E-Waste and Identity Theft

How are the West's 'recycled' TVs and computers ending up in a toxic dump in Ghana? Dateline investigates the trade in e-waste which is poisoning a once picturesque part of Africa.

Watch from 12:30 the end.

E-Waste Hell

Why is Mike collecting items of e-waste?
What can information on discarded computers be used for?
Why is identity theft likely to occur in Ghana?
How many people make a living from selling repaired computers and monitors?
Where does the waste end up?
Why are the children burning the waste?
What kind of metal have they salvaged?



  

Medieval helpdesk MacBook Wheel

Watch:

Medieval helpdesk

The MacBook Wheel lets consumers accomplish everyday tasks like typing with just a few dozen spins and clicks of a wheel.

Watch the clip - what is the clip making fun of?

Laptop with no keyboard

Watch again

Language

It does ____ with the keyboard

a _____ touch-sensitive click wheel

will make typing a _____ of the _____

It couldn't be _______

It won't _____ the shelves for the next 3-15 months

can power the Mac Book wheel for a ____ 19 minutes

Apple isn't ______ on its laurels

(Advancedl) Breaking News: Some Bullshit Happening Somewhere

Watch the bullshit:

The bullshit


Discuss

1. What is the satirical point of this video clip?
2. What were some of the news 'cliches' it mades fun of?

A new Department of Labor report finds personal outsourcing is revolutionizing how Americans don't do their own work.

Watch:

American Workers Outsourcing


Listen and fill in the gaps: then separate the phrases.

crucial ______ cut ____ unleash my ___ potential daily ________ devote more _____ to come to ____ on overseas _____ lower _____ employees embraced the _____ executive ______ expected to ____

Can you write a sentence using the phrase? Try and check it with me. Or outsource this task to another student. Or I'm happy to do it for you at a discounted rate.

Report: Due to rising domestic wages, many American parents are saving money by using unregulated overseas workers.

Watch:

Outsourcing Childcare





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Brain-dead Teen To Be Euthanized

The MacBook Wheel lets consumers accomplish everyday tasks like typing with just a few dozen spins and clicks of a wheel.

Laptop with no keyboard

Language

It does ____ with the keyboard

a _____ touch-sensitive click wheel

will make typing a _____ of the _____

It couldn't be _______

It won't _____ the shelves for the next 3-15 months

can power the Mac Book wheel for a ____ 19 minutes

Apple isn't ______ on its laurels

Jean Anne Whorton goes Beyond The Facts, talking to the high school sophomore who has become a conservative hero for refusing to learn his Spanish vocabulary.

Watch: 

Patriotic Teen

The court ruled a white teen who stabbed a classmate to death will face the jury as a 300-pound black man.

12 terms

Watch:

White girl to be tried as black man

What issues are being satirized in this "news" clip?

Does discrimination in the justice system occur in your country - what form does it take?

What causes it?

Do you have trial by jury in your country? What problems arise from this system?

Are judges less likely to discriminate than ordinary citizens?

What can be done to avoid unconscious or institutionalized discrimination?





Listen again and number these legal terms in the order they are used:

to find
fitting
defendant
henceforth
retroactively charged
assault
arresting officer
arraignment
harsh sentence
to be tried / to try
courtroom
character witness
to appeal a ruling
accused
jury member









Check:

1. accused
2. arraignment
3. harsh sentence
4. to be tried / to try
5. to find
6. fitting
7. defendant
8. henceforth
9. courtroom
10. jury member
11. retroactively charged
12. assault
13. arresting officer
14. character witness
15. to appeal a ruling



Listen again and check the past participle verbs in these examples of passive voice (to be + pp).


1. "She will be (pp)________ as a black adult"
2. "Henceforth you will be (pp)______ to by the Jury by the name Mendel Brown
3. Jury members will be (pp)___________ to imagine her as such
4. Now that Hannah has been (pp)_______ black, the court has instructed local media to assume she's guilty
5. Hanna's two-dozen character witnesses have been (pp)________ by a single crack addict who goes by the name of Scags.
6. ...saying their daughter should at most be (pp)______ as a black celebrity

Obama will abandon complex policies on emissions, clean coal and refocus on achievable goals like applying deodorant daily, learning what to say when you burp.

