The History of the World, I guess

In pairs

One of you is an alien who has just had to make an emergency landing on Earth. You know absolutely nothing about the planet.

Questions for Alien to ask

1. When did you start living in cities?

2. When did you start using cars?

3. Have you always used money?

4. Why is English so common?

5. Who were the Romans?

6. What are pyramids?

7. Where did people originate?

8. When did you invent the alphabet?

9. Why did you invent the nuclear bomb?

10. What is "religion", and why is it important?

11. What is "capitalism" and where did it come from?

12. Which culture invented the most stuff?

13. What are humans most worried about these days?

14. Whats the "plague"?

15. How come you have a number "zero"?

16. Why are there big "M"s everywhere?

17. Which is the most important country?

18. Who was/is the smartest person in history?

19. Why haven't you visited our planet?

20. Can I have your email address so we can keep in touch?

The History of the World, I guess

Put the following major events in world history in order

WW2

The Space Age

The Middle Ages in Europe

The Iron Age

The birth of Jesus Christ

The formation of the first stars

A meteor strikes the earth causing the extinction of the dinosaurs

the Bronze Age

The French Revolution

Alexander's conquest of parts of Asia

Viking raids

The Cold War

The Russian Revolution

AI

Watch in sections, guess the order these will be mentioned before you watch and then check:


1.

Space dust

Nothing

Gas

Rocks and ice

Quarks

Protons and neutrons

Stars



2.

Ocean

DNA

Cambrian explosion

Oxygen

Meteor

Egg




3.

Farming

Fire

Society

Bronze

Mesopotamia

Indo-Europeans



4.

Christianity

Chandragupta

Iron

Alexander

Romans

Spices

Qin dynasty




5.

Vikings

Moors

Silk Road

Camels

Chandra Gupta

Charlemagne

Islam





6.

Columbus

Martin Luther

Holy Roman Empire

Mongols

The Crusades

The Italian Renaissance



7.

Ottoman Empire

Latin American Independence

American Independence

French Revolution

Napoleon

Sugar slavery




8.

Opium Wars

Machines

American Civil War

Scramble for Africa

Russian Revolution

WW1

Fall of the Ottomans



9.

Decolonisation

WW2

Communism in China

Artificial intelligence

Indian Independence

Collapse of the Soviet Union

9/11

Cold War


Kahoot Quiz!

35 questions





Check order:

Nothing

Quarks

Protons and neutrons

Gas

Stars

Space dust

Rocks and ice

Ocean

DNA

Oxygen

Cambrian explosion

Egg

Meteor

Fire

Farming

Mesopotamia

Society

Bronze

Indo-Europeans

Iron

Alexander

Chandragupta

Spices

Qin dynasty

Romans

Christianity

Silk Road

Camels

Chandra Gupta

Islam

Moors

Charlemagne

Vikings

Holy Roman Empire

The Crusades

Mongols

The Italian Renaissance

Columbus

Martin Luther

Ottoman Empire

Sugar slavery

American Independence

French Revolution

Napoleon

Latin American Independence

Machines

Opium Wars

American Civil War

Scramble for Africa

WW1

Russian Revolution

Fall of the Ottomans

WW2

Indian Independence

Communism in China

Cold War

Decolonisation

Collapse of the Soviet Union

9/11

Artificial intelligence



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Proxima B

The nearest habitable world beyond our Solar System might be right on our doorstep - astronomically speaking. Scientists say their investigations of the closest star, Proxima Centauri, show it to have an Earth-sized planet orbiting about it. What is more, this rocky globe is moving in a zone that would make liquid water on its surface a possibility. Proxima is 40 trillion km away and would take a spacecraft using current technology thousands of years to reach.

Earlier this year, the billionaire venture capitalist Yuri Milner said he was investing $100m in studies to develop nano spacecraft that could be propelled across the galaxy by lasers. These would travel at perhaps 20% of the speed of light, shortening the journey to a star like Proxima Centauri to mere decades.

 Read, listen and watch:

Proxima B


Science has enabled us to store ourselves in nanoscopic form and beam ourselves across the universe. You have been stored in a nano-quantum state and will awaken fully formed on Proxima B in 200 years. You will then start creating a flourishing civilisation on this beautiful and hospitable planet. But do you even want to form a civilisation, considering how that's turned out here on Earth?


Guidelines for a new civilization.

What form will money take? Who controls the economy? How does it work?

What type of government is best?

Will you have a military?

What will kids learn in school?

