Meet Bethany Mota, the teen who turned YouTube shopping sprees into a fashion career

This is Bethany Mota, the girl who began to show her clothes and make up on the web and has become a celebrity: more than 4 million followers. Jesús T. told us about her in class last Monday and here you have some more information about her. For me, really awesome!

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When it comes to self-made YouTube celebrities, Bethany Mota ranks near the top. With 4.8 million YouTube subscribers, she doesn't have nearly the fanbase of video game commentator PewDiePie — the reigning champion with 20.8 million subs — but she's pulled ahead of gun nut FPSRussia (4.7 million subs) and violinist Lindsey Sterling (4.07 million subs) without having to master a musical instrument or blow things up.

No, what propelled the 18-year-old Mota to internet stardom was her desire to shop, and to share her purchases with the world. She's one of the many teens who document their shopping on YouTube in "haul videos," a teen trend identified just a few years ago. Only now, Mota doesn't just shop: she has her own clothing line at Aeropostale and has made appearances in Seventeen and Teen Vogue, in addition to doing deals with Forever 21 and JC Penney.  Like Michelle Phan, the video make-up artist who rose to fame on YouTube and then went into business with cosmetics group L'Oreal, Mota appears to have been able to leverage her internet celebrity into a fashion career.

Business Insider has the story of how she managed to scale social media to get there.

 Here is the link in case you want to read more:

Bethany Mota - The Verge

And here you have one of her videos. Will it help you understand her huge success?

Apart from homework, it's a must!

Dear students, this is part of your homework for next week.
You have a link to J.K. Rowling commencement speech at Harvard University.
First listen to her. it's really worth it! then you listen again and answer the questions provided in the other document. We'll make corrections in the next class.
You're also welcome if you feel like sereaching a bit about her life before and after she wrote the Harry Potter successful books. I'm sure you'll like her even more.

To get the questions, click here:
Questions to J.K. Rowing speech

Enjoy it!

And now, as promised, you can get the whole speech here:   JK Rowing speech

Santa Lucia Island

Thanks to Manuel, we can get to know something about St Lucia Island, which is in the Caribbean Sea. This is the one where one on the ladies at the bakery comes from.
I hope you find it interesting.

I wouldn't mind giving it a try!

The Reluctant Fundamentalist: reminder

Dear students,

Just remember that we'll discuss the book in the classes on Tuesday and Wednesday, depending on your group. They'll be general questions so you don't need to remember every single fact in the story.

Enjoy the reading!

Time's Person of the Year 2013: Pope Francis

 

As promised, here you have the interesting video we watched in the class about the Time's Person of the Year. Now you have the chance to watch it as many times as you want, with or without subtitles.

Click here:

Person of the Year 2013

Actor required. URGENT!

Dear students,

As you already know, we are making arrangements and prepare everything to celebrate the 25th anniversary of our EOI Las Rozas.
One of the events is going to be a short multilingual play and they desperately need a male actor, aged between 20 and 45 (or a bit older if necessary) who speaks good English (any of you, advanced students could do it) and a bit of French.
They are going to rehearse on Fridays and I'm sure it'll be an excellent way to have fun and practise English, I mean, you can kill two birds with the same stone!

Come on, make your mind up and reply with a comment here urgently and I'll give details about it and I will put you in contact with the teacher who's organizing the play.

Thanks for your participation!

I copy here the original advert:

                           

PARA TODOS LOS ALUMNOS DE LA EOI DE LAS ROZAS

¿Te gusta el teatro? ¿Alguna vez  te has sentido actor/actriz?

Entonces… ¡estás de enhorabuena!

Estamos haciendo un casting de alumnos- actores para el sketch que se representará en el 25 aniversario de la escuela   (puedes ver a continuación los perfiles).

¡Anímate,  da rienda suelta a tu creatividad y siente la adrenalina del teatro!

Podrás practicar la lengua de forma creativa y divertida y mejorarás la expresividad y la fluidez.

Se requiere soltura en el idioma, buena pronunciación, expresividad  y muchas ganas de pasarlo bien.

¡Te esperamos! 

PERFIL DE LOS ACTORES PARA EL SKETCH DEL 25 ANIVERSARIO

- alumn@ de alemán  de cualquier edad

- alumn@ de español de cualquier edad 

- un alumno de inglés que hable también algo de francés, de entre 25 y 40-45 años.

 - una alumna de inglés que hable algo de italiano, de entre 25 y 40-45 años.

- una alumna de francés, de entre 25 y 40-45 años.
- un alumno de italiano de entre 25 y 40-45 años.

 

New Year Resolutions

 I'd like to share with you this beautiful video that will make you think a lot.
Thank you very much for sharing it with me, Raquel.

Click here to watch it:

http://www.robinsharma.com/academy/yabyy/how-to-unleash-your-greatness-in-2014/?utm_source=EM-MyPersonalMsg-PAL-txt&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=010114&utm_campaign=YABYY14