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This is a new TED talk lesson plan for higher levels (C1+) on the subject field of bio-engineering and cloning. Cheers to my colleague Cliff Grossman for recommending this fascinating talk. You can download the materials below:

TED Bio-technology – Student handout

TED Bio-engineering Teacher NOTES

Process

You lot tin either give students the handout and have them watch the talk and answer the comprehension questions for homework, or do it in class.

And so depending on class size students tin inquire and answer the give-and-take questions in modest groups or in open class. The topic also lends itself well to debates on GM food, cloning and bioengineering.

Student Handout

Comprehension Questions

  1. What have been the iii great stages of evolution?
  2. What are some of the creature hybrids he presents?
  3. What have scientists done with bioluminescent cells from jellyfish?
  4. What does he say most the differences in regulations on genetic modifications betwixt the U.s. and Europe?
  5. Name a few of the animals that have been successfully cloned.
  6. What take scientists managed to do with cockroaches and goliath beetles?
  7. What was and so special about the monkey with the prosthetic arm?
  8. What was grown on a mouse's back?
  9. What is Paul's view on bio-engineering science?
  10. What changes does he predict in the future?

Give-and-take Questions

  1. What did you call up of the talk?
  2. Did you like his presenting style?
  3. What's your opinion in the dissimilar experiments?
  4. Which ones do yous find interesting?
  5. Which ones do you think go also far?
  6. What uses can you lot see for the different bio-engineered animals?
  7. How far do yous think we should go?
  8. Should we clone humans?
  9. What problems do you foresee if we were to start cloning humans?
  10. Who should determine the limits of where science tin can go?
  11. Should people be able to design their ain pets/children/bodies?

Linguistic communication

Look at the language in bold. What exercise y'all think it means?

  1. By changing our environment, we put new pressures on our bodies to evolve. Whether it was through settling downwards in agricultural communities…
  2. And then I want to have you through a kind of whirlwind tour of that
  3. Anytime, perchance pretty before long, you will have beefalo patties in your local supermarket.
  4. Dogs are the outcome of selectively breeding traits that we like.
  5. The scientists that fabricated this cute picayune creature ended up slaughtering it and eating it afterwards.
  6. We had to practice it the hard style in the one-time days by choosing offspring that looked a particular way and then convenance them.
  7. What are the upstanding guidelines that we will use then?

Key

Comprehension Questions

    1. What have been the iii great stages of evolution? anest: Darwinian evolution 2nd: humans changing their surroundings by forming civilisation iiird: Evolution by blueprint (bio-engineering)
    2. What are some of the beast hybrids he presents? Liger, geep, zorse, beefalo, cama,
  • What accept scientists done with bioluminescent cells from jellyfish? Fabricated animals that glow in the dark
  1. What does he say about the differences in regulations on genetic modifications betwixt the US and Europe? Regulations are much stricter in Europe
  2. Name a few of the animals that have been successfully cloned. Sheep, pigs, rats, cats, dogs, horses, wolves, cows.
  3. What have scientists managed to practise with cockroaches and goliath beetles? Made them remoted-controlled
  4. What was so special about the monkey with the prosthetic arm? It learned to motion its new prosthetic arm using just its brain signals pregnant that information technology effectively has three contained arms.
  5. What was grown on a mouse'south back? A human ear
  6. What is Paul's view on bio-technology? He is worried about its implications and thinks nosotros accept to exist very careful.
  7. What changes does he predict in the future? Human cloning and designer pets or fifty-fifty babies.

Word Questions

  1. What did you lot think of the talk?
  2. Did y'all like his presenting style?
  3. What'southward your opinion in the different experiments?
  4. Which ones do you find interesting?
  5. Which ones practice you call up get too far?
  6. What uses can yous run across for the different bio-engineered animals?
  7. How far do you think we should become?
  8. Should nosotros clone humans?
  9. What issues exercise yous foresee if we were to beginning cloning humans?
  10. Who should determine the limits of where science can go?
  11. Should people be able to blueprint their own pets/children/bodies?

Language

Look at the linguistic communication in bold. What practise y'all think it means?

  1. By irresolute our environment, nosotros put new pressures on our bodies to evolve. Whether it was through settling down in agricultural communities… (to stop travelling and stay in one place to live)
  2. Then I want to accept you through a kind of whirlwind tour of that (a very quick bout seeing the most of import places)
  3. Someday, perhaps pretty soon, you will have beefalo patties in your local supermarket. (hamburgers)
  4. Dogs are the issue of selectively breeding traits that we similar. (characteristics)
  5. The scientists that fabricated this cute little creature ended upward slaughtering information technology and eating information technology after. (kill an animal for food)
  6. We had to do it the hard way in the one-time days past choosing offspring that looked a detail style so convenance them.(biological term for children)
  7. What are the ethical guidelines that we will utilise then?(moral rules)

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This is a new TED talk lesson plan for C1+ students. You lot can either set the TED talk with the comprehension questions every bit homework or watch the talk in course equally information technology'southward only 12 minutes long. Download the handout and teacher'due south notes below:

TED Daniel Levitin Stress sts handout

TED Daniel Levitin Stress Teacher notes

Pupil Handout

Language Focus

Discuss the pregnant of the phrases in bold with your partner.

