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This is the way the world ends: not with a bang but a deleted Twitter account.

At least, so it appeared for 11 minutes Thursday evening, when visitors to President Trump's personal account, @realDonaldTrump, were informed that there was no such thing.

Has the personal Donald Trump Twitter account been deleted? pic.twitter.com/JARH9ILsPG
- Jen Chaney (@chaneyj) Nov. 2, 2017

The error message on some devices was even more dire: "@realDonaldTrump does not exist."

Amid a presidency that has seemed, at times, to be conducted primarily in 140-character pieces, this was a seismic event - and what was left of Twitter erupted. It was a raucous, modern-day town-square gathering of the sort not seen since ... well, since five months ago, when Mr. Trump coined a new word in the middle of the night.

It was just before 7 p.m. Thursday, and the internet was in an uproar. Time stopped. The sun rose in the west and set in the east. What, the watchers wondered, was going on? Had Twitter closed the president's account? Had a White House aide snatched the phone from Mr. Trump's tweeting hands? Had Robert Mueller chosen this moment to rifle through the president's direct messages? Had Mr. Trump himself - could it be? - decided he'd had enough of his favorite medium?

The answer, revealed three hours later, was something straight out of "Office Space." After saying in an initial statement that the account had been "inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee," Twitter announced that a rogue customer support worker had done it on his or her last day at the company.

Many of Mr. Trump's supporters were incensed, with some saying the incident showed a disregard for free speech. His opponents, on the other hand, were gleeful. "America: Hire this person," former Representative John Dingell of Michigan tweeted.

Even before Twitter confirmed that the deactivation had been deliberate, some were speculating about it.

Please, God, let the "human error" at Twitter turn out to be someone on their last day just doing it to know what it feels like.
- Tom Gara (@tomgara) Nov. 3, 2017

I bet Trump's twitter going down was intentional! They hate that our President takes his message straight to the people bypassing the MSM.
- Educating Liberals (@Education4Libs) Nov. 3, 2017

In the tech world, the statement raised more questions than it answered. Twitter has never said how many employees have access to Mr. Trump's account, or described the safeguards it has in place for its highest-profile users. And the company is already under the microscope in Washington, where Congress is investigating how technology giants might have shaped the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.

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Rogue Twitter Employee Briefly Shuts Down Trump's Account

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This is the way the world ends: not with a bang but a deleted Twitter account. At least, so it appeared for 11 minutes Thursday evening, when visitors to President Trump's personal account, @realDonaldTrump, were informed that there was no such thing. The error message on some devices was even more dire: "@realDonaldTrump does not exist."

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Discuss with your partner about how you think the words relate to the images. Then, think about how these words could be said in Spanish and write them down.

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account, devices, direct messages, social medium, twitter customer support, downtime, hacked.

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While you read check the vocabulary covered in the previous activities. Then, hightlight the words you do not know or understand. Check them in the dictionary for the meaning and re read the text.

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Discuss with a partner what you think of this piece of news using the vocabulary that you learnt. You may use Spanish if it is too difficult to explain your ideas in English.

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Paula Barrera - 33,33%
Diego Belmar - 33,33%
Kimberley Puentes - 33,33%

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Pretend you are the President of the United States. What would you do if this had happened to you? How would you react? Explain while using the vocabulary fom the text and using your own vocabulary.

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Target Audience: 10th graders
Unit 3
Topic: The world around me: Personal relationships and social media.

Purpose: to adapt an activity so that students can learn vocabulary using their mother tongue.

This activity was adapted so that students could learn vocaulary while using their mother tongue.

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Butzkamm, W. (2003). We only learn language once. The role of the mother tongue in FL classrooms: death of a dogma. Language Learning Journal, No. 28. pp, 29-39.

Codina, A. & Pladevall, E. (2015). The effects of using L1 translation on young learners’ foreign language vocabulary learning. Estudios de lingüística inglesa aplicada. 15. 109-134.

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Reading takes us beyond ourselves; we broaden our perspectives, learn new facts and come to a better understanding of the world and our place in it. Those understandings come in the forms of mental representations produced by written words in our mother tongue and a second language as well. Furthermore, there is an important fringe benefit: reading increases our vocabulary knowledge.
Texts introduce us to new words, and in many cases, we can deduce their meanings from the written context. Presumably, we remember some of these new meaning associations, especially if we continue to read and meet the new items in context again. It seems reasonable to assume that this beneficial by-product of reading is also available to learners reading in a second language.

It is important for students to develop strong vocabulary skills in order to express themselves clearly and meaningfully both in written and spoken formats. Consequently, as future teachers, we have to be selective and give our students the enough opportunities to explore and investigate new words.

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- Use the mother tongue when students are struggling so that they feel more comfortable and/or to clarify concepts or main ideas.