We all need a break, a long one, from school -from parents, students, teachers, colleagues, course-books, papers...but before we say goodbye for the summer, let me give you some advice about it:
* take any opportunity you may come across to speak English -or Australian, for that matter
* if you feel bored, have a look around you, you may discover people doing strange things. I love what Improve Everywhere does (Improv Everywhere is a New York City-based prank collective that causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places). Have a look at one of their "scenes": Horse Race in Bryant Park, New York:
* if you feel bored, have a look around you, you may discover people doing strange things. I love what Improve Everywhere does (Improv Everywhere is a New York City-based prank collective that causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places). Have a look at one of their "scenes": Horse Race in Bryant Park, New York:
Or planking. There´s a real planking craze going on in Austalia and who knows?, maybe you´ll be the ones to start it over here... Watch to video to see if you´d be interested..
Sometimes when people are bored, they do dangerous things and, if they are dangerous, it does not matter how funny they look, you shouldn´t do them because people´s lives are in danger. Here´s a video to give you an example of what I mean; the title of the video is anti-boredom campaign. Things are not always what they look like:
* If you plan to take a flight during your holidays, beware of cheap flights; read and listen to what might happen. Pay attention to the Irish accent:
The advantage of cheap flights is just that: they are cheap; you´ll have to pay a little bit more if you want to get something like this in your flight. The first video is an Air New Zealand ad. Here´s their explanation about it:
You won´t always be told about safety rules in a plane like this.We jammed a plane full of rugby fans, some crazy Air New Zealand staff and asked some of our All Black friends to lend a hand.
After two long days shooting, here's what we came up with. Makes you feel like flying with Air New Zealand, doesn´t it?
To show how crazy about rugby the country is, members of their national team the all-world All Black and Air New Zealand staff breath life into the typical pre-flight safety briefing. No beer chute exits, but Betty at the end though has a bit of a surprise finish. Ouch.
Created for our Domestic 737 service :
Listening to a steward rap the safety rules in a plane is also a plus in a flight:
* Wherever you go, respect the local rules, even if you think they are peculiar - and there are some peculiar rules out there, like the banning of kissing someone goodbye at the train station:
or these two:
* Wherever you go, run away from stereotypes, they can be a negative influence in the way you see others; they give an oversimplified standardized image of a group of people, so don´t judge everybody according to the ideas of others
Besides, stereotypes are not so funny when they are about us. Read more about it in this link to The Big Think ; the following images are taken from there: This one is a map of Europe seen by the Germans:
And this one is a map of Europe as seen by the Americans. Not so funny when we see what they think about us, is it?
* Forget your computer, social networks, emails for a while; take a pill if your will is not enough
*And last, but not least, relax and enjoy the summer
I really like the video of the Carousel Horse Race, so funny! And the second one is very strange...
ReplyDeleteI knew the thirth one and the video about the rap in the airplane, and I had a photo of a map like those in my computer but I didn't know the web page, is very interesting.
Have a good summer you too!
Thank you, Carla!
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