TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dummett,Paul
AU  - Stephenson,Helen
AU  - Lansford,Lewis
TI  - Keynote : Proficient
SN  - 9781305399181 (Student Book)
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Andover
PB  - National Geographic Learning
KW  - English language
KW  - Study and teaching (Elementary)
KW  - Foreign speakers
KW  - Integrated Skills
KW  - TED Talks
KW  - Proficient
KW  - C2 (CEFR)
N1  - Student's book accompanied by class DVD-ROM in pocket attached to inside back cover; Unit 1: Creativity; TED TALK: Do schools kill creativity?; Ken Robinson; Authentic Listening Skill: Rhythm and stress; Critical Thinking: The speaker’s aims; Presentation Skill: Using humour; GRAMMAR: Definite and indefinite time; Language focus: Expressions with statistics; VOCABULARY: Creativity collocations; PRONUNCIATION: Emphasis and de-emphasis; READING: What I talk about when I talk about running; Sing while you work; LISTENING: A company choir; SPEAKING: Creativity survey -- Learning from experience -- Describing likes and talents; WRITING: A progress report -- Writing skill: Nominalization; Unit 2: Hopes and fears; TED TALK: Why I live in mortal dread of public speaking;  Megan Washington; Authentic Listening Skill: Listening to songs; Critical Thinking: Winning your audience over; Presentation Skill: Being authentic; GRAMMAR: Future forms -- Language focus: Expressions of certainty; VOCABULARY: Hopes and fears; PRONUNCIATION: Consonant clusters; READING: Outside the comfort zone; Being prepared; LISTENING: Travel advice; SPEAKING: Attitudes towards the future -- Comfort zone -- Giving advice (Giving and justifying advice); WRITING: An account of an incident -- Writing skill: Future in the past; REVIEW 1 (UNITS 1 AND 2) Pixar; Unit 3: Perception; TED TALK: The 4 ways sound affects us /; Julian Treasure; Authentic Listening Skill: Understanding fast speech; Critical Thinking: Achieving aims; Presentation Skill: Giving shape to your talk; GRAMMAR: Stative and dynamic verbs -- Language focus: Emphatic focus; VOCABULARY: Feeling and emotions; PRONUNCIATION: Stress in contrasts; READING: Multi-sensory marketing; Not what they seem; LISTENING: The reality of the situation; SPEAKING:  Impressions and judgements --  Impressions and judgements -- Creating attractive spaces --  Describing beliefs and facts; WRITING: A response to a proposal -- Writing skill: Describing different perspectives; Unit 4: Human interaction; TED TALK: Your body language shapes who you are;  Amy Cuddy; Authentic Listening Skill: Linking: assimilation and reduction; Critical Thinking: Avoiding misinterpretation; Presentation Skill: Structuring a talk; GRAMMAR: Past forms -- Language focus: Inversion with adverbial phrases; VOCABULARY: Body language; PRONUNCIATION: Appropriate intonation; READING: Business and life lessons; Getting things wrong; LISTENING: Saying the right thing; SPEAKING:  Being hyperconnected -- Can I have my money back? -- Everyday conversations (Everyday expressions); WRITING: A formal letter or email -- Writing skill: Checking for errors; REVIEW 2 (UNITS 3 AND 4) Blindekuh; Unit 5: Economic resources; TED TALK: The magic washing machine /; Hans Rosling; Authentic Listening Skill: Prediction; Critical Thinking: Reading between the lines; Presentation Skill: Presenting statistics; GRAMMAR: Passive forms -- Language focus: Nominalization in passive sentences; VOCABULARY: Economics; PRONUNCIATION: Silent letters; READING: Land – a fairer system; Fact or hearsay?; LISTENING: Discussing facts and beliefs; SPEAKING: Headline news -- Economic prospects -- Expressing belief and disbelief; WRITING: A newspaper report -- Writing skill: Passive reporting verbs; Unit 6: Practical design; TED TALK: Magical houses, made of bamboo;  Elora Hardy; Authentic Listening Skill: Word boundaries; Critical Thinking: Testing arguments; Presentation Skill: Persuasive techniques; GRAMMAR: Causatives -- Language focus: Expressions with go and get; VOCABULARY: Describing objects: collocations; PRONUNCIATION: Word stress; READING: Object of desire; Tricky questions; LISTENING: An interview; SPEAKING: Hired help -- Classic objects -- Interview questions; WRITING: Posting advice -- Writing skill: Reported speech; REVIEW 3 (UNITS 5 AND 6) Broad Sustainable Building; Unit 7: Same but different; TED TALK: The danger of a single story;  