  1. I had merely driven home,it was around midnight in the dead of Montreal winter.
  2. Every bit I stood on the forepart porch fumbling in my pockets,I found I didn't have my keys.
  3. It releases cortisol that raises your eye rate,it modulates adrenaline levels and information technology clouds your thinking.
  4. At present you might be thinkingI've pulled this number out of the air for shock value.
  5. So the idea of the pre-mortem is to think ahead of timeto the questions that you might be able to ask that will push the conversation forrad. You don't want to accept to manufacture all of this on the spot.
  6. You might alter your mind in the heat of the moment,but at to the lowest degree you're adept with this kind of thinking.
  7. And so I'grand not completely organized,simply I see system every bit a gradual procedure, and I'm getting there.

Comprehension Questions

  1. What happens in the anecdote Daniel tells at the start of the talk?
  2. What were the consequences of Daniels clouded thinking?
  3. What is the solution he comes up with?
  4. What are the two practical tips he gives for common bug?
  5. What are the ii questions he recommends asking to a doctor earlier they prescribe you a drug?
  6. What was the historical advantage to the encephalon releasing cortisol in stressful situations?

Discussion Questions

  1. What did you think of the talk?
  2. Accept you ever been in a similar state of affairs to the one Daniel describes in his anecdote? What did yous do?
  3. Have you ever forgotten a passport or boarding card when flying somewhere? What did you do?
  4. Are you an absent-minded person? What things practice you lose/misplace? Where do you keep your keys/mobile/wallet at home?
  5. In what situations is it skilful idea to predict the possible problems that could occur?
  6. Are you adept at making decisions under pressure?
  7. What exercise you retrieve of what he says about the medical industry?
  8. Would yous trade quality of life for a longer life?

Pre-mortem

What things could peradventure go wrong in these situations, and how could y'all prepare for the problems?

A job interview Travelling by plane An of import exam A first date
A nuptials The first twenty-four hours at a new job A surprise party Climbing a mountain

Teacher's notes

Language Focus

  1. In the dead of winter/nighttime = in the middle of
  2. Bollix = to feel/practice something clumsily/inefficiently
  3. Clouds your thinking = confuses/affects your thinking in a bad way
  4. Pull a number out of the air = invent a number in the moment of speaking
  5. For shock value = in order to crusade shock
  6. On the spot = in the moment of speaking, as well "to put someone on the spot" = forcefulness someone to answer a difficult question without grooming.
  7. In the heat of the moment = practise something while stressed/aroused/excited
  8. I'k getting there = I'm making progress

Comprehension questions

  1. He forgets his keys so has to smash the basement window to get into his house.
  2. He forgets his passport the next morning when he goes to the airport.
  3. To perform a "pre-mortem" evaluation of possible problems that could occur.
  4. Designate a place for commonly lost things: keys, wallet etc. Take a photo of things you lot might lose while travelling: credit carte du jour, passport, keys and save it to the cloud to arrive easier to get them back.
  5. What is the number needed to treat? What are the side-furnishings?
  6. When faced with a predator it helped the states to escape.

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This is a conversation lesson plan based around Rita Pierson's TED talk entitled: Every Kid Needs a Champion it'southward suitable for C1+ although high B2s might exist able to deal with it if you interruption the video up a bit. Download the handout below:

TED Rita Every child needs a champion

Have students watch the TED talk for homework or you can show it in course every bit it's but 8 mins long. Then give out the handout and accept students discuss it in small groups or as a grade.

Handout

Word

  1. What is the talk about?
  2. What did yous recall of the speaker?
  3. Was she easy to sympathise?
  4. What is her message?

Expect at these quotes from the talk and hash out the questions below:

"And we know why kids drib out. We know why kids don't learn. It'south either poverty, low attendance, negative peer influences… We know why."

  • Which of these things practice you think has the biggest touch on on dropout rates?
  • What tin be done to assistance?

"James Comer says that no significant learning can occur without a meaning relationship."

"George Washington Carver says all learning is understanding relationships."

  • What is your interpretation of these quotes?
  • Do you agree with them?

A colleague said to me one fourth dimension, "They don't pay me to like the kids. They pay me to teach a lesson. The kids should acquire it. I should teach it, they should acquire it, Case closed."

Well, I said to her, "You know, kids don't larn from people they don't like."

