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English Mania answers:

Questions:

1) What examples of mania are given by Jay Walker? beatles, sport, religion 2)What is the 'new' mania he is talking about? English teaching/learning 3) How many people are currently studying English? 2 billion 4) How does he support his main idea of this 'mania'? What example or evidence does he provide? China and the group teaching style 'Crazy English' 5) According to Walker, which country will be the new number one English speaking country? China 6) What is the speaker's main idea? English is the new mania. It is the new world language for conversation 7) What are other universal languages? Music- emotion, Maths-Science 8) English is the universal language for what? Global Communication, problem solving

2) Crystal's listening: **Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids**
1. What does she want to express by using the 3 children as examples?

__We should abolish this age-discriminatory word__
====2. The local artist said that they have gotten some best ideas from the program of Kis Design Glass because __kids don't think about the limitations of how hard it can be to blow glass into certain shapes. They just think of good ideas.__====

__We are going to be the next generation, the ones who will bring this world forward.__

 * Saul Griffith's kites tap wind energy**

1. One thousand years ago, how did Chinese military use kites? The Chinese used kites for lifting men. 2. In Miles Loyd seminal paper, what contents were completely ignored? How to use basically an airplane on a piece of string to generate enormous amounts of electricity. 3. What is the second-largest renewable resource after solar? Wind 4. We still have an, and now we have a -as well. energy crisis, climate crisis 5. In next 30 or 40 years, we have to make- of new clean energy. 10 trillion watts or more 6. In a refrigerator factory, churning out airplanes for World War II, they were making- a year. 1000 planes

4)Lies, damned lies and statistics (about TEDTalks) []  posted by Erin & Jim  Answers:  1. the topic that you should choose, how you deliver the talks, and visuals onstage  2. because your topic strongly correlates with how users will react to your talk  3. provide a service to the audience and talk about what I will give you. it’s imperative that you don't need to cit the New York Times. to fake intellectual capacity.  4. you might consider going for props  5. color, the rating  6. you can easily piece together to get your ted talks.

** Photos that changed the world ** **[]** posted by Ivy& Sabina 1. Since the beginning of photography, what have images done in people? Images have provoked reaction in people 2. What dose the speaker think that is far worse? Man’s destructive power over man 3. What are the two things that images transcend? Borders and religions. ** Sentence completion ** 1. In fact, some images are so well-known that you might even recognize them in a slightly or somewhat different form. 2. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Vietnam war was basically shown in America’s living rooms_day in_,day out. 3. Some very important images are deemed too graphic or_disturbing for us to see them. ............................................................................................
 * Short answers: **

__8) Birke Baehr: What's wrong with our food system__
http://www.ted.com/talks/birke_baehr_what_s_wrong_with_our_food_system.html Posted by B & Jankin Question: Short answer 1. What is the dark side of the industrialized food system which the speaker mentions to? //The genetically engineered seeds and organisms// 2. What are two examples given by the speaker? //Fish and a tomato// 3. What do the genetically modified seeds lead to? //Cancer// 4. What are the two harmful chemicals which the speaker mention to? //Pesticides and herbicides//

Sentence Completion 1. More harmful chemical are sprayed on fruits and vegetables to kill..........and ........... // Weeds, bugs // 2. When it rains, these chemicals......... into the ground or ..........into our waterways. // seep, run off // 3. People can make different choice by ............ from .........or ........... // buying food directly, local farmers, our neighours who we’ve known// 4. If people are at the grocery store, they should ......... ,.........., .......... and............ // think local, choose organic, know your farmer, food // 5. What is the goal for kids when they grow up?

Nigal Marsh:how to make work-life balance work 1.what's the main idea of this article? It's very important to make a balance between life and work. 2.Marsh gives four observations,what are they? 1)If society's to make any progress on this issue,we need an honest debate. 2)we need to face the truth that governments and croporations aren't goint to solve this issue for us. 3)we have to careful with the time frame that we choose upon which to judge our balance. 4)we need to approach balance in a balanced way. 3.Which three aspects did Marsh give to describe life? intellectual,emotional,spiritual sides. 4.What incident changed Marsh's concept in the past? once he picked his child up from school and he did many things to his child.His child has a good time. sentence completion 1.With first observation ,the first step to solve any problem is .............. acknowledging the reality of the situation you're in. 2.Child care facilities in workplace is ...........and............ wonderful,enlightened 3.people usually say they will change their life after ........................................ when they retired,the children left home,wife divorced,and health is failing. 4.Being more balance doesn't mean .................. dramatic upheaval in your life.