Get students thinking critically as they explore how smartphones, googling and screen time shape memory, focus, and learning. Using real research and an authentic video on cognitive offloading and screen time effects, learners build practical tech-related vocabulary and debate whether technology makes us smarter or dumber—while sharing real-life experiences and opinions.
Discover what really shapes a long, healthy life! Explore how genes and daily habits influence longevity, master natural health and lifestyle vocabulary, and calculate your own longevity score. Watch videos on Blue Zones and Ikaria and discuss practical ways to live longer, healthier, and happier. Wrap up with a debate on whether the Blue Zone lifestyle is realistic for modern city living.
Explore how optimism and pessimism shape the way we see the world! Engage your students with real-life scenarios, master natural expressions for reacting positively and negatively, listen to authentic interviews about people’s daily outlooks and podcasts on factors that influence optimism, and wrap up with a lively debate on whether pessimists are just realists.
Explore the power of hobbies and passions! Engage your students with thought-provoking questions about real-life leisure activities, master idioms and phrasal verbs related to hobbies (be in the zone, lose oneself in, etc.), and listen to authentic interviews with people sharing what they love to do. Wrap up with interactive role-plays and discussions that get everyone sharing, convincing, and reflecting on what makes them lose themselves in the moment.
