Why Madrid Metro is the best in the world.

Each of these lessons are based on cultural and trending topics such as the rise of the spanish language as a competative edge in North America to NFTS and the Metaverse. In this exercise we look at the value of thinking differently or  to ' Think Outside the Box' and how creativity is becoming an essential key in a everychanging economic landscape. 

In this lesson we look at material related to the great British artist David Hockney and his relationship with colour and his beautiful attitude to life. 

Class duration – One - 2 hour session \ Number of students – 1 – 4 

Objective - Develop an awareness of critical thinking while expanding on related vocabulary.  

The majority of corrections are given in real time during the online class with notes taken and written in the CHAT option in Microsoft teams, google MEET or skype. 

Recently I had to GET rid of my car because it was a 23 year old BMW diesel and legislaton from December 2024 means I can't even have it anywhere with the M30. Although it was a inconveinence I still agree with the idea and luckily the city has an excellent transport system that meant truthfully I hardly have used it! 

                                               Why Madrid is Insanely Well Designed

DISCUSS -- What other similar ideas have you seen in your city? As a group, brainstorm a few ideas that could make your city Smarter.

There are many different concepts to what we should do globally with our megacities from making them SMART -- which depends heavily on technology or the fifteen minute city where cities are transformed into many small villages where everything the citizen needs is fifteen minutes on public transport or by walking. 

This will take a lot of GETTING used to for the citizens and at the beginning way make it more difficult to GET around but in the long run it will be worth it \ Valdrá la pena\. 

GET IS EVERYWHERE IN ENGLISH THERE IS NO GETTING AWAY FROM IT !!!!        -------------------------------

Work in pairs and match the collocations with GET with their proper definitions 

COLLOCATIONS with GET -- get up to\get over \ get rid of \ get around to \ get across\  get wound up

to recover from something (illness, break up, let down) 

to move around a city or country (form of transport) 

to communicate an idea successfully 

do something  

to be very tense, nervous or angry 

to remove something, to throw away