Read and listen to the three stories that you can access by clicking on the picture below. After the holidays you will have to explain what story is your favourite, what characters you like the most/least, how difficult it was to read/understand them…

I hope you enjoy them.

I have found a lot of information online about xenotransplants and 3D printing. I shared some in class with you, but it’s impossible to go through all the activities. I leave some of them here so that you can do them on your own.

If, apart from watching the TED videos, you want to do the activities, you need to register (with just an email address and password, you’ll be done).

1. TED video activity on how to print human tissue.

2. TED video activity on  how to print a human kidney.

3. TED talk: the future of organ transplantation

It’s time to enjoy and relax, but also to practise English in a more informal way. Enjoy the holidays as much as you can and remember to come back on the 10th of January.
I hope you find the activities below entertaining. There’s one for each day. Don’t do them all on the same day. Remember: learning a language is not a sprint, but a marathon.

For those who couldn’t come this week, I leave here the spoken mediation exercise we did in class.

Enjoy!

Click on the links to get more information about the urban myths in your textbook.

• Did you see that thing about Google Street View capturing a murder in Edinburgh?
• In any big city, you’re never more than two hundred metres from a rat.
• I read somewhere that we only use 10% of our brain capacity.
• Did you know that Walt Disney had his body frozen after he died?
• I heard somewhere that they think lemon peel can cure cancer.
• I heard they’ve spotted these huge alligators in the sewers under New York.