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

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