Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Autonomous Learning Resources


Miscellany
Crashcourses (15 min presentations with pretty accurate closed captions available)
https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse

Full semesters organized by subject (Higher learning. Verbatim closed captions available)
http://oyc.yale.edu/courses
https://www.youtube.com/user/YaleCourses/playlists

Long articles on a variety of issues available as downloadable audio files
https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/the-long-read

It may sound dreadfully pretentious but the purpose of this channel is to provide useful lessons for life. (CC's are pretty much verbatim) 

15-minute talks on a variety of subject matters including technology, education, design, business, science and global issues. (full transcripts and subtitles in several languages)

Short clips organized by topic. (clowny approach)
https://www.youtube.com/user/OUlearn

Talks, seminars and interviews about all sorts of stuff. If you're a culture vulture, there's probably something for you here.
https://www.youtube.com/@92NY/playlists

In-depth documentaries (full transcripts available)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/topics/

In-depths investigative reports (full transcripts available)
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/episodes/

Debate sites (Closed captions available)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBdfcR-8hEY
https://www.youtube.com/user/IntelligenceSquared

Animated interviews with 20th century personalities.
https://www.youtube.com/user/blankonblank



Podcasts

All in the mind
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/episodes
The Inquiry
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p029399x/episodes/downloads
Why do we do the things we do?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00xtky9/episodes/downloads
People fixing the world
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04grdbc/episodes/downloads
A closer look at some of the stuff in the news
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p029399x/episodes/downloads
The story behind the headlines
https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/todayinfocus
Longer n deeper
https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/the-audio-long-read


Music

Cinema


Books & Authors

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Monday, May 28, 2018

Just a reminder of where to find C1 sample tests:


http://portals.ced.junta-andalucia.es/educacion/portals/web/educacion-permanente/pruebas-certificacion/modelos


https://www.educastur.es/estudiantes/idiomas/pruebas-certificacion/modelos/-/document_library_display/gDaKh5XUDjQn/view/2566533;jsessionid=3A175FC654385900C8D572C732A72BE0?_110_INSTANCE_gDaKh5XUDjQn_redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.educastur.es%2Festudiantes%2Fidiomas%2Fpruebas-certificacion%2Fmodelos%3Bjsessionid%3D3A175FC654385900C8D572C732A72BE0%3Fp_p_id%3D110_INSTANCE_gDaKh5XUDjQn%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-1%26p_p_col_count%3D1

https://www.educastur.es/documents/10531/2566533/IN_C1_EOI_ECONOMY+AND+INDUSTRY+%28+INTERACCION%29.pdf/589ec6a5-ed69-45bf-bf28-b00d1e62a984

https://sites.google.com/site/eoivillaverde/modelos-examen-otras-comunidades
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Tuesday, May 22, 2018

1.Are we better off or worse off than we were in 2008?

2. Is the Italian debt likely end up jeopardizing the future of the EU? 

3. Google knows what you're looking for. Facebook knows what you like. Sharing is the norm, and secrecy is out. Are we doomed to witness the end of privacy?

4. Data from the World Resources Institute (WRI)suggests that global population will increase by 34% by 2050 - an extra 2.3 billion people. To consider that the entire global population was 2.5 billion in 1950 gives an idea of the challenges which lie ahead.  Should international regulations be put in place?  Should sterilization be incentivized,  one-child policies implemented?

5. AI will lead to a technological singularity, a point when machine intelligence will overpower human intelligence. Some think this is the end of the world; others see more positive possibilities. While arguing that the virtually unregulated development of machine learning and AI pose a very serious risk to the survival of the human species, Nick Bostrom concedes that  superintelligence could also help us solve issues such as disease, poverty, and environmental destruction, and could help us to “enhance" ourselves. Does AI pose a real threat to human existence or should we be mostly  optimistic about it? 

6. What are the main drawbacks and upsides of virtual reality?
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Friday, February 16, 2018

A1 speaking tasks


https://www.scribd.com/document/371646853/1NB-SPK-Dialogues
https://www.scribd.com/document/372043777/1NB-SPK-Monologues
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Thursday, January 18, 2018

How to write reports

Step-by-step video explanations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h53hZPKvHI4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KQTTHxFr6E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2zTjN7AQ24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2dyZx68K7k
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Tuesday, January 09, 2018

far beyond masta scribbla status

Here's the kind of blog you needed. It´s packed full with specific information about C1 writing tests at EOI and  links to ESL webpages which provide juicy tips, exercises, real C1 feedback, sample tests- you name it... All of that to get you up to speed on the different writing formats you are expected to be familiar with. That new year's resolution whereby you'd be becoming a proficient English writer will now seem feasible rather than that ever retreating dream of old.


http://writingeoi.blogspot.com.es/p/c1.html


The following links are from the aforementioned blog:

https://www.flo-joe.co.uk/cae/students/writing/makeover/archive.htm

https://www.caeexamtips.com/blog/how-to-write-a-cae-proposal

https://www.caeexamtips.com/blog/2016/2/19/improving-a-cae-essay
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