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21/8 What´s your favourute snack? Audio and transcript

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BBC Learning English - 6 Minute English / What’s your favourite snack?

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Do you prefer healthy, homemade snacks... or modern, packaged goodies?

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Good morning Ines!! Here´s a BBC poscast related to: What´s your favourite snack?

Liten to the podcast. On the website you also have the transcript. You can do the exercises you want from the worksheet.

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Good morning Ines!! Here´s an interesting video lesson. First, read the transcript in order to look up for the words you may not know and then listen and watch the video.

You have a multiple choice activity to solve.

If you have time, you can make a reasearch and look for a UNESCO site to discuss next class.

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World Heritage NESCO World Heritage Convention | ESL Video

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Listen to the conversation between two old friends to practise and improve your listening skills.

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Hello Ines!!

In this lesson you have to listen to the audio and do this worksheet.

In the end, you can record with your cell phone the answer to the last question: Do you keep in touch with old friends?

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Watch the video and choose the correct answers.

Then write a short recipe using cucumbers and record it with your cell phone.

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Cucumbers with spicy sesame, soy, rice vinegar dressing. Yum!

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You can read Page 48 where you can revise the theory and do the exercises you want. You have 3 pages to practice this topic. The answer key is on page 213 (unit 12)

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10/3 Build trust through active listening

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10/3 Build trust through active listening

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Good morning Ines!! Here you have a listening activity quiz. You have to listen to the video and answer the quiz. You have yhe transcript to read while you are watching the video.

Finally, think of a situation at work or in daily life in which you consider it is necessary to develop active listening. For example: One of your employees is blocked at work, he/she isn´t able to do his job properly and you have to give him/her some advice. And record your suggestions and ideas with your cell-phone.

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Good morning Ines!! Here you have a listening activity. Listen to it and do the multiple choice (you can correct it online).

After that, think about these ideas and record an audio with your cell-phone:

an experience in visiting a foreign country where you had difficulty with the language or culture.

three aspects of your culture that may require foreigners to get used to.

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Name two customs or traditions visitors to your country may have difficulty adjusting to. As part of this discussion, talk about any points that visitors should be aware of when staying as a guest at a home in your country.

" take a bath" = lose money
" His family business took a real bath when the giant superstore moved into town."

" doesn't/won't wash" = used to say that you don't believe someone's explanation or attitude about something
" Your excuse that your dog ate your homework won't wash with the teacher."

A. Listen to the recording and answer the questions. The story describes the very old-style baths that are often not seen today.

Do the vocabulary quizzes with the words from the conversation for more practice:

Discuss the topics below with a partner:

three aspects of your culture that may require foreigners to get used to

an experience in visiting a foreign country where you had difficulty with the language or culture.

Use the Internet to learn about a unique cultural tradition of one of these countries, or a country that interests you:

Cheese chasing in England

The water festival in Thailand

Wife-carrying tournament in Finland

Groundhog Day in the United States

Throwing baby teeth on the roof in some countries

La Tomatina in Spain

The Haka in New Zealand

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Japanese Public Bath - Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab

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Name two customs or traditions visitors to your country may have difficulty adjusting to. As part of this discussion, talk about any points that visitors should be aware of when staying as a guest at a home in your country.

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Notre dame to reopen: French president praises 'impossible' feat

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Listen to the podcast about doing a digital detox to practise and improve your listening skills.

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24/10 A digital detox podcast worksheet and transcript

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24/10 A digital detox podcast worksheet and transcript

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Good morning Ines!

activity: Listen to the podcast and do tasks 1 and 2. Before listening to the podcast do the preparation task to look up the words you don´t know. Finally, think about the discussion question: Would you like to do a digital detox? and record your answer with your phone. Try to listen to the podcast 2 or 3 times and then read the transcript, which is on page 4 and 5.

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26/9 Learning a new food culture audio and tapescript

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26/9 Learning a new food culture audio and tapescript

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BBC Learning English - 6 Minute English / Learning a new food culture

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Would you find it different to adapt to a new food culture?

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26/9 Learning a new food culture worksheet

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26/9 Learning a new food culture worksheet

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Once you finished the listening activity record an audio speaking about an important landmark or house you ever visited or you would like to visit.

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Haybridge Hall - Transcript

Listen to this guide speaking about the historical Haybridge Hall.

If the audio player above doesn't work, click here to download the audio file.