Watch:

Obama Scales Back Goals For America After Visiting Denny's


1. What did Obama say America needed to do before it could reclaim global leadership?

2. Where was Obama going when he stopped in at Denny's

3. What did Obama say to the single mother?

4. What particularly upset Obama?

5. What is Obama's new plan titled?

6. What is one of the "more realistic" goals for Americans?

7. What goal has Obama now abandoned?

8. What is he calling for Americans to think about?

9. What is he calling for Americans to stop doing?




30 Question Quiz

Happy

 Happy

1.Match the verb collocations

Take

Go

Waste

 

to space

your time

a break

 

2. Add the propositions

down  back  without  to  about  by  along

 

It might seem strange what I'm ___ to say
Sunshine she's here, you can take a rest
I'm a hot air balloon that could go to space
With the air, like I don't mind baby ___ the way

Because I'm happy
Clap ____ if you feel like a room ___ a ceiling
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like happiness is the reality
Because I'm happy
Clap ____ if you know what happiness is ___ you
Because I'm happy
Clap ­­­____ if you feel like that's what you wanna do

Here come bad news saying this and that
Yeah, well, gimme all you have and don't hold ____
Yeah, well I should probably warn you I'll be quite fine
Yeah, no offense to you don't waste your energy
Here's why

Chorus

bring me ____
Can't nothing (happy) bring me ____
My mood’s too high (happy) to bring me ____
Can't nothing (happy) bring me ____
I said
(Happy, happy, happy) bring me ____
Can't nothing bring me ___
My mood’s too high (happy) to bring me ____
Can't nothing bring me ____
I said

3. change the synonyms in bold to the words Pharrell actually sings.

Complex compound sentences

Using conjunctive adverbs in independent clauses

nominal clauses practice

Relative infinitive clauses

Epic Kahoot

Lunchbox differences

Lead in:

1. When you were a kid, what did you used to eat for lunch at school?

2. What the ideal school lunch?

3. Should school lunches be provided for free to kids? Why? Why not?

In 2012, Campbell Live conducted a simple experiment. Without any advance notice, they asked kids in 2 primary schools in different parts of Auckland to show them what they were having for lunch.

Watch this shocking report: 

True / false / doesn't say?

1. The news crew visited two Auckland schools.

2. The children are all well behaved.

3. All the kids at the first school had eaten breakfast.

4. The class in the South Auckland school didn't know the news crew was coming.

5. The news crew interview the principals of both schools.

6. The principal of the South Auckland school sympathises with parents who can't afford to provide their children with lunch.

7. The nutritionist is not too worried about the health impacts of the situation.

8. The reporter believes this problem will cause serious problems in the future.

9. The government will be providing free lunches soon.


Lunchbox differences

Questions

1. What does the presenter mean when he says: "the kind of 'ambulance at the bottom of the cliff' stuff"?

A) the suicide rate

B) the consequences of not taking action to prevent a disaster

C) the dangerous way ambulances drive

D) Arriving late

2. What's the difference between a decile 1 and decile 10 school?

3. What adjectives are used to describe the lunches at Westmere primary school?

_________

_________

_________

_________

_________


4. What does the word "unsuspecting" mean?

A) to have prior knowledge of something

B) to have no prior knowledge of something

C) to have no suspicions

D) to not be suspected

5. Why do some chairs not have bags?

6. What does the expression "graphic illustration" mean?

A) A clear example

B) An impactful example

C) A memorable example

D) all of the above

7. Why does the principal believe most parents struggle to provide lunch for their kids?

A) They are lazy

B) They spend too much on petrol

C) They have too many expenses

D) The need to learn how to budget

Fill the gaps:

1. d_________ly un_____y lunches

2. In other _____, this is a problem New Zealand ignores at its _______

3. The don't get NCEA by ______

4, We can make such a big difference with such a small _______

5. If we ______ them, if we grow them, they'll be ________ citizens



Error spotting: only one out of three are grammatically correct.

