DON’T WORRY, BE H[APP]Y Nowadays there are millions of apps for your mobile phone Most of them are very and they can be very useful We have applications for many different uses such as checking the weather, manage your shopping list, meet people or organize your day You can even use them to learn English by downloading dictionaries or games like the ones from the British Council, Duolingo or Babbel and compete with your friends The advantages of these programs are many: you can use them everywhere, they are attractive for teenagers, and they are very easy to use • • • • • • • Do you use apps in your mobile phone? Which one is the most useful for you? Do you play any games in your phone? Do your parents download apps? How much time you use your mobile phone every day? Do you use any messaging apps to be in contact with your friends? What are the apps you use the most? Now you are going to become an app creator Design your own app, is icon and explain its use Name: Icon: Price: Function: Rating: These are some the most popular apps now Do you know them? What are they used for?  WhatsApp  Pou  Facebook  Angry Birds Go!  Candy Crush Saga  Clash of Clans  Minecraft – Pocket Edition  Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour  Plants vs Zombies  Instagram  Shazam  Skype Angry Birds and its sequels has become one of the most popular games in the last few years They have different spin-offs, a racing game, board games, a TV series and all types of merchandising Players use a slingshot to launch birds at pigs stationed on or within various structures in order to destroy all the pigs on the playing field As players advance through the game, new types of birds become available, some with special abilities that can be activated by the player The game basics are very simple: different animal species fight to get some eggs Can you invent new characters to play the game? Think of different animal species and a feeling, for example: Sad Turtles who fight against rabbits to get their shells back When the Scottish man Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it was a revolution Over the last two decades a new means of spoken communication has changed the way we communicate: the mobile phone • • Look at the picture and describe the biggest changes in cell phones How you think mobile phones will be in the future? You can use this vocabulary: Antenna Covers Screen Materials Keyboard Accessories Speakers Networks Apps Size