ORAL 2_ Exhibition in town

 

ORAL  Part 2 Deal with a Poster/Image            

7-minute talking

     TODAY  -  The International Day    

for the Elimination of Violence against Women aims to create awareness of the fact that violence against women is a human rights

 

New Exhibition in town- Colors of a Woman 

Art –Going to an exhibition 

 – Poster/Image. How to act natural 

TASK. You are with your friends, and going to have a beer 

           near the Casino library and you see the poster for the exhibition : 

Haritha Savithri an artist in the making:

Amb Colors de Dona

Use the prompts to develop your task

•  Choose one feature of the poster and express your feelings/reactions
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•  1 Long SENTENCE –One exhibition I’ve heard about
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• Potential of OUR local artists
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• READ and recommend the exhibition to your acquaintances

to help you at the talking time.... explore the link BELOW

https://ma-serendipity.blogspot.com/2020/02/haritha-savitri-paintings-galery.html 

oral 3.  DEBATE  - Education and creativity  - 11 min

act. 6. page 29 - SpeakOut

WILL power - reading on The power of reading

             The   power   of   reading

a) Steady, ready, read! 

        re-read ... the story of a successful idea 

    “I believe that the phrase ‘obligatory reading’ is a contradiction in terms; reading should not be obligatory. Should we ever speak of 'obligatory pleasure'? Pleasure is not obligatory, pleasure is something we seek. 'Obligatory happiness'! [...]

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• I would advise them to read to continue to look for personal happiness, personal enjoyment. It is the only way to read.”   

― Jorge Luis Borges

b)  The History of reading by A. Manguel

Throughout antiquity and the Middle Ages, reading meant reading aloud; such reading was probably the most common form of ancient publication. 

 scripta manet, verba volat— 

the written word remains stationary, the spoken word travels 

curious fact: 

the famous library of Alexandria was nurtured by a royal decree that required all ships stopping there to surrender any books they might be carrying on board. These books were then copied for the library's collections before being returned to their owners.

Explore these two sets of pics,

• ONE:  Kids reading ... here

• two :   Museum contemporary photography... here

ORAL 2-  

the board of Members of the La Kermesse Bages Festival 

have to announce our event:   

                    the joy of the written word

 

TASK.  Your library wants to celebrate it

 with some snapshots for a great poster

 to encourage reading at diverse ages.

 

André Kertész's been a great artist in his field. 

Delve into two comments on his work 

The Guardian -2009 (B. Morrison)

         

 

comment 1.-  One memorable image features a boy sitting in a New York doorway in 1944, amid a heap of newspapers left there to alleviate the wartime shortage 

("Paper is needed now! Bring it at any time," reads the poster behind him). 

Early 1950's were hard yet the boy looks perfectly elated: amid the detritus, he has found a page of comic strips. Heaven can wait....

 

 

 

    comment 1.-  

One of my favourite André Kertész snapshots depicts two young men sitting with their backs to a tree, each absorbed in a book. 

• Both are wearing glasses; 
• both use their thighs as a lectern; 
• the one facing forwards is black, the other, in profile (a dead ringer for Woody Allen), is white. 

• Their proximity suggests they know each other and are friends. 

And given the time and place of the composition,

        Washington Square, New York City, 1969. 

the photo could serve as an icon of the civil rights movement – racial harmony!   

 

What's equally striking, though, is how separate the two men are, how oblivious to each other's presence (and to the camera). 

They might well be friends but their real companions are their books.

Kertész's subjects are often people you wouldn't expect to see reading. What the camera captures is their thirst for knowledge or hunger to escape their circumstances. 

• The Bowery bum retrieving a newspaper from a wastebin;
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• a woman kneeling over a text in a Manila market;
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• gondoliers,
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• circus performers and street vendors snatching time between work duties to peruse a book or magazine –

note-taking advice - knowledge matters

 

Integrating skills myself  

  AT THE END OF THE DAY

• listening helps to write, 
• reading oral scripts helps to speak, 
• speaking helps to listen

PART I:    Knowledge 

Knowledge:  nurture vs nature // Society vs individual 

survival of the fittest:   competition

survival of the friendliest:   co-operation

Explain the two quotes (meaning)

quote 1- survival-of-the-fittest laws of nature, 

which was used by some political theorists to justify

 laissez-faire capitalism and political conservatism.

Tools make humankind - FIRE  - women elicited

quote 2- Mrs Thatcher - UK premier 11 years (1980s)

“History shows that all of the worst things which astate can inflict upon individual human beings  are characteristically marked by some collective abstraction like ‘the State’, ‘society’,‘nation’, ‘race’, ‘proletariat’, whose interests are said to override those of the individual, and so justify the actions of the State”  (Duncan and Hobson)


PART II:    Rutger Bergman  context 

HOW MUCH CONTENT COULD YOU UNDERSTAND?

(30%? Not bad!!, just the gist 

And 55? Quite good? a couple of details

67% really good! several details

85% is GREAT most of the implications

MAKE my English great this year! 

We make school kids 

read "Lord of the Flies"

—but it's only half the story.

TASK__ What are the features you see

 in the covers of the novel/film ?

PART III:   L2WR-03_ Rutger Bergman 

6-min video

Are humans wired for conflict?

Lord of the Flies vs. Charles Darwin

PS: did you know this Dutch man? 5min  - BIG THINK  -  Link 

Are humans wired for conflict? Lord of the Flies vs. Charles Darwin

Are humans wired for conflict? Lord of the Flies vs. Charles Darwin We make school kids read "Lord of the Flies"—but it's only half the story.

