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COURSEBOOK: Unit 14
IDIOMS AND EXTRA VOCABULARY
There are some exercises here: NUMBERS AND SYMBOLS
More about BUSINESS AND MONEY
STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
Josh and Chuck on "currency"
TAKE A TOUR THROUGH THE SITE AND CHOOSE A PODCAST OF YOUR INTEREST. AMERICAN ENGLISH.
Josh and Chuck on "currency"
MORE "STUFF" HERE
SPEAKING
Watch this video about "How positive thinking is harming your happiness" from the BBC HERE.
MORE SPEAKING
This week: ORAL MEDIATION. Remember that this section will be part of the exam. First, read the instructions carefully and transfer the information provided in the graphic below.
(About two minutes).
Hans Rosling's famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport's commentator's style to reveal the story of the world's past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has never done before - using augmented reality animation. In this spectacular section of 'The Joy of Stats' he tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers - in just four minutes. Plotting life expectancy against income for every country since 1810, Hans shows how the world we live in is radically different from the world most of us imagine.
Do you feel optimistic about the future?
If you had 1 billion dollars to spend on just one project, what would it be? Here's how an astrobiologist, a broadcaster, a skeptic and a Nobel Laureate, amongst others, would spend the money.
WHAT ABOUT YOU?
WHAT ABOUT YOU?
NOW, SOMETHING ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF PLEASURE
Why do we like an original painting better than a forgery? Psychologist Paul Bloom argues that human beings are essentialists -- that our beliefs about the history of an object change how we experience it, not simply as an illusion, but as a deep feature of what pleasure (and pain) is.
MORE ENGLISH? TRY TV SERIES! do you like them? Anyone in particular?
Let me mention a few of my favorite ones:
TRUE DETECTIVE - season 1- (in the best tradition of "American Noir": with a touch of southern "evil", in a sort of David Lynch style... and maybe the best of them all)
Screenplay by Nic Pizzolatto ("Galveston")
FARGO (...named after the film, but with different crime stories set in the "chilly" northern States... excellent!)
TRUE DETECTIVE - season 1- (in the best tradition of "American Noir": with a touch of southern "evil", in a sort of David Lynch style... and maybe the best of them all)
Screenplay by Nic Pizzolatto ("Galveston")
TREME (after the name of a popular "quartier" in New Orleans: Is there life after "Katrina"?
SOUL MUSIC
Pop Music
The Autumn Defense
