gossip!

A second topic, as promised. Why not participate in this one too?

We have talked about college rumours in class. Sometimes, you ask me questions that begin more or less like this: "There´s a rumour going round - you know what it´s like. Is it true that next class ...?" Let´s analyse this. Click here to find out more about the meaning of the word "gossip", and here for "rumour".
But rumours and gossip are a lot more widespread: they can be used for fun (like in gossip columns) or even to destroy reputations.
How do you feel about this? Do you gossip? (Come on, be honest, you´re using a nick after all!) Do you pay attention to rumours? Do you spread them? If your answer is no, how do you feel about people who do all, or some of these things?

holiday activities!!

Hello everybody!
I hope you´re all healthy. Let´s take advantage of this compulsory recess to discuss some more topics, in order to simplify our work in the second term. I´m planning to upload another topic after this one, so that you have a wider choice. Besides this, you will soon get some more work to prepare for the third tp, so wait for it in the infoblog and the webpage.

So here is the first topic: we are all getting a lot of information about influenza A H1N1. Here is some more info in English, plus a fun video teaching us how to sneeze and cough according to the new etiquette:

Now, I´d like to ask you some questions: do you pay attention to all this information? To what extent? Are you taking precautions? Do you/would you wear a mask in public if it was necessary? Don´t answer what is politically correct, answer the truth!