TERM 2 - LET'S GO!

Term 2: Science and ethics - Cloning and Stem Cell Research

Cloning Debates

This house would ban cloning

Is cloning ok?

Should cloning be legal?

Cloning the woolly mammoths

De-extinction

Designer Babies

TED Talks - Cell Transplants


Science and ethics - Vocabulary

Quizlet 1 - Science and Ethics

Never Let Me Go REMINDER

We will start reading this book in one week. You need to make sure you have a copy of this book with you in lessons by that point.

NB - in line with the school policy, you will not be allowed to have an online version/ kindle copy of the text. You must have the physical text with you in class. 

Any questions, please email me at: sellicksfp@gmail.com

The Invisible Architecture of our Social Structure

Copy these links into Lingro - You will recognised Article 4 (the Reading Exam). The version here is the undeited version. 

Article 1

Aritcle 2

Article 3

Article 4

Society -

It's a _____________to me
We have a __________ with which we have _____________
And you think you have to want more than you need
Until you ____ __ __________, you won't be free

Society, you're a _____________
I hope you're not lonely without me

When you ________  ________ than you have, you think you need
And when you think more than you want, your thoughts ________ to _________
I think I need to find a ____________place
Cause when you have more than you think, you need more space

Society, you're a crazy breed
I hope you're not lonely without me
________, crazy __________
Hope you're not lonely without me

There's those thinking more or less, less is more
But if _______ is ________, how you keepin score?
Means for every point you make your level drops
Kinda like you're startin' from the top
And you can't do that

Y11 Term 1 Exam content- Term Exam (1 hour and 30 minutes)

Reading – Criteria B

Revise by reading as much as you can in English (Library books, news websites – BBC, The Guardian, Football blogs). The more exposed you are to vocab, structures, English in general the more your English will gradually improve.

Restaurant Review

Technology article

Writing – Criteria C

Part 1: Grammar and Vocabulary

Vocabulary:

·           Multilingualism/bilingualism

·        Internet 

·        Film Reviews

Grammar:

·         Phrasal verbs

·        Reported Speech Reported speech explanation and lots of activities

Part 2: Writing

·         Article – characteristics and sentence starters/linking phrases

·         Review – characteristics and sentence starters/linking phrases

Phrasal Verbs...

Phrasal verbs term 1 exam

We will complete a Vocab Test on these on Tues/ Wednesday this week...

These will then be expected in your exam on Friday. 

Reviews and Exam prep

• Read these two examples. Decide which is a Review and which is an Article. Explain your answer with three examples from the text. 
• Look at the similarities in style, control and voice in the two pieces. How have the writers used ;-) to achieve specific effects - how have the writers opened and closed their pieces?
• Highlight your texts and annotate any devices you spot or phrases that you could utilise. Use WordReference for the vocabulary you are unsure of.

Example 1

A Most Violent Year: plucky Oscars outsider draws blood

Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain star in the latest film from Margin Call and All is Lost director JC Chandor – a rigorous crime drama which paints a knotty, nuanced portrait of the man who fuelled the 1980

In the winter of 1981, with snow swirling and the crime-rate soaring, New York needs someone to help keep out the chill. Cometh the crisis, cometh Abel Morales and his heating oil business. Morales is an immigrant upstart with his eye on the prize; a sharp-suited salesman chasing the American dream. His future’s so bright it’s about to burst into flames.

A Most Violent Year, fittingly enough, comes billed as the plucky outsider in the pending Oscar race, a film on a mission to unseat the big favourites. Like Morales, the odds are stacked against it. And yet, like Morales, JC Chandor’s period crime drama is rigorous, resourceful and as smart as a whip. It surely can’t win; it’s too nuanced and sombre. But its canny tactical struggle remains a joy to behold.

