Make Up Work II Semester
Make Up Work II Semester
MAKE UP WORK II SEMESTER
Watch the videos below and then answer the questions on them. Send me the answers via email. Once I have received your answers (if they are correct!) you will have completed the make up work for the absences you accumulated during the II Semester and will be able to have a final mark for the course.
You may have to watch them more than once to find the answer to the questions.
1. Watch the video on the link below and then answer the question: What is the “hairdryer from Mars”
www.ted.com/talks/patricia_kuhl_the_linguistic_genius_of_babies
Watch the video on the link below and then answer the questions:
a) What was the word of the year in 2006?
b) What is happening to the word “impactful”?
c) Who decides what words mean?
www.ted.com/talks/anne_curzan_what_makes_a_word_real
3. Watch the video on the link below and then answer the questions:
a) What is Jaws?
b) What percentage of experts quoted in newspaper stories are women?
c) What is the”the whole picture” in terms of Megan Kamerick's talk?
www.ted.com/talks/megan_kamerick_women_should_represent_women_in_media
4. Listen to the story by David Almond on the link below and then answer the questions:
a) What is the name of the narrator?
b) What did Slog's dad smell of?
c) What did Slog's dad get back in Heaven?
d) What is Slog's mother's name?