A "The impact of poverty in our children" 

B "We've conducted very simple experiment" 

C "without any advance notice" 

--

A "We asked all the kids put their lunch-boxes on their desks" 

B "To indicate with a tick that had eaten breakfast" 

C "None of the kids had any idea we were coming" 

--

A "...wouldn't be out of place in one the local cafes" 

B "When it comes lunch" 

C "All but two had a least one piece of fruit" 

--

A "If there isn't a bag, it's because the student doesn't have them" 

B "the class does provide one piece of fruit for all the students" 

C "Hunger is the biggest barriers to many of his student's education" 

--

A "It's tough to focus in anything" 

B "That does happen from time to time" 

C "It's not fault of those who suffering" 

Quizlet vocab quiz:

Collocations

There's also a Kahoots Quiz I made for this lesson: Right or Wrong?

Kahoots Quiz

Japan and mindfulness towards others

Quizlet:

Phrases used

Each country has its own unique culture and way of living. The way a country chooses to run its everyday life might be drastically different from others, yet if we imbibe one positive aspect each of a country’s culture (and probably discard one negative aspect of our own), we too can become happy, content and self-sufficient. Take Bhutan for example. It is one of the happiest countries in the world that measures its success in the form of GNP “Gross National Happiness” instead of GDP. Moreover, there are many other countries in the world like Norway and Netherlands that measure their economy not just in terms of the huge pay check a person is taking home, but also whether that pay check is really making him happy or not. Among the developed countries, Japan is known as one of the busiest economies in the world. Just like each country teaches its children some valuable lesson or the other – for example, in the US, children are taught to think free and aim high and in India, children are taught to respect elders – Japanese children are taught the art of mindfulness. For the uninitiated, let’s talk about what mindfulness really means. Suppose you are getting late for work and rush in to catch the peak hour metro or train. As soon as the metro door opens, you often run inside to grab a seat (or even find a place to stand) without actually waiting for people to get off first. And even though you know you are being downright offensive (to others), you nevertheless do it, because of the fear of getting another “late for work” nasty email from your boss. Let’s take another example --- how many times have you held the door for others who are walking just behind you or climbed up an escalator in a queue? Not often you would say. This art of practicing restraint and displaying perseverance is called Mindfulness --- something that Japan as a country has mastered. Japan ranks 16th in the Quality of Life Index, yet ranks an impressive 4th in public safety --- this is because you can still park your bike outside a restaurant when you go in to eat and no one will touch it or you can easily take a nap in the subway because it’s so quiet. You can go to any café and you will be greeted with a bow and a smile. The reason is simple. In Japan, people think about others as much as they think about themselves. This practice of mindfulness is not something new to Japan, it is engrained in their very culture. The Japanese monk Hakuin Ekaku (1686–1769) played a prominent role in preaching the effectiveness of Zen meditation as a way of practicing mindfulness and also cultivating a healthy body, along with mind. The success of the mindfulness practice in Japan also stems from the fact that the Japanese derive happiness from the small joys in life --- in Japan, it is not uncommon to be a part of as Haiku poetry session (in which a poet captures the essence of a moment in just 17 syllables), tea ceremony (where members take time out to appreciate the design of the cups) and a cherry-blossom viewing day, where participants gaze at bright cherries for the better part of the day. Even for a daily activity like eating (which most of us do on the go), the Japanese invest in time and preparation and you are supposed to sit down and eat and finish every morsel on your plate. The Japanese also master at the nanso method, that is a form of introspective meditation developed by Hakuin Ekaku. Through this method, students are taught to master the art of introspection as they meditated, and this practice makes them more aware of their bodies. So, the next time, you shove and push someone on a crowded bus, remember to be a little more giving, or as the Japanese would say, be teinei (polite).

Japanese Mindfulness