The past, present and future of the bubonic plague

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-past-present-and-future-of-the-bubonic-plague-sharon-n-dewitte#digdeeper

American Dreams?

The Flintstones

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/USA_Geography/USA_GL_click_1024.html

Blue Velvet

American Beauty (1:03)

Bowling for Columbine

http://www.animatedatlas.com/movie.html

Art and Religion

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/a-brief-history-of-religion-in-art-ted-ed#discussion

Para practicar inglés y conocer gente...

http://www.eldiariomontanes.es/planes/201406/27/espanol-ingles-20140627193832.html

The Silk Road

The Silk Road

Economix: The Graphic Novel

http://www.slideshare.net/rafiqsh/economix

Scottish Independence

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/sixminute/2014/04/140403_6min_independence.shtml

http://scotland.blogs.ku.dk/category/need-to-know/

Interesting videos

http://www.havefunwithhistory.com/

http://www.ted.com/talks/martin_jacques_understanding_the_rise_of_china

Homework: The Great Spanish Crash (BBC)

The Great Spanish Crash

Watch the documentary and write down a concept map (mapa conceptual). A couple of examples here: https://www.msu.edu/~luckie/ctools/

Add a few lines with your personal opinion about the documentary.

The Art of War

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/guidedtours/dan-snow

Some interesting videos from Isadora

Dos videos:

http://ed.ted.com/on/zaNHsGYl#review  (Archaelogical Dig for the Tomb of Richard III)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCmogoGpnxg (Terrible Tudors Song)

Stonehenge virtual tour:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/virtual_tours/stonehenge/index_embed.shtml

Bayeux Tapestry:

http://www.bayeux-tapestry.org.uk/

British History Interactive Timeline

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/timelines/british/index_embed.shtml

About Maus

http://web.archive.org/web/20051221101203/64.23.98.142/indy/winter_2005/chute/index.html

http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/33d/33dTexts/maus/MausResources.htm

Climate change

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/way-forward-climate

A COURSE ON CLIMATE CHANGE: https://www.coursera.org/course/climatechange

GLOBAL WEIRDING FROM THE BBC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGxDcEJ_Q40

GLOBAL WEIRDING FROM CNN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3wxTKVPfo0

Crash Courses on US History and World History (there are subtitles: CC)

TED-ED: http://ed.ted.com/featured/lOrzfPGq

Question formation

http://www.espressoenglish.net/an-easy-way-to-form-almost-any-question-in-english/

http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/questform.html

A very, VERY, critical view of Apple products

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s15e01-humancentipad

The History of Marriage

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-history-of-marriage-alex-gendler?utm_source=TED-Ed+Subscribers&utm_campaign=c607867350-2013_09_219_19_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1aaccced48-c607867350-46760353

The World's English Mania

Music and Creativity in Ancient Greece

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/music-and-creativity-in-ancient-greece-tim-hansen

Recommended Listening Activity (Auschwitz)

http://www.chockadoc.com/auschwitz-inside-the-nazi-state/

Watch the first 6 minutes twice. First without subtitles, Second time with subtitles if you want (but be careful, the subtitles are provided automatically and there are lots of mistakes). Then, answer the following questions: 

1. Who did they interview for the documentary?

2. What was the name of the Nazi plan to exterminate the Jews?

3. When was Auschwitz transformed into a concentration camp? 

4. What was the original use for the buildings at Auschwitz?

5. Who were the first people interred at the camp?

6. What was the motto on the gates? Where was it from?

KEY 

1. Who did they interview for the documentary?

(They interviewed former members of the SS and the people who were there, that is, survivors.)

2. What was the name of the Nazi plan to exterminate the Jews?

(It was called "The Final Solution.")

3. When was Auschwitz transformed into a concentration camp? 

(It became a concentration camp in April 1940.)

4. What was the original use for the buildings at Auschwitz?

(The buildings were originally Polish Army barracks.)

5. Who were the first people interred at the camp?

(They were political prisoners, because the Jews were still confined to ghettos.)

6. What was the motto on the gates? Where was it from?

(The motto was "Arbeit Macht Frei," originally from the camp at Dachau, Germany.