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OUR FAVOURITE APPS

WE RECOMMEND

The way we are learning things is changing quickly.Years ago it was teachers and books, newspapers and encyclopedias.Nowadays, with new media, we have so many more opportunities to learn the things we are interested in. Access to knowledge is quite easy.But... you still have to spend time and effort to learn things

The way we are learning things is changing quickly.Years ago it was teachers and books, newspapers and encyclopedias.Nowadays, with new media, we have so many more opportunities to learn the things we are interested in. Access to knowledge is quite easy.But... you still have to spend time and effort to learn things

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OUR FAVOURITE APPS by nicolehaemmerle.aleman on Genially

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OUR FAVOURITE APPS WE RECOMMEND The way we are learning things is changing quickly.Years ago it was teachers and books, newspapers and encyclopedias.Nowadays, with new media, we have so many more opportunities to learn the things we are interested in. Access to knowledge is quite easy.But...

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ID-Project - Safe Internet Use

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Express cause/result, contrast and purpose

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One of the biggest challenges of the pandemic has been keeping in touch with friends with social distancing and other Covid restrictions in place.

But for some these changes instigated unlikely friendships with people they might otherwise never have met. Five Guardian readers share how these friendships have helped them get through the past year.

'I watched Star Trek Voyager with people I never met - for 172 days'

Christopher Ince, 34, a university lecturer from London, braced himself for what would become months of social isolation when the first lockdown began in March last year. He decided to comfort himself by bingeing on a favourite TV show.

"I randomly tweeted something about putting on the first episode of a TV series. I'm slightly afraid to say that it was Star Trek Voyager, but it was," he says.

"A few minutes later someone on Twitter, who I'd been friendly with, responded to suggest we watch along in sync, which led to a small gang of people joining in. Some of us knew each other, some of us didn't, but we're all part of the LGBTQ+ community. The six of us ended up watching an episode alongside each other at 7pm, every day, for 172 days. We became a crew and wound up joking about ourselves as such."

What was supposed to be "a bit of a laugh", as Ince puts it, became a support network. "The point of the show is a small group of people on one ship making their way alone through tough times for an extended period. They stick together and keep each other going.

"A year on, we've watched all sorts of films and events together, gone to online museum openings, celebrated birthdays, and emotionally supported each other through book launches and the passing of family members. Some of us met up in 'real life'. Our anniversary was a few weeks ago, and I spent it virtually with friends I made from a tweet."

'We became great friends over the phone'

David Lloyds, 63, from Hedge End near Southampton, joined a local telephone buddy scheme when he was placed on furlough last year.

"I signed up to be a telephone friend. I was assigned a gentleman, Eddie Ridler, who I was told was nearly blind, hard of hearing, lives on his own and had to self-isolate due to his age: 96. I was apprehensive but gave it a go," Lloyds recalls.

The two men overcame the initial awkwardness of talking to a stranger when they bonded over a shared disinterest in professional sports.

"That was a huge relief and we then went on to talk about current affairs. Eddie is 32 years my senior, but his mind is as sharp as anything. Although we have not yet met face to face, we have become great friends. I ring him every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. We put the world to rights, have a laugh, and share news about our families.

"I learned that 'yes, yes' means he didn't understand me. We trust each other. He's the most wonderful person. I've never met anybody this cheerful."

When Lloyds returned to work, he let the buddy scheme know. "They offered to 'assign' him to someone else. I was horrified. Our phone calls have helped me keep my sanity during lockdown. He became a continuity in my life. We still speak three times a week and I hope to meet him when we open up completely."

'We decided to move in together the day we met in person'

Rosie Wolf, 24, an artist from London, met Laura, 22, a Bournemouth University graduate, in a Facebook group for Labour supporters in March 2020.

"During one group video call we were both making the same faces over the behaviour of another person and started messaging privately," Laura remembers.

"We hit it off straight away, and in June Laura got a job offer in London," Rosie says.

