Meta Found Liable in Landmark Social Media Addiction Trial

 

 Jury orders Meta and Google to pay woman $3 million in social media addiction trial

Causative Verbs Practice

Here you have some practice to test yourselves on the use of causative structures. In case you have any doubts, do not hesitate to let me know in class.

Causative Verbs PRESENTATION

Causative Verbs Practice 1

Causative Verb Practice 2

Oral Mediation Task: Three TV Series to Learn Spanish

Complete the oral mediation task below, rehearse your performance, (record it, please) and be ready to present it in class.

Oral mediation: Spanish TV series

So You CAN'T or you CAN teach an old dog new tricks then?

                                           

A Follow-Up On Social Media and Girls' Wellbeing

 

Read this article on The Guardian: Misogyny and Online Abuse

Is Big Tech's Big Tobacco Moment Here?

Meta's Internal Research Shows Its Platforms Are Addictive and Harmful. Still It Targets Teeens: An Article from The HIGHWIRE

Reading Comprehension Questions

Inversion

 Inversion Explained

More Practice on Inversion Structures

Streets of Minneapolis by Bruce Springsteen

  

Streets of Minneapolis Students' Worksheet

Bookclub: Taste by Roald Dahl. Monday March 2nd

 
Taste, a short story by Roald Dahl

Taste: Student's worksheet

A Pale Blue Dot

  

Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan_comprehension questions and KEY

Carl Sagan Quotes

English Department Bookclub!

 

Kindness: A Poem by Naomi Shihab Nye

 
Naomi Shihab Nye is a Palestinian American Poet, songwriter and novelist. Born to a Palestinian father and American mother, she began composing her first poetry at the age of six. She has published more than thirty-five books and has received numerous awards throught her career. 

Listen to Emma Thompson as she reads her poem Kindness

Before you know what kindness really is

you must lose things