Welcome to Haybridge Hall and thank you for choosing to use our Guide-O-Matic to help you make the most out of your stay here. This guide is available in six other languages. Just ask at the ticket office. The general history of the house is as follows:

Haybridge Hall was constructed at the end of the 15th Century and was originally called Hawken Hall after the first family who owned it. Jack Hawken was a local businessman who had become wealthy thanks to success with wool exports. The house has changed very little in the last 500 years with the exception of the Dawson Conservatory which can be found behind the ticket office. This was added in 1941 when the British Army was using Haybridge Hall as a headquarters for the 8th Army. Churchill is said to have spent two nights at Haybridge in the main guest bedroom in the build up to the Normandy Landings in June 1944.

The Hawken family only managed to hold onto this fine property for around a decade before they had to sell up and the name Haybridge was used by the aristocrats who bought it. The Yardley family were not from this area, but from the north of England. They owned Haybridge for some 200 years and turned the surrounding area into productive farmland where various crops, from wheat to potatoes, were grown.

The Yardley family left Haybridge in 1722 and the property was left empty for some sixty years or so, falling, in the meantime, into quite a state of disrepair. It was during this period of neglect that the small church built on the grounds of the house in the early 16th Century, crumbled into ruins. Little is known about this church although one drawing of it survives. A local artist, Timothy Warsden, sketched the church in 1728, a mere six years after the Yardley family moved out.

Haybridge Hall's destiny seemed to have been that of long-term neglect and eventual destruction but the renowned local author William Hoaten bought Haybridge in 1784 and spent three years and a considerable amount of money renovating the mansion. By now, the amount of land belonging to the property had been considerably reduced and consisted of the few acres you see today.

The Hoaten family stayed at Haybridge until the beginning of the Second World War when the British Army took over the property. After the war, the surviving members of the Hoaten family decided it would prove too costly to move back into Haybridge Hall and so the property came to be owned by the charitable organisation English Heritage, who runs it to this day.

English Heritage undertook an extensive renovation operation in the 1970's, costing over ten million dollars. The aim of this work was to return Haybridge Hall to something of its glory days when it was owned by the Yardley family for two centuries. Specialist builders and craftsmen from all over the world were employed in an attempt to reconstruct the best possible example of a 17th Century country house.

Haybridge Hall remains to this day one of the finest examples of British renaissance architecture and the furnishing within gives an authentic idea of what country life was like three to four centuries ago in this country. Last year, over 60,000 visitors took the same path through Haybridge Hall that you yourself are taking today.

Now, please press button 2 if you would like to hear something about the first floor furniture. Press button 3 if you would like to hear more information about the gardens of Haybridge Hall.

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Listen to the mp3 file and complete this guide book entry on Haybridge Hall. The answers are not given in the same order! Then listen again to check.

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5/9 The island of Vanuatu audio and transcript

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5/9 The island of Vanuatu audio and transcript

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Intermediate Listening Exercise. mp3 audio plus exercise: The Island of Vanuatu - Transcript. A statistics-heavy speech about the Pacific island of Vanuatu.

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5/9 The island of Vanuatu. Listening and activity

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5/9 The island of Vanuatu. Listening and activity

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Hello Ines!! Here I´m sharing a website with audios and activities Today we´ll do this one called "The island of Vanuatu" you have to listen and answer if the sentences are True or False. You have a blue button below to check your answers.

First, try to listen to the audio two times and then listen to it while you read the transcript. After that, do the activity true or false activity.

Finally, record an audio telling me if you´ve ever been to an island or if you would like to visit one.

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The Island Of Vanuatu. A statistics-heavy speech about the Pacific island of Vanuatu.

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29/8 Why we love dumplings audio and transcript 

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Introduction

Every country seems to have its own version of dumplings! Neil and Beth discuss this delicious food and teach you some useful vocabulary.

This week's question

What is suet made from?

a) Wheat
b) Potato or,
c) Animal fat

Listen to the programme to hear the answer.

Vocabulary

hits the spot
(idiom) is exactly what you needed or wanted; gives total satisfaction

staple food
basic and important type of food that is regularly eaten by a large portion of the population

yum yum!
exclamation used to say that food tastes or smells very good

dig in!
used to invite someone to start eating and encourage them to eat as much as they want

comfort food
food that makes you feel happier because it tastes good to eat, or because it reminds you of home

tummy
(informal) stomach
TRANSCRIPT
Note: This is not a word-for-word transcript.

Neil
Hello. This is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm Neil.

Neil
In China they're crescent shaped and filled with pork and cabbage, in Nepal they're called momos and are fried with buffalo meat. In Ireland they're soaked in Guinness gravy, and Italians fill them with spinach and call them gnocchi. They can be steamed or fried and are found all over the world. I'm talking, of course, about dumplings.