  • What do you think of the teacher's quotes? Practise y'all agree?
  • Do students accept to like their instructor to larn from them?

"How exercise I raise the cocky-esteem of a child and his academic achievement at the same time?"

  • How important is information technology that a teacher raises their students' self-esteem?
  • What methods does Rita mention? What other ways tin can they practise it?

"I year I came up with a bright thought. I told all my students, "You were chosen to be in my class because I am the best teacher and you are the best students, they put u.s. all together and then we could testify everybody else how to do it."

"I gave a quiz, 20 questions. A student missed 18. I put a "+2" on his paper and a big smiley face."

  • What do you think of these methods? Do you think they would piece of work?

"Every child deserves a champion, an adult who will never give upwardly on them, who understands the ability of connection, and insists that they get the best that they tin can mayhap be."

  • What do you think of her message?
  • Did you have a "champion" when you were growing up? Who was it?
  • How can this message be put into exercise?

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This is a lesson plan for C1+ students on the topic of bad habits based around a TED talk by Judson Brewer and an article from Yahoo Health. You can find the TED talk, students' handout, reading text and teacher'south notes below:

TED Bad habits sts copy – Students handout

TED bad habits teachers notes

Common Bad Habits – Reading Text

TED  – Breaking Bad Habits – Teacher's Notes

Stride 1: Expressions with habit

What do you think these expressions mean? Do they exist in your linguistic communication?

He'due south been smoking since he was 15 years old and he just tin can't kicking the habit.

When my grandad retired he didn't finish getting upwards at 6am and putting a suit on. One-time habits dice difficult.

I could never get backpacking I'm also much of a brute of habit , I tin't stand changes to my routine.

I've e'er written my essays at the last minute and I normally get adept marks. Why pause the addiction of a lifetime?

Kick the habit = give up/quit a bad habit

One-time habits die difficult = it's difficult to stop a habit yous've been doing for a long time

A fauna of habit = someone who likes the security of a routine

Why break the addiction of a lifetime? = something y'all say to a person yous know isn't going to alter their habits.

Step two: Brainstorm bad habits on the lath

Footstep iii: Reading

Give out the reading handout, put students in groups of iii. Students read each section then discuss the meaning of the vocabulary in bold. So they answer the discusssion questions. Then they move onto the next bad habit.

Step 4: TED Talk

Students watch the TED talk and respond the following questions:

What bad habits does he mention? Being unable to concentrate, telephone/internet addiction, stress eating, smoking, distracting yourself from work.

What solution to these bad habits does he suggest? Using mindfulness to focus on the cravings we experience and run into them as physical moments that pass.

Subsequently watching students discuss:

  1. What do you think of the talk?
  2. Do yous take any of the bad habits he mentioned?
  3. Do you think mindfulness would work for you lot?
  4. Have you e'er meditated? Would you consider it?

Footstep v: Vocab Focus – Meaning from Context

Students endeavor to guess the pregnant of the expressions in bold from the context.

  1. When I was first learning to meditate, the didactics was to simply pay attention to my jiff, and when my mind wandered , to bring it back.
  2. Why is it so hard to pay attending? Well, studies show that even when we're really trying to pay attention to something — like maybe this talk — at some point, about half of u.s.a. will drift off into a daydream , or have this urge to check our Twitter feed.
  3. Instead of this hunger indicate coming from our breadbasket, this emotional signal — feeling lamentable — triggers that urge to eat.
  4. Maybe in our teenage years, we were a nerd at school, and we see those rebel kids exterior smoking and we remember, "Hey, I want to exist cool." So we start smoking. The Marlboro Man wasn't a dork , and that was no blow.
  5. What if instead of fighting our brains, or trying to strength ourselves to pay attending,we instead tapped into this natural, reward-based learning procedure?
  6. She moved from knowing in her head that smoking was bad for her to knowing information technology in her basic , and the spell of smoking was cleaved . She started to become disenchanted with her behavior.
  7. When the prefrontal cortex goes offline, we fall back into our onetime habits , which is why this disenchantment is so important.
  8. And this is what mindfulness is all about: Seeing really clearly what we get when we become caught up in our behaviors.
  9. Nosotros get-go to notice that cravings are simply fabricated up of body sensations — oh, at that place'south tightness, at that place's tension, there's restlessness .
  10. These are bite-size pieces of experiences that we tin manage from moment to moment rather than getting clobbered by this huge, scary craving that we asphyxiate on .

Mind wanders/drift off into a daydream = get distracted

Have/get an urge to practise something = a strong desire/impulse

Trigger (five) = activate/set up off/cause to function

Nerd = unpopular, studious person

Dork = unpopular, studious person, more pejorative than nerd

Tap into = manage to employ something in a way that gives good results. Get admission to a resource. Collocations: tap into an free energy source, tap into inventiveness, tap into the h2o supply.

