Dear students,

please have a look at the entry in the guardian on the daily lives of some artists, select one of them, get familiar with his/her work and make a comment on this here in the blog; then just prepare a presentation on that artist to share with your partners.

Have a look at the following piece of news and tell the group what do you think about the new trend on fashion sport.
What sport do you do? Tell us about it...

For the next session. Please have a look at the "related content" at the bottom of the page and choose one of the topics, you'll have to explain it to us next week.

Once upon a time, there was no Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or YouTube. Our lives did not revolve around a stream of status updates, tweets, videos and filtered photos. That was just 10 years ago...


While estimates through 2039 are not available, experts agree that by then, use of social media will be ubiquitous and integrated into our daily lives in a multitude of ways. It is expected social media will be integrated into wearables that track our habits, and virtual experiences will be part of the package. The challenge will be coping with the massive amounts of data that will deluge the masses.

While there's no crystal ball, we asked industry experts to give us their predictions on the future of social media.


Scroll through to see the "11 Predictions for Social Media in 2039"

Haiku Poll

This week we are going to find information on Haikus...

Examples

Write a haiku

Now it is time for microtale writing...

Write your own story in a few lines and post it here

Microtales,

 please visit Monterroso's site on microtales and try to find something similar in English, then post it here...

Votation

Surf Mojo music magazine and select an article to explain to your classmates...

Find something you like doing in New York and try to convince your partners to join you.

1. Select information from the CNN
2. Share the link with a #weekendinNY in twitter
3. Explain in class why you like doing that.

Source in CNN