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

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

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!

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

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

I know it's Friday but this channel got me massively overexcited and I just couldn't help myself. Prepare to dribble all over your keyboard. This is past mouth-watering!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3xxYsIMs6s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl5Jx0o5F_k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX6K-Z67vI4&spfreload=5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMoYxUMJG4c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuW7FHw0x_Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwPcS9vhO7E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBWKj9lezrc

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

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

C1 videos organized by topic

6A. The bucket list (or things to do before you die):

Whalewatching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxDwGNzvKc0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeEgkV0K5nQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc-08HV8lko

Coming face to face with a gorilla in its natural habitat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQPoSRnDVnA

Swimming with dolphins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMTYNx7DXWg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yum7Ak5EZ9o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AzkOBL7fZE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozDmaSMe3GI

And as promised, the seven wonders of the world...

Machu Pichu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYekpbJ9ll8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHlFYkAkabI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=714HKJaCGSI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTDxpDJn6tY

Mount Fiji
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo4rbgwcfjY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhVyFfqRijk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWcCYQmyPnI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFG_GNIvRls

Videos for C1 organized by topic

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

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

Videos for C1 organized by topic

1a work, personal motivation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM9Btf-Ioos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL3CFtW8WE0

1b personality, family

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzS_k2_fdpk
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

TED speakers on language acquisition...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0yGdNEWdn0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WLHr1_EVtQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a6vVIdQBd0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNmf-G81Irs

and CUSP speakers on business and enterpreneurship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaZPBonUKBY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOpaIeKRo_w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp4Z5uusd_I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVvGJKzxzEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwxmdyC4F3U

More juicy critical reviews

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNgfaYmzZbA&list=ELBijyEGVUMqc

Film and music reviews.

Written reviews.
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/nov/28/guardian-best-albums-2012-20-11
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jun/03/angels-share-ken-loach-review

Podcast reviews.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/audio/2012/nov/29/popandrock-jessie-ware

Video reviews.
http://betchabottmdolla.blogspot.com.es/2012_04_01_archive.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/film+content/video
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video/2012/nov/30/the-hunt-video-review

Picture reviews?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/gallery/2012/dec/01/10-best-screen-adaptations-pictures

A few interesting webpages to keep you busy for the duration of your nine English speaking lives


BERKLEE (musical life)
http://www.berklee.edu/video
THE MOTH (real life stories)
 http://themoth.org/
OPEN CULTURE (audiobooks life)
http://www.openculture.com/2012/10
YALE(psycological life, post-colonial life, popular science )
http://www.youtube.com/user/YaleUniversity#g/c/003CE0429CAE4E19 ()
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwsj9AZnaaE&feature=edu&list=PLACAA5E35D77BA4B0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq6u4RFf7ck&list=EC27FAF837577D180A&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAQN6EPU7hc&feature=edu&list=PLACAA5E35D77BA4B0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmKWhPbYwaE&feature=edu&list=PLACAA5E35D77BA4B0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyGEMsmcm54
HARVARD (quantum life)
http://athome.harvard.edu/programs/jmr/#
http://athome.harvard.edu/programs/sst/
http://athome.harvard.edu/programs/sst/video/sst1_5.html
http://athome.harvard.edu/programs/sst/video/sst1_3.html
DEF POETRY JAM (poetic life)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuH-ZMrlie0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuAbGJBvIVY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Xu0LW7ilo
STAND UP (not exactly PC fundamentalist humorous life)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ktBQ51iGWw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACA0OBB9Qc4&playnext=1&list=PL3F3F2DBBC3010312