マイチューターのGlobal Issues

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Stephen Petranek: Your kids might live on Mars. Here’s how they’ll survive
SFのように聞こえるかもしれませんが、ジャーナリストのスティーブン・ペトラネックは、20年以内に人類は火星に住むようになると考えています。この刺激的な講演で、ペトラネックは人類が宇宙に広がる種になることを示し、火星を第２の故郷に変える方法の興味深い詳細を語ります。彼は言います。「地球に何が起ころうと人類は生き続けるでしょう。我々が最後の人類になることはありません」
 

Part 1   ( Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. How many people are going to colonized Mars?
2. How big is planet Mars?
3. How’s the atmosphere in Mars?
4. What about its temperature?
5. How’s the days , seasons and years in Mars?
6. What is Stephen afraid of that may happen to earth?
7. For those who dream of flying one day, what Mars could offer?
8. What is the most livable planet?
9. What is the distance between Moon and Mars?
10. When can we land Mars based on the speaker’s theory and how?

Part 2   (Express Yourself Questions):

1. What do you know about Mars?
2. Do you think there was/is life on Mars?
3. Martians are from Mars; do you know what life forms on other planets might be called? 4. Are you interested in the secrets Mars holds?
4. Would you like to go to Mars one day?
5. Why are scientists so interested in Mars?
6. Do you think it’s possible that one day, many people will live on Mars?
7. What do you think of the idea often described by scientists that life started on Mars and moved to Earth, which means we are Martians?
8. What would you like to know about Mars?
9. Why is Mars red?
10. When do you think people will visit Mars?
11. Do you think it is possible that humans could ever live on Mars?
12. What will happen to the travelers during their trip to Mars?
13. Do you want to go to Mars forever? Why/not?
14. Do you want to go to Mars but come back to Earth? Why/not?
15. Where do you want to go for a long time? How long do you want to go there?
16. What will we need, and how can we get all these things? Health & Terra forming?
17. Why would we want live on Mars?
18. What facts do you know about the planet Mars? Share with the class.
19. If life is found on Mars, how does that change our views on life? What are the implications for politics, religion, philosophy and other human institutions?

Part 3   (Activity): Vocabulary Match

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10 ways to have a better conversation
仕事の成功がいかに上手く人と話せるかにかかっているとしたら、会話の仕方について多くを学ぶことでしょう。でも、実際にはほとんどの人があまり上手く会話をしていません。長年ラジオ番組の司会をしてきたセレステ・ヘッドリーは、優れた会話の要素が何か知っています。正直に、簡潔に、明確に話すこと、そして適切な量の聞くことです。この鋭い洞察に満ちた講演で、彼女がより上手く会話するための10の方法を紹介しています。「出かけていって人と話し、耳を傾けること、そして何より大切なのは、感心させられるのを期待することです」
 

Part 1   ( Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. What are the 10 ways to have a better conversation?
2. Why do we need to listen?
3. Why multi-tasking is bad for us?
4. What is pontification?
5. How can we avoid it?
6. How can we benefit from leaving an open-ended questions?
7. What is the implication of going with the flow?
8. Why is it that there’s no sense for us to try to repeat ourselves?
9. Is it essential for us to speak briefly?
10. Why Celeste gives emphasis on don’t equate your experiences with theirs?

Part 2   (Express Yourself Questions):

1. What traits do you look for in a conversation partner?
2. What makes it easy to talk to someone?
3. Tell about your favorite types of conversations to have?
4. What do you talk about?
5. What is your role in a conversation?
6. Do you dominate? or subordinate?
7. Who communicates better: men or women?
8. How do conversations between men and women differ?
9. Do you have better conversations when you are drinking?
10. How do your conversations change after you have been drinking?
11. Have you ever said something to someone that you wish you hadn’t said? What was it?
12. How do you feel about being frank? Explain
13. How do you feel about blunt people?
14. How do you feel about conversations with people older than yourself?
15. Do you like to eavesdrop on other people’s conversations?
16. If you had to choose, would you rather marry a partner who is handsome/beautiful and sexy, but who is a terrible conversationalist, or a partner who is a wonderful conversationalist, but who is lessattractive-than-average?
17. What was a difficult conversation you had to have in your life?
18. How can you improve your conversation skills?
19. If you could have a conversation with any famous living person, who would you talk to?
20. In your experience, which country’s people are the easiest to talk to? Explain.