Oscar Isaac (last seen in the Coen brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis) gives a commanding performance as the embattled entrepreneur. His Morales is a callow rookie disguised as a pristine player, determined to secure “a polluted piece of earth” by the river and drilling his staff in the art of closing the deal. If the playing field was level, he would surely romp to victory. Instead, the DA is on his case and his competitors conspire against him. Morales’s salesmen are assaulted; his supply trucks are robbed. Driving off in pursuit of the hijackers, he veers across the train tracks and into the mouth of a tunnel that may just lead to hell.

Previously praised for his stark, no-frills approach to films like Margin Call and All is Lost, Chandor sets about his broader canvas with relish. He paints a rotten Big Apple in jaundiced yellows and creams, sliding past the graffiti and the slush on his way to the docks. The script, too, does well in spotlighting an overlap of capitalism and criminality that’s not so much a Venn diagram as a perfect, seamless match.

Beset by disaster, Morales turns to his steely wife (Jessica Chastain, a shade underused) and Albert Brooks’s world-weary old mentor, who sags like a cloth cat with the stuffing come out. But the man is being outnumbered, outmanoeuvered. Around the table at the local restaurant, the other power suppliers sit in comfortable clover. Any one of these bosses could be stealing his oil; they all stand to benefit. “Just stop,” Morales implores them. “Have some pride in what you do.” He’d dearly like to take the high road, but he’s being dragged right through the slime.

Just who is Abel Morales and what function does he serve? Many may view him as a noble crusader, others as some silver-tongued chancer who blundered out of his depth. But the truth, perhaps, is more thorny and troublesome than that. Implicitly, Chandor’s film invites us to regard the oil supplier as the perfect hero for New York’s imperfect 1980s; the ambitious pioneer from a time when the place was in freefall. The following years will see the rise of Wall Street, the deregulation of the banks and the resurgence of Manhattan as a millionaire’s playground. But the first order of business is to get the power back on. So Morales holds his nose, cuts some corners and sends his trucks across the bridge. He provides the fuel for Reagan’s shining city on the hill.

Example 2

How to settle your restaurant bill without delay

Apart from that first, cold, dry Martini of the evening, it's probably the only thing you ever ask for in a restaurant that you expect and require immediately. And yet ordering your bill can be the start of a long, drawn out process and involve no end of technological headaches. Restaurant industry expert Adam Hyman suggests some alternatives - including the ultimate in insider dining-room dealing...

It's the end of an enjoyable meal. It might be a business lunch with a client at your favourite brasserie for a Nicoise and glass of rosé or counterside by yourself for sushi and a cold Sapporo. The food, drink and service has all been exceptional. Yet, there's one problem. You can't get the bill. You've tried to get the waiter's attention a couple of times but with no luck. You think about adopting the Michael Winner white napkin wave but, despite a few too many glasses of Barolo, you decide against it.

The bill finally arrives and you're ready to pay but the waiter has disappeared to go and find a wifi card machine that has a signal. Entering those four digits into the machine seems a lifetime away. We've all experienced this situation at one time or another. So is there anything you can do as a customer to stop it happening?

One option, although not practical, is to move to the States. I noticed on my recent visit to the US that in a number of restaurants they would bring the bill at the end of your meal without asking. It was always presented with a, "No rush but whenever you're ready". Being British, this split our group in opinion. Two of us, myself included, thought this was a great touch. It takes the hassle out of trying to get the bill at a later stage of the meal. Others found it presumptive and, well, a bit hassle-y.

Alternatively, there's the technology option. A number of apps on the market allow you to pay on your phone - a sort of Uberapproach to settling up, some even letting you split the bill item by item (although I'd never be friends with someone who insisted on this).

Apps such as Cover, in New York, Spleat in London and PayPal mean you can pay for your restaurant bill while taking your seats in the stalls at the theatre. And when the Apple Watch launches it will reportedly allow you to pay for your restaurant bills without having to speak to your waiter.

