1) Listen to the video and pick out information about the Green New Deal

2) Discuss her arguments. List them and say how powerful they sound.

Team 1: The US versus the rest of the world

Team 2: Polarization

Team 3: Donald Trump, quotes and videos (scan read the text)

Team 4: Trust and mistrust

team 5: Anti-intellectualism and anti-science

Team 6: The Frontier myth of an endless economic bonanza.

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https://www.statista.com/statistics/266808/the-most-spoken-languages-worldwide/

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1khPpoLA5pg4oliFHKcrXJcRy1FwwcGepgs7xvpN6ETA/edit?usp=sharing

2) Languages from a historical perspective

3) Lingua Franca? definition?

4) Three main ideas from the text?

5) Conclusion from and in the document? something new? Implicit for the future (short term/long term)

2) Pick a few examples of what is being done to curb over tourism.

3) Pick ten cities or places and the number of tourists compared to its residents.

4) Social media?

1) Read it through and give the new type of information compared to the previous articles.

2) What is at stake here?

3) Be very specific about the position of the different contributors.

4) What can be done, (personal opinion and ideas welcome)

2) Guess what it is about and check your hypotheses from the title.

3) Pick out all the numbers, say what they refer to and conclude.

4) Explain and comment on Airbnb's strategy.

5) Explain the impact of bucket lists.

6) To what extent has Airbnb's expansion contributed to reversing the trend?

7) What is the journalist's opinion?

Practise makes perfect!

1) What sort of power can universities bring to a country?

2) Listen to 1:16 to 2:31. Lord Bilimoria mentions two universities, what are they? Pick out information to explain the quality of UK universities.

3) Listen from 2:32 to 3:40, pick out the stressed and repeated words. Who does Lord Bilimoria refer to and why?

1) Do a bit of research on Ian Bremmer

2) Make suppositions on the next global superpower?

3) Watch once and think of two dates in history terms: Before 1989 , between 1989 and 2005 and 2005 and now?

4) Expatiate on these words or expressions "world's policeman"/ 2005 and three turning points/ bi-polar word?/ Three orders/ military power?/ Nuclear weapons. economic order/ Interdependent/ Cold War/ multi-polar order/ digital order/ our identity from two pillars to three/ digital global order/ accountability of digital companies/ US main exporter of democracy/ What next?

1) Do a bit of research on Ian Bremmer

2) Make suppositions on the next global superpower?

3) Watch once and think of two dates in history terms: Before 1989 , between 1989 and 2005 and 2005 and now?

4) Expatiate on these words or expressions "world's policeman"/ 2005 and three turning points/ bi-polar word?/ Three orders/ military power?/ Nuclear weapons. economic order/ Interdependent/ Cold War/ multi-polar order/ digital order/ our identity from two pillars to three/ digital global order/ accountability of digital companies/ US main exporter of democracy/ What next?

Read the article and sum it up in French in 80-100 words

21st century has added a new challenge for city councils, the governement and developers.

2) Afua Hirsch's origins (parents, education, job(-s)

3) Read the title and the subheading: who is "they"?. What reversal of a situation is at stake here?

4) Read the whole text: say why African people have developped an ambivalent relation to the English language.

5) Explain "If (English) failed to give them a song, it at least gave them a tongue for sighing"

6) In your own words, say what "the paradox of empire" consists in.

7) sum up your ideas thinking, what did I learn?

1) eNCA (eNews Channel Africa)? what kind of channel? African news channel/focused on African people/owned by a Black empowerment group.

2) Topic? what is at stake? language policy/enforcement in South African schools/ inform about the reasons why parents choose English for their children at school and the reasons why bilingual schools should be prioritized.

3) Who is Ms Guzula? A language specialist from University Interested in languages.

4) How does Xolisa Guzula account for the parents' positions? Pick out two reasons. 1) effect of colonisation/ internalized domination/ English is the language of power (less discriminated against when going to a university abroad/ education at home/ applying for a job/)

5) What does the interview tell us about the ongoing effects of colonial policies? English still overpowering / law-makers decision/ What about availability of books and textbooks/ lack of willingness from the elites/

https://youtu.be/_rYC9t4SHPU?si=XFLVI_6LFiuWlYbF

2) What makes the disqualification unbearable for both directors? What is the status of English in Nigeria?

3) Explain Genevieve Nani's argument "we did not choose who colonized us"

Look for elements from the countries’ geography, economy, branding and marketing, soft power, hard power to complete the table. Use figures and facts  to support your notes