You are going to watch a video in which Besos gives 10 pieces of advice about starting / running a business. Before watching, look at Amzaon’s top 10 core values and answer the question
“Which one (and only one) of these Amazon core values will be mentioned directly in the top 10 tips video?
Customer Obsession
Ownership
Invent and Simplify
Are Right, A Lot
Hire and Develop the Best
Insist on the Highest Standards
Think Big
Bias for Action
Frugality
Vocally Self Critical
Earn Trust of Others
Dive Deep
Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit
Deliver Results
Now watch and see
Affer watching
Which of the core values could be in some way at least connected with the tips?
Which pieces of advice are the best in your opinion?
The newspaper article (from the Sydney Morning Herald – SMH) for you to read below is about a conservative journal editor and his criticism of the ABC (ABC = Australian Brooadcasting Corporation = the Australian Version of the BBC, in Canada it is CBC). Activate your ideas before reading by answering these questions:
Why do you think the editor of Quadrant, the conservative Australian journal, is crtical of the ABC?
Why might he be critical of the ABC in relation to a terrorist attack in Britain?
Read the ideas in the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) article heading and the beginning of the text
“Quadrant online editor Roger Franklin laments that Manchester blast was not against ABC”
“the online editor of the Australian conservative journal Quadrant wrote an opinion piece saying that, “had there been a shred of justice”, the Manchester blast would have “detonated in an Ultimo TV studio (=ABC headquarters).” He added that, if such an attack took place, “none of the (ABC) panel’s likely casualties would have represented the slightest reduction in humanity’s intelligence, decency, empathy or honesty”
Pause and react to the ideas and linguistic choice (LC) in the first part of the SMH article
Would you say that Roger Franklin is critical, highly critical, or incredibly critical of the ABC?
How does his linguistic choice of actions, actor/actees and describors show this?
Do you agree with the SMH newspaper author’s choice that Franklin is “lamenting”?
Why does Franklin need to use 3rd conditional to convey his idea?
What is the difference in LC between “had there been a shred of justice” and “if there had been a shred in justice”?
How do you feel about Roger Franklin’s choice of language to convey his ideas?
Predict ideas before reading more
What will be the reaction of the ABC?
Apart from ABC / Quadrant representatives, who else might be quoted in this article?
Will Franklin, the editor of the conservative journal, try and justify his LC?
Will the SMH newspaper article be critical of Rogers or supportive of him?
Read and react to the ideas in the rest of the SMH article by clicking here
Further ideas to read and react to
Below is the original article by Franklin. Follow the active reading steps of
reading the heading and introduction to understand the topic of the article
thinking about the aim of the author and how his / her LC shows this
reacting to the author’s ideas with your own
predicting what ideas / LC will the further in the text (by formulating questions you think may be answered)
Is your social care system complex or straightforward?
Does your government provide free winter fuel for everyone (to keep houses / flats warm in a cold winter)? How expensive is this? If you’re in a hot country, what about cooling?
When elderly people need social care, be it in a nursing home or if a social care worker comes to their house, does the family or government pay for this? E.g. if someone has dementia but the children are busy working, who pays for the social care that is given to the person with dementia?
Do your politicians meet their pledges?
Watch and react
Hunt’s Linguistic Choice
Read the questions and answer from memory, then watch and fill in the remaining answers. After you’ve finished, scroll down to check the answers below
What describors Did Hunt use to describe the socal care system at the moment?
When talking about the opposition leaders tax plan, what action does Hunt use: “that would ____ jobs for _______ , _______ families”
When talking about the trade-off, why does Hunt keep saying “we’re being very open”?
What expression does Hunt use to emphasize that there is no easy solution “there are no ____ ______”
Hunt refers to “poor / the poorest pensiones”, what is his LC for “rich pensioners?”
When talking about people losing money due to the need to pay for social care down to the last 27,000 pounds, Hunt says “the famileis will be ____ out”
After talking about a negative, Hunt says “at the sametime” and then lists positives. What describors does he use when listing the positives
___ cancer survival rates / the ____ expansion in mental health in Europe / t he ________ improvement in stroke and heart atack survival rate of any OECD / you’re seeing NHS staff working ___________ well / outcomes are ____________better than five years ago
that would destroy jobs for ordinary, working families
to balance the fact that he doesn’t give any specific figures, and also win votes from ordinay, working families
there are no silver bullets
better-off pensioners
they will be cleaned out
record cancer survival rates / the biggest expansion in mental health in Europe / the biggest improvement in stroke and heart atack survival rate of any OECD country . you’re seeing NHS staff working brilliantly well / outcomes are dramatically better than five years ago
THe UK is currently in the middle of an election campaign. The Prime Minister, Theresa May of the Tory / Conservative party, in her election manifesto pledged she would abolish free lunches in schools, with the exception of those for children from poorer backgrounds. They would continue to receive the free lunch.
Background information:
Over the last several years the chilldren have been provided a free school lunch.
This free school lunch is for the first three years of schooling.
After the first three years they have to pay for the lunch.
Your ideas before watching:
Below is a video with chef Jamie Oliver, whosays he is apolitical, criticizing May’s plan. Before you watch…
What are the benefits of providing free school lunches for everyone?
Why is it only for the first three years?
What are the arguments against it?