Is religion okay?

Are you going to send criminals to jail?

How much freedom of expression will you allow?

what is a good ethos for a society? 
Freedom, openness, tolerance, love, adventure, fairness, hard work, excellence?

Is it necessary for societies to have shared ideals?

What would your cities look like?

Finally, can you come up with a better name than Proxima B for your new home planet?

How to recognise a dystopia

Pre-learn some vocab:

to "coin" a word

Just as we can create money by "coining" it, we can create words.

Forms of Government and Types of State:

Oligarchy
Monarchy
Representative Democracy
Participatory Democracy
Parliamentary Democracy
A Republic
A Federation
Anarchism
Feudalism

Have you ever heard of this book?




What about this one?




Have you ever imagined an ideal world? The genre of dystopia – the ‘not good place’– has captured the imaginations of artists and audiences alike for centuries. But why do we bother with all this pessimism? Alex Gendler explains how dystopias act as cautionary tales – not about some particular government or technology, but the very idea that humanity can be molded into an ideal shape.


Link:

How to recognize a dystopia


Lead in

1. Do you think it's good for nations to have strong identities?

2. What makes a nation strong?

3. What is a good ethos for a society?

Openness? Fairness? Diversity? We are the best? Opportunity? Work hard?



Check you know the answers to these questions.

1. Who ruled Plato's Republic?

2. Who coined the word "Utopia"?

3. What is one of the earliest examples of dystopian literature? Which groups of society did the book satirise?

4. What keeps people happy in Brave New World?

5. How do the following people tend to see the world?

Politicians
Technocrats
Moralists
Rationalists

Pause and discuss



5. What were the two common promises of modern utopian political movements?

6. Which novel influenced the novel 1984?

7. What is the movie Dr Strangelove about?

8. What does The Handmaid's Tale warn us about?

9. What anxieties have more recent dystopian fictions explored?

10. What do dystopian visions all have in common apart from pessimism?

Aldous Huxley on Brave New World

C1.3 Unit 5: A Good Life

Aims

Explore snd discuss the theme of lifestyle and living

Read excerpts of science fiction stories.

Use the sci-fi genre to work at our descriptive and dramatic writing.

Revisit the idea of utopia and dystopia (mostly to revise points of usage)

Read and discuss two recent articles about two different authors and their unpublished work being brought to light.

Listen to a TED Lesson on the notion of the "Kafkaesque"


Language

P 57: Learn and use a range of adjectives used to describe people

P 58: Learn about less common uses of adjectives

P 61: learn 9 phrasal verbs (used in the context of lifestyle and living)

P 62: Learn different types of "cleft" sentence - a very common and useful sentence form in English.



Pronunciation


To work at better conveying the meaning of a text when reading aloud.




Yay, Kahoot to start!

12 preview questions...

C1.3 Unit 5 Reading review

Punctuate




peter driscoll was living the good life married to his secondary school sweetheart owner of a thriving manufacturing business a New York style loft in the heart of london and a 1967 shelby gt 500 the car of his dreams















Check




Peter Driscoll was living the good life—married to his secondary school sweetheart, owner of a thriving manufacturing business, a New York-style loft in the heart of London, and a 1967 Shelby GT 500, the car of his dreams.


















Punctuate




the estate an 800 square foot bungalow nestled in the middle of an enormous sunflower field was filled with cobwebs unfamiliar bugs and a hole in the roof almost three feet long driscoll tapped into his manufacturing experience and called in the best materials he could get his hands on but he did the roof work on his own after all money doesnt grow on olive trees












Check




The estate, an 800-square foot bungalow nestled in the middle of an enormous sunflower field, was filled with cobwebs, unfamiliar bugs, and a hole in the roof, almost three feet long. Driscoll tapped into his manufacturing experience and called in the best materials he could get his hands on—but he did the roof work on his own. After all, money doesn’t grow on olive trees.

















Break into three paragraphs



‘Jennifer was concerned I was going to make a bigger mess, but truthfully, it couldn’t get much more of a mess,’ he says. ‘Even though we made this decision together, I lived for the first two months in fear she’d ask for a divorce, pack up her things, and move back to England. I wouldn’t have blamed her!’ That fear—along with the cobwebs—is long gone. After the roof was fixed, the Driscolls made a list of other things they had to alter and tackled them one at a time. While they had made a decent profit on the sale of the business, neither of them was working, and soon, they were forced to renovate based on mutual priorities. New paint was followed up with a modest kitchen renovation that allowed Driscoll to use the fresh herbs growing outside his window to create what he dubs ‘culinary masterpieces.’ They discovered an appreciation for red wine, long meals, and lazy mornings at the market in search of fresh meats and vegetables.









