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Keynote : Advanced / Lewis Lansford, Paul Dummett, and Helen Stephenson.

By: Lansford, Lewis.
Contributor(s): Dummett, Paul | Stephenson, Helen.
Series: Keynote. Publisher: Andover, UK : National Geographic Learning, 2016Edition: 1st ed.Description: 183 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. + Class DVD-ROM.ISBN: 9781305399150 (Student Book).Subject(s): English language -- Study and teaching | English language -- Films for foreign speakers | English language -- Sound recordings for foreign speakers | TED Talks | Communication | Social Media | C1 (CEFR) | AdvancedOnline resources: Publisher's Website.
Contents:
Unit 1: NECESSITIES TED TALK: Less stuff, more happiness / Graham Hill — AUTHENTIC LISTENING SKILL: Relaxed pronunciation — CRITICAL THINKING: Identifying aims — PRESENTATION SKILL: Using props — GRAMMAR: The perfect aspect — VOCABULARY: The prefixes over- and -under — PRONUNCIATION: Vowel sounds at word boundaries — READING: Why do we sleep? — LISTENING: Planning a trip — SPEAKING: Luxury and necessity -- Talking about things we need -- Hedging — WRITING: A statement of opinion -- WRITING SKILL: Hedging expressions
Unit 2: IMAGE AND IDENTITY TED TALK: Who am I? Think again / Hetain Patel and Yuyu Rau — AUTHENTIC LISTENING SKILL: Dealing with accents; voiced and unvoiced sounds — CRITICAL THINKING: Constructing an argument — PRESENTATION SKILL: Using humour — GRAMMAR: Amounts and comparisons — VOCABULARY: Describing dress — PRONUNCIATION: Weak of; Sounding encouraging — READING: Image, identity and clothing — LISTENING: Preparing for a job interview — SPEAKING: Evaluating data -- Talking about image -- Making suggestions — WRITING: Giving feedback -- WRITING SKILL: Being diplomatic
REVIEW 1 (UNITS 1 AND 2) The Real Junk Food Project
Unit 3: HARMONY TED TALK: Making peace is a marathon / May El-Khalil — Authentic Listening Skill: Discourse markers — CRITICAL THINKING: Distinguishing between fact and opinion — Presentation Skill: Being personal and relatable — GRAMMAR: Cleft sentences — VOCABULARY: Conformity and non-conformity — PRONUNCIATION: Sentence stress in cleft sentences; Stress in expressions of disagreement — READING: How groupthink closed the 'flying bank' — LISTENING: Choosing a logo — SPEAKING: Evaluating teamwork -- Dealing with groupthink -- Dealing with disagreement and reaching consensus (Choosing a logo) — WRITING: Emails dealing with disagreement — WRITING SKILL: Encouraging cooperation
Unit 4: CHALLENGES CRITICAL THINKING: Emotive language — PRESENTATION SKILL: Controlling nerves — GRAMMAR: Approximation — VOCABULARY: Obstacles and opportunities — PRONUNCIATION: Approximations; Intonation in questions — READING: One man’s meat… — LISTENING: Asking how something works — SPEAKING: Using approximations -- Talking about sales potential -- Asking for clarification and repetition (Giving and receiving instructions) — WRITING: Information for a house guest -- WRITING SKILL: Instructions
REVIEW 2 (UNITS 3 AND 4) One Earth Designs
Unit 5: INSPIRATION TED TALK: I’m not your inspiration, thank you very much / Stella Young — AUTHENTIC LISTENING SKILL: Elision — CRITICAL THINKING: Understanding examples — PRESENTATION SKILL: Repeating key ideas — GRAMMAR: Unreal past; Inversion in conditionals — VOCABULARY: Having ideas — PRONUNCIATION: Softening negative statements — READING: Eureka moments? — LISTENING: Planning a party — SPEAKING: Talking about life experience -- Where my ideas come from -- Brainstorming and choosing the best ideas — WRITING: A to-do list -- WRITING SKILL: Abbreviations
Unit 6: SOLUTIONS TED TALK: How to make filthy water drinkable / Michael Pritchard — AUTHENTIC LISTENING SKILL: Signposts — CRITICAL THINKING: Using supporting evidence — PRESENTATION SKILL: Repeating key ideas — GRAMMAR: Purpose — VOCABULARY: Solution collocations — PRONUNCIATION: Stress in content and function words — READING: The parable of the stones — LISTENING: Discussing options for solving a problem — SPEAKING: Talking about why things are useful -- Describing a solution -- Finding solutions — WRITING: Online advice form -- WRITING SKILL: Softening advice or recommendations
REVIEW 3 (UNITS 5 AND 6) Sonidos de la tierra
Unit 7: IMAGINATION TED TALK: Taking imagination seriously / Janet Echelman — AUTHENTIC LISTENING SKILL: Inferring meaning from context — CRITICAL THINKING: Reading between the lines — PRESENTATION SKILL: Being authentic — GRAMMAR: The continuous aspect — VOCABULARY: Expressions with mind — PRONUNCIATION: // sound; contraction with have — READING: The power of visualization — LISTENING: Speculating about a mystery — SPEAKING: The benefits and drawbacks of daydreaming -- Talking about visualization -- Speculating — WRITING: A news story -- WRITING SKILL: Neutral reporting
