Viewing schedule for the spring term

Below is your viewing schedule for the next term. For each video, do the following:

1. Watch the video as many times as you need to understand. If necessary, check the words and facts you don't know. Try not to use the 'subtitles' function if possible!
2. In your notebook, take notes about things you have learned from the video and put down key words and interesting expressions. Do this on your own! Don't copy the text from anywhere or ask anyone for extensive help.
3. Get ready to report on the content of the video in class and to discuss the issues raised in the film.
4. After the lesson in which we discuss the video, on your blog, answer the question asked by the teacher. Do it  in one paragraph of 80 - 100 words.

	video to watch	to be discussed on
1	Why is Pluto not a planet? BBC News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIk29MnzZWA	6 Feb
2	Is Sugar a Drug? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAHWGa_UYLI&list=PLsmqeqKj7M-pINcPqJd8d1eRKlqm6QVjA&index=14	13 Feb
3	Neil Degrasse Tyson - The scientific method  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FvSXI2iBcA	20 Feb
4	Will plastic bags go out of fashion? BBC News www.youtube.com/watch?v=thLoTj8rCVY	27 Feb
5	A Very British Hotel Episode 1 (45 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEKfiZg-Mg4&list=PLDJIWiwfNABlPf_AEx3LIt0fO4UXGqlWk	6 Mar
6	David Attenborough Tree of Life video HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6IrUUDboZo David Attenborough on Darwin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz7U4k522Pg	13 Mar
7	Jackson Katz: The Macho Paradox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP7g0Kn7WrY	20 Mar
8		27 Mar
9	What If The World Became Vegan? - Earth Unplugged https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytFwytWK1Bw	10 Apr
10	BBC Modern Masters 1of4 -Andy Warhol (59 min) www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Egsj1n3O6I	17 Apr
11		24 Apr
12	The Columbian Exchange: Crash Course World History #23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQPA5oNpfM4	10 May

Would I lie to you

Watch this short clip from the BBC comedy programme "Would I Lie to You".
During the programme people tell embarrassing stories from their life and the opposite team are supposed to guess if they are lying or telling the truth. In this clip they question Bob Mortimer to decide if he really once set his house on fire.
Did Bob Mortimer set his house on fire

Listen to it a few times and try to understand why people are laughing.
Choose three interesting words or phrases as well.

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