Check


‘Jennifer was concerned I was going to make a bigger mess, but truthfully, it couldn’t get much more of a mess,’ he says. ‘Even though we made this decision together, I lived for the first two months in fear she’d ask for a divorce, pack up her things, and move back to England. I wouldn’t have blamed her!’

That fear—along with the cobwebs—is long gone. After the roof was fixed, the Driscolls made a list of other things they had to alter and tackled them one at a time. While they had made a decent profit on the sale of the business, neither of them was working, and soon, they were forced to renovate based on mutual priorities.

New paint was followed up with a modest kitchen renovation that allowed Driscoll to use the fresh herbs growing outside his window to create what he dubs ‘culinary masterpieces.’ They discovered an appreciation for red wine, long meals, and lazy mornings at the market in search of fresh meats and vegetables.









Add vocabulary to the right place:

settle down
chuckles
galore
transform
revolved around
take a hard look
meant
paints
accustomed to


‘Our whole life ____1_____ excess,’ he said in a telephone interview Friday. ‘Excessive spending, excessive partying, excessive pressure. We wanted to _____2_____ someday, and focus on the important things. We needed to  _____3______ at our marriage as well. When we did, we realized, that in order to save it, we had to make some changes. I had to make some changes.’

This___4___ selling the business and the fancy car, packing up, and moving into a far less glamorous home than they were _____5____—a run-down, rustic estate in Tuscany. Yes, a bit like in the Diane Lane movie, Under the Tuscan Sun.

‘My wife, Jennifer, loves that movie,’ Driscoll says, and___6_____. ‘But it ____7___ a much more idyllic lifestyle than what we found upon arrival. Italy is beautiful, of course, and the house has character ___8____. But to___9____ it into our dream home took considerable work—and we’re only half done.’







Check

‘Our whole life revolved around excess,’ he said in a telephone interview Friday. ‘Excessive spending, excessive partying, excessive pressure. We wanted to settle down someday, and focus on the important things. We needed to take a hard look at our marriage as well. When we did, we realized, that in order to save it, we had to make some changes. I had to make some changes.’

This meant selling the business and the fancy car, packing up, and moving into a far less glamorous home than they were accustomed to—a run-down, rustic estate in Tuscany. Yes, a bit like in the Diane Lane movie, Under the Tuscan Sun.

‘My wife, Jennifer, loves that movie,’ Driscoll says, and chuckles. ‘But it paints a much more idyllic lifestyle than what we found upon arrival. Italy is beautiful, of course, and the house has character galore. But to transform it into our dream home took considerable work—and we’re only half done.’

The Most Entertaining History of Japan Ever

A wildly entertaining and informative history lesson by Bill Wurtz.

Watch:

The History of Japan




Looking down this list of things, how many do you know something about? Listen and see what you can learn.

Nihon (Sunrise land) 

Rice Kingdoms 

Yamoto 

"wa" (dwarf) 

Buddhism 

Taika reforms 

Rice farms 

Put these in the order they were mentioned in the video...

Check

Rice farms 

Rice Kingdoms 

Yamoto 

Buddhism 

Taika reforms 

"wa" (dwarf) 

Nihon (Sunrise land) 

Listen and put these in the order they're mentioned:

Toyotomi Hideyoshi 

Korea 

Shogun 

Mongols 

Shingon Buddhism 

Samurai 

Shogunate 

Oda clan 

Tornado 

Onin war 

Kyoto

Check

Kyoto 

Shingon Buddhism 

Samurai 

Shogunate 

Shogun 

Mongols 

Tornado 

Onin war 

Oda clan 

Toyotomi Hideyoshi 

Korea 

Listen and explain afterwards why these were mentioned:

Edo 

Sakoku 

Dutch 

Population 

Literacy 

1853 

Meiji restoration 


Predict the order these places or organisations will be mentioned, then listen and check

Korea 

Nagasaki 

The League of Nations 

Manchuria 

Russia 

Britain 

Germany 

Pearl Harbour 

Hiroshima 

Check

Korea 

Russia 

Britain 

Germany 

The League of Nations 

Manchuria

Pearl Harbour 

Hiroshima 

Nagasaki 

Write a passage about the nine things above summarising this part of japan's history.

20 Question Kahoot!