マイチューターのQuestions

Part 1   (Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. How many neurons are there in the human brain?
2.  Are brains made the same way?
3. How heavy is the human brain?
4. How many calories do we need to keep our brain working?

5. So what is the human advantage?
6. What’s the probability that made us human?
7.  Based on the talked what is animal should be compared to humans and why?
8. Why should the rules of evolution apply to everybody else but not to us?
9.  What was the theory of Charles Darwin about the human brain?
10. How did we come by this remarkable number of neurons, and in particular, if great apes are larger than we are, why don’t they have a larger brain than we do, with more neurons?

Part 2   (Express Yourself Questions):

1. What is it that makes the human brain so special?
2. Why do we study other animals and they don’t study us?
3. What is it about the human brain that allows the cognitive ability for abstract reasoning and creativeness?
4. Is there an intelligence relationship in the size of an animal’s brain to the size of its body?
5. What happened in our evolutionary process that made human brains so proportionately larger?
6. So what do we do that no other creature does?
7. Which came first, our intelligence or our human body?
8. She said that the first cooks were animals.

Assume them to be baboons. If so, can baboons cook today?

9. What do you think of the brain?
10. Do you do anything to look after your brain?
11. How much of your brain do you use?
12. What do neuroscientists know about the brain?
13. What do neuroscientists want to know about the brain?
14. How is the brain structured?
15. Who is the brains of your family?
16. What are some extraordinary things some people can do with their brains?
17. What does your brain do that you hate?
18. Do you think humans will ever completely understand the brain? Why or why not?
19. What is the most amazing thing about the brain?
20. Do you think male and female brains are better at different tasks? Why or why not?

Part 3 (Activity):     Vocabulary Match

Part 1   ( Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. What’s the conclusion of the speaker after several years of teaching?

 
2. Where did she go after she left the classroom?
 

3. What is grit?

4. What is the most shocking thing about grit?

5. What is the best idea she heard about building grit in kids?

6. Who developed the idea about growth mindset?

7. What is growth mindset?

8. Where does Angela Lee Duckworth study grit?

9. What does she found out after studying?

 
10.  What does the data show about talented individuals?
 
 

Part 2   (Express Yourself Questions):

1. What is ‘grit’ according to Duckworth?

 
2.What’s the best predictor of success?
 

3. What do you think is the key to success?

4. How do you achieve short and long term goals?

5. Do you think children who experience poverty are more successful in life?

6. What is your biggest success in life?

 
7. Is having grit the key to success?
8.What are the keys to success?
 

9. What motivates you?

 
10.Who would argue against long term passion and perseverance?
 
11.How are grit and resilience related?
 
12  Do you think the same is true of grit?
 
13.And should we help young people see that they can develop grit, that it’s not just something you’re born with?
 
14. Are there programs that are ahead of the curve in developing important character qualities, including grit?
 
15. How have your theoretical frameworks changed since you became a teacher/administrator?
 
16. Do you agree with the teacher? Why or why not?
 
17. Is “grit” something you can teach? Why or why not? How?
 
18. How does your school promote perseverance?
 
19.How does your school drive students to pursue their passions?
 
20. Do you agree with Duckworth?
 

Part 3 (Activity):

Part 1   (Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. What was Amanda Palmer’s name when she was still a street performer?
2. What kind of a street performer does she do?.
3. What kind of people does she encounter with her job?
4. What would she do if the people she handed flowers did not accept it?
5. Was it an easy job for her?
6. What was the name of her first band?
7. What does Amanda Palmers though about having twitter around?
8. What do you mean by couch surfing?
9. Is it the same as crowd funding?
10. Do you think Amanda Palmer’s crowd funding was helpful

Part 2   (Express Yourself Questions):

1. How would you consider yourself a hardworking person?
2. Do you think the job being a statue is easy?
3. What would you do if people look down on you because your job is ordinary?
4. Do you easily get angry if someone makes fun of you?
5. What would you do if you saw someone having this kind of job? (Statue)
6. Do you like music?
7. What kind of music do you like?
8. Do you know how to play musical instruments?
9. Let’s consider you’re planning to make a band, what name would you give to your band?
10. What kind music would you play together?
11. Where would you want to tour with your band?
12. How would you endorse your band?
13. What would you do if you encounter problems with the band?
14. What should you do to catch the people/crowds attention?
15. Is music career a job? a hobby? or a passion? (Why?)