Beth
Dumplings are a group of dishes where a filling is wrapped inside pieces of cooked dough. They're basically dough envelopes with a filling inside. Fillings can be anything from meat and fish to vegetables, tofu or cheese. And the dough is usually based on a starchy grain like wheat, rice, corn or potato. In fact, the English word, 'dumpling', comes from a 17th century adjective, dump, meaning 'dough-like'.

Neil
The really amazing thing about dumplings is that they're found all over the world. Over the centuries, different countries and regions have experimented with flavours and fillings to create something unique. Wherever in the world you are there's probably a special kind of dumpling for you!

Beth
In this programme, we'll be sampling a dumpling from the West African country of Ghana. And, as usual, we'll be learning some useful new vocabulary as well.

Neil
Great! But first I have a question for you, Beth. Probably the most famous British dumplings, suet dumplings, are cooked on top of a chicken or beef stew. They're made from suet... but what exactly is that? Is suet:

a) wheat?
b) potato? or,
c) animal fat?

Beth
Hmmm, I think suet is made from animal fat.

Neil
OK, Beth, we'll find out if that's the correct answer later in the programme. The origins of dumplings are a mystery. Historians think the dish is very old, but no-one knows for sure when or where the first dumpling was cooked. One theory puts the birthplace of the dumpling along the Silk Road, linking China with Central Asia, and Turkey.

Beth
One way or another, the dumpling journeyed through the Middle East and across Africa to Ghana, where today it's a favourite way of adding carbohydrates to a dish, as well as soaking up sauce and juices. Kafui Adzah is a businesswoman and fan of the Ghanian dumpling called, kenkey.

Neil
Here she introduces kenkey to Ruth Alexander, presenter of BBC World Service programme, The Food Chain:

Kafui Adzah
I love kenkey. In fact I had kenkey this afternoon!

Ruth Alexander
You've had some this afternoon?

Ruth Alexander
How is it then eaten?

Kafui Adzah
Now we have to eat kenkey with what we call shito - chilli sauce. OK. But we also have the black sauce... it's like with shrimps, fish, and all sort of proteins in it. And then... Yum Yum! You go at it! You dig in!

Beth
Kafui says eating kenkey really hits the spot. If something hits the spot, it's exactly what you wanted and totally satisfies you.

Beth
Kenkey takes time to make - the maize needs to be soaked in water for a week. But when they're ready and served with a hot chilli sauce, Kafui uses two phrases to show it's time to eat. Yum yum! is used to say that food tastes or smells very good, and dig in! is another exclamation meaning: don't wait, start eating and eat as much as you like.

Neil
For Ghanaians, kenkey is comfort food, something which is enjoyable to eat and makes you feel happier. And what's more, it fills your tummy or stomach.

Beth
Whatever type you eat and wherever in the world you eat them, dumplings are a great way to spread a little love, including in Britain!

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Good afternoon Ines!!

1- Listen to the audio and do the worksheet.

2- Answer the questions from exercise 7 and record them with your cell-phone

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8/8 Date activities website (press this picture and it will take you to the website)

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8/8 Date activities website (press this picture and it will take you to the website)

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Good morning Ines!! Do the listening activity first and then answer the question:

Talk about your daily schedule starting from when you wake up until you go to sleep. What activities do you enjoy? What is the busiest time of day? Record the answers with your phone.

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Date Activities - Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab

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There are many fun date activities that can spark excitement in any relationship. Listen and learn.

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Good afternoon Ines!! Here´s today´s worksheet. Complete the worksheet. And here are some question to practise speaking. Record them with your cell-phone:

1. Would you rather watch a movie or TV series?

2. What’s your favorite TV series or film?
3. How do TV series or films make you feel?
4. What TV series are you watching these days?
5. What is your favorite character in a TV show or film?
6. How often do you watch TV series?
7. Do you ever watch TV series in their original language?

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Listen to a radio interview about maintaining a good work-life balance to practise and improve your listening skills.

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Good morning Ines!! Here you have a listening-based activity.

Before listening to the audio do the preparation task as you may listen to some new words you don´t know. And look... the audio has its transcript. Try to listen without the transcript 2 times and then activate the transcript. Complete the worksheet. Finally, I leave here some quetions, choose some of them and record your answers with your cell-phone.

