C2 .1 Unit 6 Lifestyles - vocab

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(Advanced) What is Fame?

1.

What are three forms of knowledge philosophers identify?

What form of knowledge is important to fame?

What is the problem with grounding fame in that form of knowledge?

2.

What does Schopenhauer mean by worms on the ground and birds on the wing?

3. 

What does the case of Che Guevara teach us about fame?

What things can influence the nature fame?

4.

What is the problem of defining fame in terms of recognition?

5.

Why is fame really about expectation, according to Olly?

6. 

Why are the expectations of famous people more limited in the modern age?

Which surprising fact is true about a famous person?

Discuss:

Did Olly convince you?

Watch:

What is Fame? | Philosophy Tube

(Advanced) Your Grammar Sucks

Your Grammar Sucks!


Coomon errers:

He has a shave every morning, but you wouldn't think he had.

She asked the opposite man the time.

We apologise for any caused inconvenience.

Clive is in Germany a teacher.

She's quite younger than me.

I asked the way to him.

The doctor reassured that the operations was very routine.

The doctor advised to cut down on fatty foods.

120 miles are too far.

We've seen John in town the other day.

The world's supply of oil is soon running out.

The army needs to change its image if more women will be recruited.

(Advanced grammar) Just

Different meanings

Exercise 1 - Match the sentences on the left with the uses of the adverb just on the right. 

1.	This is just right.			a	equally, no less
2.	We've got just enough.			b	now, in a moment
3.	She left just as I was leaving.			c	a very short time ago
4.	This one is just as good as that one.			d	exactly
5.	It started just after eight.			e	to show a small possibility
6.	Mike? I think he's just left.			f	with none to spare
7.	I'm just coming.			g	to get someone's attention
8.	Why don't you just tell the truth?			h	only
9.	There is just one thing I've got to say!			i	simply
10.	Don't you just love			j	agreeing with somebody
11.	Just come over here, will you!			k	a little, a short time
12.	Could you just wait a second please?			l	at the same moment
13.	He might just still be in the office			m	in polite requests
14.	Lovely day, isn't it? - Isn't it just?			n	really, absolutely

Practice

(Upper Intermediate) Stephen Fry on Harry Potter

Stephen Fry on Harry Potter

What attitude did Fry demonstrate towards J K Rowling at their first encounter?

"This is the mark of the woman" - What does Stephen mean by this? What is he implying about Rowling's attitude towards him?

(Advanced) iNotRacist

iNotRacist is a new social media app that finally gives you credit for all the not-racist stuff you do.

Watch:

iNotRacist

Give nothing to racism




Watch Taika's Give Nothing advert.

1. What kind of music is used?
2. How has it been filmed and edited?
3. What kind of racism is Taika exposing?
4. What does Taika have to say about racist humour?
5. What does he say about people who say they're not racist?

(NZ Culture) Six recent female artists of New Zealand music

Some faces

From the pictures what kind of music do you think they do?


Some names:

Ella Yelich-O'Connor (Lorde)
Kimbra
Anna Coddington
Aldous Harding
Aaradhna
Hollie Fullbrook (Tiny Ruins)





Three other prominent female artists not used in this lesson:

Nadia Reid
Coco Solid
Reb Fountain




1. Lorde

On Feminism - and the meaning of the name Lorde.

1. How did Lorde hit upon the word "lord"?
2. Why did she add an 'e' to the name?
3. How does Lorde see her own degree of privilege?
4. What is feminism about for Lorde?

Royals - U.S. version

Royals - International / non-U.S version

I've never seen a diamond in the flesh
I cut my teeth on wedding rings in the movies
And I'm not proud of my address, in the torn up town
No post code envy

to cut one's teeth - acquire initial practice or experience of a particular sphere of activity.

a diamond in the rough - An uncut diamond. (idiomatic) A person whose goodness or other positive qualities are hidden by a harsh or unremarkable surface appearance.

to see sb in the flesh - in person or (of a thing) in its actual state.

post code envy - jealousy of another person's address, because of its snobbish status.

Q: What is the first verse about, in your opinion?

But every song's like gold teeth, Grey Goose, trippin' in the bathroom
Bloodstains, ball gowns, trashin' the hotel room
We don't care, we're driving Cadillacs in our dreams
But everybody's like Cristal, Maybach, diamonds on your timepiece
Jet planes, islands, tigers on a gold leash
We don't care, we aren't caught up in your love affair

Q: What is the second verse about? What are all these things signs of?

And we'll never be royals
It don't run in our blood
That kind of lux just ain't for us
We crave a different kind of buzz
Let me be your ruler, you can call me Queen B
And baby I'll rule (I'll rule I'll rule I'll rule)
Let me live that fantasy

Q: there is some wordplay in this verse - can you explain it?