Know in your basic = experience something using intuition, synonyms: know in my guts, a gut-feeling.

Break a spell = end magic/enchantment

Disenchanted = ii meanings. 1. Costless from illusion/magic ii. Disappointed, demotivated, disillusioned.

Fall back into old habits = render to onetime habits after having inverse

Get caught upwards in st = to become completely involved in something, unremarkably bad connotation.

Peckish = a consuming desire, normally physical related to addiction.

Restlessness = a state of discomfort, can't stay nevertheless/relax. A restless night.

Bite-size pieces = minor easy to manage pieces

Go clobbered = to be beaten/hit severly

Asphyxiate on st = not able to breath because of something in your throat

Step 6: Sentence Completion

Students put the expressions from the vocab focus into the following sentences:

  1. He was always so restless at school, he couldn't sit still for a second.
  2. I'm a chip weird, whenever I go near the border of a cliff or a alpine building I get the sudden urge to jump off!
  3. Don't worry, everything is going to be alright, I don't know how but I feel/know it in my bones.
  4. I managed to stop biting my fingernails for vi months but recently, because of all the stress at work, I take fallen back into sometime habits.
  5. Almost voters are completely disenchanted with politics in general and extremist politicians like Donald Trump are but tapping into the anger and resentment.
  6. When my Mum was meaning she had strong cravings for avocado even though she commonly hates them.
  7. The earthquake triggered a huge tsunami that hitting the coast at 10am.
  8. When I was at school I always used to get into trouble for drifting off into a fantasize during class.
  9. three hours into the pic I got a bit bored and my heed wandered to what I was going to have for dinner.
  10. A man suddenly started to choke on a prawn and a fellow diner had to give him the heimlich maneuver.
  11. I was definitely a scrap of a nerd at school but I certainly wasn't a dork.
  12. I got so caught up in the excitement of the party that I didn't realise I had missed the final train abode.
  13. He defenseless the rugby ball, turned effectually and was immediately clobbered by a huge opposition histrion.
  14. I broke the carrots up into seize with teeth-size pieces so that the children wouldn't choke on

Step vii: Word

Students answer questions in pairs.

  1. Were you restless at school? Did yous utilise to drift off into a daydream?
  2. Do you know the heimlich maneuver? Have you ever choked on anything?
  3. Were yous a nerd when you were at school?
  4. Do you always get and then caught up in something that yous lose all sense of fourth dimension?
  5. Do you ever get the urge to do something light-headed or outrageous in social situations?
  6. Practice yous concur with sentence five above? What tin can we do to change the situation?

Students' Handout

Expressions with habit

What do yous remember these expressions hateful? Exercise they exist in your linguistic communication?

He's been smoking since he was 15 years quondam and he simply can't kicking the habit.

When my granddaddy retired he didn't stop getting up at 6am and putting a suit on. Old habits die hard.

I could never get backpacking I'm likewise much of a beast of habit , I can't stand changes to my routine.

I've ever written my essays at the final minute and I commonly get skillful marks. Why break the habit of a lifetime?

TED Talk

  1. What bad habits does he mention?
  2. What solution to these bad habits does he suggest?

Discussion

  1. What exercise yous remember of the talk?
  2. Do y'all have any of the bad habits he mentioned?
  3. Do you lot think mindfulness would work for you?
  4. Take you ever meditated? Would yous consider it?

Vocabulary Focus

Read the sentences from the transcript and discuss the words/expressions in bold with your partner.

  1. When I was first learning to meditate, the teaching was to simply pay attention to my breath, and when my mind wandered , to bring it back.
  2. Why is information technology then hard to pay attention? Well, studies show that fifty-fifty when we're really trying to pay attending to something — like perhaps this talk — at some signal, about half of united states will migrate off into a daydream , or have this urge to check our Twitter feed.
  3. Instead of this hunger betoken coming from our stomach, this emotional signal — feeling sad — triggers that urge to consume.
  4. Maybe in our teenage years, we were a nerd at schoolhouse, and we run into those insubordinate kids outside smoking and nosotros think, "Hey, I want to be cool." Then we get-go smoking. The Marlboro Man wasn't a dork , and that was no accident.
  5. What if instead of fighting our brains, or trying to force ourselves to pay attention,we instead tapped into this natural, advantage-based learning process?
  6. She moved from knowing in her head that smoking was bad for her to knowing it in her bones , and the spell of smoking was cleaved . She started to become disenchanted with her beliefs.
  7. When the prefrontal cortex goes offline, we fall back into our onetime habits , which is why this disenchantment is so important.
  8. And this is what mindfulness is all about: Seeing actually clearly what we get when nosotros go caught upwards in our behaviors.
  9. We starting time to detect that cravings are simply fabricated upwards of body sensations — oh, there's tightness, there's tension, in that location'due south restlessness .
  10. These are bite-size pieces of experiences that nosotros can manage from moment to moment rather than getting clobbered past this huge, scary peckish that we choke on .