Do you think it should be cut?
watch the video and make a note of reasons why Oliver is against the cut.
Linguistic choice questions:
Read the questions, answer from memory, then watch again:
What does Jamie say to show is he apolitcal?
When talking about how the NHS has to pay for diseases, why does Jamie use and stress “the NHS is overtly paying”
Why did Jamie choose to say “the school is the frontline in the battle against diet related disease?”
How strongly does he stress “completely” in “it’s (the plan is) completely short-sighted”?
When talking about how kids with a proper diet do better in the school leaving exam (SAT), what expression does Jamie use “kids that are fed right are 5% …… in their SATs”
Does Jamie use his linguistic choice when talking about the opposition leader’s (Jeremy Corbyn) proposal or the interviewer’s choice?
Scroll down for the answers before doing the discussion questions
Discussion questions:
Do you believe the research findings quoted by Oliver that well-nourished children are 5% better off in their exam results?
Do you believe that, by and large, British children are the unhealthiest in Europe?
How important is the role that schools play in kids’ nutrition compared to the one that parents play?
Does Jamie come across as being apolitical or do you think he is biased against the conservative party?
The three positions are
(May: PM / conservative party): Free lunches only for the poor children
(Oliver): free lunches for all in the first three years only
(Corbyn: Opposition party / Labor): free lunches for all throughout schooling
Where do you stand on this issue?
Answers
He uses present perfect to show his life experience of dealing with different prime ministers “I’ve been through four prime ministers” “I’ve worked with 4 prime ministers”
to emphasise that this is not a hidden cost to society, but a clear and identifable one
to create a war metaphor which emphasizes that this point is the most critical
highlight 3-5 statements, or opinions, or pieces of advice, or reflections that you think are interesting, or boring, or strange, or new, or stupid
find 3-5 expressions you like and want to activateand highlight them
Note, the expressions can be from the ideas or separate from them.
Discuss, react to and extend the ideas
Discuss the 3-5 statements, or opinions, or pieces of advice, or reflections that you highlighted
Discuss to what extent you agree with the following advice / opinions:
You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.
the onlyway to do great work is to love what you do.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best wayI know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
Idea development and language check:
Did you do the following when discussing?
extend your ideas with reasons and examples?
connect your ideas to that of the speaker / writer?
compare your linguistic choice to their linguistic choice at all?
activate expressions from the phrasal verbs exercise?
activate the 3-5 expressions you highlighted?
activate expressions from the ideas you highlighted?
use any of these activated expressions to talk about your own life / opinion / advice, or only when re-telling?
Text 2: Writing
Activate your ideas
Below is a text, apparantly the last one Jobs wrote before he died. Before reading
What do you think he will say about the pursuit of wealth?
He gives some examples of matters apart from wealth which we should pursue. What examples do you think he gave?
He says we should cherish certain things, what do you think they are?
Read and find out about his ideas ..
In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success.
However, aside from work, I have little joy. In the end, wealth is only a fact of life that I am accustomed to. At this moment, lying on the sick bed and recalling my whole life, I realize that all the recognition and wealth that I took so much pride in, have paled and become meaningless in the face of impending death.In the darkness, I look at the green lights from the life supporting machines and hear the humming mechanical sounds, I can feel the breath of god of death drawing closer…
Now I know, when we have accumulated sufficient wealth to last our lifetime, we should pursue other matters that are unrelated to wealth… Should be something that is more important:Perhaps relationships, perhaps art, perhaps a dream from younger days … Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me.God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth.
The wealth I have won in my life I cannot bring with me.What I can bring is only the memories precipitated by love.That’s the true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. Love can travel a thousand miles. Life has no limit. Go where you want to go. Reach the height you want to reach. It is all in your heart and in your hands. What is the most expensive bed in the world? – “Sick bed” …
You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear the sickness for you.Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – “Life”.
When a person goes into the operating room, he will realize that there is one book that he has yet to finish reading – “Book of Healthy Life”. Whichever stage in life we are at right now, with time, we will face the day when the curtain comes down.
Treasure love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends…Treat yourself well.
Cherish others. – Steve Jobs
Find ideas and language to activate
Go through the text again and
highlight 3-5 statements, or opinions, or pieces of advice, or reflections that you think are interesting, or boring, or strange, or new, or stupid
find 3-5 expressions you like and want to activateand highlight them
Note, the expressions can be from the ideas or separate from them.
Discuss, react to and extend the ideas
Discuss the 3-5 statements, or opinions, or pieces of advice, or reflections that you highlighted
Idea development and language check:
Did you do the following when discussing?
extend your ideas with reasons and examples?
connect your ideas to that of the speaker / writer?
compare your linguistic choice to their linguistic choice at all?
activate the 3-5 expressions you highlighted?
activate expressions from the ideas you highlighted?
use any of these activated expressions to talk about your own life / opinion / advice, or only when re-telling?
Text 3: Video
Activate your ideas
You are about to watch a “Steve Jobs top 10 rules for success”. Note, the 10 rules are taken from different times of his life.
What do you think his top 10 rules are? Try and guess at least 4.
As you watch the video, stop after 5 of the rules, and guess possible remaining ones.
Watch and listen to his ideas …
Fly solo 🙂 No text, no exercises, from the video …
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