Discussion:

1. What is work-life balance?

2. How do you decide what is important in your work and personal life?

3. Have you ever found it hard to balance work and personal life? What happened?

4. How can making rules help you have a better work-life balance?

5. What do you do to make sure you have time for work and personal activities?

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Patrick Chappatte: A free world needs satire

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We need humor like we need the air we breathe, says editorial cartoonist Patrick Chappatte. In a talk illustrated with highlights from a career spent skewering everything from dictators and ideologues to selfies and social media mobs, Chappatte makes a resounding, often hilarious case for the necessity of satire.

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11/7 A free world needs satire worksheet

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11/7 A free world needs satire worksheet

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Listen to the audio and choose the correct answer (click on the answer and it will tell you if it is wrong or correct). After that, answer the following questions and record your answers with your phone:

What are some of the major sleep problems or disorders?

What are the causes of each of these problems?

What methods of treatment are available?

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Sleeping Problem - Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab

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Solve your sleeping problems with a few easy tips. Listen and learn.

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27/6 An interview about listening skills- worksheet-

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27/6 An interview about listening skills- worksheet-

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27/6 An interview about listening skills- listening-

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27/6 An interview about listening skills- listening-

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Listen to the interview and do the exercises 1 and 2 from the worksheet.

Think about what you do to help with listening. Record yourself with yor cell-phone.

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Good afternoon Ines!! Here´s today worksheet. Taking advantage that you´re in Mexico I´ll seend you a worksheet related to this country. Do whatever you want and in the Talking point (exercise n°9), as usual, record your answers with your phone.

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Transcript:

Speaker A: So, I have some bad news for you. We are weird.

Speaker B: I always thought we were fairly normal.

Speaker A: I don’t mean strange, I mean W-E-I-R-D. It stands for Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and Democratic. I just read a book about it by a Harvard biology professor, Joseph Henrich.He says that some of the things we think are perfectly normal have actually come from studies of one group, the WEIRDos. So many of the things we assume are universal, aren’t.

Speaker B: Okay, but I don’t understand, who are the weirdos again?

Speaker A: So, they did some analysis and they found that 96% of subjects in studies of human psychology and behaviour were from Northern Europe, North America, or Australia. And 70% of them were American undergraduates. And that all of them represent only about 12% of the world’s population.

Speaker B: Wait, did you say that 70% were college undergrads – Do you mean teenagers?

Speaker A: Yeah, pretty much. Around 18 to 22. They are convenient for the researchers I guess. But it’s a big problem when they generalise human behaviour based on a bunch of teenagers. And sometimes the results of the same research on people in other countries got totally different results. They found big differences.

Speaker B: Can you give me an example?

Speaker A: Sure, so weirdos differ from other populations in terms of moral decision-making, reasoning style, fairness, and visual perception.

Speaker B: Visual perception?

Speaker A: Yeah. How we perceive what we see. So get this. There’s the Muller-Lyer optical illusion where you have two identical lines, but they look like different lengths because of arrows at the end. Americans, for example, really strongly see the illusion. But for some other cultural groups, it isn’t even an illusion. They can immediately see the lines are the same.

Speaker B: Huh. Interesting.

Speaker A: And we think of things in terms of left and right. But some other groups, for example, describe things as east or west of each other instead. And then there are the Piraha people of Brazil who can’t count to 10.

Speaker B: What do you mean?

Speaker A: They just don’t have numbers in their language. So the idea of counting just doesn’t exist.

Speaker B: Weird!

Speaker A: I think I just told you we were the weird ones.

Speaker B: That’s right. We are!

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Good morning Ines!! This worksheet is about the word of the year. You can do the activities you want (the reading activity, the listening activity or both) and in exercise 9, you have to record your answers with your cell phone. See you next week Ines!!

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10/10 We are losing our active listening skills in the modern world

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10/10 We are losing our active listening skills in the modern world

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Good afternoon Ines!!! Here´s a video-based listening activity. You can listen to the video while you read the tapescript (unfortunately they translated the video fom minute 7:30) but you can also activate the sibtitles from the video (CC). We watched this Ted talk some years ago, but just a little clip. It´s a bit long, but it really worth it!! You can listen to the video and then do the quiz.