Sentence Completion

Consummate the sentences with the expressions above.

  1. He was always so ______________ at school, he couldn't sit withal for a 2nd.
  2. I'm a scrap weird, whenever I become near the border of a cliff or a alpine building I get the sudden __________ leap off!
  3. Don't worry, everything is going to be alright, I don't know how only I ______________________.
  4. I managed to finish bitter my fingernails for 6 months but recently, because of all the stress at work, I have __________________________________.
  5. Virtually voters are completely __________________________ politics in general and extremist politicians like Donald Trump are merely ____________________________ the anger and resentment.
  6. When my Mum was pregnant she had strong _____________ for avocado even though she normally hates them.
  7. The earthquake _______________ a huge tsunami that hit the coast at 10am.
  8. When I was at school I always used to get into trouble for _______________________________ during class.
  9. 3 hours into the film I got a fleck bored and my ____________________________ to what I was going to have for dinner.
  10. A homo suddenly started to ________________ a prawn and a fellow diner had to give him the heimlich maneuver.
  11. I was definitely a bit of a _____________ at school only I certainly wasn't a ____________.
  12. I _________________________________ in the excitement of the party that I didn't realise I had missed the last train home.
  13. He caught the rugby ball, turned around and was immediately ___________________ by a huge opposition player.
  14. I bankrupt the carrots up into __________________ so that the children wouldn't ___________ them.

Discussion

  1. Were you restless at schoolhouse? Did y'all utilize to migrate off into a daydream?
  2. Exercise you know the heimlich maneuver? Accept y'all ever choked on anything?
  3. Were you a nerd when you were at school?
  4. Exercise yous ever go and so caught upwards in something that you lose all sense of time?
  5. Practise you e'er get the urge to do something silly or outrageous in social situations?
  6. Do you agree with judgement 5 to a higher place? What can we do to change the situation?

Reading Text

Common Bad Habits

Everyone has habits that they would probably be improve off without. You may not take any major vices simply minor ones add upward and deserve attending too. "The small-scale stuff really matters in our lives," says Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and writer ofUncovering Happiness: Overcoming Depression with Mindfulness and Cocky-Pity. "Life is full of the picayune things."

In reality, you lot're probably not eating poorly or shirking on slumber just once a calendar month, but, more than likely, multiple times a calendar week. If y'all demand some help identifying changes yous might aim to make, hither are some of the virtually mutual bad habits and two universal fixes from Goldstein about how we can change for the better.

Stress-Eating

We're a country of high-stress and high-calorie foods, and then it should be no surprise that emotional eating is a common result. At that place are many reasons people turn to food when they experience negative emotions, like stress, sadness, and colorlessness. First of all, food can serve as a lark from unpleasant goings-on . Research has likewise suggested that foods that are high in fat and sugar may actually (temporarily) placidity parts of the encephalon that create and process negative emotions.

  1. Exercise you stress eat? If so what?
  2. How do you relieve stress?

Sitting Around

Surveys accept found that people, on average, spend more 6 hours a 24-hour interval sitting. Many people sit down while commuting, at piece of work, and while unwinding at the end of the day. It may feel like your body is happier taking a seat, but spending so much time off your feet has serious health effects including increased adventure of obesity, diabetes, cognitive decline (like dementia), cancer, bone loss, and even a weakened immune arrangement.

  1. How much of the day exercise you lot spend sitting downward?
  2. What do you lot retrieve of the idea of a standing office? Or a continuing school?

Not Getting Plenty Sleep

Days can feel far too short, especially when y'all want to catch up with friends at a late dinner or binge-watch your favorite show. Late nights in moderation are okay but getting too lilliputian slumber — less than seven hours — on a regular ground can brand y'all more than prone to long-term diseases, like hypertension and diabetes, and even short-term illness. Being tired can also affect how you function during the daytime, making you less productive and more decumbent to errors and accidents.

  1. How much sleep do you demand to function well?
  2. How much practise you usually go?
  3. Are you more productive in the mornings or the evenings?

Over-Grooming

Picking at your olfactory organ and mouth and bitter your nails are already social simulated pas . They can likewise be bad for your health. As you should already know, our easily are usually teeming with nasty germs. Putting your fingers in your nose or mouth — even to fish unwanted spinach out of your teeth — is a proficient style to requite those germs easy admission to your body. Boom biting, in particular, can as well raise your hazard of getting skin infections on your fingers and spreading warts to other parts of your hand. In some cases, excessive grooming behaviors are considered a mental disorder related to obsessive-compulsive disorders.