But do we really live in a world where it's no longer preferable to speak to your server and thank them instead? Personally, I always preferred it when the bill and your card was returned to the table at the same time. It was more civilised and I liked signing my autograph. But now that cheques are practically defunct and one of the private members' clubs I belong to no longer requires you to sign in when I arrive, I can't remember the last time I got to use my stainless steel Kaweco ballpoint.

However, the educated man about town who dines out frequently knows there's still one civilsed way to settle up. And it doesn't even involve taking your card out of your Comme Des Garçons wallet. It's all about the monthly tab. Just don't fall off your dining chair when you see the total you've managed to rack up at the end of each month.…

Review Writing

Review Writing

Please work through these vocab lists in preparation for our Review of Black Mirror

Quizlet - Review vocab

Film review vocab

Black Mirror Expressions 1

Black Mirror Expressions 2

HOMEWORK FOR MONDAY

Read the Article on page 32. 

Complete exercises 3,4 and 5. 

For the ´Discuss in small groups´activity, you should write down your own ideas. 

ARTICLE WRITING - WRITING EXAM

Features of an article

•Eye-catching heading

•Develop an idea or point of view (could be balanced or one-sided)

•Express your personal opinions but also include facts

•Be entertaining, lively and engaging

•Conversational style to relate to reader

•Use personal pronouns to include the reader (you, your, we, our)

•Can use anecdotes, descriptions, reported speech

•Use adverbials (clearly/in fact/without a doubt/ undoubtedly) to help reader to follow your argument

Useful vocab

Phrases to introduce facts

•People (sometimes) claim that … but I feel that ...

•It is often said/argued that ... However, it seems to me that ...

•It is a fact that ...

•Over the past few months/years, it seems that …

•Recently, we have all become concerned that …

•Nowadays, we are all realising that ...

•In the past, people used to …, but now ...

•These days, it seems that ….

To expand sentences, use:

•Which, who, where, whose

•In which case, which may require, which would mean, where we could, who would be

able to, which would enable us to, whose help has enabled us to

•Translating para = in order to, to, so that, enabling

Connectives to start sentences:

•Despite / In spite of (gerund, that fact that, noun/pronoun)

•However,… (yet can also be used to mean however to link sentences)

•Whereas / Although (within a sentence with two separate clauses)

•In addition to this... Furthermore… Moreover…

Abverbs to make your argument clear

•Obviously/Clearly

•Undoubtedly

•Without a doubt/ Undoubtedly

•Needless to say

•Firstly/Secondly/Thirdly/Finally

Use conditional tenses

• If you (present), you could / it would

•3rd conditional (regrets)  = If there had been, it would have________

•Had we known that… we could have been able to ….

•If only (the government would … , there was), there would be …

Anticipating the counter argument

•According to some people, … However, I think that …

•Some may argue that … whereas I firmly believe that …

•It can be argued that …

•Although I agree that … I disagree that ..

Sequencing (for anecdotes)

•At first / To start with/In the beginning, ...

•Then/Next/After that, ...

•Finally/In the end, ...

•At last, ...

Simultaneous events

•Meanwhile/In the meantime,

•In the middle of all this, ...

•During all this time, ..

Sudden or unexpected events (anecdotes)

•Out of the blue, ...

•Without any warning, ...

Rapid events

•As quick as a flash, ...

•In a matter of seconds/minutes, ...

•In no time at all, ...

•In retrospect, ...

•With the benefit of hindsight, …

Black Mirror Comprehension questions

Please complete these in detail, full sentences and with well developed ideas. 

Your exam next week will incorporate some of the main themes from Black Mirror

1)    What does Liam have implanted in his neck? What does it do?

2)     Why does Liam replay the work meeting? What is he worried about?

3)     What are the disadvantages of the memory grain?

4)    Why does one woman at the dinner party not have a grain?

5)    How do the people at the dinner party react to this woman having no grain?

6)    In what ways does the grain affect Liam and his wife´s relationship?

7)    What does Liam discover thanks to his wife´s grain?

8)    What are the advantages and disadvantages of a grain?