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Authentic Listening Skill: Weak forms; Critical Thinking: Objectivity and subjectivity; Presentation Skill: Using stories and anecdotes; GRAMMAR: Comparative forms -- Language focus: Expressing preferences; VOCABULARY: Idioms related to choice; PRONUNCIATION: Linking in discourse markers; READING: The paradox of choice; Reading habits; LISTENING: Different viewpoints; SPEAKING: Different approaches -- Criteria for choosing -- Constructing arguments (Using discourse markers); WRITING: Describing and interpreting data -- Writing skill: Describing graphs; Unit 8: Food and sustainability; TED TALK: How I fell in love with a fish /; Dan Barber; Authentic Listening Skill: Word recognition; Critical Thinking: Supporting evidence; Presentation Skill: Varying the pace; GRAMMAR: Modal verbs -- Language focus: Expressions with modal verbs; VOCABULARY: Synonyms: -able and -ible; PRONUNCIATION: Assimilation and elision; READING: Can business be sustainable?; Today’s foodies; LISTENING: Talking about food; SPEAKING: Discussing the news --  Encouraging good practice -- Attitude to food (Describing customs and convention); WRITING: An online guide -- Writing skill: Participles; REVIEW 4 (UNITS 7 AND 8) WD-40 Company; Unit 9: Internet sensation; TED TALK: Why videos go viral;  Kevin Allocca; Authentic Listening Skill: Dealing with accents: British and American; Critical Thinking: Making assumptions; Presentation Skill: Being clear and to the point; GRAMMAR: Gradability -- Language focus: Collocations with intensifying adverbs; VOCABULARY: New Internet words; PRONUNCIATION: Stress in opinion giving; READING: The medium is the message; Your online identity; LISTENING: Is it ethical?; SPEAKING: Life without the Internet -- Creating a sharing website -- Giving and explaining opinions; WRITING: An online professional profile -- Writing skill: Compound nouns: adjective + noun and noun + noun collocations; Unit 10: The meaning of success; TED TALK: A kinder, gentles philosophy of success /; Alain de Botton; Authentic Listening Skill: Hedging; Critical Thinking: The message you take away; Presentation Skill: Remembering what you want to say; GRAMMAR: Verb and adjective patterns; Language focus: Patterns using adjective + that; VOCABULARY: Success and failure; PRONUNCIATION: Prepositions as weak forms; Elision; READING: Success across generations; Age no barrier; LISTENING: Looking for a job; SPEAKING: Self-help advice -- Generation Z -- Talking about success; WRITING: A formal report -- Writing skill: Phrases in report writing; REVIEW 5 (UNITS 9 AND 10) Kickstarter; Unit 11: Learning and memory; TED TALK: Build a school in the cloud;  Sugata Mitra; Authentic Listening Skill: Understanding mid-sentence changes; Critical Thinking: Bold statements; Presentation Skill: Body movement and gesture; GRAMMAR: Conditionals -- Language focus: Conditional conjunctions; VOCABULARY: Learning and memory; PRONUNCIATION: Linking vowel sounds; READING: The memory palace; Thrown in at the deep end; LISTENING: Starting a new job; SPEAKING: The great education debate -- Memory tips -- In at the deep end (Describing capabilities); WRITING: A formal letter -- Writing skill: Preposition + participle; Unit 12: Invention or innovation; TED TALK: Creative problem-solving in the face of extreme limits;  Navi Radjou; Authentic Listening Skill: Discourse markers; Critical Thinking: Summarizing an argument; Presentation Skill: Giving examples; GRAMMAR: Adverbs and word order -- Language focus: Adverbial phrases; VOCABULARY: Phrasal verbs: innovation; PRONUNCIATION: Word endings; READING: The innovation that never was; Life hacks; LISTENING: Getting good results; SPEAKING: Granting patents -- Pitching a new invention -- Handy tips (Giving advice); WRITING: A review of a product -- Writing skill: Reporting verbs; REVIEW 6 (UNITS 11 AND 12) OneLeap; Grammar summaries; Audioscripts; Communication activities; TED Talk transcripts; Keynote Proficient is for students who have achieved level C1 and want to achieve C2
N2  - "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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UR  - https://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_build_a_school_in_the_cloud?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare
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