  1. Do you seize with teeth your fingernails?
  2. Can you think of whatsoever other social imitation pas'south? What topics are faux pas when your first meet someone?

Smoking

This may feel like beating a expressionless horse just more 42 million people in the U.South. nonetheless smoke cigarettes. Although this number continues to drop, it's proficient for people to remember why this habit is such a serious i. Smoking is known to cause several types of cancer — including cancers of the lung, mouth, tum, and pancreas — and increases a person's hazard of center disease. Information technology'due south as well harmful to people who are inhaling second-manus smoke. Plus, smoking is expensive. Even a "cheap" $5 pack every day adds up to $ane,825.00 each year.

  1. Do you fume?
  2. Accept you ever smoked? If and so how did you quit?
  3. What'southward the all-time style to quit smoking? Hypnosis? Acupuncture? Patches? Gum?

Skipping Breakfast

At that place are mixed findings about whether or not skipping breakfast can help people lose weight. Generally, experts support eating a healthy morning meal because it fuels your torso and mind for the beginning of the day. Research has shown that people who eat breakfast perform ameliorate in school and at work. If that's not enough incentive, a recent study from Harvard found that men who regularly skipped breakfast were 27 percentage more likely to experience a heart attack or death from coronary heart disease.

  1. Practise you have breakfast?
  2. Detect out who has the healthiest breakfast in your grouping.
  3. What's your favourite meal of the 24-hour interval?

Overspending

Another common bad addiction is overspending, usually in the grade of compulsive shopping. Credit is partially to blame considering it is easy to obtain and use, helping people forgo responsibility and noesis about their finances. Overspending is also an easy trap to fall into because buying things makes people feel good in many different means. It tin give u.s.a. a sense of control and add together some excitement to a dull day. Existence able to spend money can also make united states of america feel ameliorate about ourselves.

  1. Exercise y'all frequently overspend?
  2. Are yous a compulsive shopper? If then what do you normally buy?

Listening to Loud Music

Hearing is something that oft goes with age but at that place are withal steps people can take to requite theirs its best possible gamble. Very loud, short-term sounds and sounds that may not seem so loud (but occur over a long catamenia of time) can both contribute to dissonance-induced hearing loss. This affects nigh xv percent of Americans, ages 20 to 69 according to the National Establish on Deafness and Other Advice Disorders. Some loud sounds may be unavoidable but exposure annihilation above 85 decibels (equal to the sound of heavy city traffic) should be minimized. If you take to raise your voice to speak with someone 2 to three feet away, the audio level is likely over 85 decibels.

  1. Exercise you lot listen to loud music? If so how often?
  2. Have you got god hearing?

Phone Addiction

No, your phone isn't exactly the near threatening addiction. That doesn't mean it's something to ignore. Thanks to the advent of push notifications, many of us are at present trained to take hold of our phone the second information technology flashes — or when we only recall it has. This behavior takes our attention away from other things that we should probably value more than, like the piece of work in front end of united states of america or talking with friends and family.

  1. Are you addicted to your phone?
  2. How often do yous check it?
  3. How soon subsequently waking up practise you check it?

Link to original article:

https://world wide web.yahoo.com/health/10-mutual-bad-habits-and-how-to-break-them-107994730858.html

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This is a lesson based effectually Pamela Meyer's TED talk "How to spot a liar" on the subject of dishonesty in society.

You will need the annotated transcript, the vocabulary exercises and the discussion questions:

Pamela Meyer TED Lesson Plan

Pamela Meyer TED transcript

Pamela Meyer worksheet 1

Pamela Meyer Vocabulary Homework

Note: These classes were designed for a two hour mail proficiency chat class. I ordinarily set the video as homework for my students the week before.

Warmer – Two truths one prevarication

The old classic activity. Write three sentences about yourself on the lath; ii true and one false, I wrote:

  1. I met Leo Messi and Mascherano on the beach.
  2. I collect comic books.
  3. I used to be a builder before I was a teacher.

Give students two minutes to ask you questions to try and grab y'all in a prevarication. Then they must say which one they recall is true and explain why, did they pick upwardly on any vocal or body language signals. Then reveal which one is a lie (number 2 for me). Honor one signal to each pupil that guessed correctly and one point to yourself for each student you duped.

Now give students five minutes to do the same; write three sentences about themselves, two true, 1 imitation and continue the game. The winner is the person with the most points, who earns the title master liespotter.

  • Who was the best liar?
  • Who was the best liespotter?

Vocabulary Matching

Requite out the vocabulary matching sheet and the transcript. Put students in pairs and have them complete the exercise, the vocabulary words are in order as they appear in the transcript so if they go stuck they tin can notice the word in context to aid their agreement.

