A2 / B1. LISTENING- READING. Peter, Bjorn & John - Young Folks

"Young Folks"

If I told you things I did before, told you how I used to be
Would you go along with someone like me
If you knew my story word for word, had all of my history
Would you go along with someone like me

I did before and had my share, it did lead nowhere
I would go along with someone like you
It doesn't matter what you did, who you were hanging with
We could stick around and see this night through

And we don't care about the young folks
Talking 'bout the young style
And we don't care about the old folks
Talking 'bout the old style too

And we don't care about our own faults
Talking 'bout our own style
All we care about is talking
Talking only me and you

Usually when things has gone this far, people tend to disappear
No one will surprise me unless you do
I can tell there's something goin' on, hours seems to disappear
Everyone is leaving, I'm still with you

It doesn't matter what we do, where we are going to
We can stick around and see this night through

And we don't care about the young folks
Talking 'bout the young style
And we don't care about the old folks
Talking 'bout the old style too

And we don't care about our own faults
Talking 'bout our own style
All we care about is talking
Talking only me and you

And we don't care about the young folks
Talking 'bout the young style
And we don't care about the old folks
Talking 'bout the old style too

And we don't care about their own faults
Talking 'bout our own style
All we care about is talking
Talking only me and you
Talking only me and you

Talking only me and you
Talking only me and you

READING B2, C1, C2 A story of self-driving cars

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/11/25/131125fa_fact_bilger?currentPage=all

ABOUT DISCIPLINE AND EDUCATION

http://www.ted.com/talks/colin_powell_kids_need_structure.html?quote=2019

QUOTE OF THE DAY

What is Enlightenment? (1784)

translation by Lewis White Beck is available on Wikisource

• Enlightenment is man’s leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if it is not caused by lack of intelligence, but by lack of determination and courage to use one's intelligence without being guided by another. Sapere Aude! Have the courage to use your own intelligence! is therefore the motto of the enlightenment.
•  Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It is because of laziness and cowardice that it is so easy for others to usurp the role of guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor!
• It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him. He has even become fond of it and for the time being is incapable of employing his own intelligence, because he has never been allowed to make the attempt. Statutes and formulas, these mechanical tools of a serviceable use, or rather misuse, of his natural faculties, are the ankle-chains of a continuous immaturity. Whoever threw it off would make an uncertain jump over the smallest trench because he is not accustomed to such free movement. Therefore there are only a few who have pursued a firm path and have succeeded in escaping from immaturity by their own cultivation of the mind.              

                                                                                                                                 Immanuel Kant

LISTENING / READING (A2 +) - BEADY BELLE, a delicacy from Norway

Beady Belle - September (chill out)

Tonight
There must be people who are gettin' what they want
I let my oars fall into the water
Good for them
Good for them
Gettin' what they want
Gettin' what they want

The night is so still that I
Forget to breathe
The dark air is gettin' colder
Birds are leavin'

Tonight
There are people gettin' just what they need
Tonight
There are people gettin' just what they need

The air
Is so still that it seems to stop my heart
I remember you in a black and white photograph
Taken this time of some year
You were leaving against a half-shed tree
Standing in the leaves the tree had lost

The night is so still that I
Forget to breathe
When I finally exhale it
Takes forever to be over

Tonight
There are people gettin' just what they need
Tonight
There are people gettin' just what they need

Tonight there are people who are so happy
That they have forgotten
To worry about tomorrow

Somewhere people
Have entirely forgotten about tomorrow
My hand trails in the water
I should not have
Dropped those oars
Such a soft wind
Such a soft wind

Tonight
There are people gettin' just what they need
Tonight
There are people gettin' just what they need
Tonight
There are people gettin' just what they need
Tonight
There are people gettin' just what they need

Tonight

http://www.youtube.com/v/3DUPnCPYnlA?autohide=1&version=3&attribution_tag=pnnYIkmPHFSUdxf6-KQyFA&showinfo=1&autohide=1&feature=share&autoplay=1

Quote of the day

"Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill.  Speech given at Harrow School, Harrow, England, October 29, 1941.

TEACHING TECHNIQUES. CELTA Terminology | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC

CELTA Terminology | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC

CHANGING THE EDUCATIONAL PARADIGM

Sir Ken Robinson's speech at the Royal Society of Arts (01 Jul 2013)

CELTA - Teaching techniques: Concept Check Questions for vocabulary

LISTENING (C1- C2) - SOME MOTIVATIONAL SPEECHES IN ENGLISH

LISTENING / READING / VOCABULARY (A2-B2) Baz Luhrmann - Wear Sunscreen

ENGLISH LITERATURE- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564- 1616) The Tempest

The Tempest (circa 1611) is one of Shakespeare’s latest plays and it is now regarded as one of Shakespeare’s greatest works. It can be considered a comedy with some dark elements. It presents a variety of fascinating characters, of whom we can certainly highlight Prospero, with his memorable final speech, his magic and his books. The play reflects the language of Shakespeare's time, to which he was himself a great contributor. 

I 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XZ091CEgNU 

II

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xYzRsQBn_M 

III

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWa_uhtj0Fk 

The future of education?

"Innovation never comes from established institutions"

                                                    Eric Emerson Schmidt (Google Executive Chairman).

https://www.khanacademy.org/talks-and-interviews/key-media-pieces/v/khan-academy--the-future-of-education

AMERICAN LITERATURE- WALT WHITMAN (1819–1892)

This is a classic poem (and probably the best known one) from Leaves of Grass (first published in 1855), which is one of the most influential books in contemporary poetry. It was written by one of the great founding fathers of American Literature.

 
 1
I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
Creeds and schools in abeyance,
Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten,
I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,
Nature without check with original energy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3p5PI6cnxI

LISTENING / READING - ISLE OF HOPE, ISLE OF TEARS

Sean Keane singing the story of Annie Moore, an Irish girl from County Cork who was the first immigrant to the United States to pass through the famous Ellis Island facility.

ISLE OF HOPE, ISLE OF TEARS

(Composed by Brendan Graham)

Sean Keane

Also recorded by: Andy Cooney; Dolores Keane;

Anthony Kearns; Ronan Tynan.

On the first day on January,

Eighteen ninety-two,

They opened Ellis Island and they let

The people through.

And the first to cross the threshold

Of that isle of hope and tears,

Was Annie Moore from Ireland

With all her fifteen years.

CHORUS:

Isle of hope, isle of tears,

Isle of freedom, isle of fears,

But it's not the isle you left behind.

That isle of hunger, isle of pain,

Isle you'll never see again

But the isle of home is always on your mind.

In a little bag she carried

All her past and history,

And her dreams for the future

In the land of liberty.

And courage is the passport

When your old world disappears

But there's no future in the past

When you're fifteen years

Chorus

When they closed down Ellis Island

In nineteen fourty-three,

Seventeen million people

Had come there for sanctuary.

And in Springtime when I came here

And I stepped onto it's piers,

I thought of how it must have been

When you're fifteen years.

Chorus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp12N73ZWBA