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After you listen to Jamiroquai's song do you think he is right or wrong?
Do we live in a virtual insanity or in an insane virtuality?
Do you agree with his line: "Futures are made of "virtual insanity" ?

Try to complete the song with the opposite sense of the original words, which were taken out(and are at the end of each line).

"Virtual Insanity" or "Insane Virtuality"?

Oh yeah, what we're living in (let me tell ya)
It's a ................. man can eat at all / wonder
When things are big that should be ................ / small
Who can tell what magic spells we'll be doing for us
And I'm giving all my ...................... to this world / love
Only to be told
I can't see
I can't breathe
No more will we be
And nothing's going to ....................... the way we live / change
Cos' we can always take but never give
And now that things are changing for the ................ / worse,
See, its a ......................... world we're living in / crazy
And I just can't see that half of us .......................... in sin / immersed
Is all we have to give these -
Futures made of virtual ...................... now / insanity
Always seem to, be govern'd by this love we have
For ...................... , twisting, our new technology / useless
Oh, now there is no sound - for we all live underground
And I'm thinking what a mess we're in
Hard to know where to ..................... / begin
If I could slip the ........................ ties that earthly man has made / sickly
And now every mother, can choose the colour
Of her child
That's ..................... nature's way / not
Well that's what they said yesterday
There's nothing left to do but pray
I think it's time I found a new religion
Waoh - it's so insane
To synthesize another ...................... / strain
There's something in these
Futures that we have to be told.
Futures made of ........................... - now / virtual insanity
Always seem to, be govern'd by this love we have
For useless, twisting, our new technology
Oh, now there is no sound - for we all live underground
Now there is no sound
If we all live underground
And now it's virtual insanity
Forget your ................................. / virtual reality
Oh, there's nothing so bad.
I know yeah
Of this .................................. , we're livin in. / virtual insanity
Has got to change, yeah
Things, will never be the same.
And I can't go on
While we're livin' in oh, oh virtual insanity
Oh, this world, has got to change
Cos I just, I just can't keep going on, it was virtual.
Virtual insanity that we're livin' in, that we're livin' in
That virtual insanity is what it is
........................ made of virtual insanity - now /Futures
Always seem to, be govern'd by this love we have
For useless, twisting, our new technology
Oh, now there is no sound - for we all live underground
Living - Virtual Insanity
Living - Virtual Insanity
Living - Virtual Insanity
Living - Virtual Insanity
Virtual Insanity is what we're living in

After listening to the song "Virtual insanity", let's puzzle him up...

Are futures made of virtual insanity or are presents made of insane virtualities?

Hi falks!
Here I am again with that talk about women and tecnology...
(Clagravipe: "There she comes again!")(laughter :)
Yepp. I found out the most common MYTHS.

MYTH # 1: Women are emotional while tech is strictly logycal.
Myth # 2: Men are good at maths and machines while women have no clue about these.
Myth # 3: Men are the providers while women are nurturers.
Myth # 4: Technical women are unattractive, arrogant and abnormal.
Myth # 5: Women can't do it because they are made that way.
Myth # 6: Women aren't as good at visualizing as men, and, hence, don't make good engineers.

Question 1: Didn´t men (and some women) demand the socially defined role of the woman as nurturer for centuries?

The time has come and we have to talk about it and most of all enjoy it. Yes, I'm talking about Christmas! A time to give, a time to cherish, a time for family and friends, a time for hope, a time when our dreams come true... or don't you believe it?
If you don't, then this video is the right one for you!
Believe it or not, all I want is to wish you...

And I hope you become a believer just like me... Watch this video to learn how you can do that and solve the quiz!
Enjoy yourself!

I used this video as motivation and brainstorming exercise. It's a very rich video-clip. Students watch the video, later they identify scenes of discrimination and finally they discuss it comparing with the message of Martin Luther King's speech "I have a dream".



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Following our last training session we found this video: Blog vs Wiki.
Watch it and comment.

A LISTENING EXERCISE on BLOGS VS WIKIS: A fictitious debate

Watch the video and accomplish the following tasks:

A. Tick TRUE or FALSE:

1. Wikis and Blogs are very alike since they allow communication between people.
2. Communication through blogs is done in the form of comments.
3. Kennedy thinks that what America really needs now are blogs.
4. Nixon disagrees because blogs allow the administrator to control the information available.
5. According to Nixon, wikis are particularly susceptible to internet predators.

B. Complete the text (Kennedy’s second intervention):

"(…) the openness of a _____________ is a great example of freedom of ______________ that we get from a __________________. The voice of the people should not be _________________ .
Not only is a blog __________________ ,but they are unconstitutional in that they don’t _____________ freedom of speech. Mr. Nixon have you answered to the recently ___________________ charges that you pay people to put _______________ comments on your blog?"

Teach technology with informational videos....
Let's try out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcSzqm5Whwc

• Answer the following questions:

1. Do you like watching cartoons?
2. What are your favourite ones?
3. Why do you like watching them?
4. Can you learn something when you watch them?
5. Watch the video. Do you recognize them? Write their names

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dPSFOI4daE

Watch the video:



Complete the tasks suggested in the worksheet

Watch the video

• Does it sound familiar? Discuss it with a partner.
  
• Watch again and make a list of DO's and DON'Ts mentioned in the song (as many as you can)

DO's
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DON'Ts
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Creativity time:
Write a reply to this video putting yourself on the shoes of this lady's son or daughter. Present it next class.

Step 1: Look at the family tree and choose a family member. Present yourselves as follows:
e. g. I'm Jonathan Adams. I'm Peter's grand-father.

Step 2. Watch a video and identify all the family members.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dbDJzDV1CM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZGz1Ajg7QU

http://www.emotionalwellbeingblog.com/2006/08/quiz-are-you-shopaholic.html

B.

Points to consider

• How far would you go?
• How much would you spend?
• Why would you do it?
  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIPuf1P4AJA

Note: the text/script has some mistakes

Lesson Plan

Grade: 11th

Topic Area: The World Around Us

• Listen to and view the song "Pollution" by Tom Lehrer

• Answer the following questionnaire to check your understanding of the video.

Questionnaire:

1. What's the general tone of the song?

2. What's the main topic it deals with?

3. Which issues are being pointed out?

4.What's the song most important message?

• Gather as many words as possible related to the topic environmental threats

• Listen and view Al Gore's speech

Watch the video and listen to the song.

Try to understand the message.

Complete the sheet while listening to the song.

Identify future expressions from the lyrics and point out the use of "gonna".

Do the worksheet to practise these two ways of expressing the future.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPrAuF2f_oI&NR=1

TASK 1

Before you watch the video clip be sure you know the answer to the following questions:

Take a look at the map.

• What’s the name of the country?

• Where on the map can you find city of Belfast?

• Identify three other important cities.

TASK 2

Watch / listen to the video clip and do the following exercises:



A. TRUE OR FALSE?

a. Belfast is a historical city that has stopped in time.
b. Belfast is surrounded by hills.
c. The city has its origins in 1177.
d. Its founder was John de Courcy.
e. During the Industrial revolution many people came to live in Belfast.

B. COMPLETE THE SENTENCES:

1. ____________________________________ Belfast had a population of 20.000.
2. Today Belfast has a population of about________________________________ .
3. Belfast became a city in____________________________________________ .
4. The city’s most important architect is_________________________________ .

TASK 3

Now it’s your turn. Watch this video about Lisbon and write a text that matches it.
The texts will be posted and the best one will be turned into a podcast.

The results of our first session! We can see that you had fun doing all these vokis!

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