(Upper-Intermediate) Why You Shouldn't Trust Your Feelings

It can be very hard to detect just how much our judgement is constantly affected by our feelings. We should – at points – take care to be very sceptical of our first impulses. 

Watch:

Why You Shouldn't Trust Your Feelings

(Upper-Int) Holey Foley | Sound Design in Nature shows

Before listening:

Aspects of sound in film and TV production:

Theme Music
Atmospheric (mood) music...




Music, sound design, mixing, Foley - What are these different things?


While listening:

What is Foley?

Why is it called Foley?

Why does sound sometimes need to be added, replaced or enhanced?

What is ambience?

What's the second problem faced by show makers in collecting sound

What's the third problem they face?

What does additional sound in underwater scenes add?


Watch:

Holey Foley

(Higher Level-Advanced) A Gesture of Welcome

Three families of Syrian refugees have been taken to Rome with the Pope after he offered them a place on his plane.

Read and watch:

Pope Francis Visits Lesbos 2016


Language to notice in the Al Jazeera clip:

heartfelt plea
memorable encounter
granted asylum
spiritual leader
paid tribute
fled war and persecution
refugee crisis
humanitarian catastrophe
deliver an implicit message
efforts to help
under fire
detention centre
decent facilities
here and further afield
symbolic gesture
drawing lots
turn its back on

(Advanced Film / Lit SPIN) Foley artists

Task

Listen from 4:50 to 10:00

How big is the Foley Room?

What do you notice when you enter the room?

What kind of mic does Jonathan mention?

What do the baffles do?

What do you think a curiosity shop is?

What are the tools of the trade?

Why is it ironic that one of Jonathan's favourite sounds is leather?

What does a chamois sound like when dry?

What do they sound like when wet?

Foley artists

From This Way Up, 12:15 pm on 30 July 2016 

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Foley is the art of recreating sounds that ____ get added back into films or TV shows or video games to make them sound better.

These aren't just everyday sounds _____; feet crunching through snow, horses hooves, crackling fires, _____ the sound of a key turning in a lock. No, the accomplished Foley artist has to rise to ____ challenge and find the perfect noise to accompany ____ the most obscure act; _____ an enthusiastic disembowelling (spoiler: dampened chamois leather) to gun noises _____ something called an 'alien pod embryo expulsion' (which can be accomplished _____ canned dog food, apparently!).

are made!
in high demand
and formed the basis for
during a film's post-production
a seamless experience of
from silent movies to sound
a solid stepper
totally unnoticed
described the idiosyncrasies of
a brisk foot

Foley is named after Jack Donovan Foley (1891-1967) an erstwhile stuntman and semi-pro baseball player who found his audio skills  1________________ when Hollywood made the transition  2___________________ and the 'talkies'. His skills in performing sound effects live and matching these to pictures  3__________________ were used in films including Show Boat, Dracula and Spartacus,  4___________________ a whole new industry. Foley, who once estimated that he'd walked 5000 miles in the studio doing footsteps,  5____________________ some of the famous actors he worked with:

"Rock Hudson is 6______________; Tony Curtis has 7_____________; Audie Murphy is springy; James Cagney is clipped; Marlon Brando soft; John Saxon nervous."- Jack Foley

Foley sound done well should go 8_________________. A viewer has 9_________________ watching images on a screen, and seeing them matched perfectly with appropriate noises and sound effects. But when Foley goes rogue, that's when true legends 10___________

Guess the missing word:

Amy Barber and Jonathan Bruce work ___ Foley mixers, editors and artists in Auckland and you'll ____ seen (or more likely _____) their work on Taika Waititi's recent film The Hunt For the Wilderpeople and _____ on TV shows like Ash vs Evil Dead, Spartacus and Shameless. They take us ______ the scenes to show us ____ good Foley is made at their studios, Bespoke Post in Ellerslie in Auckland.

For a bit of humour:

Star Wars Minus Williams

Leaves and Logos

(Advanced) Paradise Found

In this film renowned art commentator Waldemar Januszczak makes an epic journey of discovery across the Muslim world, revealing awe-inspiring architecture and art objects that evoke the history of Islam. Along the way he meets local historians and experts - as well as an array of weavers, calligraphers, potters, and jewelers - who contribute their knowledge of this fascinating art-historical field. 

Video:

Paradise Found

(Advanced) Religion (part 1)

Today religion is often seen as a s__________

The most powerful force of our age: _______________

Whether or not religions are true might be less important than the ______ people have for them.


