C1, C2 READING: "A star in a bottle" on ITER. A beautiful story about the greatest scientific project in all human History.

By Raffi Khatchadourian (THE NEW YORKER)

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/03/03/140303fa_fact_khatchadourian?currentPage=all

READING - SPEAKING / B2, C1, C2 : AMBROSE BIERCE'S CYNIC TOUCH AT ITS BEST

Words Redefined: 37 Notable Entries in The Devil's Dictionary

SOURCE: 

A2, B1, B2, C1, C2. READING- 14 Quotes To Inspire Your New Year’s Resolutions For 2014

http://www.buzzfeed.com/tabirakhter/14-quotes-to-inspire-your-new-years-resolutions-for-2014

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