How about considering the Christmas holidays when they are still fresh in our minds?
This is my proposal for the first days of school. Older students think about these holidays with a critical view and read a funny text by Philip Roth, who imagined Kafka's life in the USA at the age of 55.
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Listen to this new version of an old Scottish song by Robert Burns which is often sung the last night of a year. The singer, Paolo Nutini, is from Scotland, too.