Course : Αγγλικά A' Λυκείου 2024-2025

Social Media. A blessing or a curse? Let's find out what our life would be like without social media or how our life is affected by them and what we do to make sure they prove to be blessing rather than the curse.

Click on the link to get to the "Social Media" padlet and upload your answers to the following questions.

1. How many words related to social media can you think of?

2. Do we really need social media? Why?/Why not?

3. Imagine your life without social media. How would it be different/better/worse?

Read the text entitled "The vital time you shouldn't be on social media" to find out about the impact of social media on sleep and our mental health. 

The text can be found on the following link The vital time you shouldn't be on social media. and its adapted version over here.

After reading the text, you may do the following Kahoot game over here.

Was Elizabeth proud or prejudiced? Or was she both proud and prejudiced? And what about Mr. Darcy? Was he proud and prejudiced too? And how did the two manage to get over their feelings of pride and prejudice and find true love?

Jane Austen, the author of love and social critique, manages to create a writing masterpiece where manners, marriage and money define the life of women in the British Regency period. 

Click on the following link to get to Module 7 of the book.

pride and prejudice

Click on the following link to watch the trailer of the 1995 BBC series "Pride and Prejudice" with Jennifer Anne Ehle and Colin Firth.

Pride and Prejudice-BBC production

Click on the following link to watch the trailer of another version, that of the 2005 production "Pride and Prejudice" with Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen.

pride and prejudice, the trailer

The objectives of this module are to:

1. learn about fast fashion and how it works.

2. work in groups and read an article about the environmental cost of fast fashion. 

3. learn vocabulary that is related to fast fashion. 

4. study prefixes and build a prefix chart.

5. create a poster in order to take action against fast fashion and spread the news about its detrimental effects.

Before you start, do the following quiz to see how green you are.

How green are you?

Then clik on the following link to mark the sentences True or False. 

True or False

The following link leads to the Fast Fashion Module 6.

http://www.iep.edu.gr/images/IEP/EPISTIMONIKI_YPIRESIA/Epist_Monades/B_Kyklos/Humanities/2018/2018-10-12_A6_Fast_Fashion.pdf

In this module you are going to:

• discuss whether animals have rights or not.
• read an article entitled "scientists told to stop wasting animal lives" and do comprehension activities
• learn vocabulary relevant to animal rights
• study passive voice
• write a summary of a text about Animals on Factory Farms
• watch a video and discuss the idea of de-extinction
• make a mindmap with five reasons why keeping animals in captivity is wrong.
• choose an endangered species to make a donation for and explain the reasons of your choice.
• take part in a debate about animal-testing experiments.
• write an essay for the school magazine to express your opinion about whether animal-testing experiments are ethical or not.

The artist with the exceptional talent and the most "tortured heart" has a lot to offer through his paintings, his self-portraits and his letter-writing. 

Let's explore Vincent Van Gogh's lonesome life and influential art. 

What does duty mean to you? How does it define the way we work and function in our everyday life? Do people set duty above everything else? Could people die on duty or because of duty?

Let's ponder over what people do out of duty and how determined they are even to die for the sake of others. 

On duty... then with people on duty!

Why is Tilos called Europe's friendliest island? Who have they islanders welcomed with open arms? What has made the island "a dreamland?

These are only some of the questions that will be answered throughout module 2 "A refugee's dreamland"

Let's go for it!

Irene Giannitsi's webex class