Unit 8: WORKING TOGETHER TED TALK: Build a tower, build a team / Tom Wujec — AUTHENTIC LISTENING SKILL: Understanding contrastive stress — CRITICAL THINKING: Supporting the main idea — PRESENTATION SKILL: Using visuals — GRAMMAR: Cause and result — VOCABULARY: Teams and teamwork — PRONUNCIATION: Voicing in final consonants; emphasizing the main focus of the sentence — READING: Bad team building — LISTENING: Reviewing a project — SPEAKING: Cause-and-result relationships -- Work issues -- Taking part in a meeting — WRITING: Debriefing questionnaire -- WRITING SKILL: Linking devices
REVIEW 4 (UNITS 7 AND 8) Boxcycle, Hipcycle and Marriott Construction
Unit 9: STRESS AND RELAXATION TED TALK: All it takes is 10 mindful minutes / Andy Puddicombe — AUTHENTIC LISTENING SKILL: Understanding mid-sentence changes in direction — CRITICAL THINKING: Understanding the speaker’s technique — PRESENTATION SKILL: Thinking about your audience — GRAMMAR: Intensifying adverbs — VOCABULARY: Idioms related to parts of the body — PRONUNCIATION: Stress with intensifying adverbs; polite and assertive intonation — READING: Can stress be good for you? — LISTENING: Dealing with awkward situations — SPEAKING: Talking about stress -- Having difficult conversations — WRITING: A consumer review -- WRITING SKILL: Using qualifiers
Unit 10: RISK TED TALK: Protecting Twitter users (sometimes from themselves) / Del Harvey — AUTHENTIC LISTENING SKILL: Avoiding frustration — CRITICAL THINKING: Analogies — PRESENTATION SKILL: Pace and emphasis — GRAMMAR: Passive reporting verbs 1; passive reporting verbs 2; qualifiers — VOCABULARY: Risk and probability — PRONUNCIATION: Saying lists — READING: Understanding risk — LISTENING: Assessing risk — SPEAKING: A TV news story -- Facing risks -- Discussing alternatives (Health and safety issues) — WRITING: A consumer review -- WRITING SKILL: Using qualifiers
REVIEW 5 (UNITS 9 AND 10) Triodos Bank
Unit 11: VISION TED TALK: How to build with clay… and community / Diébédo Francis Kéré — AUTHENTIC LISTENING SKILL: Dealing with accents; different stress patterns — CRITICAL THINKING: Relevance — PRESENTATION SKILL: Varying your tone of voice — GRAMMAR: Subordinate clauses — VOCABULARY: Expressions with look and see — PRONUNCIATION: Intonation in subordinate clauses; sure and unsure tones — READING: Visionaries — LISTENING: Life coaching — SPEAKING: Looking after what matters -- Talking about visionaries -- Sharing dreams and visions of the future (Talking about a vision of the future) — WRITING: An endorsement -- WRITING SKILL: Persuasive language
Unit 12: THE FUTURE TED TALK: Image recognition that triggers augmented reality / Matt Mills and Tamara Roukaerts — AUTHENTIC LISTENING SKILL: Listening for grammatical chunks — CRITICAL THINKING: Thinking about the speaker’s motivation — PRESENTATION SKILL: Being concise — GRAMMAR: Future in the past — VOCABULARY: Optimism and pessimism — PRONUNCIATION: Sentence stress in explaining outcomes -- Sentence stress in making arrangements — READING: Is pessimism really so bad? — LISTENING: Arranging to meet — SPEAKING: Past views of the present -- Talking about financial decisions -- Making arrangements — WRITING: A group email -- WRITING SKILL: Impersonal language
REVIEW 6 (UNITS 11 AND 12) Mellowcabs
Grammar summaries -- Audioscripts -- Communication activities -- TED Talk transcripts
Summary: "Featuring remarkable people communicating passionately and persuasively, TED Talks provide the ELT classroom with inspiring ideas and an unparalleled source of authentic language input, Keynote invites students to explore these life-changing stories and develop a deeper understanding of our world. Underpinned by a carefully designed language syllabus, Keynote enables students to express themselves powerfully and proficiently in English in their professional and personal lives. Twelve TED Talks provide a springboard for students to develop their authentic listening, critical thinking and presentation skills; Clear communicative aims of each lesson are linked to 21st century outcomes and encourage students to respond to ideas and find their own voice; Language is presented using real-world input, including infographics, varied text types and profiles of exciting innovators, companies and organizations making a difference." (Book Cover)
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Non-fiction INT KEY (Browse shelf) 1 (DVD-ROM) Available DVD-ROM enclosed with the book. A027613
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The DVD-ROM includes audio tracks (1-71) as well as videos, (4h18min.)