"The first time we'd ever met in person was to go to a house viewing, which we immediately made an offer for. It was really amazing to finally meet. It sounds cheesy but it felt like we had met before, we are platonic soulmates."

The two friends now rent a flat together and "co-parent" their two cats.

"We're pretty much inseparable," Laura says. "We have made holiday plans for the future and joke that if we win the lottery we will buy a big mansion together and live there with our husbands."

'We forged a connection over my sad orchid in the window'

Bernie, 37, a director and arts trustee from Northampton, forged a friendship with a regular passerby under her window.

"I spent the year working in my study, which sits on the ground floor. A man started to nod [a greeting to me] on his dog walk, every morning.

"One day he started pointing through the window, gesturing something quite persistently. I wondered whether he was OK, to be honest, but opened the window. I had a rather sad orchid on the ledge and he told me I needed to trim it and take it out of the sun. I thanked him. We smiled," she says.

"We began to wave every day, and continued throughout the year. One day, at the front door, he told me he had been a prize orchid grower in his day but an infection destroyed all of his plants years ago and he lost heart.

"I would make sure I was at my desk around 10am so I didn't miss him. At some point he told me he'd lost his wife to dementia the previous year, and introduced himself and his dog.

"Around Christmas I gave him a little cake. Days later he brought me a card and one of his orchid books. I'm a single mum and it's just nice to see a friendly face, I'm always really happy when I see him. Even the people I'm in video meetings with know him, as I'd say: 'I'm waving at my gentleman friend.' He lights up when he sees me in my office.

"We still wave. My orchid has flowered."

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'We became a crew': how lockdown forged unlikely friendships

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One of the biggest challenges of the pandemic has been keeping in touch with friends with social distancing and other Covid restrictions in place. But for some these changes instigated unlikely friendships with people they might otherwise never have met. Five Guardian readers share how these friendships have helped them get through the past year.

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Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (2005, 2008)

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Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (2005, 2008)

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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - Lena/Kostas scenes Part 1 - First Meeting

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I love this movie and I love Lena and Kostas. Gonna upload a few more of their scenes

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Nothing compares to you. A song written by Prince...
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Sinead O'Connor  Nothing Compares To You Lyrics)

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Watch sequences of some films on friendship and discuss characters and relationships.

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After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy.

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Angus,
Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008)

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Princess locked up in a golden tower, but not free. Still today, roles for women are limited...

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nce upon a time, a beautiful princess rebelled against her father's wishes and was locked up in a tower. But nowadays, of course, there are laws against that sort of thing. The Victorians may have shut women away in asylums to spare male embarrassment over what we would now regard as understandable rage, frustration or postnatal depression. But these days we supposedly know better. Nor do parents teach little girls any more that life is a fairytale in which a prince will set you free if you just let down your long blond hair. Yet those old patriarchal ghosts fade surprisingly slowly.

The US documentary Framing Britney Spears,investigating whether pop's own Rapunzel is now being held prisoner by a legal guardianship imposed after her breakdown 13 years ago, hit British screens this week like a flashback to a bad dream. Watching these old clips through 2021 eyes makes you rub them in disbelief. Did the sexagenarian male host of a TV talent show on which she was singing, aged 10, really ask teasingly on air if he could be her boyfriend? But it happened.

As a 16-year-old pop star, her virginity really was the subject of excruciatingly public debate. And she genuinely was ambushed on camera, aged 21, with a clip of the wife of the then governor of Maryland suggesting that "if I had an opportunity to shoot Britney Spears, I think I would" for the example she supposedly set young girls. That's how it was for countless young women, cranked through the sausage machine for our entertainment and someone else's profit, and the only real surprise is that more weren't broken by it.

Charlotte Church, another wholesome child star who transitioned into adult singer judged for her sexuality, once argued that the music industry only ever packaged women into one of three boxes: feminist-lite girl power heroine, tortured ballad singer, or unattainable sex bot. Those who didn't fit the boxes were forced into one anyway, because that was how everyone got rich. Hence pigtailed Britney in her hoicked-up school uniform, lip-syncing ...Baby One More Time like a cross between some grim middle-aged man's St Trinian's fantasy and the high-school cool girl of teenage dreams. She was as much a part of the cultural wallpaper as Madonna, only much more defenceless.

