A text about working hours (for Monday 4 March)

Working hours through history

News for Thursday 21 February

Global News 19 Feb

News for Thursday 14 February

BBC News 12 Feb

Chivalry by Neil Gaiman

Please read the whole story for Monday 18 February.
Chivalry

Second term blog assignment

This term your task is to watch a video every week and write a short report on your blog.

Below is a selection of You Tube channels to consider while choosing your regular viewing. However, you can also choose your own source as long as the show is up to a reasonable standard. If in doubt, please consult me.

Your report should consist of two parts:

1. an 80-word summary of the most important or interesting points raised in the video,

2. three vocabulary items you found interesting and worth learning, with example sentences of your own to demonstrate that you can use the new phrases confidently.

COMEDY

Saturday Night Live

Last Week Tonight (with John Oliver)

WILTY? Nope

BBC Comedy Greats

ART

Art Documentaries

Smarthistory. art, history, conversation

NEWS / POLITICS

Financial Times

BBC Newsnight

PBS Newshour

The New York Times

CHAT SHOWS

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

TheEllenShow

The Graham Norton Show

QI: Quite Interesting

SCIENCE

BBC Earth

National Geographic

BBC Earth Lab

BBC Earth Unplugged

minutephysics

Be Amazed

It’s OK. to Be Smart

HISTORY

CrashCourse

Big History Project

PSYCHOLOGY / PHILOSOPHY

Big Think

The School of Life

DOCUMENTARIES (VARIOUS TOPICS)

Allthemed Docs

The Guardian

BBC

The Economist

BBC News

Self assessment

Below is the link to your self-assessment questionnaire. Please fill it in and submit it by the end of Tuesday, 16 January so that we can discuss it before the end of the winter term. 
Remember that after you've submitted the filled-in questionnaire, you'll not be able to make any changes.
2b self-assessment form Jan 2019

Videos for 7 and 8 January

Watch these films looking at the most important events of 2019.
Take notes to be able to discuss each event.
Pick any words that seem interesting and/or important.
Biggest stories 2019 - part one
Biggest stories 2019 - part two