TASK 1. Ready to debate:
1. History Boys - Mr Bennet masterpiece (2006)
PLOT: The story concerns a group of eighteen-year-old working-class boys who have returned to high school for an extra semester in order to study for an entrance examination and interview for Oxford University. Bennet's language clearly cuts differences in class and accent!
RICH DEBATE. 02
The education conundrum at its heart poses a question with universal meaning:
- Does the kind of education that gains students a place in a country's most prestigious universities come at a cost of never learning how to nurture the mind's garden for a fully realized life? - review link
Most American audience members would certainly have picked up that the play is set in England but not have been able to locate the play within a region of England.
For example, most British accents would pronounce the first syllable of the word “tuna” as /tch/ - a sound that to an American ear sounds more like the word cheese.
FILM- Trailer (2 min)
Boys learn their lesson
(2 min) https://youtu.be/9irVk5Z-_Bw
The serious teacher - link
Shall I tell you what is wrong with Hector as a teacher? It isn't that he doesn't produce results. He does. But they are unpredictable and unquantifiable and in the current educational climate that is no use.
He may very well be doing his job, but there is no method I know of that enables me to assess the job that he is doing.
3 / Hector:
May I make a silly suggestion? Why can they not all just tell the truth?
Irwin:
'It's worth trying, provided, of course,
you can make it seem like you're telling the truth'
"Who controls the past controls the future:
who controls the present controls the past"
Several statements from Kate Foxon the English class delegitimasion (till 05:30)
1.- The history lessons we didn't learnt!
Top politicians Before Boris Johnson (BoJo)
John Major 1987-88
Thatcher 1980s
1959 Harold Macmillan
01:17 Any fool could see that the class system is
very obviously still alive and kicking
so it was a bit of *a slam dunk pretty
(*= to win something very easily, or to do sth very successfully)
01:25 but at the time Tony Blair was confidently declaring the class war is over
and John Prescott was telling us 'the middle class had won'
01:37 at least he said " we're all middle class now"
01:39 so I assume that means 'the middle class' had won.
but ten years before that - roughly -
01:44 we had John Major promising us
a classless society in about ten years and
01:52 there were debates when Tony Blair was talking
01:55 debates when John Major said it ten years before
that we had Thatcher, telling us that
"Marks and Spencer had triumphed over Marx and Engels"
which I think was another way of saying
'the class war is over, the middle class has won'
you can rewind back as far as you like
almost it's set in 1959 Harold Macmillan again very confidently
02:21 declared that 'the class war is obsolete'...
2.- The class syst
02:48 education policy in an attempt to increase social mobility because
that worked so well the last times we tried it
so, they give their visionary rose-tinted speeches
the class war is over etc.
we have debates. Nothing changes.
3.- The class system
I'm not arguing that the class system is dirty
I'm just saying that these are the kind of things
03:35 that have been said by politicians
not that they could or could have done better
or should have done better
I'm actually saying it possibly impossible for them to do better,
4.- Dinner -lunch choices bit
about five, six people maybe
04:55 little tiny tiny glimmering of social mobility
TASK 2. Listen 2 Wr -8 min video 11:42 min
- · She's really in the lion's den with this topic. The condescending stares, taciturn reception and weak applause tell volumes about the prejudiced and self-important attitude of these post-pubescent upstarts, virtually all of whom were born with a silver spoon in their mouths.
some of the comments here confirm the loathsome arrogance exuded by her well-off audience.
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