Primitive religion:

The serpent god of the early Australians generates ______ and storms when people break tribal r_____

The belief structures of early human societies around the planet are almost i_________

Religion has its origin in our desire to e______ a very c________ world.

Humans make offerings to the gods in return for their f_______

We seek to make an al____nce with the gods.

We need to see primitive religion with com______ because our forebears lived in ig______

We should also appreciate the in______y of our forebears in creating wonderful stories.


400 BC

Buddha means _____________ed one

The Buddha teaches his followers to expect constant ________ in life.

Buddhism tries to help us deal with anxiety, p______, illness and d_____

The task of religion is to keep us ______ful especially in the hardest days of our lives.


Song Dynasty China



Guan Yin is the counterpart to the V____ M____

Both Mary and Guan Yin hear us in our d______

Religion knows that being ________ and adult doesn't always work.


1133AD England

A theme found in all religions: __________

Religion urges the ______ to think of the defenceless.

It is easy for the rich to think the poor as ____ and responsible for being poor.

1543 Germany

Copernicus proposed a helio______ version of the universe

Galileo publish his work on the universe in 16___

The Church was trying to hold onto the idea of our _____ _________

It is like a child discovering the his ______ are unimportant people.

A new existential _______ is born and we are still dealing with it.


Finish at 6.20 

(Advanced) The Lovely Bones, Chapter 4

Summary of Chapter 4 - choose the correct option:

After Mr. Harvey kills Susie he collapses the hole and puts her "body parts" (4.1) in a bag, which he puts in the garage / basement, while he goes up for a shower.

He thinks about his next victim / Susie’s blood leaks out while he showers.

Susie will learn later that he killed other girls before her. In the shower, he thinks about how terrible / nice it was to kill her.

Mr. Harvey puts the bag with Susie's body parts into a safe and dumps the safe into a sinkhole / lake about eight miles from the Pennsylvania neighborhood.

Afterwards, he walks around an industrial zone / local park.

He finds Susie's charm bracelet in his pocket, and remembers / doesn't remember taking it off of her, or putting it in there.

He removes the Pennsylvania keystone charm (Pennsylvania is "the keystone state") and throws the rest of it in the rubbish / into a manmade lake.

On December 23, Mr. Harvey gets the idea to build a new trap, this one out of cloth / plastic sheets.

After Mr. Salmon breaks the ships in bottles, he happens to walk to Mr. Harvey's front yard / back yard and finds him making it. He asks him about it and Harvey says it's a tent.

Mr. Harvey tells him, "I'm sorry for your loss"  / “nothing is certain”

Susie's dad stays and helps him build the tent. At one point, Mr. Harvey goes upstairs / downstairs  to look at the bloody knife he used on Susie. This makes him think of the tent as a circus / bridal tent.

It starts / stops snowing, and Mr. Salmon begs Susie to communicate with  / appear to him.

Suddenly, Susie's dad suspects Mr. Harvey. When Harvey comes out of the house with a stack of white sheets Mr. Salmon asks him what they are for.

Mr. Harvey says they are "tarps." Mr. Salmon accuses him of murdering  / having information about Susie's death. Mr. Harvey denies it, and Mr. Salmon leaves / helps him with the tarps.

Mr. Salmon accuses / doesn’t accuse Mr. Harvey again, but Mr. Harvey tells him to go away.

(Upper-Intermediate) Population Pyramids

Watch:

Population pyramids

Listen and fill the gaps or circle the correct option

1. Russia has about the same ______ as Nigeria.

2. Nigeria's population is growing but Russia's population is _________

3. To understand a country's situation you need to know both it's population and its internal characteristics, such as _____ and _____ distribution.

4. Complex data is more easily interpreted through visualisation / realisation.

5. The first population pyramid is made of 3 / 4 groups.

6. Populations with more people in the younger age group are likely to grow r_____y in the coming years.

7. In Canada, population is likely to grow more ______ than in Rwanda

8. Japan's population is likely to d________

9. Countries that have only recently started to be industrialised typically see an increase in ___ ________ and a rise / fall in child mortality.

10. Industrialisation usually leads to improvements in m_______, s_________ and ____ supply.

11. Birth rates often fall because of increased e_______ and o________s for women.

12. In urban places (cities) it is less advantageous to have a large / small family.

13. There are fewer / more elderly Russian men than Russian women because of WW1 / WW2

14. The One Child Policy in China prevented a p_______ boom, but also resulted in more / fewer males than females.

15. Population pyramids shows us both where a country has been and where it's gone / headed.

Population Pyramids

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