Showing posts with label C1 speaking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label C1 speaking. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

C1.2

I started putting together this list of links on Saturday but after our Skype sessions yesterday I realized you probably don’t need help looking for sources of info. Just in case some of you do, though, here are some motley clues as to where you might want to look and whom you might want to lend your ears to. These are just some ideas about the first four tasks; should there be a subject that proves particularly tricky to find info on, give me a shout and I ll do my very best to come up with some sources you can use. Happy hunt.


Task 1A

Task 1B

Task 2A. 

Task 2B


https://www.youtube.com/watched?v=OwqIy8Ikv-c (I wonder whether fracking billionaires are showering so many millions on this bloke to say crap like this that he s actually become convinced that he s just telling it like it is or he s just blind to the facts even if he calls himself a scientist. PragerU and Breitbart...if you wanna find out what billionaires want your average Joe to believe the world is like, check them out. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCflO4PQcjA PBS special on the 2018 IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report.

Task 6B
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCwHV9HCxH0  crashcourse breaking down the so-called big five (2:00- and other takes on personality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OuuvICk89Q 1 out of 6 clips. It's part of a BBC special on delvelopmental psychology and trait theory (more on the big five, basically).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx9HicVPSSk  this clips pretty much covers the three questions

Task 7A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veriqDHLXsw Alain de Botton on what makes work fulfilling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H91JDqeR_jg and meaningful

Task 7B
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzxr9FeZf1g scishow on vaccines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBkVCpbNnkU Kurzgesagt on vaccines


Task 8A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnLo2XJY2qU precision, imprecision and the problem with who wrote a provision and when did they write it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHvgiEWH6A4 open to interpretation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9I8iDLFtqE On new laws for new realities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBdfcR-8hEY&list=PL30C13C91CFFEFEA6&index=1 It's probably off-topic but I just couldn't help myself. 1 ouf of 10 programs that look at the philosophical underpinnings of law and analyse the key ideas of different political thinkers and philosophers.

Task 8C

First impressions. Gender biases, racial biases









Monday, May 04, 2020

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

C1.2 week 4

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!

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

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.

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

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

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?

Thursday, February 23, 2017

Friday, October 21, 2016

Brilliant debate site exploring the philosophical and moral underpinnings of justice. It may not sound like it's much fun but it is!
http://www.justiceharvard.org/watch/
http://www.justiceharvard.org/resources/

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

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

The pronunciation web I couldn't find in class today...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/sounds/

Here's an extra couple of golden vids coming from the realm of acting...

(minute 26 onwards)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QgRHOdeApA

(minute 52 onwards)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbIebgLyC0M

Monday, September 21, 2015

C1.1 VIDEOS ORGANIZED BY SEMANTIC FIELDS


1a work, personal motivation


2a stories

2b multitasking



4c phone addiction






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



Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Challenge of the week: time to sound like a film star...put on their accents, imitate their mannerisms, be them!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjwWY-goyZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-gwnsxBFO0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSfnlBkUr8A

Friday, May 15, 2015

The C1 speaking tests for groups A and B will be held on June 3.