed by Amalia for class discussion, let 's see if we can arrange that):

Maggie O´Farrell- story from her memoir (TUESDAY and THURSDAY groups)

Listen (again) to the story from Maggie O´Farrell´s memoir : I am, I am, I am- seventeen brushes with death . 
Take some notes and tell us the story with as many details as possible in the class we have in 2 weeks from today. For the TUESDAY  group: for next week's class. (only the first story: Neck , 1990, it takes about half an hour to listen- you can stop the audio, repeat where you don´t understand, take notes. You can also make a list of words or expressions you didn't understand/ know. The audio is taken from the audiobook)

Interview with Khaled Hosseini (TUESDAY group)

Homework for next week (related to Toñi´s review of  The Kite Runner):  listen to the interview with Khaled Hosseini, the author of The Kite Runner (as much as you can- it takes about 30 min.)
Take notes about the main ideas.  In class we´ll compare your notes and reconstruct the interview. (mediation exercise)

TED talk: Do schools kill creativity? (TUESDAY AND THURSDAY groups)

The Friends episode we watched in class ( THURSDAY GROUP)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d66wGwTxDL61uJZd1nN_QvLzHft49so4/view?usp=sharing

New Year´s Resolutions for the digital era (THURSDAY group)

Have a look at some New Year´s Resolutions for the digital era!  

Who do you think makes this kind of resolutions?
- regular people of today
- technology addicts
- millenials (according to this article people born in the mid 80ies-to mid 90ies) ? 

Lots of references to latest technologies, so... a

Glossary (with number of resolution) might be useful:

3. Fitbit 

4. binge-watch: watch multiple episodes of a TV series/ programme in rapid succession, typically by means of DVDs or digital streaming.

5. Lyft: an app that offers you a sort of a taxi service (when you need a lift you request a car through the app) and get picked up by a nearby driver.  

6. ear buds

7. swipe right: swiping right on a photo of someone(on dating app Tinder) means you would consider meeting them in real life to see if there is some real chemistry

12. Angry Birds - reference to the AngryBirds iPhone game

13. Snap Chat: a popular mobile app launched in 2011.Snapchat is unique in that all photos and videos only last a brief amount of time before they disappear forever, making the app ephemeral in nature, though you can take a screenshot of snaps to save them in picture form.

17. snopes: Snopes.com /ˈsnoʊps/, also known as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is a website covering urban legends, Internet rumors, e-mail forwards, and other stories of unknown or questionable origin.It is a well-known resource for validating and debunking such stories in American popular culture,receiving 300,000 visits a day.(from wikipedia)

20. Connect actually: (reference to the film Love Actually)- connect with people in real life, not just online

21.GIF

23. Emojis

25. Apple watch reminder

26. Hoverboard

30. upvote: give an article, post or video on a website a positive rating, such as a ( "thumbs up").