Advanced Speaking & Pronunciation

English is an unusually rhythmic language where the individual sounds of the language vary greatly in duration according to the meaning intended. This video series moves beyond the idea of individual sounds ("segmentals") and syllable stress ("suprasegmentals") to look at how we group these sounds together into longer speech units and sentences ("prosody"), where rhythm, stress, intonation, focus and thought groups come fully into play.

I can't promise you that this is an exciting video course, but I can promise that you will learn a lot.

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Advanced Speaking and Pronunciation

(Advanced) White Pride In My Classroom

Ben Warner lives in Silver Spring, Maryland. He teaches college writing. Here he writes about an encounter he had with a White Supremacist student. An interesting account of the paradoxes of teaching young adults.

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White Pride in my Classroom

(Higher Level to Advanced) A surprising solution to Climate Change

"Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert," begins Allan Savory in this quietly powerful talk. And terrifyingly, it's happening to about two-thirds of the world's grasslands, accelerating climate change and causing traditional grazing societies to descend into social chaos. Savory has devoted his life to stopping it. He now believes -- and his work so far shows -- that a surprising factor can protect grasslands and even reclaim degraded land that was once desert.

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Allan Savory

(Higher Level to Advanced) 19-year-old's Ocean Cleaner

19-year-young Boyan Slat has ingeniously created the Ocean Array Plan, a project that could remove 7,250,000 tons of plastic from the world’s oceans in just five years.

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The Ocean Array Plan