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Monday, May 04, 2020

C1.2

A few useful links to help with your pronunciation, intonation and rhythm.

(Long but eye-opening uni lecture)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkQ7lwEWeGA
(Movie breakdowns)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evj3hY42FCY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H_2t0OoXoU
(TV show break down)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCF2_0G337Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_XiKIvXVEw

Sunday, April 19, 2020

C1.2 Week 5

Textbook.
Pages 88, 89 (minus 5A, 5B and 6B) and 90.

Blog.
1. Watch the clips below and choose one.
2. Jot down vocab you may want to use when retelling one of these anecdotes.
3. Email me your 250-word first person retelling before Tuesday, 27 of April.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu-DHRYM0Js
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWwDeqorbH0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkcVEQDStPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-GyolJZcAo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioSI3KsE2_k

Sunday, April 12, 2020

Textbook.

Pages 85, 86 and 87.

Blog.

Work one of the following clips.

1. Watch all of the of the clips below and choose one to work with.
2. Select C1 combos in your anecdote and jot them down.
3. Retell the story or anecdote you chose making sure you use the slick new lexical gold you've just dug from the clip and striving to sound like the person that tells it

(0:30-6:15)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfmjmDnTbHQ

(2:25-4:01)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYRS0aXaBC8

(4:15-5:00)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sZH-psg9yE

(whole thing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEhiIr-dveE

(2:37- 4:34)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnqEFt8PTLg

Monday, March 23, 2020

Week 2 C1.2

. Hey! Thanks a lot for your comments! Keep up the good work.

Textbook.
6.5 lookback page 78
7.1 Happy Ending? pages 80 and 81

Blog.

Work on an excerpt (20:20- 23:35) from an interview with economist Jeffrey Sachs. I’m posting the transcript to this section in the comments.

1. Listen to the excerpt while you read the transcript. Do it again and try listening and repeating simultaneously this time. Pretend you are Jeffrey Sachs.
2. Select C1 combos and jot them down.
3. Play the first question Mehdi Hasan asks and listen to Jeffrey Sachs answer. Stop the recording and improvise an answer using the lexical gold you dug.
4. Do the same with the rest of the questions.
5. Repeat 3 and 4 without resorting to the transcript.
https://theintercept.com/2020/03/12/capitalism-vs-the-coronavirus/

Work on an excerpt (7:22- 11:56) from an interview with economist congresswoman Alexandria Ocasión-Cortez and professor Stephanie Keaton I’m posting the transcript to this section in the comments.

https://theintercept.com/2020/03/20/deconstructed-podcast-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-coronavirus-economy/

Same deal

Stay put!

Thursday, May 30, 2019

CAE listening comprehension sample tests galore

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

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)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7IcJI8PUf5Z3zKxnZvTBog

Short, mostly animated clips with full transcripts and subtitles in quite a few languages.
https://ed.ted.com/lessons?content_type=animations&direction=desc&sort=publish-date&user_by_click=student

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)

https://www.ted.com/talks

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

https://www.youtube.com/@fantano

https://www.youtube.com/@SoundFieldPBS

https://www.youtube.com/@Polyphonic

https://www.youtube.com/@NahreSol

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008mj7p/episodes/downloads

Cinema

https://www.youtube.com/@YMS

https://www.youtube.com/@LessonsfromtheScreenplay

https://www.criterion.com/current/category/2-essays

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjFqcJQXGZ6T6sxyFB-5i6A

https://www.youtube.com/@TheCinemaCartography

https://www.youtube.com/@OutstandingScreenplays

Books & Authors

https://www.youtube.com/@VideoSparkNotes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldkLFvaHHNA&list=PL7qClh5XAo-1wmRMALZ5VW1l354uWrl24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe64p-QzhNE&list=PLkn2TP7UpiKydwu3SvaVh9PIDg2787-0_

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAzKGkTIKpg&list=PLwxNMb28Xmpfv2COuuJaKzy6E2n8nSMdi

Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/@OverthinkPodcastPhilosophy

https://www.youtube.com/@ContraPoints
https://www.youtube.com/@carefreewandering

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/episodes

Thursday, September 22, 2016

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

Saturday, April 11, 2015

C1 videos organised by topic

7C. Humour.

Stand-up masters' views on comedy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKY6BGcx37k
(subtitled in Spanish)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fke5w8gmLhc

Mock the Week

(subtitled in Spanish)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VODW3QMrgyQ

Russell Peters
(subtitled in ENGLISH!!!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlRmUzEatFw

Tuesday, April 07, 2015

C1 videos organised by topic

7A
Indian recipes.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AUQvYn6wRn8&feature=youtube

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GITftnBiIBg&feature=youtu.be

7B sport on trial
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2013/04/22/3740178.htm

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

C1 videos organized by topic

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

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

Sunday, March 08, 2015

Some refreshingly inspiring lives, quite a few movingly sad facts. Quite a few spicy hot dialects, some accents from clear-as-a-blue-sky-shire.

https://vimeo.com/24927115
https://vimeo.com/39656751
https://vimeo.com/25040923

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/audioslideshow/2013/dec/30/photographer-ed-alcock-hobbledehoy-audio-slideshow
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/audioslideshow/2014/jul/25/scotland-stories-scottish-independence-audio-slideshow
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/audioslideshow/2014/oct/13/millers-point-eviction-sydney-australia-slideshow
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/audioslideshow/2014/may/28/scotland-stories-phil-robertson-building-viking-longship
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/audioslideshow/2014/aug/27/scotland-stories

Tuesday, February 03, 2015

Videos for C1 organized by topic

5a. Nanny state (minute 18:30 onwards)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f5DpjeCxjk

Friday, January 16, 2015

Videos for C1 organized by topic

4b self-help???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BpUFpncXFM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EaIkSNAsWU

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/

Monday, December 15, 2014

A few channels, dozens of speeches, hundreds of learning opportunities.

1.
https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyzi9GNZFMU (virtually verbatim subtitles!)

2.

https://www.youtube.com/user/bigthink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbnFJVgBcw0 (whimsically untrustworthy subtitles)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8SOQEitsJI (low reliability)

3.

https://www.youtube.com/user/TEDxTalks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2vN2QXZGnc (reasonably trustworthy subtitles)

4.
https://www.youtube.com/user/TEDEducation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esPRsT-lmw8 (reasonably reliable)

This website's almost too good to be true. It's packed full of sound investigative reporting. This is as serious you can get by today's TV journalism standards...You'll be able to find documentaries on almost every topic imaginable on this site. And to top it all up, all transcripts are available too!!! I just can't believe this is free!!!

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/episodes