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-
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)