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7:30But we have a problem.
7:32The problem is we simply don't listen.
7:36And I'd like to suggest to you that
that is a very significant problem.
7:41There are reasons for this problem,
7:43thousands of years ago we invented writing,
7:45before that, if you didn't listen, if you
missed it,
7:48you missed it.
7:50Now, well if you want to go to sleep,
7:53in this talk, you can watch it
on the TEDx Youtube channel afterwards.
7:57The premium on being present
and listening is not as great as it used to be.
8:01That's the first reason.
8:03Secondly, I would suggest there's
a cultural thing going on here as well:
8:06you may be familiar with the Chinese model
that the duality of yin and yang,
8:10where yang is heat and light
and sun and male energy
8:15and much outward focused,
8:17and yin is dark, moon, female energy,
receiving, much quieter.
8:22Well if I substitute sound words for those
two,
8:26I think you might agree with me that in our
culture,
8:29we're much more fond of telling,
than we are of listening.
8:35And that creates a world that looks like
this,
8:38and sounds like this:
8:40(indistinct conversation noises)
8:42People telling, telling, telling, all the
time.
8:46And it's not surprising therefore,
8:48that many people take refuge in this:
8:51(earphones displayed on the picture
while music playing faintly)
8:53But there's an effect of that, a social
effect of that,
8:57on the way that we are with each other.
8:59We take a public space,
imagine any big public space
9:03it could be this theater, I hope not,
9:06I hope nobody's wearing headphones at the
moment,
9:08but a train station, an airport, a train
carriage,
9:12whatever space where we're with other
people.
9:15We take that space, where for a long time
9:18we've been listening to each other.
9:20We might not be speaking to each other,
9:21but we're conscious of each other in our
listening.
9:25but we're conscious of each other in our
listening.
9:25And we are turning that space into this.
9:30Thousands if millions of little sound
bubbles.
9:33They're called personal soundscapes,
9:35and this fragmentation of public
and shared soundscape
9:39into personal soundscapes
has got serious consequences
9:42because in this scenario,
we're not listening to each other at all.
9:50We are also becoming short of patience.
9:53We don't want to listen to oratory,
9:55we want soundbites.
9:57We don't watch TV programs, we channel-hop.
9:59We don't listen to albums, we listen to
tracks.
10:03We don't want to have conversations,
10:05we want to tweet or text.
10:07So our patience is getting shorter and
shorter.
10:11And at the same time we're becoming
desensitized in our listening.
10:16Our media have to shout at us
10:18in order for us to hear.
10:20And this level of desensitization
means that we're finding it
10:25harder and harder to hear the quiet,
10:28the subtle, the silence.
10:34We are losing our listening in the modern
world.
10:37And I think this is a message
you're going to receive several times today
10:40in one form or another. How can we get it
back?
10:44Well I'd like to give you some exercises
to take away with you,
10:47these are kind of like being in the gym,
10:49the first one of these is this:
10:51(Silence)
10:58Silence is very rare in the modern world.
11:02I urge you to seek it out,
11:04and just give yourself
a few minutes of silence every day.
11:09It re-calibrates, it resets your ears,
11:11it's like a sorbet in a good meal.
11:14It allows you to hear again
11:16freshly as if for the first time.
11:18That's the first one.
11:20The second one is a process I call 'the
Mixer',
11:23where you can go into
any noisy modern environment like this,
11:27(Noise)
11:28Familiar?
11:30and start to think:
"How many channels of sound am I hearing?"
11:35How many separate sound sources?
How many people's voices,
11:38chairs squeaking, barristers banging?
11:41You can do this in beautiful natural
surroundings
like this as well
11:44(water sounds and chirping birds)
11:45How many birds can I hear? The wind in the
trees,
11:50How many separate ripples?
11:52It's a great exercise to improve
the acuity of your listening.
11:57The third exercise is savoring.
12:00Like this guy savoring his cup of coffee,
12:02even the most mundane sounds around us,
12:05you can savor, if you really pay attention
to them.
12:08This -- (engine noise) -- is my tumble
drier,
12:11I recorded it before I came out.
12:13It's a waltz! One two three,
one two three, one two three.
12:18That's quite groovy! I could put music on
top of that!
12:21Or take another simple domestic sound
like boiling a kettle.
12:24(Noise)
12:33Wow!
12:35So you can really savor even the simplest
sounds.
12:38The next exercise is listening positions:
12:40have you ever thought of the idea
that you could take up
12:43certain positions to listen from?
12:46This can change everything.

This excerpt of Julian Treasure's 2011
TEDxDanubia
Talk is taken from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=CKayQthlwts (7:30 - 12:38)

To continue to listen to the next part of this
speech with another quiz, go to Quiz #25907,
"Listening Positions".

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Good morning Ines!! I share a little video activity. You have to listen to it and do the quiz. Then, you have to tell me what you do to manage stress (record your answer with your phone)
See you!!

