Session 1

Aug. 5

Reality Check

Material

• Active Listening 3

• Unit 1: What Do You Say First?
• Unit 2: Sights and Sounds
• Unit 3: Dating
  

• In Focus 2

• Unit 1: A World of English
  

• Amy Walker, "21 Accents" (2008; 2:35 min.)

• Jake, "The English Language in 24 Accents" (2010; 8:13 min.)

• Lily Singh, "Telling My Parents About My Boyfriend" (2017; 5:46 min.)
  

Issues: listening tools, strategies, resources; knowing the language; greetings; textbook vs. real English; interpersonal relationships; sensory perceptions; etiquette

No class (Mother's Day)

• Active Listening 3
• Unit 4: Communication and Culture
  
• In Focus 2
• Unit 4: The Inconvenient Truth of Global Warming
  
• Unit 5: Changing Ideals of Beauty
• Unit 6: Vegetarians
• Gerard Nolst Trenité, "The Chaos" (1920)
• Tom Hutchinson, Lifetime, Level 1, Oxford University Press (1999; video clip, 1 hr. 37:13 min.; contents: episodes list, language in use, transcript)
• "Monica's Boob Job," Learn English with TV Series (2016; video clip, 15:24 min.)
• "Friends," Learn English with TV Series (2016; video clip, 5:06 min.)
• "Soup/Suit," A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1987; video clip, 3:15 min.; transcript)
• Slang
• Nadia Ilyas, "55 Most Commonly Used British and American Slang Words and Their Meanings" (2014)
• Jonathan Thomas, "Top 100 Most Beautiful British Slang Words and Phrases – Guide to English Slang" (2013)

• Active Listening 3
• Unit 5: The Internet
• In Focus 2
• Unit 8: Our Crowded Earth
• Tom Hutchinson, Lifetime, Level 2, Oxford University Press (1999; video clip, 1 hr. 34:27 min. contents: episodes list, language in use, transcript)
  

• Active Listening 3
• Unit 6: Superstitions
• In Focus 2
• Unit 3: The Price of Excellence
  
• Tom Hutchinson, Lifetime, Level 3, Oxford University Press (1999; video clip, 1 hr. 37:07 min.; contents: episodes list, language in use, transcript)
• Stuart Vyse, "Where Do Superstitions Come From?," TED-Ed (2017; video clip, 5:10 min.)
  
• Corey Nachman, "The 30 Strangest Superstitions in Sports History," Business Insider (2011)
• "Olympic Superstitions," NBC Sports (2012; video clip, 3:57 min.)
• "Shifting Emphatic Stress," Pearson Longman (2006)
  

• Active Listening 3
• Unit 7: Manners
• In Focus 2
• Unit 7: Disappearing Languages
• "Life and Death," episode 5, Speaking in Tongues: The History of Language (2009 documentary preview; 3:03 min.)
• "David Crystal: Will English Always Be the Global Language?," British Council Serbia (2013; video clip, 13:50 min.)
• Putting Manners on...Us, BBC (2017; video clip, 29:24 min.)
• Greetings and Self Introduction Etiquette
• Faye de Muyshondt, "How to Shake Hands and Introduce Yourself" (2013; video clip, 2:44 min.)
• "The Etiquette of Proper Greetings and Introductions," The Manners Lab (2016; video clip, 4:55 min.)
  
• Table Manners
• "Good Table Manners with Susan von Hellens," ABC Arizona (2014; video clip, 4:32 min.)
• "Easy Ways to Improve Your Table Manners," Zagat (2015; video clip, 3:34 min.)
  
• Telephone Etiquette
• "Courtesy Rules!: Better Telephone Skills Now," American Hotel and Lodging Educational Institute (2004)
• "Essential Telephone Skills," Telephone Doctor Customer Service Training (2014; 2:44)
  

• Active Listening 3
• Unit 8: Natural Health
• In Focus 2
• Unit 2: Where Are All the Babies?
• Natural Health and Population
  
• "Natural Pain Relief Remedies," Mother Earth Living (2016; video clip, 2:08 min.)
• Lauren Singer, "Zero Waste Toothpaste," Trash Is for Tossers (2015; video clip, 2:20 min.)
• "Fish Eats Plastic, Man Eats Fish: Tiny Particles, Huge Threat," Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (2013; video clip, 3:31 min.)
• King Corn, dir. Aaron Woolf, Mosaic Films (2007 documentary; video clip, 1 hr. 20:16 min.)
• King Corn (official website)
• King Corn Extended Clip, Independent Lens, PBS (2008; video clip, 20:15 min.)
  
• Life on Us, Screen Australia (2013 documentary)
  
• Episode 1: Your Private Wildlife (video clip, 49:04 min.)
• Episode 2: Superhuman (video clip, 43:53 min.)