ANIA C2 Group 6 Lesson 5

Class

Listening Skills - note taking

Writing Skills - CPE Part 1 summarising task

Ignorance

Podcast One

The Golden Age of Ignorance. Sunday Morning, Radio New Zealand 5/2/2017

During the lesson we stopped at 8:00.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/201832121/the-golden-age-of-ignorance

Podcast Two

The Ignorance Test. More or Less, BBC Radio 4 10/04/2017
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzjy0

Homework

Use the notes you made today to write an essay summarising and evaluating the key points presented in the two podcasts. Your answer should be between 240 and 280 words and you should spend no longer than 45 minutes on the task. Feel free to listen to the podcasts again should you need to check or add to your notes.

Going further:

Hans Rosling

• The More or Less Tribute to Hans Rosling

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04sbvlt

• Gap minder

http://www.gapminder.org

• Hans Rosling's Ten BestTed Talks

http://www.ted.com/playlists/474/the_best_hans_rosling_talks_yo

Democracy and political engagement

George Monbiot: Our democracies are broken, debased and distrusted. Here are some ideas for restoring them.
http://www.monbiot.com/2017/01/26/all-about-that-base/

Milo Yiannopoulos and free speech
Owen Jones: Milo Yiannopoulos’s enablers deserve contempt – and must be confronted

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/21/milo-yiannopoulos-enablers-contempt-alt-right-bigotry
Dorian Lynskey: The rise and fall of Milo Yiannopoulos – how a shallow actor played the bad guy for money
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/21/milo-yiannopoulos-rise-and-fall-shallow-actor-bad-guy-hate-speech