- •Workshop 3. Mustafa Akyol
- •Part 2. Watching to summarize unit I. Modern society
- •Identify the topic of the talk given by Richard Wilkinson, public health researcher.
- •For questions a-f decide whether the statements are true or false (if false, explain why):
- •For questions 1-9 choose the best answer:
- •Unit II. Discrimination
- •Which of the following topics haven’t been broached during the conversation?
- •For questions a-f decide whether the statements are true or false (if false, explain why):
- •Give the gist/summary of the talk.
- •Identify the topic of Episode a.
- •Unit III. Religion
- •Identify the thesis of the talk.
- •Give the gist/summary of the talk.
- •Expand on the following in pairs. Do you agree with the statements?
- •Watch the talk again and note down how the speaker uses rhetorical devices, signposting language, humor, intonation and stress, and to what effect?
- •Mustafa Akyol, journalist, March 2011 (17:08)
- •Identify the topic of the talk given by Mustafa Akyol.
- •For questions a-f decide whether the statements are true, false or no information is given (if false, explain why):
- •Answer the comprehension questions:
- •Part 3. Watching to review
- •Paddy Ashdown, former member of the British Parliament and a diplomat, December 2011 (18:30)
- •Joseph Nye, diplomat, former assistant secretary of defense and former dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government July 2010 (18:15)
Joseph Nye, diplomat, former assistant secretary of defense and former dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government July 2010 (18:15)
Identify the topic and the thesis of the talk given by Joseph Nye.
Answer the comprehension questions:
What phenomena does the speaker describe?
What does privatisation of war imply?
How does Joseph Nye define power?
What is smart power?
Expand on the following:
“The narratives that we use now tend to be the rise and fall of the great powers”
“[Power] is distributed much like a three-dimensional chess game
Discuss in pairs/groups:
Power’s always zero sum, i.e. my gain is your loss and vice versa.
Power can be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain.
Which view do you side with?
Compare this talk with the one given by Paddy Ashdown in terms of the impression produced, manner of presentation, language used, logic of the arguments and conclusions, accuracy of observation, timeliness and originality, etc.
1 TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) – некоммерческая организация, известная ежегодными конференциями, проводящимися с 1984 года. Темы конференций: наука, искусство, дизайн, политика, культура, бизнес, глобальные проблемы, технологии и развлечения. TED Talks Usage Policy: http://www.ted.com/about/our-organization/our-policies-terms/ted-talks-usage-policy
2 the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online community rather than from traditional employees or suppliers. ("crowdsourcing."Merriam-Webster.com. 2014. http://www.merriam-webster.com (16 June 2014).
3 The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 9 December 1948 and entered into force on 12 January 1951. So far it has been ratified by143 countries. It is considered to be the first human rights treaty adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations. According to the convention:
Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.