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Part 1 (Comprehension Questions ):

1. What did she teasingly say to those who are thinking they don’t have Alzheimer’s disease?

2. How does this disease create a fear according to the speaker?

3. What is the point of connection of two neurons called?

4. What is release from synapse?

5. Who believe that the disease begins when amyloid beta begins to accumulate?

6. What device can detect initial step into the disease?

7. What took place after our microglia janitor cells become hyper-activated?

8. According to the speaker, how likely is it for us to inherit Alzheimer’s from our parents?

9. How do deep sleep affects our brain according to the speaker?

 
10. What do scientist believe, according to her, about the poor sleep hygiene?
 

Part 2 (Express Yourself Questions):

1. Why do people forget?
2. What is the difference between the long term and short-term memory?
3. How do we avoid forgetfulness?
4. What’s the worst scenario you have had about forgetfulness?
5. Has a family member or relative forgotten your name or birthday?
6. How do you think it feels taking care of someone who have Alzheimer’s disease?
7. Do you consider of working as a caregiver?
8. How should we deal with our loved ones who have the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease?
9. Can anyone who violate the law could be excused once he said he has Alzheimer’s disease?
10. What would you do if your husband forgets your wedding anniversary?
11. What are common reactions of people who realized they have forgotten little or simple things thoughtlessly?
12. Do you fear that someday your brain would deteriorate causing you to forget often?
13. What is the most important thing in your life that you never want to forget?
14. Can debts be easily forgotten?

15. Do mistakes bound to be forgotten?
16. Do you feel guilty if you forgot to greet a loved-one on his/her birthday?
17. Is it a crime if you forget to bring your driver’s license if caught by a traffic officer?
18. How serious is forgetfulness as our physical condition is concern?
19. Can forgetting lead a crime?
20. Why do toddlers’ long -term memory crucial for their growth and development?

 

Part 1 (Comprehension Questions ):

1. What is the pressing social issue? 

 
2. Is storytelling important?
 

3. Why is it important?

4. What did she learn 10 years ago?

5. How many investigations they’ve conducted?

6. What is the good news for this crowd?

7. Why is it so difficult to have female directors if they’re part of the solution?

8. What are the wake of franchise successes examples?

9. What if those A-listers simply added an equity clause or an inclusion rider into their contract?

 
10. What would happen if the next generation of audiences grew up with a whole different screen reality?
 

Part 2 (Express Yourself Questions):

1. Do you like watching movies?
2.  What kinds of movie are you interested in?
3.  Have you ever seen a movie with a female lead character?
4.  How do you think Japanese movies and Hollywood movies differ when it comes to gender roles?
5.  Who is your favorite movie actor and actress?
6.  Do you agree that films can not only transport us, but films can also transform us?
7.  What comes to mind when you hear the word director? Are they always associated as boys?
8.  What do you think is the reason why females are far more likely to be sexualized in film than their male counterparts?
9.  What are the usual roles woman gotten in the film?
10. . Movies exist so producers can have money. Agree or disagree?
11. . Cite the difference between what man and what woman want in movies.
12. . Do you think that in the future sexism in entertainment media can be eliminated?
13. . What do you think is the best way to promote the roles of women in media?

Part 1 (Comprehension Questions):

1. How did he describe human rights in his speech?

2. How did he describe conflict?

3. What is his view about compromise is good; that conflict is bad but

4. Who are referred to as the framers? What are their concerns?

5. Explain: The constitution is “an invitation to struggle.” How and why?

6. What were his examples of collaboration and collusion between government

 
7. How was the importance of struggle recognized? 
 

8. What was the serious problem addressed by United Nations? To whom did

they collaborate? Why did they decide to raise such problem?
 
9. What benefits did corporations receive from partnerships with governments?
 
10. How did collaborations and partnerships become the paradigm of public
health? 
 
11. What should be the main concern and responsibility of governments
when collaborating with industries? 
 
12 . Why did he suggest that sometimes we need to engage in conflict?
 

PART 2 (Express Yourself Questions):

1. What are human rights? Where do they come from?
2. Why should anyone respect them? Who is entitled of human rights?
3. Who is exempted of human rights?
4.  Why do we talk about human rights and not human responsibilities?
5. How can defend our rights?
6. Do you agree that constitutions will only invite struggles and hardships to its people?

7. Do you believe that corporations silently deprive us with our rights?
8. Do you believe in the sincerity of government to help its people?
9. Was there an instance that your rights were violated? How?
10. Do you think governments are doing their duty to protect the common
good?
11. Would you accept a take-it-or-leave-it settlement in exchange for your
silence?
12. Would you fight for the rights of others?
13. Would you participate in taking actions in conflicts of your society? Why?

