Week 14: January 25th, 2023- Centenarians, regrets and a resignation

- We reviewed the course together and explained how you found it so that our new classmate could form an idea.

- We discussed the questions I had set for homework, the ones related to the video on centenarian people. 

- We practised the most usual grammar structure for regrets, should have, in a speaking exercise.

- We did a listening exercise about New Zealand's prime minister Lucinda Arden.

Homework:

For homework I'd like you to do some more research about some striking scientific discoveries that are hitting the headlines these days. 

As usual, the way I suggest you prepare for this is to read extensively about the topic while taking notes from which you'd be able to tell the rest of the class about it. It's always very interesting and useful for improvement that you pick up structures or vocabulary you are familiar with but you never use and try to use it when you tell us. Avoid reading from your notes, you only check them.

The topics and people are the following:

• Nacho, Alba B and Gema: Earth's core appears to have reversed its spin and could have consequences.
• Sarai, Jaqueline and Toñi: Humans seem to be able to understand apes better than thought.
• Sonia, Rosa and Alba H: Newly found asteroid, 2023BU, is passing very close to the Earth
• Mario, Fernando and Azucena: Doomsday clock is at 90 seconds to midnight.
• Roberto, María Luisa and Tomás: What is Chat GPT and the controversy about it.

For your reading, you can check these sites or any other you rely on: The Guardian science,  New York Times

Week 6: October 16th, 2019- Alternative social views: New Zealand and Bhutan

newshub.co.nz

- We exchanged the information we had researched on the pieces of paper I had given you. They belonged to information on alternative ways to measure social realities in New Zealand and Bhutan.
- We completed a gapped text on a video on New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in Davos last January. She talked about the well-being budget her government is implementing.

- Every pair of people then got a set of ten words or numbers extracted from a text on Bhutan and tried to guess what the text was about. You then compared your ideas with the actual text.

- We saw an inspiring video on the hope for a change;-))

- An we finished by quickly having a look at the work and life of some women writers: Mary Shelley, Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf.

HOMEWORK:

- I forgot to set you some homework on Wednesday but I've found a nice thing for you to do.

1. Have a look at an excerpt from a docummentary on Bhutan, from minute 3,50 to minute 7.45

2. In those three minutes, devise four or five questions for your partner. Imagine you were the teacher and that you wanted to check your classmate's understanding of the video. Choose to make questions that are separated from each other, so that your classmate has some time to know where he/she is. Remember you can view the subtitles to the docummentary by clicking on the button next to the wheel.

3. Write those questions on a piece of paper that can be photocopied (and that is readable please!)

4. The docummentary in in this LINK.