Part 1　 (Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. How often are we lied to on an average day?
2. What does she say about when strangers meet for the first time?
3. What does she say about the difference between men and women?
4. What does she say about marriage and relationships?
5. What does she say about how children develop their deception skills?
6. She says we live in a post truth society, what does she mean by that?
7. What are the speech patterns of a liar we see in the Clinton video?
8. What are the body language patterns?
9. What other videos did she show?
10. What did she say about the attitudes of honest/dishonest people?

Part 2 (Express Yourself Questions):

1. Why do people lie?
2. What lies do couples tell each other?
3. Are these little white lies?
4. How often do normal people distinguish a lie from the truth?
5. Are you a good liespotter?
6. How often do you lie?
7. When is it okay to lie?
8. What’s the biggest lie you’ve ever told?
9. Have you ever lied in a job interview?
10. Has a lie someone told you ever hurt you?
11. What do you think of liars?
12. People often say: “It’s easy to tell when politicians lie – they move their lips.” Do you agree with this?
13. Do you think white lies are OK?
14. Do you think you could lie and beat a lie detection test?
15. What would you do if someone spread lies about you?
16. Do you feel guilty when you tell a lie?
17. Do you think it is ok to lie to avoid hurting someone’s feelings?
18. At what times do you appreciate people being honest with you?
19. Is it ever all right to give only a partial truth?
20. What are some common situations when people are sometimes dishonest ?

Part 1  (Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. What is the instrument we all play?
2. How many habits that we need to move away from?
3. What are they?.
4. According to Julian Treasure, What is GOSSIP?
5. What does he thinks about complaining?
6. Julian talks about Dogmatism, what is it?
7. What is HAIL?
8. What does each word means base on his own findings?
9. What is the importance of HAIL?
10. How do you define prosody?

Part 2   (Express Yourself Questions):

1. What can you say about Julian Treasure’s speech?
2. Tell me something that you’ve learned from the word HAIL that Julian Treasure talks about?
3. In your own idea why do we need to avoid the seven deadly sins of speaking?
4. Do you like to talk in front of a huge crowd?
5. Have you ever tried talking and nobody’s listening?
6. Do you think you can ask them to listen to you?
7. What would you do if nobody’s listening to you when you’re talking in front?
8. What topic would you want to choose if you’d be given a chance to talk in front of many people? Why?
9. Have you tried not listening to someone’s speech or lecture?

(Tell me about it.)

1. Does it feel good to know that a lot of people listening to you while having your speech?
2. How would you feel if they are not interested with your speech?
3. Do you think human voice / mouth is an instrument? How?
4. How important for you to be heard by people?
5. If you’d be given a chance to talk in front of professional people, would you take that opportunity?

Part 1 (Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. What can you say about Lisa Bu’s Experience?
2. What year did she learned gymnast?
3. After Lisa Bu survived the Cultural Revolution, She said something about only one sure way to happiness. What is it?
4. What was her dream?
5. When nobody around to teach her on how to become an opera singer, what did she do to start learning?
6. What book made her efficient?
7. What are the books that inspired her to study abroad?
8. What book did she read first when she went to U.S. that she cannot find in china because it was banned there?
9. What has given her courage to connect with people of the past and present?
10. Was she happy with her life experience?

Part 2 (Express Yourself Questions):     

1. How can you relate your life to Lisa Bu?
2. Do you think it’s important to have a dream?
3. Why do you think people have dreams?
4. Why do you think some people cannot reach their dreams?
5. Do you think reading a book is helpful?
6. How can book change a life?
7. Do you think book can help you answer all of your questions in life?
8. What do you think is the purpose of living?
9. Are you happy with your life now?
10. If ever you’d be given a chance to change your life story? Would you change it?
11. Do you think being positive can help someone reach their dream?
12. What would you do if you fail?
13. Do you get tired easily?
14. Are you willing to change for the sake of your family’s decision?
15. In your own opinion, How books can open your mind?