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 is the most important thing that happened to the speaker’s life?
2. What is the title of the story that was photographed by the speaker in the 90’s?
3. Do you think that being a photographer is an easy work? Why?
4. What are the reasons why the speaker decided to stop as a photographer?
5. What are the relevance of the trees in our life according to the photographer?
6. What was the speaker trying to convey about the how to maintain a good environment?

Part 2   (Express Yourself Questions):

1. Do you like taking pictures?
2. What pictures do you like to take?
3. Do you prefer a person or nature?
4. How do you arrange your pictures?
5. Do you like other people taking pictures of you?
6. What are the things that you need to have to take a picture?
7. Is it necessary to buy an expensive camera to take a picture?
8. What is the purpose of taking pictures?
9. Do you have a lot of pictures with family and friends?
10. Why do we keep memories?
11. Do you think taking photo helps us relieve stress?
12. Do you have your own camera?
13. Have you ever tried taking photo inside the Photo studio?
14. Do you like taking photo of yourself? (Selfie)
15. What is your favorite photo pose?

Part 3   (Activity): VOCABULARY MATCH

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. What age did black started learning a yoyo?
2. Do Black likes sports even before playing yoyo?
3. Was he good at playing yoyo the first time he attempted to do so?
4. Did black improve his yoyo skills after practicing hard?
5. What happen to him after four years?
6. What did he expects to happen to him after winning the yo-yo contest?
7. What happen to him after his First yo-yo contest?
8. What did he do to overcome his failure?
9. What sports did he learned?
10. What is the result of his effort this time?

Part 2 (Express Yourself Questions):

1. How would you feel if you’re in front of a big crowd?
2. Do you know how to play yoyo like black?
3. Do you have dreams? (What?)
4. What did you do or would you do to reach your dreams?
5. Do you think having dreams can help us go on with our lives?
6. What would you do if you failed to reach your dreams?
7. What is the greatest downfall you’ve ever experiences?
8. What is the best accomplishment you’ve had in your life?
9. Do you know how to catch people’s attention?
10. Do you want to be as popular as black?
11. If you were famous now, what is the first thing you’re going to do?
12. If you have enough money for a living, would you stop working?
13. Is it good for us to keep fighting and never give up?
14. Have you ever experience a feeling that you wanted to give up everything?
15. How would you handle failures in life?

Part 3 (Activity): FILL IN THE BLANKS　

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 did he said about being sentenced to jail term in Santa Barbara, California?
2. What solution did they apply for those who don’t want to stand in long lines if they go to the amusement park?
3. What example did he share regarding “Paid line standing.”?
4. What is the difference between Market economies to Market societies?
5. What market values begin to dominate every aspect of life?
6. What reasons did he stated on the question; “why worry about our becoming market societies?”
7. Give me one example he use for controversial use of a market mechanism, and cash incentive?

8. In his lecture he asks some of the audiences’ opinion. What is the opinion of Heike Moses?
9. How about Elizabeth Loftus’ opinion?
10.  What isn’t good for democracy?

Part 2   (Express Yourself Questions):

1. Why we shouldn’t trust markets with our civic life?
2. What should be the role of money and markets in our societies?
3. Would you worry about our becoming market societies?
4. What would you do if you’re at the last line of buying a ticket for a concern of your favorite singer?
5. You saw a women standing at the last line to buy a food, there’s no counter for senior citizens. What should you do?
6. Do you think our world can become a better place if we use money all the time?
7. Have you ever tried paying someone to fall in line for you?
8. Do you want to try the incentive for your kids in the future so that they will learn and study hard?
9. Is it okay to read books and get a pay?
10. What do you think about incentive programs at work?
11. Do you think Perfect attendance, best employees, Honor student; etc… incentives programs (Money) needs to be implemented in your company/school?
12. In your own idea, what is intrinsic motivation?
13. What would you do if you have a failing grade and your teacher would ask you to pay for it to pass the exam?
14. In what way can we motivate ourselves without using money?
15. Michael Sandel’s asked; do we want a society where everything is up for sale,or are there certain moral and civic goods that markets do not honor and money cannot buy?

 
Part 3 (Activity): VOCABULARY MATCH

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?