Two babies in quick succession were followed by what her mother would later identify as a bout of postnatal depression; then came an ugly divorce, contested custody and a public breakdown mercilessly documented by the cameras forever in her face. Most strikingly, the princess shaved off her long blond hair, saying she no longer wanted people touching it. She was 26 when her father secured a form of legal guardianship - more usually applied to people with dementia - over his multimillionaire daughter, turning the child star who briefly became an autonomous woman effectively back into a child again. At 39, Spears still doesn't have control over her own fortune, despite having been well enough to earn it through albums and touring for more than a decade.

Yet she's probably still better off than this week's other 21st-century princess in a tower - the ruler of Dubai's daughter, Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid. Having briefly fled her family in 2018, Princess Latifa was recaptured and (at least according to a video filmed on her phone and smuggled out to Panorama journalists) has been under effective house arrest ever since.

Mary Robinson, the former Irish president who flew to Dubai to check on her welfare in 2018, says she was told then that the princess had bipolar disorder and was being discreetly protected from further trauma. Now Robinson fears she was " horribly tricked ". Was she merely fed a version of the lie so often given for stripping women of their freedoms, namely that it's for their own good? So much safer to hide yourself away, in case other men make passes at you; so much more relaxing to stop work, and just let the patriarch provide.

Except in Spears's case, of course, she's been providing handsomely for everyone even from within a succession of gilded cages. Her career has sustained legions of paparazzi, lawyers, media moguls, music industry executives and even fellow artists. Her ex, and fellow child star, Justin Timberlake finally apologised this week to both Spears and Janet Jackson, whose career imploded after he tore off part of her costume while both were performing at the 2004 Super Bowl, for "the times in my life when my actions contributed to the problem" of misogyny and racism. It was the barest possible acknowledgment that his relationship (and breakup) with Spears in her late teens made his reputation but shattered hers.

While the media sniggered about Timberlake getting " into Britney's pants ", as one magazine cover put it, she was deemed a slut for letting him, and it was Jackson, not Timberlake, who was shamed for an escaped breast on primetime TV. But there have been few gestures of contrition from the industries fattened on such distress. The fan-led movement to "free Britney" from her legal conservatorship is a heartening sign of changing times, but this was never her only prison.

So when female celebrities now are ridiculed as control freaks, communicating only through heavily manufactured images and engaging only on their own overprotected terms, it's perhaps worth remembering that they've seen an alternative, and it involves being chewed up and spat out for profit. The lesson young women took from Britney Spears is that you can either be the manufacturer or the product; control or be controlled. Better to be demonised for pulling strings, perhaps, than to be the puppet who is jerked around until she snaps.

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Any problems with love and relationships... ask Counsellor Uncle Eli

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Dear Eli, I just can't seem to get off my phone. I focus on a task for a few minutes and then my phone is back in my hand. Whether it's Grindr, Instagram, Twitter or porn, my day goes and I haven't got half the tasks done and I am falling asleep late. I have tried disconnecting and I feel lost, isolated and lonely without it. I now enjoy getting on my phone more than I like hanging out with friends and family. What can I do?
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you are certainly not alone in your behaviour and your self-awareness around it is commendable. Scrolling the internet is a distraction from our worries, an esteem booster, a social connection tool, a voice platform and an adrenalin rush, and provides instant gratification. It's becoming harder to get away from - especially when connected to our work - but at the end of the day, it is not genuine face-to-face or heart-to-heart reality. Be mindful internet addiction is becoming more prominent and is just as damaging as other addictions that affect our mind, body and behaviour. Try and schedule times to put down your phone, go for walks, meditate and see friends in the flesh.

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Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen

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In this document you find some sample dialogues and prompts to practice.

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Express your ideas and thoughts, your wishes and complaints.