Thursday, September 17, 2020

UNIT 1 DO YOU MIND?

READING- IDEAS FOCUS (BEHAVIOUR)

CRASHCOURSE (YOUTUBE CHANNEL)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCGtkDzELAI

VOC-PERSONALITY 

Why can't the world greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness?

audio version https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2015/jan/30/podcast-consciousness-burkeman-audio

text version https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/21/-sp-why-cant-worlds-greatest-minds-solve-mystery-consciousness

Yale Open University Courses (mins 13:53 to 19:46) 

https://oyc.yale.edu/psychology/psyc-110/lecture-13

VIDEO.-FROM THE SAME FAMILY

MARY TRUMP ON HER FAMILY.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oibk-NH3q-A


UNIT 2 BRIGHT IDEAS

VOC-TECHNOLOGY- 

THE TECH COLD WAR

BBC 4 SERIOUSLY...(PODCAST)

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08hd1h4

BBC CLICK (YOUTUBE CHANNEL)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk0rDsoz8mc&t=155s

WRITING- a review (by and large, reviews tend to be written in a rather colloquial style. However,  a more engaged subject matter and prospective audience calls for quite a formal style (9:44-13:25) 

https://www.c-span.org/video/?303592-1/qa-michael-hastings

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/formal-vs-informal-writing/

VIDEO_NEON SEAS

Ocean acidification

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m1X26Auw6Q


UNIT 3- RIGHT ON!

Ideas focus. page 37. Activism and helping others.


SPEAKING-ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/renewable-energy-dirty-mining?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2

 https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2020/aug/21/the-evolution-of-extinction-rebellion-podcast

Thunberg & Attenborough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwpLnqyrQGM

NASA s last CO2 measurement

Antarctica’s Thwaites glacier may be calving too fast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRUxTFWWWdY

SPEAKING- INEQUALITY

James Baldwin’s letter to his nephew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=140toA5JJ0k

George Yancy telling it like it is

https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/24/dear-white-america/

Intersectionality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akOe5-UsQ2o

Aboriginal doctor in philosophy calling out whiteness 

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/the-white-way-to-think/11658458

Do billionaire donations reinforce plutocracy?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2020/sep/28/how-philanthropy-benefits-the-super-rich-podcast


UNIT 4. EXPRESS YOURSELF.

LANGUAGE AND COMMUNCATION

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cgpfw4z8cw

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l7q1/episodes/downloads

What’s the function of language?

Dialogue between Chomsky and Krause on

thought or communication? (mins16:00 to 20:15)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml1G919Bts0

The effects of new technologies in English- David  Crystal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h79V_qUp91M

Ideas focus (page 62) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI11hHOya34

IDEAS FOCUS. PAGE 51. JARON LANIER BBC 4 NEWS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc_Jq42Og7Q

EXAM TASK. Third culture kids.

https://www.ted.com/talks/taiye_selasi_don_t_ask_where_i_m_from_ask_where_i_m_a_local?language=en


UNIT 5. IF IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED

GANGS.

OSCAR MARTINEZ (consecutive interpreting)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk6YeyElSqA

Why I as a black man attend KKK rallies?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORp3q1Oaezw

CLIMBING/PERSONAL ASPIRATIONS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJvNu49kjbw


UNIT 6. MADE OF MONEY.

DEBT.

https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/the-signal/meet-the-economists-denying-

debt/12284948

YANIS VAROUFAKIS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqQMT4Uuh0s

Money and Finance: Crash Course

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dugn51K_6WA

THe 2008 financial crisis: Crash Course

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPOv72Awo68

Anand Giridharadas- 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axN8ppre-mU


UNIT 7. DISTANT SHORES.


funny approach to this is your captain speaking skits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5gClkEchnk

how to protect a national parks from tourists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HLQf47yrSw

the future of managed tourism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exxQFSwXKgw


UNIT 8. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.

Ideas focus. Page 122. How they made us doubt everything

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08lxv3n

C-Span Q&A with Michael Hastings (14:45-21:58)

https://www.c-span.org/video/?303592-1/qa-michael-hastings

Friday, June 05, 2020

A2 week 12

Next Thursday, we won’t talk on Skype.  As you probably know it’s a local holiday here. On Tuesday, we’ll keep working on oral interactions 1-18.

Monday, June 01, 2020

C1.2 Week 11 and 12

We’re keeping our sessions on Skype going for a couple more weeks. Although from  Monday 8th,  I’m changing the format slightly so that those who wish to prepare for their oral interaction too can do so. We’ll be focusing on ‘dialogos’ 1-7 from the September 2018 exam. We’ll still be working on a one-on-one basis so I’ll play your partner’s role. It goes without saying that if someone prefers to keep working on their ’monologos’ or some other aspect they can just let me know on Skype this week and we’ll figure something out.

A2 week 11 and 12

We’re keeping our Tuesday and Thursday sessions going for two more weeks. Keep preparing oral interactions 1-18.

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

For-and-against essay

Will we find a way to make Spain a socially fairer, more environmentally sustainable country in the aftermath of this pandemic?

Monday, May 25, 2020

A2 week 10


Textbook. Pages 118 and 119.

We're having our usual Skype sessions on Tuesday and Thursday. Remember that you had to prepare oral interaction tasks 1-18. (dialogos del uno al dieciocho).

C1.2 Week 10

Textbook. Pages 100 and 101.

Those of you who are interested in writing our last piece of the year can do so on Wednesday. You’ll have one hour to write a 250 for and against essay whose subject matter I’ll let you know about on Wednesday at 19:00 sharp. I’ll be expecting your pieces emailed to me by 20:00. Those of you who have already passed their writing won’t have to take this test and can have their Skype sessions at the costumary time on Wednesday. If you have any questions about this we can discuss them during today on Skype.

Thursday, May 21, 2020

C1.2 assessment news

This information was taken from today’s BOJA.

Las pruebas específicas de certificación de los niveles Intermedio B1, Intermedio B2 y Avanzado C1 en los idiomas alemán, árabe, español como lengua extranjera, francés, inglés, italiano y portugués correspondientes a la convocatoria ordinaria se realizarán en la primera quincena del mes de septiembre de 2020 y las correspondientes a la convocatoria extraordinaria en la segunda quincena del mes de octubre de 2020, conforme al calendario que establezca el órgano competente de la Consejería de Educación y Deporte.