CEFR correlation - Level C1.

Unit 1: NECESSITIES
TED TALK: Less stuff, more happiness / Graham Hill — AUTHENTIC LISTENING SKILL: Relaxed pronunciation — CRITICAL THINKING: Identifying aims — PRESENTATION SKILL: Using props — GRAMMAR: The perfect aspect — VOCABULARY: The prefixes over- and -under — PRONUNCIATION: Vowel sounds at word boundaries — READING: Why do we sleep? — LISTENING: Planning a trip — SPEAKING: Luxury and necessity -- Talking about things we need -- Hedging — WRITING: A statement of opinion -- WRITING SKILL: Hedging expressions

Unit 2: IMAGE AND IDENTITY
TED TALK: Who am I? Think again / Hetain Patel and Yuyu Rau — AUTHENTIC LISTENING SKILL: Dealing with accents; voiced and unvoiced sounds — CRITICAL THINKING: Constructing an argument — PRESENTATION SKILL: Using humour — GRAMMAR: Amounts and comparisons — VOCABULARY: Describing dress — PRONUNCIATION: Weak of; Sounding encouraging — READING: Image, identity and clothing — LISTENING: Preparing for a job interview — SPEAKING: Evaluating data -- Talking about image -- Making suggestions — WRITING: Giving feedback -- WRITING SKILL: Being diplomatic

REVIEW 1 (UNITS 1 AND 2) The Real Junk Food Project

Unit 3: HARMONY
TED TALK: Making peace is a marathon / May El-Khalil — Authentic Listening Skill: Discourse markers — CRITICAL THINKING: Distinguishing between fact and opinion — Presentation Skill: Being personal and relatable — GRAMMAR: Cleft sentences — VOCABULARY: Conformity and non-conformity — PRONUNCIATION: Sentence stress in cleft sentences; Stress in expressions of disagreement — READING: How groupthink closed the 'flying bank' — LISTENING: Choosing a logo — SPEAKING: Evaluating teamwork -- Dealing with groupthink -- Dealing with disagreement and reaching consensus (Choosing a logo) — WRITING: Emails dealing with disagreement — WRITING SKILL: Encouraging cooperation

Unit 4: CHALLENGES
CRITICAL THINKING: Emotive language — PRESENTATION SKILL: Controlling nerves — GRAMMAR: Approximation — VOCABULARY: Obstacles and opportunities — PRONUNCIATION: Approximations; Intonation in questions — READING: One man’s meat… — LISTENING: Asking how something works — SPEAKING: Using approximations -- Talking about sales potential -- Asking for clarification and repetition (Giving and receiving instructions) — WRITING: Information for a house guest -- WRITING SKILL: Instructions

REVIEW 2 (UNITS 3 AND 4) One Earth Designs

Unit 5: INSPIRATION
TED TALK: I’m not your inspiration, thank you very much / Stella Young — AUTHENTIC LISTENING SKILL: Elision — CRITICAL THINKING: Understanding examples — PRESENTATION SKILL: Repeating key ideas — GRAMMAR: Unreal past; Inversion in conditionals — VOCABULARY: Having ideas — PRONUNCIATION: Softening negative statements — READING: Eureka moments? — LISTENING: Planning a party — SPEAKING: Talking about life experience -- Where my ideas come from -- Brainstorming and choosing the best ideas — WRITING: A to-do list -- WRITING SKILL: Abbreviations

Unit 6: SOLUTIONS
TED TALK: How to make filthy water drinkable / Michael Pritchard — AUTHENTIC LISTENING SKILL: Signposts — CRITICAL THINKING: Using supporting evidence — PRESENTATION SKILL: Repeating key ideas — GRAMMAR: Purpose — VOCABULARY: Solution collocations — PRONUNCIATION: Stress in content and function words — READING: The parable of the stones — LISTENING: Discussing options for solving a problem — SPEAKING: Talking about why things are useful -- Describing a solution -- Finding solutions — WRITING: Online advice form -- WRITING SKILL: Softening advice or recommendations

REVIEW 3 (UNITS 5 AND 6) Sonidos de la tierra

Unit 7: IMAGINATION
TED TALK: Taking imagination seriously / Janet Echelman — AUTHENTIC LISTENING SKILL: Inferring meaning from context — CRITICAL THINKING: Reading between the lines — PRESENTATION SKILL: Being authentic — GRAMMAR: The continuous aspect — VOCABULARY: Expressions with mind — PRONUNCIATION: // sound; contraction with have — READING: The power of visualization — LISTENING: Speculating about a mystery — SPEAKING: The benefits and drawbacks of daydreaming -- Talking about visualization -- Speculating — WRITING: A news story -- WRITING SKILL: Neutral reporting

