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Happy Halloween!!

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Go to this website and do the quiz!! Enjoy the Halloween!!

Personal file - writing!

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Copy the following set of questions in a Word document and answer them. Please email it to your teacher! Thank you!! Information about yourself   Name:    Address: E-mail ( Use capital letters) : Tell us something about your family. (father, mother, brothers, sisters, age, animals, work, school) Do you do or did you do sports? Tell something about it. Do you have hobbies? Give us a lot of the information about them all! What kind of food do you like? Do you have a diet? Is there any food that you may not eat? What is your “home rhythm” during the week: what time do you get up, how do you go to school (distance). What time do you have supper? What do you do in the evenings during the week and at the weekends? What time do you go to bed? Tell something about you best friends. What are they like?? What do they like? How often do you see each other? What do you do together at home and when you meet outsid...

The Maushart family

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Read this article and debate on the experiment! Would you do the same? 'I took my kids offline'      It's weird when you have to text your kids to come to the dinner table," says Susan Maushart. At the end of 2008, she was anxious about the amount of time her three teenagers spent transfixed by technology. All she usually saw of her 15-year-old son, Bill, was the back of his head as he played on his games console. Her elder daughter, Anni, 18, binged on social-networking sites and 14-year-old Sussy seemed physically attached to her laptop, often staying logged on to the internet through the night. Over a period of months, Maushart, a single mother, had a "dawning awareness" that something was not right. But when she watched Sussy receive video clips of her friends streamed live over the internet, her worries became "profound panic". "My concern," she says, "was that we had ceased to function as a family. We were...

Social media icons

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Can you name some Social media icons? Can you recognise the following ones? We use many apps and sometimes we are forced to learn how to use new ones because socialising is so important! Which ones do you use most?

Digital cocaine

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Reflect on the use of the technology and especially of the phone in your life! Write down 4 sentences about the use of Tech and devices: How often you use them: ....................................... Why you are using them: ........................................ How you feel about not using your phone: ...................................... The effects of texting in your life: ........................................ Now watch this video and debate on this concept: digital cocaine! Try to identify types of behaviour and attitudes that are related - directly or not - to a bad use of mobiles! https://youtu.be/4j4uMjNkNs8

Technology Age

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Look at the following images and debate on their relation to technology:

Top 10 Modern Gadgets that Changed our Lives

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This post is about gadgets that really changed our lives! Can you think of 10 modern gadgets ??????? Can you define a gadget ??? Longman definition: a small,  useful , and cleverly-designed  machine  or  tool For further information and a lovely reading experience, click here ! ps: in Instagram I have already have a post related to this Activity!! Add yours!!!