2. Kimbra

Kimbra - Settle Down

I wanna settle down

I wanna settle down

Won't you settle down with me?

Settle down

We can settle at a table

A table for two

Won't you wine and dine with me?

Settle down

I wanna raise a child

I wanna raise a child

Won't you raise a child with me

Raise a child

We'll call her Nebraska

Nebraska Jones

She'll have your nose

Just so you know

I wanna settle down

I wanna settle down

Won't you settle down with me?

Settle down

Run from Angela Vickers

I saw her with you

Monday morning small talking on the avenue

She's got a fancy car

She wants to take you far

From the city lights and sounds deep into the dark

Star so light and star so bright

First star I see tonight!

Star so light and star so bright

Keep him by side!

I wanna settle down

I wanna settle down

Baby there's no need to run

I'll love you well

I wanna settle down

It's time to bring you down

On just one knee for now

Angela Vickers is a socialite in the film A Place in the Sun (1951). She seduces and leads astray a young man.


Discuss some of the things in the video.

1. Kimbra's look. The wig, make-up and dress
2. The age of the other female actress
3. Use of colour
4. The mechanical sounds and mechanical feeling in the dancing
5. What's going on between the two young female characters?
6. Why the fire?



3. Anna Coddington

Runner

Read the lyrics before listening:

I’m running on empty, trying to take a long view

hoping that my happiness is on my way toward you

run out of feelings, nothing left for you

I made a mess of them with somebody before you

Running on empty - being low on energy, or possibly literally not having much fuel left  in your tank.

I’ve wasted my heart throwing love down a wishing well

now I can tell when the bottom’s near

so I keep running and the further that I go

the more I love to be on my own

getting near to the bottom - similar meaning to running on empty

I’ll stick around for the fun, but baby I’m a runner

Coz you might be the one or just another lover

I’m here now for the fun, but baby I’m a runner

Coz you could be the one or just another lover

A runner - someone who doesn't commit in a relationship

I’m running on wishes, promises of all new

beginnings and everything I felt when I first saw you

running on the feeling that just around the corner

is the pay off for all of the hell I went through for ya

running on wishes - trying to be optimistic, but not feeling very optimistic
the pay off - the reward

I’ve wasted love throwing my heart at a lost cause

and all because it seemed easier

but I kept running and the further that I got

the more I realized that it’s not

a lost cause - something that's not worth fighting for



Listen to the song and video together

What do the visual surprises in this video add to the meaning of the song?

Fixture Picture

Aldous Harding

Honey, your face is folding up
As the memory kisses you goodbye
In what sense is the verse an introduction? 
What is happening?

It's better to live with melody and have an honest time

Isn't that right?

What do you make of these lines?

There's a definite vibe
You can't be pure and in love
In the corner in blue
Is my name (in the corner)

What do these lines mean to you? 

Fixture picture
I've got it, I'm on it
You're in it, I'm honoured
Fixture picture
I've got it, I'm on it
You're in it, I'm honoured

Some phrases these lyrics recall:

"I've got the picture" (to understand something, and need no further explanation)
"a fixture" (person with whom you have become very familiar, attached)

Fixture Picture

Boney M - Brown Girl in the Ring (1979)


Brown Girl

I'm more than the colour of my skin

I'm a girl that likes to sing

All I know is what's within

Not just a brown girl in the ring

Go to school and learn their ways

Told how to think and what to say

While my mother says to pray

I pray for better days

God, please help them see

They ain't no different from me

Not above, not beneath

Teach them equality

I'm not just a brown girl in the ring

I'm a girl that likes to sing

I'm not just a brown girl in the ring

I'm a girl that likes to sing

I'm more than what they think of me

More than the colour tones that they see

More than urban, R&B, more than a slang that I speak

Aardanha refuses Hip Hop Award

1. What is Aardana's cultural background?

2. What song did Aardana win best Hip Hop song for?

3. Why does she refuse to accept the award?

Discuss: What do you think? Was she right to refuse the award?

Tiny Ruins

Winter Garden


I await the day 
when I work at the museum

With you across the way 
in the winter gardens

So young and so warm

We'll storm, we'll swarm

the parks on our lunch breaks

We'll lie on the lawn

Smile so stealthily

Buttery and brief

We'll lie through our teeth

Shock all the cavalry

Statues watching on

Us in our time bomb

to lie through one's teeth: informal. to tell someone something that you know is completely false: He asked me how old I was and, lying through my teeth, I said "29".

shock cavalry: heavy cavalry used in battle as a 'shock' tactic.