Unit 8: WORKING TOGETHER
TED TALK: Build a tower, build a team / Tom Wujec — AUTHENTIC LISTENING SKILL: Understanding contrastive stress — CRITICAL THINKING: Supporting the main idea — PRESENTATION SKILL: Using visuals — GRAMMAR: Cause and result — VOCABULARY: Teams and teamwork — PRONUNCIATION: Voicing in final consonants; emphasizing the main focus of the sentence — READING: Bad team building — LISTENING: Reviewing a project — SPEAKING: Cause-and-result relationships -- Work issues -- Taking part in a meeting — WRITING: Debriefing questionnaire -- WRITING SKILL: Linking devices

REVIEW 4 (UNITS 7 AND 8) Boxcycle, Hipcycle and Marriott Construction

Unit 9: STRESS AND RELAXATION
TED TALK: All it takes is 10 mindful minutes / Andy Puddicombe — AUTHENTIC LISTENING SKILL: Understanding mid-sentence changes in direction — CRITICAL THINKING: Understanding the speaker’s technique — PRESENTATION SKILL: Thinking about your audience — GRAMMAR: Intensifying adverbs — VOCABULARY: Idioms related to parts of the body — PRONUNCIATION: Stress with intensifying adverbs; polite and assertive intonation — READING: Can stress be good for you? — LISTENING: Dealing with awkward situations — SPEAKING: Talking about stress -- Having difficult conversations — WRITING: A consumer review -- WRITING SKILL: Using qualifiers

Unit 10: RISK
TED TALK: Protecting Twitter users (sometimes from themselves) / Del Harvey — AUTHENTIC LISTENING SKILL: Avoiding frustration — CRITICAL THINKING: Analogies — PRESENTATION SKILL: Pace and emphasis — GRAMMAR: Passive reporting verbs 1; passive reporting verbs 2; qualifiers — VOCABULARY: Risk and probability — PRONUNCIATION: Saying lists — READING: Understanding risk — LISTENING: Assessing risk — SPEAKING: A TV news story -- Facing risks -- Discussing alternatives (Health and safety issues) — WRITING: A consumer review -- WRITING SKILL: Using qualifiers

REVIEW 5 (UNITS 9 AND 10) Triodos Bank

Unit 11: VISION
TED TALK: How to build with clay… and community / Diébédo Francis Kéré — AUTHENTIC LISTENING SKILL: Dealing with accents; different stress patterns — CRITICAL THINKING: Relevance — PRESENTATION SKILL: Varying your tone of voice — GRAMMAR: Subordinate clauses — VOCABULARY: Expressions with look and see — PRONUNCIATION: Intonation in subordinate clauses; sure and unsure tones — READING: Visionaries — LISTENING: Life coaching — SPEAKING: Looking after what matters -- Talking about visionaries -- Sharing dreams and visions of the future (Talking about a vision of the future) — WRITING: An endorsement -- WRITING SKILL: Persuasive language

Unit 12: THE FUTURE
TED TALK: Image recognition that triggers augmented reality / Matt Mills and Tamara Roukaerts — AUTHENTIC LISTENING SKILL: Listening for grammatical chunks — CRITICAL THINKING: Thinking about the speaker’s motivation — PRESENTATION SKILL: Being concise — GRAMMAR: Future in the past — VOCABULARY: Optimism and pessimism — PRONUNCIATION: Sentence stress in explaining outcomes -- Sentence stress in making arrangements — READING: Is pessimism really so bad? — LISTENING: Arranging to meet — SPEAKING: Past views of the present -- Talking about financial decisions -- Making arrangements — WRITING: A group email -- WRITING SKILL: Impersonal language

REVIEW 6 (UNITS 11 AND 12) Mellowcabs

Grammar summaries -- Audioscripts -- Communication activities -- TED Talk transcripts

"Featuring remarkable people communicating passionately and persuasively, TED Talks provide the ELT classroom with inspiring ideas and an unparalleled source of authentic language input, Keynote invites students to explore these life-changing stories and develop a deeper understanding of our world. Underpinned by a carefully designed language syllabus, Keynote enables students to express themselves powerfully and proficiently in English in their professional and personal lives. Twelve TED Talks provide a springboard for students to develop their authentic listening, critical thinking and presentation skills; Clear communicative aims of each lesson are linked to 21st century outcomes and encourage students to respond to ideas and find their own voice; Language is presented using real-world input, including infographics, varied text types and profiles of exciting innovators, companies and organizations making a difference." (Book Cover)

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