Part 1 (Comprehension Questions)

1. How to get the support of people whose foundation of democracies starts questioning about the system?

 
2.When has the hacking and leaks happened?
 
3. This is where the Democratic National Committee’s networks and the personal email accounts of its staff released last 2016.
 
4. What do you call on the hackers that were sponsored by Russian government?
 
5. When was the year APT28 group had been tracked?
 

6. What country first recognize how the evolution of social media turned to the most exploitable device on the planet?

 
7.What do you call in the ability to use information on someone else so that they make a decision on their own accord that’s favorable for you?
 
8.What are the real operations that Russia did aside from hacking phone calls and e-mails and networks keep grabbing the headlines?

9. According to the speaker, this is a place where people increasingly living and it isn’t by ones and zeroes, but by information and the people behind it.
 
10. What does the speaker advice to her listener?
 

Part 2 (Express Yourself Questions):

1. What do you know about hacking?
2. Why do you think hackers do what they do?
3. Do you think hackers add to new technology developments?
4. What do you think technology companies think about hackers?
5. Are you worried someone could hack into your computer?
6. What could you lose if someone hacked into your computer and how

upset would you be?
 7. Do you always download security updates to protect your computer from
hackers?

8. Do you think large companies fear hackers?
9. Who do you think is ahead of the game, the hackers or the software companies?
10. What kind of damage could terrorist hackers do?
11. How does the way the Internet is structured shape its security concerns?
12. Who matters more to the Internet’s future, states or individuals?
13. What cyber threat concerns you the most? What is cyberwar to you?
14. When does it begin or end?
15. How can we build a safer cyber world?
16. What group or organization do you think is the biggest cyber threat?
17. Where should the power and responsibility of national governments begin and end in cyberspace?
18. What is the role of government in securing cyberspace?
19. Is it ok for a victimized organization to “hack back”? What are the dangers?
20. What are the emerging and future technologies that we will have to worry the most about from a security perspective?

Part 3 (Activity):

Part 1 (Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. According to Stuart Russel, who is Lee Sedol?

2. What is Stuart Russel’s definition about real world?

3. Is the idea that AI might spell the end of the human race a new thing?

4. What did Alan Turing (the Father of computer Science and AI) said about AI might end the human race? 

5.  What is a Gorilla problem according to the speech?
6. According to him, what can we do about the feeling that making something smarter
than your own species?

7. What did Norbert Wiener said about AI? 

8.  What does “the King Midas Problem” means according to Stuart Russel?
 
9. What are the three principles involved?
 10.  Does the robot has to copy human’s behavior according to Stuart Russel?
 


Part 2 (Express Yourself Questions):

1. What images do you have on your mind when you hear the word ‘robot’?
2.  Why do you think people invented Robots?
3. . How do you think people would live in the future if robots will be our

helper?
4. What do you think are the disadvantages of an AI?
5. What do you think will be the greatest contribution of robots in our life?
6. Do you think robots will give us a convenient life?
7. In your own opinion, will robots replace humans as work force in the
future?
8. Do you think robots take over the world one day?
9. The West sees robots as threatening, Japan sees them as helpful – howabout you?
10. Which movie about robot is your favorite?
11. What would you like your robot to do if you have a chance?
12. What role will robots play in our society after five decades?
13. Will robots ever like identical to humans’ behavior?
14. Do you think robots will ever have emotions?
15. What would happen if you programmed a robot to hate and to love?
16. What pet name would you give to your robot?
17. Do you think people will have robots as companions, instead of a family?
18. Do you think people will have robots as companions, instead of a pets?
19. Will robots have rights in the future?
20. Have you ever felt as though you were a robot?
 

Part 3 (Activity):

Vocabulary Match
altruism civilization queasy feeling subservient position, notion cognition
redefined catastrophe “Holy Cow!” compatible dire straits taser
inevitable aligned nail down

1. _____________is an exclamation of surprise used mostly in the United States, Canada, Australia and England. It is a minced oath or euphemism for “Holy Christ!” 2. _____________ the stage of human social development and organization

that is considered most advanced. 3. _____________ prepared to obey others unquestioningly or submissively. 4. _____________ in a very bad situation that is difficult to fix. 5. _____________ nauseated; feeling sick 6. _____________ “to catch, seize” 7. _____________ an event causing great and often sudden damage or
suffering; a disaster. 8. _____________ a conception of or belief about something. 9. _____________ selflessness is the principle or practice of concern for the
welfare of others. 10. _____________ place or arrange (things) in a straight line. / give
support to (a person, organization, or cause). 11. _____________ define again or differently. 12. _____________ a weapon firing barbs attached by wires to batteries,
causing temporary paralysis. 13. ______________ certain to happen; unavoidable. 14. ______________ (of two things) able to exist or occur together
without conflict. 15. ______________ the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge
and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.

