Physical Descriptions

This worksheet will help you review some useful vocabulary we tipically use to describe people. 

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Dear Mr. President

Here is the song we worked with when we dealt with politics in class. I hope you can practice you're pronunciation as you sing along!

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The History of English in 10 minutes.

This is an interesting video that I found on YouTube as I was doing a little research. It is the explanation of the evolution of the English Language with the different contributions from other languages and cultures along history. The narrator speaks a little fast, but you will understand many things with the help of the pictures and the words they write.
I hope you like it as much as I do!

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Politics: 10 strategies of manipulation, by Noam Chomsky.

This is an article written by Noam Chomsky on how media can manipulate people for political purposes. Renowned critic and always MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, one of the classic voices of  intellectual dissent in the last decade, has compiled a list of the ten most common and effective strategies resorted to by the agendas “hidden” to establish a manipulation of the population through the media. Historically the media have proven highly efficient to mold public opinion. Thanks to the media paraphernalia and propaganda, have been created or destroyed social movements, justified wars, tempered financial crisis, spurred on some other ideological currents, and even given the phenomenon of media as producers of reality within the collective psyche. But how to detect the most common strategies for understanding these psychosocial tools which, surely, we participate? Fortunately Chomsky has been given the task of synthesizing and expose these practices, some more obvious and more sophisticated, but apparently all equally effective and, from a certain point of view, demeaning. Encourage stupidity, promote a sense of guilt, promote distraction, or construct artificial problems and then magically, solve them, are just some of these tactics.

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