9)    How does the episode end? What does the end of the episode suggest about the effects of the grain?

10)                      Do you think this type of technological development will happen in your life time?

Writing exam preparation...

• Introduction: State the topic and your opinion
• Suggested phrases: Nowadays/ recently/ A large number of people/
• Body 1: State one reason and support it
• Opinion:  Firstly/in the first place/ to begin with/ to start with
• To my mind/ It is my firm opinion-conviction that/ It seems to me/ It strikes me that/ I am inclined to believe that.
• Support: This would definitely…. / Consequently/ As a result/
• Body 2: State another reason and support it
• To add points: Moreover/ What’s more/ In addition/Apart from this/ Not to mention the fact that/ furthermore.
• Body 3: State arguments against your opinion. (opt)
• However/on the other hand/ It can be argued that/as opposed to the above ideas
• Conclusion: Re-state your opinion clearly.
• Suggested phrases: In conclusion/on balance/ in a nutshell/ All points considered/ Taking everything into account/consideration/ 

The Internet - Research for writing exam

INTERNET - GOOD OR BAD?

Google Glass - Internet Addiction

Internet Dangers : Should we censor the internet?

BBC documentary: Cyberbullying 

Web Junkies - China´s Addicted Teenagers

Cyberchondriac-internet-ill-self-diagnose-symptoms

Web Debate - Internet Censorship

Web Debate - Internet Censorship

On the Internet...

Vocabulary to learn

You will have a test on Friday 17th October.

I will read the definition, you must write down the word/ phrase.

Multilingualism and Bilingualism Vocabulary

Improve your vocabulary by revising these 21 terms... You can use these in your speech!

Speeches from History...

Annotate your chosen text with what you find. e.g. first person, second person, third person, alliteration, repetition, facts, statistics, anecdote, rhetorical questions, rule of three, objective language, analytical language, subjective language, emotive language, descriptive language, showing who/what/why/when/where.

1) Winston Churchill – extract from speech, June 4, 1940
 I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once again able to defend our Island home, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone. At any rate, that is what we are going to try to do. That is the resolve of His Majesty's Government-every man of them. That is the will of Parliament and the nation. The British Empire and the French Republic, linked together in their cause and in their need, will defend to the death their native soil, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength. Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.

2) Queen Elizabeth 1, 1588
My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety  to take heed how we commit ourself to armed multitudes for fear of treachery; but I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people.

Let tyrants fear. I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safe guard in the loyal hearts and good will of my subjects, and therefore I am come amongst you, as you see, at this time, not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all, to lay down my life for my God and for my kingdom and for my people, my honour, and my blood, even in the dust.

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and a king of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm; the which, rather than any dishonour shall grow by me, I myself will take up arms, I myself will be your general, judge, and rewarder of every one of your virtues in the field. I know, already for your forwardness, you have deserved rewards and crowns; and we do assure you, in the word of a prince, they shall be duly paid you.

In the meantime my lieutenant-general shall be in my stead, than whom never prince commanded a more noble or worthy subject, not doubting but by your obedience to my general, by your concord in the camp, and your valour in the field, we shall shortly have a famous victory over those enemies of my God, of my kingdom, and of my people."

3) George W Bush – January, 2002 – extract from the State of the Union Address

States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.  By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger.  They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred.  They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States.  In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.

We will work closely with our coalition to deny terrorists and their state sponsors the materials, technology, and expertise to make and deliver weapons of mass destruction.  We will develop and deploy effective missile defenses to protect America and our allies from sudden attack.  And all nations should know:  America will do what is necessary to ensure our nation's security.

We'll be deliberate, yet time is not on our side.  I will not wait on events, while dangers gather.  I will not stand by, as peril draws closer and closer.  The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons.  

Our war on terror is well begun, but it is only begun.  This campaign may not be finished on our watch -- yet it must be and it will be waged on our watch.