Part 1   (Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. What does Ricardo Semler mean about “terminal days”?
2. How did Mr. Semler run a company?
3. The speaker spoke about the most important things in life, what are those?
4. What was the name of the school they created?
5. What are the different ages Mr. Semler mention in his talk?
6. What is the beautiful cemetery in Cambridge?
7. Mr. Semler threw everything he had into the fire and it did two things for himself and his kids. What were those?
8. Asking three whys: What happens in the first why?
9. Asking three whys: What happens in the second and third why?
10. What is the effect of asking asking three “whys” in a row?

Part 2  (Express Yourself Questions):

1. How is what would you do if you only have six months or a year to live?
2. What is your own definition of “love”?
3. Do you think that there is life after death?
4. Where do you think people go after they die?
5. Have you ever thought your purpose of existence? What do you think it is?
6. Choose one: Having a lot of money but very little time or having time but not having money nor health?
7. How would you run a company? with rules or almost no rules?
8. What do you want to be remembered for?
9. “Nobody wants it for free” Do you agree with this? Explain further.
10. If you can have something for free, what would you like to have? Why?
11. If you can have something for free, what would you like to have? Why?
12. What did you write in your bucket list? How important is it to keep a bucket list?

Part 3   (Activity): Fill in the blank

Part 1   (Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. If a baseball is pitched at 90 percent of the speed of light, how long would it take to reach the home plate?
2. What are the few things that we need to consider in order to figure out how big would Google’s data warehouse?
3. What does the Google need to get the power they need?
4. It is prohibited but people still do it when they visit a data center. What is it?
5. What was Mr. Munroe’s estimation?
6. How many characters can a punch card hold?
7. How many punch cards can you fit into a box?
8. How did Mr. Munroe figured out Google’s response?
9. What was the Google’s response to the article about the punch cards?
10. Before Mr. Munroe ended his speech, he talked about receiving a question from anonymous sender using what subject line?

Part 2   (Express Yourself Questions):

1. Can you give an example of a hypothetical question?
2. What do you think is the best and fastest way to hide a body? Can you do this one soon?
3. Would you like to work at Google? Why? Why not?
4. How do you relate to Randall Munroe’s talk about Google towards being the biggest usage server for websites?
5. Would we be able to survive without using Google?
6. Do you believe that Google has the answers to all our questions?
7. Is everything written on the Google a fact?
8. How do you filter the information you have read in the internet?
9. In what way does Google take over our lives?
10. According to Randell Munroe’s talk, it is said that Google is the world’s largest consumer. Aside from NSA, could you think of any other organizations as well?
11. If you received a parcel from Google, what would be your reaction?
12. What can you say about Google’s response to Mr. Munroe?
13. Why do you think Google is so secretive about the size of its data pool?
14. No matter how much information and data is stored, we are faced with the problem of retrieval. List as many characteristics of a great information retrieval program as you can and explain you answer to someone.
15. Aside from money, electricity and number of servers, what do you think are the other factors you can suggest to Mr. Monroe?
16. What do you think is unusual about combining math, science and comics? Explain your viewpoint to someone.
17. Would it be a good idea if all the digital data in the world will be stored in punch cards?
18. What do you think will happen if Google would be transparent with the information they have?
19. Do you think all questions can be answered by math, science and comics?
20. “If people had wheels and could fly, how would we differentiate them from airplanes?”

Part 3    Activity : Instruction:

Find the words for each description below and write it on the space provided. All words will occur horizontally or vertically – not diagonally.

Part 1　　 (Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. What age did the she started to sail?
2. What did she me made up in her mind at the age of four?
3. What age did she begin to go apprenticeship?
4. What is the name of the ship that used in sailing at the age of 24?
5. What day did she first encounter storm at sea?
6. What’s the definition of the speaker about the word “finite”?
7. In the background of the speaker what is the job of her great-grandfather and how many years that he spent his life in the underground?
8. What was the speaker found out as she went to the World Coal Association website? 9. “Can the circular economy decouple growth from resource constraints?