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Quiz by: M2 IAE 16-17
Description: This video deals with stress. What happens when you stress ? How to reduce stress ?
High Intermediate

Watch this. One little piece of paper can have a remarkable effect. Stress is stressful. But if you understand a bit about what it is you'll be better able to deal with it. First though, take a few deep breaths. In fact, do that any time you feel stressed. It helps. Stress is a survival mechanism. When danger appears, it can get you out of trouble quickly. Your body crashes up the gears and throws all its resources into getting you moving. Your heart pumps furiously to increase blood pressure. Glucose is sent to the muscles as a fuel injection and you become total focused on what psychologists call fight...or flight. Thing is this emergency state is only meant to last just long enough to get you out of danger. But here in the 21st century we stress about different things and for much, much longer. Your brain and body stay on red alert and you'll be less able to think clearly, learn, or remember things. Take a few more deep breaths because as you now know stress is a physical reaction and deep breathing helps to counteract its effects. So what else can you do? Ok, top tips to reduce stress. First, get plenty of exercise. Let out all that locked up energy. Now, back to the problem. Get in control. Scope out the situation and how you're going to tackle it. Don't stress alone. Talk to someone. Socialize and have a laugh. You can't laugh and quake with fear at the same time. Get down with nature on a big or small scale. And if your mind won't stop worrying give it something else to do instead.

Mechanism : /ËˆmÉ›kÉ™ËŒnÉªzÉ™m/ : mÃ©canisme
To crash up the gears : /É¡ÉªÉ™/ : s'emballer
Throw : /Î¸rÉ™ÊŠ/ : lancer, jeter
Focused on : focus : /ËˆfÉ™ÊŠkÉ™s/ : concentrÃ©
Counteract : /ËŒkaÊŠntÉ™rËˆÃ¦kt/ : contrer
Plenty : /ËˆplÉ›ntÉª/ : abondance, grande quantitÃ©
Scope : /skÉ™ÊŠp/ : cadre
Tackle : /ËˆtÃ¦kÉ™l/ : tacler, s'attaquer
Quake : /kweÉªk/ : trembler
Scale : /skeÉªl/ : Ã©chelle

Watch this. One little piece of paper can have a remarkable effect. Stress is stressful. But if you understand a bit about what it is you'll be better able to deal with it. First though, take a few deep breaths. In fact, do that any time you feel stressed. It helps. Stress is a survival mechanism. When danger appears, it can get you out of trouble quickly. Your body crashes up the gears and throws all its resources into getting you moving. Your heart pumps furiously to increase blood pressure. Glucose is sent to the muscles as a fuel injection and you become total focused on what psychologists call fight...or flight. Thing is this emergency state is only meant to last just long enough to get you out of danger. But here in the 21st century we stress about different things and for much, much longer. Your brain and body stay on red alert and you'll be less able to think clearly, learn, or remember things. Take a few more deep breaths because as you now know stress is a physical reaction and deep breathing helps to counteract its effects. So what else can you do? Ok, top tips to reduce stress. First, get plenty of exercise. Let out all that locked up energy. Now, back to the problem. Get in control. Scope out the situation and how you're going to tackle it. Don't stress alone. Talk to someone. Socialize and have a laugh. You can't laugh and quake with fear at the same time. Get down with nature on a big or small scale. And if your mind won't stop worrying give it something else to do instead.

Mechanism : /ËˆmÉ›kÉ™ËŒnÉªzÉ™m/ : mÃ©canisme
To crash up the gears : /É¡ÉªÉ™/ : s'emballer
Throw : /Î¸rÉ™ÊŠ/ : lancer, jeter
Focused on : focus : /ËˆfÉ™ÊŠkÉ™s/ : concentrÃ©
Counteract : /ËŒkaÊŠntÉ™rËˆÃ¦kt/ : contrer
Plenty : /ËˆplÉ›ntÉª/ : abondance, grande quantitÃ©
Scope : /skÉ™ÊŠp/ : cadre
Tackle : /ËˆtÃ¦kÉ™l/ : tacler, s'attaquer
Quake : /kweÉªk/ : trembler
Scale : /skeÉªl/ : Ã©chelle

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Managing stress - Brainsmart - BBC | ESL Video

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Quiz by: M2 IAE 16-17 Description: This video deals with stress. What happens when you stress ? How to reduce stress ?High Intermediate Watch this. One little piece of paper can have a remarkable effect. Stress is stressful. But if you understand a bit about what it is you'll be better able to deal with it.

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These days the term bucket list is a common one and one that you will see regularly on entertainment websites or in tabloid newspapers. Defined simply as a “list of things you want to do before you die” it has come to be seen as defining the more unique and exciting adventures that you can experienc…

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Good morning Ines!! You can do all the exercises you want from this worksheet. You know that worksheets from Linguahouse are long... But I´m going to ask you to answer the questions from exercise 10 and record them with your cellphone.

