Level: B1 and up
Digital addiction is a real and growing problem and can take the form of smartphone addiction, social media addiction, or internet addiction.
Inspired by Gary’s idea of Disappearing December Trend I decided to make a worksheet that would work as kind of an intro to a month offline.
Ineternet Addiction Test created by dr. Kimberly Young, discussion and and experiment 48 hours #offlinetrend.
Level: A1-B2
End of the school year coming up!!!
Finally, some time to actually get to know your students.
It is a printable questionnaire based on Szczepan Twardoch’s selection of essays titled How I didn’t become a poet.
Procedure:
Get SS to work in pairs, groups or do a ‘speed dating activity’.
Distribute the worksheets. One per person if you want SS to make notes. One per group if you want to stay eco-friendly or love paperless classes J
Set time limit for each question. 30s per person worked best in my classes. Some questions seem to generate lots of controversy (e-g.: What do you look for in a boy/girl?) If your SS and you decide to do so, you may give some extra time for these.
Level: B1 and up
This worksheet is a made-to-measure lesson for one of my teenage students. She asked me to make a lesson about makeup. I don’t know much about the topic… but I promised to do my best.
I tried to google Gary Vaynerchuk cosmetics, Gary Vee makeup, etc. The only thing that kept popping up was the name… Bobbi Brown.
I had no idea, who Bobbi was. It turned out she is a professional makeup artist and the founder and ex-CCO of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, social media expert and a very inspiring person with a great sense of humor.
It was a pleasure to learn so much about Bobbi, her job and the beauty business.
Enjoy!
2018 Grammy Nominee for Best Rap/Sung Performance GoldLink talking with Gary about his future plans.
Two versions of worksheet available.
For students who have access to a phone or computer with internet acces – use the handout WITHOUT the article. More activities and a vocabulary box to work with.
For those of you who won’t have access to internet during the lesson -check out the handout WITH the article.
When patience goes platinum WITHOUT 
When patience goes platinum WITH
Level: B2 and up
Can hustling make you rich?
Can having 10000 followers make you rich?
Can being a ‘big fish in a small pond’ make you rich?
The video was recorded in 2014 so it’s well-aged, but surprisingly crisp and up-to-date. The video and worksheet are going to make a really decent listening lesson with quite a bit of discussion.
don't overthink shit 