マイチューターのTEDで英会話　ライブラリー

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

Part 1  (Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. What does the video shows about Sports Mania?
2. What does the video shows about Religious Mania?
3. What does the speakers opinion about manias?
4. What is the term used by the speaker about the new mania of the world?
5. What is the single word definition of English?
6. What is the second language of the world?
7. What is Mathematics?
8. What is Music?
9. How did the speaker define English?
10. .How many Chinese Student study and wants to take the test in English. ?

Part 2  (Express Yourself Questions):

1. What is the main idea that Mr. Walker wants us to understand?
2. Walker states that it is ‘not America pushing English but the world pulling it’. As learners of English do you agree?
3. Do you think English is a difficult language to learn? Yes or no?
4. Do you think that English will completely dominate all the other languages in the future? If yes, how will it affect the world?
5. What is your mother tongue?
6. How many languages do you speak?
7. How did you learn your second language?
8. What’s the best way to learn a foreign language?
9. What methods do you use to remember vocabulary better?
10. Do you think English is a difficult language to learn?
11. Have you ever spoken English on the phone?
12. How often do you practice your English?
13. What is your favorite way to practice your English?
14. What is the most difficult thing about English?
15. Why are you learning English?
16. What do you think you will be able to do in English in the future?
17. Do you think that English will completely dominate all the other languages in the future? If yes, how will it affect the world?
18. How much time do you spend looking out of the window during class?
19. If you are really absorbed in lessons, do the classroom arrangements matter?
20. How do you use the Internet to learn English?

Part 3   (Activity):    MULTIPLE CHOICE

Part 1　 (Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. What does the speaker talked about?
2. What does she know about the topic? –
3. Where did Jim and Shirley Modini spend their 68 years of marriage?
4. How did Jim and Shirley spend their final years?
5. Who died first?
6. How many practices did the speaker show?
7. What are those practices?

 Part 2　 (Express Yourself Questions):

1. What is your reaction after watching this video?
2. Are you afraid to die? Why?
3. In some cultures people mourn death and others celebrate it. Do you think death is a mournful cessation of life or a celebration?
4. Which among death ritual is preferable: burial, cremation or mummification?
5. What do you think happens after a person dies?
6. Where do you want to be when you’re no longer independent?
7. What do you want in terms of medical intervention?
8. Who’s going to make sure your plan is followed?
9. Do you think the grieving process is different for different ages?
10. Do you know someone who has died from a from disease?
11. What are some ways which you can help a family which has just experienced the death of a family member.
12. How can you help someone who is dying?
13. Are you ready to die?
14. What are some useful euphemisms for telling someone that someone they know has died?
15. How does it feel when your loved one dies and you were unable to see them for the last time?
16. What Is End-of-Life Care?
17. Have you ever lost someone close to you?
18. How do you tell someone that someone they know has died?
19. Why are so many people afraid of death, when it is unavoidable?
20. What causes death?

Part 3 　(Activity): 　　Vocabulary: 　Multiple Choice

Part 1  (Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. Why does the large groups of animals formed?

2. How does the tapeworm infect the body of an Artemia?

3. Why do the fellow writers of the speaker interested about the story of the parasites?

4. What were the findings of Kevin Lafferty and the three Californian estuaries about the parasites?

5. What was the chemical weapon found by Israeli Scientists

Part 2  (Express Yourself Questions):

1. Tell me about insects.
2. What is the scariest insect for you?
3. Do you have insect that you like?
4. Do you think that insects have a role in our world?
5. Do you know someone who have insect as a pet?
6. If you have a chance to pet an insect, what type would it be?
7. Do you have a pet?
8. What is your pet’s name?
9. What kind of pet would you like to have in the future?
10. How do you take care of it?
11. Do you think they can become a big part of our life?
12. What influence do you think a pet can give to its owner?
13. Tell me something about parasites?
14. What would you do if you got infected with a parasite?
15. Do you think eating shrimp is not a good thing?

Part 3  (Activity): VOCABULARY MATCH

Part 1   (Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. What does the speaker talk about?
2. What is tribal societies?
3. Where does people in U.S.end up when they get old?
4. What are the two conditions conditions in society mentioned by the speaker?
5. What is nomadic society?
6. What is marginal and fluctuating environment?
7. What did the speaker talk about about happy extreme?
8. How many sets of reasons for the variation among societies in the treatment of old people mentioned by the speaker?
9. What is the first reason?
10. What is the second reason?

Part 2   (Express Yourself Questions):

1. Does caring for grandchildren really suggest a better treatment to the elderly or does it imply the opposite one?
2. Would it be worthy if we allow the society to grow in a traditional way of living?
3. Does the situation of elderly people really have something to do with the advances of technology? If so, in what ways?
4. In your own ways, how can you let the elderly people you know (or may notknow) feel that they are treated well and that they deserve good retirement lives?
5. What other ways would you suggest on how our societies can support our elders better? 6. Are you afraid of getting old?
6. What is your ideal old age to live to?
7. Do you prefer to live in the retirement home or live with young people?
8. Where do you wish to live when you are old?
9. Why do you think people send their elders to nursing homes?
10. Do you think sending your loved ones to nursing homes is a kind of abandonment? 12. Do you think we should take care of our parents when they grow old? Is it a family duty?
11. Do you ever get tired of family duties?
12. Does the government in your country care of people in their old age?
13. Would you consider living in an retirement home when you’re older?
14. What are the pros and cons of being in a nursing home? Do the pros outweigh the cons?
15. Are your parents in a nursing home now?
16. How much does it cost to keep your loved ones in a nursing home?
17. What do you think is the best age to be?
18. Many elderly people have disabilities which limit their mobility.Do buses, shops and public buildings in your country provide easy access for the disabled or are your towns and cities designed mainly for the young and able-bodied? Why is this?

Part 3   (Activity): MULTIPLE CHOICE