10.What is she referring to about her questions” So could we achieve this in their lifetimes? Is it actually possible?
 

Part 2 　　(Express Yourself Questions):

1. Do you think changes in the economy are predictable?
2. Are you interested in the economy?
3. How important is the economic situation to your daily life?
4. Do you think it is important to be knowledgeable about the economy?
5. What do you think are the main economic problems in the world today?
6. Do you worry about the world economy?
7. Do you have any ideas about how the problems could be solved?
8. What can assist economic growth?
9. What do you think will happen 20 years from now?
10. Do you think there would be lot of inventions in the near future?
11. What are the best and the most useful inventions of the mankind in the 20th and 21st centuries?
12. What famous inventors do you know?
13. How did the Internet influence such things as communication, correspondence, access to information?
14. Do you think that the Internet is the good or the evil?
15. What do you think is the worst invention of the mankind? (weapon, atomic energy, cigarettes, television, mobile phones, cars, genetically modified products etc)
16. Can you name some inventions are you looking forward to? (human cloning, time traveling, eternal-life-pill, AIDS\cancer vaccine, teleportation)
17. Just like what the speaker did have you tried to go sailing around the world?
18. Do you have interest in sailing?
19. How many countries have you been to? How many states?
20. How many times have you traveled abroad?

Part 3　(Activity): Multiple Choice:

Part 1   (Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. Who invented the automobile in 1885?
2. What does the speaker talks about the topic?
3. How many people are killed on the world’s roads every year?
4. In America alone how many people are killed each year in a car accident?
5. What is the kind problem that is getting worse in our roads today?
6. What does the conventional wisdom says?
7. What year they had the first test of a self-driving car where they let regular people use their car?
8. What invention does the speaker is introducing?
9. What year do they first test a self-driving car and let regular people use it?
10. What statement they thought after letting the people used the self-driving car?

Part 2   (Express Yourself Questions):

1. What will driving be like in the future?
2. How safe do you think is the self-driving cars?
3. Do you want to have self-driving car in the future?
4. Do you think self-driving cars will be use in the future? Why or why not?
5. In your own idea do you think that self-driving cars could lessen traffic jam?
6. Can you drive a car?
7. Are you a good driver?
8. Have you ever been in a car accident?
9. Are the drivers in your area where you live good drivers?
10. Do you know anything about repairing or maintaining a car?
11. Do you prefer driving or riding public transportation?
12. What kind of car do you prefer?
13. What are the advantages/disadvantages of buying a car?
14. If you were going to get a new car, what kind of car would you get? A luxurious car? A sports car? A hybrid or electric car?
15. What kind of cars do you think look the best?
16. What is the fastest you have gone in a car?
17. Do you think cars are safe?
18. What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of driving versus public transportation?
19. What do you think cars will be like in the future?
20. Do people drive well in your country?

Part 3   (Activity): Multiple Choice:

Part 1   Reading Comprehension     TRUE OR FALSE

Instruction: Write T if the answer is True, and F if the answer is False,

then change the underline word to make it correct.

1. The name of the Public school teacher that he is talking about is Pam More.

2. Pam Moran Lives in Argentina County, Virginia, the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
3. It all started back in 1987. He was a young man, and he had been dropping in and out of college. And my parents were very patient, but I had been doing intermittent sojourns to Africa on a mystical quest.
4. I went in for a job interview in the Richmond Public Schools in Virginia, the capital city.
5. Chris Farinya is a film maker that was introduce to him by a friend.

Part 2   (Express Yourself Questions):

1. What is peace?
2. What does peace mean to you? Is it important?
3. Do you want peace or money?
4. Peace or love?
5. What is peaceful?
6. Where can you go to have some peace & quiet?
7. What parts of the world have peace?
8. Is your school a peaceful place?
9. What does it mean to have peace of mind or inner peace? Do you have them now?
10. What are some synonyms for peace & quiet? Calm, tranquility,….
11. What are some symbols of peace? What is the color of peace? What are the gestures? 12. What can you do to create a peaceful and quiet atmosphere?
12. Are you a peaceful person?
13. Who are more peaceful? – Men or women? -Adults or children? -Boys or girls? -Religious people or atheists? -Poor or Rich?
14. Is there peace in your life?
15. Are you at peace with your neighbor? – Your workmates? -Your classmates?
16. Who is the most peaceful person you know?
17. What images come to mind when you hear the world peace?
18. What is the opposite of peace? Conflict, war, violence,…
19. Is there peace in your family?

 Part 3   (Activity):   VOCABULARY