See you Ines!!

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Good morning Ines!! In this exercise. You have to listen to the video and do the quiz. I´ll attach you a picture which shows you how it works, just in case you need it.

After doing the quiz, you have to answer these questions and record them with your phone: 1. Do you think that the people of the world will become more or less kind in the future? 2. Some people say that kindness is contagious, do you think that this is true? Why? 3. Can you think of any way to encourage or teach people to be kinder?

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Our science has started to discover facial expressions for, you know, laughter and compassion and
embarrassment. My name is Dacher Keltner and I'm a professor of psychology at UC Berkeley,
faculty director of The Greater Good Science Center.

In point of fact, Charles Darwin, who has greatly shaped my research, argued in 1871 that sympathy
is our strongest instinct. Very impressively scientists are starting to pinpoint, really, a network of
neurons in the brain that helps us empathize. Now we find when we feel compassion in humans, that
part of the brain lights up. That part of the brain is connected to oxytocin networks and we know
oxytocin is this amazing neuropeptide that helps us empathize and be generous. That tells us that
kindness is biological and it's part of the human imperative or human nature.

I think your question also is asking another question. What we do here is we study emotions and
what makes people happy and part of that is based in feeling compassion and reading other
people's emotions.

One of the things we learn is how even very small gestures of compassion and kindness, even those
in the lab really make you feel more satisfied more content on just an everyday level.

We're starting to learn that as you practice kindness it shifts your nervous system and you're
healthier, right, that (...) kindness and compassion may be as powerful a determinant of physical
health as smoking.

So we're in The Greater Good Science Center and our Director of Strategic Partnerships, the
inevitable Susan Fastbird [Music]

Most places that research behavior are looking at what goes wrong between people and we're
looking at what goes right.

We're taking the science of compassion and altruism and getting it out to tens of thousands of
people.

One of the most exciting messages for people is it's not just a question of how you're born -- are
you born happy, or, are you born a certain way -- that these are not only teachable skills but
learnable skills.

When you really cultivate compassion, you really potentiate or activate a lot of the great emotions
that make up the meaningful life [Applause]

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Good morning Ines!! As you have some worksheets to do yet, I´m just going to ask you to read the article and record your answers from exercise 5.

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20/7 Trees- an essential part of cities video

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20/7 Trees- an essential part of cities video

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Good morning Ines!! Remember to activate the subtitles.

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What happens if you cut down all of a city's trees? - Stefan Al

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13/7 Five friendships is the optimal number

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13/7 Five friendships is the optimal number

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You can activate the transcript to read while you are listening to the audio.

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Good morning Ines!! I´m uploading a new lesson. It´s long, so you can only do the exercises concerning to the listening activities (exercises 2, 3 and 4). After that I´m going to ask you to answer the questions in exercise 9 and record them with your cell-phone.

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29/6 For these women, reading is a daring act video

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29/6 For these women, reading is a daring act video

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Laura Boushnak: Para estas mujeres, la lectura es un acto audaz

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En algunas partes del mundo, la mitad de las mujeres carecen de las habilidades básicas de lectura y escritura. Las razones varían, pero en muchos casos, la alfabetización no es valorada por los padres, esposos, incluso las madres.

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29/6 For these women, reading is a daring act

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29/6 For these women, reading is a daring act

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26/6 The distracted Mind worksheet reloaded

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26/6 The distracted Mind worksheet reloaded

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Good morning Ines!! This week I´m uploading a quick activity with a short video.
Have a nice long weekend!!

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Good morning Ines!! Welcome back! I´ll upload the new worksheet. You can do the activities you want and record your answers from exercise 6 with your cell phone.

We´ll keep in touch

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27/4 Traditional English tea losing popularity in UK

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27/4 Traditional English tea losing popularity in UK

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Good morning Ines!! Read the article and answer the question from discussion A. Record your answers with your cell-phone.

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20/4 When graffiti ends up in art galleries video

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20/4 When graffiti ends up in art galleries video

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20/4 When graffiti ends up in art galleries

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20/4 When graffiti ends up in art galleries

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Good morning Ines!! Today´s lesson is about graffiti, its history and today´s reputation about those who paint in the streets. I´m going to ask you to record your answers from exercise 6. You can activate the subtitles when you watch the video.

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Hi Ines!! Today´s lesson is about love. I´m going to ask you to do the worksheet and answer the questions in exercise 8 with your phone.

