Dear Group 2. Watch  What makes a good life? by Robert Waldiger on www.ted.com one more time and revise vocabulary for Tuesday 28th November.
Your English Teacher
Agnieszka Rożyńska

A study on happiness

Watch this TED talk for Monday 27 November and work through the worksheet attached.
Video: A study on happiness
Tasksheet: Questions + Vocabulary

Homework

Write (interesting) sentences with the following words. You can put more than one word in a sentence:
outrage
to deal with sth
to prompt
widespread
eye-catching
to stigmatise
comprehensive
reluctant/reluctance
crucial
confidential
to ridicule
to retaliate
hostile
perpetrator
resources
milestone

Emma Thompson interview

Listen to the interview that Emma Thompson gave to BBC Newsnight about the sexual harassment scandal in Hollywood. Answer the questions below and make sure you work out the meaning of the words and phrases listed.
Interview

1. What is Emma Thompson's experience with Harvey Weinstein? How does she describe Weinstein?

2. How does she describe the Hollywood ‘system’? What does it do to women?

3. In what sense is Weinstein the tip of the iceberg’?

4. Why and how did Emma Thompson once defend a co-actress in one of her films?

5. In what sense is she ‘lucky’?

6. What common everyday experiences of women does she describe?

7. How did people react to what Weinstein did? Why did they even ‘help’ Weinstein?

8. Why do some women choose to ‘play the game’ in Hollywood?

9. What is her experience with Roman Polanski’s case?

10. What are her recommendations for the future? What should happen?

call sb out on their behavior

endemic to the system

predator

belittle sb

pester sb

olden days

since time immemorial

bolshie

give sexual favours

turn sth on its head

to prey upon sb

couch casting

bamboozled

revoke sth

Dear Group 2. Some of you still haven't published the posts. You were supposed to do it till yesterday (FRIDAY)!
I'm waitng patiently till tomorrow.
Your English Teacher.
Agnieszka Rożynska