We can't stop short.  If we stop now -- leaving terror camps intact and terror states unchecked -- our sense of security would be false and temporary.  History has called America and our allies to action, and it is both our responsibility and our privilege to fight freedom's fight.   

4) Barack Obama  - extract from Primary Speech, June 2008
The other side will come here in September and offer a very different set of policies and positions, and that is a debate I look forward to. It is a debate the American people deserve. But what you don't deserve is another election that's governed by fear, and innuendo, and division. What you won't hear from this campaign or this party is the kind of politics that uses religion as a wedge, and patriotism as a bludgeon – that sees our opponents not as competitors to challenge, but enemies to demonize. Because we may call ourselves Democrats and Republicans, but we are Americans first. We are always Americans first.
Despite what the good Senator from Arizona said tonight, I have seen people of differing views and opinions find common cause many times during my two decades in public life, and I have brought many together myself. I've walked arm-in-arm with community leaders on the South Side of Chicago and watched tensions fade as black, white, and Latino fought together for good jobs and good schools. I've sat across the table from law enforcement and civil rights advocates to reform a criminal justice system that sent thirteen innocent people to death row. And I've worked with friends in the other party to provide more children with health insurance and more working families with a tax break; to curb the spread of nuclear weapons and ensure that the American people know where their tax dollars are being spent; and to reduce the influence of lobbyists who have all too often set the agenda in Washington.
In our country, I have found that this cooperation happens not because we agree on everything, but because behind all the labels and false divisions and categories that define us; beyond all the petty bickering and point-scoring in Washington, Americans are a decent, generous, compassionate people, united by common challenges and common hopes. And every so often, there are moments which call on that fundamental goodness to make this country great again.
So it was for that band of patriots who declared in a Philadelphia hall the formation of a more perfect union; and for all those who gave on the fields of Gettysburg and Antietam their last full measure of devotion to save that same union.
So it was for the Greatest Generation that conquered fear itself, and liberated a continent from tyranny, and made this country home to untold opportunity and prosperity.
So it was for the workers who stood out on the picket lines; the women who shattered glass ceilings; the children who braved a Selma bridge for freedom's cause.
So it has been for every generation that faced down the greatest challenges and the most improbable odds to leave their children a world that's better, and kinder, and more just.
And so it must be for us.
America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love.
The journey will be difficult. The road will be long. I face this challenge with profound humility, and knowledge of my own limitations. But I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people. Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth. This was the moment – this was the time – when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves, and our highest ideals. Thank you, God Bless you, and may God Bless the United States of America.

Language Death: A Problem for All

In preparation for speaking exam, you could watch this video. You can refer to this in your final speech (remember the importance of proving/ supporting your ideas). 

Language Death Video

POWERFUL SPEECHES

Emma Watson UN speech



Barack Obama Victory speech



Watch these two speeches. Think about how the speakers generate a feeling of passion and audience involvement. Note down any persuasive devices that you recognise (take note of the time on the video).

Think also about the paralinguistic and prosodic features:

• Facial expression
• Eye contact
• Hand gestures
• Tone of voice
• Pauses for effect
• Volume of voice

Multilingualism answers

In order to develop your answers fully, please use the following phrases to start your point and expand on your explanation...


Point
Evidence
Explanation

Point - She states that/the author says/there is evidence that

Evidence - select a specific quote from the text USE QUOTATION MARKS 

Explanation - This suggests/this perhaps shows/this makes us think that

This makes the reader feel/this makes us think that

Therefore we understand/So, this proves the idea that/With that in mind, we 

YEAR 11 – MULTILINGUALISM DISCUSSIONS

Complete the table below: Use the answer structures to develop your answers where possible…

	CHINESE	THAI	ENGLISH
In which social domains of the author´s life was each language used?
Who did Minfong Ho learn each language from?
How did she learn this language?
To which part of the body does the writer relate each language?
What problems did she have with each language?
What expressions might she use to describe her relationship with each language?
What does the writer wish to convey by these expressions?