KE / UJ ISI English HL 1 & 2 (Weeks 13 & 14)

 

Welcome Back! Happy Monday 

Warm-up: Formal Letter of Complaint. (10 mins. max) GO 

Expressing Opinion Review: 

Websearch: Am I the Asshole? 

1. Establish the facts of the situation. 2. Decide who was right? Who indeed is the asshole? 

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/

Mini-Debates: https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https%3A%2F%2Ffreeenglishlessonplans.com%2Fwpcontent%2Fuploads%2F2022%2F05%2FHot-Button-Topics.pptx&wdOrigin=BROWSELINK

Opinion Survey: https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https%3A%2F%2Ffreeenglishlessonplans.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2021%2F06%2Fwhere-do-you-stand-education.docx&wdOrigin=BROWSELINK

Journal Article: Opinion Piece Regarding Pro-Choice / Abortion Debate 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2022/jun/29/europeans-pro-choice-womens-rights-roe-v-wade-us-poland

TED How to Spot a Liar 

Vocab Prep:

Write the following quotes from the talk on the board:

“We’re all liars”

“lying is a cooperative act”

What does she mean? Do you agree?

1. Why do people lie? Brainstorm on the board.
2. How much money did she say was lost because of fraud? Nearly a $trillion.
3. How much money is lost to fraud in your country?
4. Can you think of any big fraud cases?
5. How often are we lied to on an average day? From 10-200 times
6. What does she say about when strangers meet for the first time? That they lie to each other on average 3 times in first 10 minutes.
7. What does she say about the difference between men and women? That men tend to lie more about themselves while women lie to protect people.
8. Do you think this is true?
9. What does she say about marriage and relationships? That married people lie to each other in 1 in every 10 interactions.
10. What lies do couples tell each other?
11. Are these little white lies?
12. What does she say about animals lying? Coco the gorilla blamed a kitten for ripping a sink off the wall.
13. What does she say about how children develop their deception skills? Babies fake crying, children hiding, bluffing and flattering to get what they want.
14. She says we live in a post truth society, what does she mean by that? With the internet, politics and capitalist society we are surrounded by scammers, and exaggeration.
15. How often do normal people distinguish a lie from the truth? 54% of the time
16. How often do liespotters distinguish a lie from the truth? 90% of the time.
17. What are the speech patterns of a liar we see in the Clinton video? Emphatic denial, formal phrases, distancing language.
18. What are the body language patterns? Freeze upper body, too much eye contact, blink more, chatter with fingertips, fidget, don’t smile with eyes.
19. Could you identify these actions in the videos?
20. Are you a good liespotter?
21. What other videos did she show? Grieving mothers, lying politicians.
22. What did she say about the attitudes of honest/dishonest people? Dishonest people tend to be more detailed, and stick to a chronological order.

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IB Reading:  Manorexia: Men with eating disorders on the rise (Oxford, pp. 43 - 45) 

Vocabulary: Feelings and Emotions 

Extra Practice: https://www.englishlessonviaskype.com/c1-english-collocations-for-feelings-negative/

Review: OUF Vocab Review Emotions 

IB Take Home Written Exam