lesson 29/2017 »

6 Minute English: Too much sugar
6 Minute English: AI

Film: At Ease

practise

At Ease
https://vimeo.com/125483328

Before you watch

1. Have you ever made a U-turn?
   
2. Is a U-turn always a good thing?
   

While you watch

1. What does Margaret ask?
   
2. How does Duncan respond?
   
3. How does Kara deal with her pre-wedding nerves?
   
4. How does Kara exit the bedroom?
   
5. What excuse does Darci make?
   
6. What took Duncan 3 years?
   
7. "At least he had the balls to ask me" - What does this refer to?
   
8. What wedding gift did Darci buy?
   
9. What did they bury?
   

After you watch

1. Do you think Kara may regret her decision?
   
2. Why didn't Duncan keep in touch?
   
3. What happens next?
   

The Metal Detector
https://vimeo.com/223391336

Before you watch

1. Have you ever been on a treasure hunt?
   
2. What's the most valuable thing you've lost?
   
3. What's the most valuable thing you've found?
   

While you watch

1. What kind of programme is the man watching?
   
2. What does the woman talk about?
   
3. What's he doing while he watches?
   
4. How does he get to his location?
   
5. What happens while he's there?
   
6. What was the crafty plan?
   

After you watch -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kACwbzotkAs

What was the story about the French man?
And the barley field?
The flea market?
And the student from Germany?
What about the dog walkers?

6 Minute

Sugar:

• People like sugary things but how much is too much?
• Do I have a sweet tooth?
• Sugar is hidden in processed food.
• Do we check the information on the food, what's in them?
• 5% total sugars in food per 100g is a high or low level of sugar?
• An example with yoghurt in the supermarket labeled as fat free.
• We shouldn't demonise one kind of food.
• Sausages.

AI:

• The diferrence between computer and AI. What's the AI?
• Do we use AI?
• Chess died as an big international event after AI defeated Garry Kasparov.
• Interesting example: over 10 years ago computer beat chess master but pick up a chess piece is very difficult for it.