Primal:

i-m, two-d, 3-j, four-c, 5-a, vi-v, seven-t, 8-r, 9-q, 10-due north, 11-e, 12-u, 13-fifty, 14-w, xv-x/b, 16-x/b, 17-p, xviii-one thousand, 19-o, 20-h, 21-I, 22-due south, 23-thousand, 24-f.

Discussion Questions

The answers to the comprehension questions tin can be institute underlined in the transcript.

Write the post-obit quotes from the talk on the board:

"Nosotros're all liars"

"lying is a cooperative act"

What does she mean? Do you agree?

  1. Why do people lie? Begin on the board.
  2. How much money did she say was lost considering of fraud? Nigh a $trillion.
  3. How much money is lost to fraud in your land?
  4. Can you retrieve of whatsoever big fraud cases?
  5. How often are we lied to on an average mean solar day? From ten-200 times
  6. What does she say about when strangers meet for the offset time? That they lie to each other on average 3 times in first 10 minutes.
  7. What does she say about the divergence between men and women? That men tend to lie more than nearly themselves while women lie to protect people.
  8. Do you recall this is truthful?
  9. What does she say virtually matrimony and relationships? That married people prevarication to each other in 1 in every ten interactions.
  10. What lies do couples tell each other?
  11. Are these footling white lies?
  12. What does she say about animals lying? Coco the gorilla blamed a kitten for ripping a sink off the wall.
  13. What does she say about how children develop their charade skills? Babies faux crying, children hiding, backbiting and flattering to go what they want.
  14. She says we alive in a post truth society, what does she mean by that? With the internet, politics and capitalist society we are surrounded past scammers, and exaggeration.
  15. How often do normal people distinguish a lie from the truth? 54% of the time
  16. How ofttimes do liespotters distinguish a lie from the truth? 90% of the time.
  17. What are the oral communication patterns of a liar we see in the Clinton video? Emphatic denial, formal phrases, distancing language.
  18. What are the body language patterns? Freeze upper trunk, too much eye contact, blink more, chatter with fingertips, fidget, don't grin with optics.
  19. Could you identify these actions in the videos?
  20. Are you a good liespotter?
  21. What other videos did she bear witness? Grieving mothers, lying politicians.
  22. What did she say about the attitudes of honest/dishonest people? Dishonest people tend to be more than detailed, and stick to a chronological order.

Homework

Set the other vocabulary worksheet equally homework.

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This is a conversation lesson plan for higher levels (B2+) based on Daniel Kish's TED talk "How I use sonar to navigate the earth".

You tin can either watch the video in class or ready it as homework. I have included a copy of the transcript which some students may detect useful. Yous tin download the lesson programme below:

TED Talk Daniel Kish Lesson Plan

Daniel Kish TED (transcript)

Introduction Questions

What do you telephone call a person who can't see?

What would it be similar to be blind?

How do y'all feel when you lot see a bullheaded person in the street?

Are at that place any advantages to be being bullheaded?

Remember of some things that blind people tin can and can't do.

How practice blind people navigate the world?

What practice yous think would be the well-nigh hard thing for a bullheaded person to exercise?

Evidence the video.

Give-and-take Questions

What was your initial reaction to the video?

What did y'all think when you first saw Daniel?

What did he say nigh the mode in which people treat and react to blind people in society?

What'due south his bulletin?

Depict how he navigates the world.

What does he phone call this system?

Practice you lot call back yous could use wink sonar?

Do y'all think you have skilful eyesight/a good sense of smell etc.?

  • sight/vision
  • scent
  • taste
  • touch on
  • hearing

With a partner endeavor to put your senses in order of importance. (This should spark off a lively debate)

Attempt and come up with a definitive guild as a course.

If you had to lose 1 of your senses, which would you cull and why?

Argue

Split up the form into 5 groups and write the 5 senses on modest pieces of paper. Each grouping picks a piece of paper, they and then accept to explain why the sense they have picked is the most important. Give them a few minutes to think of some arguments and every twenty-four hours situations to back them up.

Follow up action

Students write a CAE/CPE written report/proposal detailing ways in which a school or public space could be adapted for blind people. Alternatively, you could set an essay based on the TED talk evaluating Daniel Kish's upbringing compared to more than conventional parenting styles for blind/disabled children.

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This is some other TED Talk lesson, this time based around Sir Ken Robinson's fascinating talk on inventiveness in the education organization. Delight find an annotated transcript beneath. All I've done is underlined some interesting points he makes and vocabulary he uses, you tin utilize them as a jumping off point for class word or simply mine them for useful vocabulary.

Ken Robinson TED annotated transcript

This is a lesson program based on Ricardo Semler'due south TED talk: How to run a company with (almost) no rules

Accept students sentinel the talk for homework or alternatively you lot tin lookout man it in class. Give them copies of the annotated transcript. Basically I've merely underlined interesting points he makes or vocabulary he uses. Use the underlined sections to generate discussion or mine them for vocabulary.

