Addicted to your smartphone?

Do you think you are addicted to your smartphone?
 L2 Offtime is an applet that helps you disconnect:
READ the details HERE
L3: a more challenging video

Take the test:  ARE YOU A SMARTPHONE ADDICT ?

or READ THE 23 SIGNS that you are addicted to your smartphone

Nanobots

Do you know what a 'nanobot' is? It's a little robot that gets into your brain through the bloodstream. What is it for? To learn things. English for example!
Nicholas Negroponte predicts that nanobots injected in your brain could be the future of learning.

 You can get the tanscript HERE

Nicholas Negroponte is a graduate of MIT (Massachussets Institute of Technology) and  the co-founder of the MIT Media Lab (1985), which he directed for its first 20 years. He was a pioneer in the field of computer-aided design and has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1966.

Wow! I'll have to get a new job then!

Paris

Not exactly a good start in Paris -and in Europe and the whole world in general. This is today's demonstration


 If you need the script, you can have it at NEWSY, a very good site with news from different agencies ( script always included).

The story of New Year

Did you know that New Year's has not always been celebrated on January 1st? Get the full story.
Some Key Words: a fresh start, BC= Before Christ, AD= Anno Domine (that is, after Christ) Jewish, Fall = Autumn. 
 OK, and what about your New Year's resolutions? What are you going to do this year? Are you going to study 10 minutes every day? Are you going to do your workbook? Are you going to watch videos in English regularly? What are your intentions?