Week 1 C1.2

Hi, there.

As you all know regular classes were suspended last weekend. I hope everyone is doing fine and feeling up to keeping their English on point, though. Here's what I propose for this week:

Textbook:

Continue working on unit 6

6.3 Pages 74 and 75 

6.4 page 76

Blog:

Watch this clip. Make a list of 20 adjectives and 20 lexical collocations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8sY29iN0-c

Watch this ted talk twice. Take notes. Sum up the talk orally.

https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story/transcript?language=en#t-38509

CAE listening comprehension sample tests galore

https://engexam.info/tag/cae-listening-test/

 C1 tricks n tips to improve your pronunciation!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P-Bk-Sm9dY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu0FE31oAg0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEBqsi20SmI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUVGhF1fFig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWes7irLOzI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5b8HdxIhaE&spfreload=5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLeXB925yww

More free stuff! Arty clips on a variety of topics coming from a fresh angle
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7IcJI8PUf5Z3zKxnZvTBog

C1.1 VIDEOS ORGANIZED BY SEMANTIC FIELDS

1a work, personal motivation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM9Btf-Ioos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x2_kWRB8-A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL3CFtW8WE0

1b personality, family
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUrV6oZ3zsk&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtOPRKzVLY0jJY-uHOH9KVU6&index=22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OuuvICk89Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kd7RnFZ58M&spfreload=5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36m1o-tM05g

1c language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WLHr1_EVtQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0yGdNEWdn0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah6WEo2y7do

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kvs8SxN8mc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_q9b9YqGRY

2a stories

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GTz_Jm9ZTY

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWwDeqorbH0

2b multitasking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PriSFBu5CLs

3b describing books
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8E7HLUaRF4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rv5VBF54mI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyVAU5iGe0k&list=PL9156A37193921175
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbqL2G_iQ-c&list=PL9156A37193921175&index=19

3c money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7m9wfFnH6o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T69NDIcHOl8

4c phone addiction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_KqCLfrdyc
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2010/s3054156.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/special_eds/20101101/telco/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLq9suwfmpc

5c health and medicine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxKst8BaPbc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS5bgPKSpD4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw_8qnL5RjY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARxjQ3IRqvg

6a travel and tourism 

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=119cQNSg5nAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYWU_lO9-TY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3ykhFqyRA8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQEtGRIHM7U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjvWVYlhH8k

6C The Promised Land???

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2011/10/20/3344543.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2014/04/28/3991401.htm

6C The promised land

Taiye Selasi on local human experience and national identity 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYCKzpXEW6E

Somalia via the UK: Nuruddin Farah and Nadifa Mohamed
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rv5VBF54mI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-XInmu-Ebs


7a food

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUQvYn6wRn8


7c humour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXhlSghtkBU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qOaZ4CQqKI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezW_4RjLPuQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjWI-5CObq8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKY6BGcx37k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0-XLrfF400
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSNpNdFwkAQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GG1_aFeCZA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AmIsJDYMbs

Self-study resources

Yet again...I can't believe all this is free of charge.

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

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

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

Short clips on a variety of topics (closed captions in several languages available)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7IcJI8PUf5Z3zKxnZvTBog

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

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

Podcast dealing with different aspects of global development (full transcripts available)
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/series/global-development-podcast

For those wanting to have a more in-depth insight into the (CEFR) Common European Framework of Reference  for Languages (CEFR).
http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/linguistic/Source/Framework_EN.pdf