PART IV:  Follow up 

Explore one of the following links  (click there) and 

collaborate with our  WRITING  wiki on Humankind

LINK_1 

Humankind: A Hopeful History | 5x15 -11 min

      Rutger Bergman was recently ranked number ten

in the Big Issue’s Top 100 Changemakers of 2020.

LINK_2

The Daily Show: with Noah Trevor -13 min

LINK_3

TED talk 2017 _  Poverty isn't a lack of character   -14 min

• "Ideas can and do change the world," says historian Rutger Bregman

LINK_4 

Rutger Bregman's viral speech in Davos Economic Summit 2019

it did not go down well  with leaders - money matters -YouTube

Read the comments!!

LINK 5 

XX century timeless satire, “Lord of the Flies,”

which follows a group of shipwrecked boys as they descend into anarchy.

Work on content:

Some content ideas summarised by...

LINK  2 -  Alba G.

1-      Rutger Bergman considers himself to  belong to a movement, a new generation of people who think we need both, to move on while we perform a massive transformation of the economy.

2-      Terms as equality, philanthropy, universal basic income are very popular, but the clue is Taxes. Talk about raising taxes on wealthy people is still a taboo issue.

3-      In his book talk not only about transgressor ideas such as open-borders, universal basic income, fifteen hours work week… but also about how to implement it.

4-      The ideas exposed could sound crazy. However, History taught us that so-called crazy ideas sometimes became reality. A pair of recent examples are the democracy itself or the abolition of slavery.

LINK 4 - -Sergi v.

•    “Elephant on the room”: people are not comfortable speaking about some things at some places, despite these things are clearly visible for everyone… In the video, the “elephant” is “taxation” and the “room” is “Davos summit meeting”.
•    “High taxes curtail the free market”: in the past, lower taxes for the lower and classes and higher taxes for the higher classes meant higher rates of economic growth & technology innovation.
•   “Valuable jobs in public sector”: to consider that only the Private sector is creating wealth is false.
•   “Liberal democracy defends philanthropy instead taxation”: in Davos-like places, philanthropy is just a distraction… It is OK to do philanthropy, but pay your taxes first.

LINK 5  -   David J.:

• The author was inspired by the second world war and the cold war atrocities. He wanted to interrogate the very roots of human nature after seeing the evilness of their fellows and the ambition of power from the nations.

• The title comes from Beelzebub, a demon whose main traits are pride and war.

• Golding used character names from R.M. Ballantyne's book "Coral Island". The writer turned a pacific story into a dark one to represent what human beings can reach if they aren't socialized or even raised in a concrete education system.

• At the very start, the survivors try to set some logical order into their problem. Later, the castaways split out and start different tasks in each group. The rational group establishes forms of dialogue and democracy to overcome the issues while the other group follows its worst urges.

images -education a gain - an immaterial one

 

ORAL task  2 -  Your fab philosophy teacher at High School,

               wants your group to prepare a report on education, 

   roughly titled (temporarily)     our errors/horrors gallery 

                  

Contribute with some ideas -

Of the pictures in our gallery discuss with your partners 

• their main/striking/salient points

• Which picture shows that education should be 
•                      an immaterial gain better

My three favorite pics? it's a split-hair decision

phrase. If you say that someone is splitting hairs, you mean that 

      they are making unnecessary distinctions between things 

     when the differences between them are so small they are not important.

1955- Rosa_1960_ Ruby_2020_Kamala

 It means  " A lot", too!!

 

- I'll do it later!

  

CODA;   orientate---> go E

   SK  -new schools

Snug -language work -week 1- Laia bacardit

 

Laia bacardit on SNUG - Language Notes:

Three  CATEGORIES

CATEGORY ONE .   On the topic of people’s

- 1.1.  Nouns –negative connotations

Fully fledged bovver boys: British Terms troublemaking or rowdiness by street gang youths.

Jerk of the knob: someone who is not useful, stupid, useless.

“Stray of youth” any homeless person or animal.

Slurs. to insult: to slur someone's reputation.

‘City slicker’ a person who cheats another; swindler.

 

- 1.2.  adjectives   -    Personality

Spastic [Slang.] clumsy or stupid

Nincompoop: a fool or stupid person; a simpleton. Synonyms: dunderhead,  imbecile, nitwit

 

- 1.3.  adjectives   -    Description

Spastic [Slang.] clumsy or stupid

Foolhardy: recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.

 

CATEGORY  TWO   .    On the topic of RACISM leanings

Nig-nogs: British modern slang, disparaging + offensive : a black person  (nigger, repeating first syllable)

piccaninny : neutral meaning: babies’ of Caribbean /the West Indies

• In contrast to this the word has been used in North America as a  racial slur referring to a dark-skinned child of African descent.  ( seen the word in books I used to read about slavery)

 

Derogative adjectives

Grockles-  colloquial :a holidaymaker, especially one visiting a resort in Devon or Cornwall. (sort of  pixapins)

 

CATEGORY  THREE. mouth related - narrator's voice

Ways of speaking / laughing ....  

3.1.  Laugh

They smirked behind the teacher's back. to smile in an offensively self-satisfied way:

by chuckles (by soft quiet laughter.)

Giggled: to laugh in a silly, often high-pitched way, as from nervous embarrassment.

3.2. Speak

Lilt-rhythmic rising or falling in the voice cadence.

Slur- to pronounce (a syllable, word, etc.) unclearly by combining, reducing, or leaving out 

sounds, as in hurried or careless speaking