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Does artificial intelligence help students cheat?

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Hi Ines!! This is today´s lesson. we keep in touch!! Bye!!

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23/3 sensitivity readers edit James Bond and Roald Dahl books

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23/3 sensitivity readers edit James Bond and Roald Dahl books

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Hi Ines!! I´ll upload just a short article for you to read, because you have a lot of homework to finish.

A sensitivity reader is someone who reads for offensive content, misrepresentation, stereotypes, bias, lack of understanding, etc. They create a report for an author and/or publisher outlining the problems that they find in a piece of work and offer solutions in how to fix them.

Read this article about sensitivity readers and answer the Student´s A questions. Record them with your phone. That´s it! Have a nice weekend!!

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Good morning Ines!! I think Weather is the trending topic this month... I don´t know you... but I´m fed up with this heatwave!! hahaaha. This worksheet is about how weather changes our health. In the last exercise you have to answer the questions and record them with your cell-phone.

Have a nice week Ines!!

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Hi Ines!! Yesterday was the international women´s day. We´ve discussed this topic a lot, but I think that it´s interesting to know what other women from around the world think about this topic. You can do all the exercises you want from this worksheet. And I´m going to ask you to record your anwers from exercise 8.

We´ll keep in touch!!

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Foodie culture is now part of foreign policy — It's Gastrodiplomacy

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Hi Ines! I´m going to ask you to complete the worksheet and record your answers with your phone in exercise 3.

That´s it!! See you next week!!

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Hi Ines!! Here´s the new lesson. It´s about Airbnb. In exercise 7 you have to record your answers with your phone. And in exercise 8 there´s a writing exercise if you want to do it.
That´s it Ines!! Till next class!!

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16/12 If you want to do exercise 9 from the worksheet, you have to watch this video.

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16/12 If you want to do exercise 9 from the worksheet, you have to watch this video.

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16/2 AI image wins art contest report (You can activate where it says "TRANSCRIPT" if you want to read the subtitles)

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16/2 AI image wins art contest report (You can activate where it says "TRANSCRIPT" if you want to read the subtitles)

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Narrator: Allen used a prompt to generate the image, which he called "Théâtre D'opéra Spatial" using Midjourney, an AI program that creates complex graphics from lines of text. The software is similar to DALL-E 2, and has been criticised for the way in which it scrapes millions of images from the Internet before attempting to create something "new" based on patterns it has been taught to recognise, leading to accusations of plagiarism.

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Narrator: Allen used a prompt to generate the image, which he called "Théâtre D'opéra Spatial" using Midjourney, an AI program that creates complex graphics from lines of text. The software is similar to DALL-E 2, and has been criticised for the way in which it scrapes millions of images from the Internet before attempting to create something "new" based on patterns it has been taught to recognise, leading to accusations of plagiarism.

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This is today lesson. The worksheet is a bit long, but you can do all the exercises that you want, there are listening and reading comprehension activities. After that, you have to do exercise 8, you have to think and record your answers with your phone.

That´s it Ines!! we keep in touch!! :)

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Here´s today worksheet, you can do all the exercises you want. I´m only going to ask you to do exercise 9 orally. You have to read the sentences and tell me if you agree or disagree with them, justifying your opinion. You have to record your answers with your phone.

Have a great week Ines!!!

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Are You Living an Insta Lie? Social Media Vs. Reality

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The lesson is based on a video. The video is silent, people don´t talk, but there´s a lot of food for thought...

I´m going to ask you to solve this worksheet from exercises 5 to 10. In exercise 8 you have to answer the questions recording them with your cell phone.

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Hello Ines! I´m glad to see you again!! Padlet has changed its design. It´s a bit different, so if you have any doubt on how to use it, please tell me.

I´ll upload the lesson once a week (on Wednesday afternoons or Thursday mornings) and when you finish it, you have to upload the written part here, for the discussion part you have to record yourself an audio and send it to me by whatsapp. (As we used to do it...)

Let´s start!!

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Do exercises 1-7. Answwer the question in activity 7 and record your answers with your cell-phone. See you Ines!!

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(activate the video subtitles)

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19/10 Insta green listening comprehension

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19/10 Insta green listening comprehension

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Do exercises 1-7. Choose a question from exercise 7 and discuss it. Record your answers with your cell-phone.

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Do exercises 1-6. Record your answers with your cellphone.

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Do exercises 1-6. Record your answers with your cell-phone.

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Listen to the audio report and do exercises 3 and 4 from the worksheet