TED Videos and material

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As the world faces the coronavirus crisis, TED is committed to being a resource for information, inspiration and hope. We’ve curated talks and interviews to help provide some perspective. Here’s where to start:

TED Fellow Alanna Shaikh shares why COVID-19 is hitting us now — and what we’ll learn from it. Infectious disease expert Adam Kucharski discusses what the future may hold. (Listen to his full episode on The TED Interview.) Public health expert David Heymann answers 11 questions about the novel coronavirus. This playlist draws from our archive of talks on infectious diseases, vaccines and pandemics. Kids at home? Keep busy with hundreds of free animated lessons from TED-Ed. If you're an educator, learn more about how to create your own TED-Ed lessons. And check out this helpful round-up of TED-Ed lessons about understanding the outbreak of a virus. Finally, these talks offer simple ways to stay healthy — both physically and emotionally.

And keep your eye on the homepage — we'll continue to share new TED Talks every week day on TED.com. Submit your email address here: https://ed.ted.com/daily_newsletter

Listening practice at home

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000c9mb/episodes/downloads

The rise and fall of Anna Delvey, who conned New York high society into believing that she was a multi-millionaire heiress. Vicky Baker and Chloe Moss dig deeper into the scandal. (6 episodes in total)

Further practice at home or in the computer room

How can I practise at home?

• Free Rice Vocabulary Game
• British Council: Advanced Vocabulary
• Spotify podcasts: Stuff you should know
• CNN 10
• Voice of America: Learning English
• The Guardian
• The Life Scientific Podcasts
• BBC Radio 4
• Scientific American
• TED videos
• Collection on the school's blog

Unexpected and thought provoking! Merry Christmas, bloggers!

Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud

Watch the video and click on the interactive script underneath to read the speaker's words

Use this online dictionary to help you with difficult words when necessary.

Read more about Sugata Mitra.

Now write your opinion on this TED talk in a comment or in a new post:

• What is the 'Hole in the Wall' experiment all about? 
• Do you agree that Minimally Invasive Education is effective? 
• Could it ever replace traditional schooling?

Listening activities

 

Μάθημα 16: Hip Hop Music

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Μάθημα 17: Jeet Kune Do

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Μάθημα 18: Skateboarding

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Taken from: http://www.hau.gr/?i=learning.el.podcasts-in-english

The French Revolution

1) Watch this video: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-caused-the-french-revolution-tom-mullaney

2) Do the quiz in the "Think" section (next to the video).

3) Answer this question in a comment below:

What lessons can we apply from the French Revolution to present-day efforts to make society more equitable?

 

You can use this free online dictionary to help you: http://www.dictionary.com

Halloween listening activity

Click here:

http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/autumn-festivals/halloween/halloween-in-the-usa-listening.html

Watch the video twice and try to answer all the quiz questions under the video.

Do you know the vocabulary under the quiz?

Now listen to this song!

http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/songs/halloween/this-is-halloween.html 

Amazing videos for listening practice

https://www.ted.com/

Material on Educational Technology

http://markaki-reading.wikispaces.com/Educational+Technology

Listen, listen, listen!

LISTENING PRACTICE AT HOME WITH NPR

More practice at home!

WATCH YOUTUBE VIDEOS TO PRACTISE LISTENING

AMAZING EFL APPS

Listening links

http://eflinks.wikispaces.com/listening

A Christmas Carol: Read and listen to it.

A Christmas Carol (simplified) from Maria Markaki School of Foreign Languages


Listen to the story (open in a new tab).

Discover the meaning of unknown words by using the Oxford Dictionary gadget in the column on your right. Type the word in the box and click on 'search'.

After you have read the story, answer this question by leaving a comment:

What is the central message of the story? (Focus on the final paragraphs.) 

What makes you happy?

Dream jobs!

 What do you do for a living? Is that your dream job? What IS your dream job?

The mobile phone as the digital wallet of the future

Is what the video shows feasible?

How would you feel if you could use your mobile phone in this way?