A) Summarise in one sentence your take on what’s happening to the environment. What are the main news in connection with climate change? Give an example of how this is affecting our planet. B) What do you know about the situation in […]
A) What do you consider good or bad luck? What examples do you remember from your own life or people you know? What consequences does this judgement bring to your life? Are they positive or negative? B) Read the following tale and answer the […]
Most of us know just how bad TV is for us but the reasons why this is so aren’t always very clear. The article “Television: Opiate of the Masses” presents convincing and forceful arguments, most of them based on scientific facts, against watching television. The […]
The case for interviewing the very old people in your life – What does the author say about his grandparents’ lives? – Why does he consider it important to recover our grandparents and great grandparents’ stories? – What are your grandparents’ stories? Have you been […]
1) Who is the autor writing this poem to? Why? 2) What is the poem about? What´s the gist (central idea)? 3) All of the verses in the poem start with “If”. What is the name of this grammatical structure that is repeated throughout the […]
Choose 5 questions from the ones below for a class discussion: What are the advantages of having brothers or sisters vs being an only child? At what age should children leave their family of origin? Why? What’s your opinion about single parenting? How often […]
This is one NLP presupposition which can be applied to different aspects of our lives, and has implications both for language learning and communication. This presupposition makes reference to our “map” of reality, i.e. we see the world through our very own lenses or filters […]
PRE-TASK – Who was Socrates? What do you know about him? – The following story is called “The Triple Filter Test”. What do you think it will be about? Is it important to think before we speak? Why/why not? TASK – Read the story […]
A) What do you know about Mark Cuban? Who is he? What does he do? B) What elements are necessary to achieve success? C) Watch the video and answer the questions: Why is it wrong to follow our passions? What should we do instead of […]
El vocabulario es una herramienta fundamental en lo que al aprendizaje y enseñanza de idiomas a adultos respecta. Inclusive aún más importante y más central que la gramática si tomamos como referencia el enfoque léxico o el lexical approach. Los estudiantes adultos tienen una necesidad urgente de expresarse […]