Statues watching on: onlookers, spectators

a time bomb: a secret that is bound to become public and upset others

1. Who are the two people in this song?

2. What are they doing?
3. What will happen eventually?
4. Consider the use of rhyme, rhythm and assonance in these lyrics.
5. Can you find imagery relating to war?
6. Can you find imagery relating to gardens?

Extn: (only if there's time) Sexism in the Music Industry

Listening: 0:00 - 4:00

Discussion

1. What has APRA (Australasian Performing Rights Association) introduced?

2. Why is Jessie Moss always watching the stage?

3. What proportion of APRA members are female?

4. Why does the presenter bring up the word "visibility"?

5. What are female musicians's not supposed to have on their hip?

Discuss:

Do you think it's important that young people see someone like them succeeding in society?

Who is that person for you?

What do you think of quota systems for industries? 

Vocab:

24 collocations

C1.3 Unit 6 reading review and language focused listening

1. Gordon Peters may have woken up o__ the w_____ s_____ of the b____.

2. At 5.30 a.m., he ran a red light, n_______ly missing a pedestrian.

3. While bad parking may not be a crime, Gordon clearly broke two vehicle laws—speeding, and r____ing the red light, perhaps even accumulating to the more s______s offence of r_____s driving.

4. Of course, he wasn’t caught, but if the a________ies had pulled him over, Gordon’s weak, but honest excuse would have been sleep d_________n.

5. ‘Peters has a clear c_______ce because there was no consequence for his action,’ she says.


6. If I’m the prosecutor, I’m charging you within the full e______t of the law, and you’re going down.

7. Your son has been shot in a drive-by shooting. No time for an ambulance. You put him in the back of your car and s___ o__ the g___, blowing through a stop sign and doing double the s____ l____ on a residential street.

 8. ‘A protest against cruelty to animals may break several public laws. But if that protest results in a s______l change, does the e___s  j______y  the  m____s?

9. When breaking the law changes the lives of millions of people for the better, is that a good enough reason to go a____st the rules?

10. While experts may debate the ethical dilemma of breaking the law, w____ it c____s to murder, all can agree that there is no such thing as justifiable homicide.


Listening / language focus:

I have made a mistake in the following sentences. Can you correct me?

I balanced around from home to home.

At seventeen it all came washing down.

Imagine that everyone around you is off to get you.

I exhibited signals of mania.

From the mania came hallucinations - both auditory and visible.

I was spiralling out of consideration.

I vibrantly remember writing my suicide note.

The millisecond my hands left the rail, it was an instant noodle.

The coast guard was so caught out that I was alive.

Just the day of my attend still sits within them today.

I asked my father if he still scared my death by suicide today.

The road recovery was pretty long.

I built a support matrix over these years.

Don't wait like I did waiting in denial for so long.

Recovery happens. I'm live proof.

I Jumped off Golden Gate Bridge

(Conversation) Ethics and Technology

Who are these dudes?

Answer

Socrates
Aristotle
Kong, Fu-Zi (Confucius)
The Buddha
Jesus
Muhammad 
Niccolo Machiavelli
Immanuel Kant
Friederich Nietsche
Hannah Arendt
Albert Camus



Which person said it? Add the missing words.

1. "The sad truth is that most ______ is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."

2. "Kindness is a mark of _____, and whoever has not kindness has not faith."

3. "The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot _____."

4. "For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his _____? "

5. "I _____ and I forget. I ______ and I remember. I ____ and I understand."

6. “Science is organized knowledge. ______ is organized life.” 

7. "The _____ is everything. What you think you become."

8. “The whole is greater than the _____ of its parts.”

9. "Politics have no relation to ______."

10. "An unexamined life is ____ worth living."

11. "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is ________."

Answer

1. Hannah Arendt
2. Muhammad
3. Friederich Nietsche
4. Jesus
5. Kong, Fu-Zi (Confucius)6. Immanuel Kant
7. The Buddha
8. Aristotle
9. Niccolo Machiavelli
10. Socrates
11. Albert Camus

Which of these quotes

A) Is concerned directly with ethics?
B) Is concerned indirectly with ethics?
C) Isn't concerned with ethics?

Write A, B or C next to the quote.


In what way could some of these quotes apply to the question technology and ethics?


12 terms


Discuss the video

Built in prejudices

What technology is being demonstrated?
What does the demonstration show us about that technology?






Split listening / viewing

Students A and B watch two different updates a few times - make notes on the different stories - then share them in pairs


BBC Tech update

If using a mobile device just google robotic priest BBC and click the top result.

BBC Tech Update 2

Which stories involved questions around moral behaviour?

If using mobile device, google jumping space robot BBC and click on top result.


To feel good:

Giving back sight to the blind