Happy New Year !
So now we are in 2010 a new decade and time for some New Year’s resolutions.
Popular resolutions are spending more time with family and friends, stopping smoking, losing weight, exercising more and learning something new. Have you made any New Years Resolutions? If you are not good at keeping to resolutions there are some new i-Phone apps that can help you. You can read more about them here.
Talking about science and technology here is a great video from New Scientist.
Science:
1. What year did the competition happen?
2. Did the New Scientist team win the competition?
3. How many metres did they have to walk on water?
4. How many dollars was the budget of the design?
5. How many teams took part in the challenge?
6. Which animals does the professor mention?
7. Do you think you could design a competition winner?
Politics:
In 2010 there will be general elections all over the world. The UK, Brazil, Iraq, Singapore and Sudan among other countries will be choosing new leaders or keeping their old ones. Something that is getting more and more important for politics is the media. Gordon Brown used Twitter in 2009 and Obama and his pop-art portrait are two examples. Each political party uses the media to tell people what their message is.
Is it important what a politician looks like? Take a look at the pictures below and answer these questions.
1. Who are these politicians?
2. Which countries do they come from?
3. Think of 3 adjectives to describe each picture.
4. Which is your favourite picture and why ?
5. Do you think it is important for a politician to be handsome or beautiful?
6. What about the politicians in your country?
If you want to talk about politics why don’t you go and visit Lane Jarman the journalist in English City. She always has interesting topics on the international news for you to talk about with students from different countries.
Post your answers and ideas to me and I will correct all your comments !
My New Years Resolution is to learn to play the accordion by the way…..
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