Part 3   (Activity):　　 Vocabulary Match

Part 1   (Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. What age did he lost his best friend to a car accident?
2. What is DARPA?
3. Tell me a summary of Sebastian Thrums Experience.

Part 2   (Express Yourself Questions):

1. How old were you when you first learned to drive?
2. Was there anything difficult about learning to drive?
3. Can you drive a car?
4. Can you drive a manual shift car?
5. Do you have a car?
6. If so, what kind of car do you have?
7. What are the advantages of owning a car?
8. What are the disadvantages of owning a car?
9. Are you a good driver?
10. Have you ever been in a car accident?
11. Do you allow passengers to eat inside your car?
12. What are the advantages/disadvantages of buying a secondhand car?
13. Do you wash your car yourself or do you have it washed?
14. Do you think that there is a relation between global warming and cars?
15. Have you ever seen a “hybrid” car?
16. What do you know about “hybrid” cars?
17. Do you really think that car manufacturers are interested in global warming?
18. How often do you need to get your car repaired?
19. On what occasions do you honk your car horn?
20. What do you think of international car-free days?
21. Can you recall any memorable car drive in your life?
22. What are the most frequent driving offenses?
23. What factors are responsible for railway crossing accidents?
24. According to insurance statistics women are better driver than men. Do you agree? 25. What do you think of car pooling?

Part 3   (Activity): PREPOSITIONS

Part 1   (Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. What are the 8 traits of successful people have in common?

(1) Passion   ( 2) Work      (3 )  Focus    ( 4)  Push  ( 5)  Ideas   (6)  Improve   (7)  Serve   (8)  Persist
 

2. What is being talked about the video?

3. Why do so many people reach success and then fail?

4. What were Richards’s mistakes, to lose a successful business?

5. What happened in Richard’s life when he became the president of a successful company?

6. What sides of being successful he disliked?

7. What was the solution Richard found to fight his depression?

8. Richard lost a successful business, and he stopped being successful, but he got all his back. What was the difference between the first time and the second time?

9. What happened to the speaker when his first business failed?

1. What sentence best describes the whole video?

Part 2   (Express Yourself Questions):

1. What was your greatest achievement in life?
2. Was it easy or difficult to achieve this success? What makes it easy or difficult?
3. What qualities make a person successful? How do these qualities help a person become successful?
4. If success is a journey not a destination, then what should be a destination?
5. How is success a journey and not a destination?
6. What successful people think about themselves?
7. What do successful people think about all the time?
8. In your own opinion is it normal to day dream about your success in the future?
9. How do successful people think?
10. Why does everyone look at the statistics or odds when thinking about becoming successful?
11. Do successful entrepreneurs ever think “wow, what a wannabe” about people who want to have a business and be successful in it?
12. How do 1 stop always thinking about success and at the last results are zero?
13. How do successful people feel about their failures post-success?
14. Success is not a destination but a journey. What is the real meaning of this phrase and how does it feel to have a journey towards success?
15. Are there any successful people who credit their success to a book about attaining success?
16. Is your idea of success the same as your parents’ idea of success?
17. Do you think people focus too much on appearing to be successful?
18. Can money buy happiness?
19. Have there been any failures that made your life better?
20. Is there a right time to give up and stop trying? Or should you never give up?

Part 3   (Activity): Vocabulary

Part 1   (Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. What does multi tasking mean?
2. What is mono tasking?
3. Who is Paolo Cardini?
4. Describe how he considers the option of mono tasking.?
5. What does he wants to say in the talk?

Part 2   (Express Yourself Questions):

1. Are you a creative person?
2. Are you effecient in your job?
3. Do you manage time, or does time manage you?
4. Are you able to multi task?
5. Do you have any experience with multitasking? How did you handle it?
6. Is monotasking more efficient and effective than multitasking?
7. How do you differentiate multi tasking and multi tasking
8. Do you schedule out what you have to do every week?
9. Do you make a schedule for every day?
10. If you could stop time, what would you do and why?
11. What is the benefits of mono tasking?
12. What do you think will happen to you when you do multi tasking?
13. How do you stay focus?
14. What is the advantage of multi tasking?
15. What is the bad effects of multi tasking?
16. Do you spend a lot of time when preparing for something?
17. Are you good at getting things done on time?
18. What would you do if you had a few extra hours in a day?
19. What do you do if you forget an appointment?
20. Do you think you manage your time wisely?