Ricard Semler TED annotated transcript

This is a lesson plan for higher levels (C1+) based around Shawn Achor'due south TED talk "The happy secret to ameliorate work" about ways to employ positive psychology in our twenty-four hour period to day lives.

Shawn speaks very quickly, so some students may have problem keeping upwards. I suggest setting the video as homework and giving students the link to the transcript every bit well (y'all can find it on the TED website); in this way they tin watch and rewatch to ensure they understand it fully.

Or download the transcript here.

Video:

Or alternatively yous could watch it in form.

Vocabulary and Comprehension questions:

Before watching give out the handout and read through the vocabulary and comprehension questions.

Vocabulary:

  • Boarding school – school where the students live on campus
  • Bunk bed – two unmarried beds 1 above the other
  • Tailor st towards sb – to make something specifically to fit somebody
  • Glean data – to gather/collect
  • To exist at the vanguard of something – to be leading st (This laboratory is at the vanguard of cancer research)
  • Advil – a painkilling drug

Comprehension Questions:

  1. What happens in the anecdote Shawn tells at the beginning of the talk? His sister falls off the bed and he uses positive psychology to terminate her from crying and waking up their parents.
  2. Why does he tell the anecdote? To introduce the topic of positive psychology
  3. What is the purpose of the graph he shows? To introduce the thought of "the cult of the average" and his cynicism about modernistic psychological studies.
  4. What example of "the cult of the boilerplate" does he give? The speed at which children learn to read.
  5. What effect does watching the news accept on Shawn's brain? It changes his perspective of the ratio betwixt positive and negative things.
  6. What is "medical school syndrome"? When medical students commencement studying symptoms of different illness, they beginning to think they accept them all.
  7. What do Shawn'south friends presume nigh Harvard students? That they will all be happy just because they go to Harvard
  8. What does Shawn think of the boarding school's "wellness week"? That it is actually a "sickness week" because information technology focuses also much on negative things
  9. What problems with the way happiness and success are related in society does Shawn highlight? That happiness is e'er on the other side of success
  10. How can we rewire our brains to exist more positive? Through techniques such as: documenting our gratitude for 3 things a twenty-four hours, by journaling a positive experience every day, doing more exercise, meditating, and random or conscious act of kindness.

Discussion Questions:

  1. Which of these activities exercise you do?
  2. Which of these activities would you lot consider doing?
  3. Do you go along a diary/journal? Did y'all apply to when you were younger?
  4. What is the bulletin of the video?
  5. In which fields do you think this theory would be helpful?
  6. How could they be implemented?
  7. Tell the course a similar anecdote virtually your childhood to the ane Shawn tells at the commencement of the video.

This is a discussion class for higher levels (high B2 – C2) based effectually the Logan Laplante'due south TED talk video on "hack-schooling" a form of home schooling based round applicable skills and easily-on experience.

The video is 11 minutes long so I fix it for homework the lesson before so that students could watch and rewatch as many times as they needed to fully understand it. Alternatively, you could picket information technology in class if you accept time.

Vocabulary

Logan uses some skier/skater American slang, for example:

To be stoked – to be excited about/interested in something

to exist bummed out – to exist bellyaching/disappointed

Other vocab that might need highlighting:

To log out of reality – to escape from reality

mashup – a mixture/fusion of different elements

hacker mindset – a mindset is a set of attitudes a person has

Discussion questions

  1. What was your first impression of Logan?
  2. How old is he?
  3. Is he a typical 13 year old?
  4. What are the 8 keys to happiness? (Exercise/nutrition and nutrition/fourth dimension in nature/contribution and service to others/relationships/recreation/religious and spiritual)
  5. What do you think of this thought?
  6. How does he ascertain a "hacker"? (A person who changes and improves established systems)
  7. What is "hack-schooling"? (opportunistic learning that doesn't follow a curriculum with no stock-still construction)
  8. What practice you think of this idea?
  9. How and what does Logan learn?
  10. Is it for everyone?
  11. Is information technology only for people from a privileged groundwork?
  12. "Schools are orientated towards making a living rather than making a life" What exercise you remember of this argument? Do you agree?
  13. Practice students today learn applicative skills?
  14. What practice you think Logan is going to be when he grows up?
  15. What would your friends say if you pulled your children out of school?

Role-play

Put students in pairs of groups of 3 and have them role play the terminal question, student A has decided to pull their kids out of school to teach them at dwelling, pupil B thinks they are crazy!

Debate

"The teaching organization does not ready students for life."

Split up grouping in to ii groups, 1 in support and 1 against the motion. Follow standard debate structure, 2 minute opening arguments, rebuttals etc.

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