12:00 B1
Class
Speaking Skills - Discussion
- Approaches to national and global challenges (economic, political, health, environmental)
- The Gapminder Test
- Factfulness
Hans Rosling- Video Listening
The TED talk should also have the audio script available.
Class
Language Skills - Error Correction
Classifying errors: It is important to consider the effect of mistakes and where they come from. Errors that block communication are often caused by false friends or errors in collocation, whereas grammar errors often cause misunderstandings (e.g. modal use, present perfect instead of past simple).
Discussion:
- What mistakes are you most worried about/feel most self conscious about:
mispronunciation?
using the wrong word?
using the wrong tense?
sounding too simplistic or unsophisticated? - Are you more self conscious about your writing or your speaking? Why?
- Are you equally worried about slips and mistakes? http://www.errordiary.org/?page_id=7339
- What mistakes are you happy to let slide?
- How far do you agree or disagree with the following statements:
“Technology means everyone will have to speak the same English.”
“If Shakespeare were alive today, he’d sound like an American.”
“English accents are the sexiest.”
Listening
You are going to listen to an extract from the episode, Across the Pond from The Allusionist podcast from 6th April 2018.
To listen: https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/across-the-pond
For the transcript go to: https://www.theallusionist.org/transcripts/
- What does the expression across the pond mean?
- What is hyper-correction? What examples do they give? (16:40)
- According to Lynne Murphy why do we want to learn grammar? (20:00)
- What does she say about English in the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries?
- Complete the quotation from the interview:
English deserves our ______________, not our _______________.
Going Further
Lynne Murphy, The Prodigal Tongue
https://theprodigaltongue.com
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