Part 3   (Activity): Multiple Choice

Part 1　　 (Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. What is the term used by the speaker in his discovery?
2. What does he means to say about goal in the topic?
3. What is the function of neo cortex?
4. What is the function of our limbic brains?
5. Who is Samuel Pierpont Langley?
6. What is the law of diffusion of innovation?
7. What does Jeffrey Moore means about “Crossing the Chasm”?
8. Who was the person who made the speaker an example of being successful of the law of diffusion and innovation?
9. How many laws does Dr. King believed?
10. What are those?

Part 2 　　(Express Yourself Questions):

1. Do you think the people who surround you, can inspire you a lot?
2. What is a Leader?
3. Who is the “greatest leader” that inspires you in any ways?
4. As a leader, how would you manage your fellowmen?
5. Would you be a good leader someday?
6. Who are the first leaders who come to your mind?
7. What makes those people great leaders?
8. What are the qualities or characteristics that every leader should have?
9. Are some people natural leaders and other people natural followers? Why?
10. Why do some people think it’s a bad thing to always follow other people?
11. What characteristics does a bad leader have?
12. If you were the leader of your school, what changes would you make?
13. What are the most important decisions you make as a leader of your organization? 14. What advice would you give someone going into a leadership position for the first time?
14. What are you doing to ensure you continue to grow and develop as a leader?
15. If you encounter failures in your leadership, how will you cope up with it?
16. As a leader what is your mission, vision and goal?
17. What are the most lacking traits among the leaders today?
18. What is the most important characteristic that every leader should possess?
19. What are the most pressing challenges that leaders are facing today? Why?

Part 3　(Activity): MULTIPLE CHOICE

Part 1  (Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. Who invented sliced bread?
2. What did the speaker use as an example in spreading ideas?
3. What does the speaker means to say about the idea of diffusion?
4. Who was the famous baker he showed in the video?
5. What is mass marketing?
6. What is the Japanese word mentioned by the speaker?
7. What is the meaning of Otaku?
8. In what way does becoming a fast- growing business in the whole mortuary industry? 9. How many rules does the speaker wrapped up?
9. What are those?

Part 2   (Express Yourself Questions):

1. Who is an inspirational person to you?
2. Why?
3. Would you like to inspire others?
4. What could you inspire others to do?
5. What is the difference between inspiration and motivation?
6. Can you tell me of a time when you felt inspired?
7. Who inspired you?
8. How?
9. What did you do after that?
10. Do you think inventors shows good influence to young people nowadays?
11. Who do you think is considered one of the most inspirational people in history?
12. What type of act is inspirational?
13. Many people say that we should learn to inspire ourselves instead of relying on others. What do you think?
14. Do you find nature inspiring?
15. Why?
16. Do you find any religious figures inspiring?
17. Why?
18. What do you think about inspirational inventor? Do you know any?
19. Has a book ever inspired you?
20. Have people ever been inspired to do bad things? If so, what bad things?

Part 3   (Activity): MULTIPLE CHOICE

Part 1  (Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. What is the belief of Americans in this topic?
2. How many assumptions she discussed in the topic?
3. What is the first assumption?
4. What is the second assumption?
5. What is the third assumption?
6. Who are exposed to more options and ads associated with options than anyone else in the world.?
7. What kind of game which is American people trained their whole lives to play that game?
8. What is the most problematic assumption?
9. What’s the explanation of the speaker about the quote of Robert Frost ” It is poetry that is lost in translation”?
10. What does Joseph Brodsky said about poetry?

 Part 2  (Express Yourself Questions):

1. How important is making a choice?
2. What process and techniques to use to be able to make good choices?
3. Does gut and intuition plays important role in making a choice? YES OR NO? Why?
4. How does our society and media influenced our choices?
5. What is the most important thing to be considered in making a choice?
6. Can having too much choice be a bad thing?
7. Would you rather live in your home country or live abroad?
8. Would you rather be smart or beautiful / handsome?
9. Would you rather be poor and happy or rich and unhappy?
10. Would you rather marry someone plain with a good personality or someone beautiful without much personality?
11. If war broke out in your country would you rather flee the country or fight?
12. Would you rather be rich or famous?
13. If you had to lose one of your senses(sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste) which would you rather lose?
14. Would you rather marry a rich celebrity or a rich CEO?
15. Would you rather have a brand new Mac or PC?
16. Would you rather take a trip to a new country or get a new TV?
17. What do you feel when have bad decision?
18. Are you good at making decisions or are you usually indecisive?
19. Do you make decisions quickly or slowly?

Part 3   (Activity):   MULTIPLE CHOICE