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B1B2-6. Scientific Innovations & Responsibility

Mary Shelley and her monstruous creation

Here is the drama version of FRANKENSTEIN in a series of 10 episodes by BBC Learning English. Each episode goes with the transcript and a page of grammar. You can download both the podcast onto your phone or computer, and the pdf file on Grammar + Vocab (on the right grey TAKEAWAYS FRAME) Episode 1: … Continuer la lecture »

Catégories: AMC1°_1-2-Science and techniques, promises and challenges, B1B2-5. Fictions & Realities, B1B2-6. Scientific Innovations & Responsibility, LLCE1°_1-2-Freaks, fairies and fancy worlds, LLCE1°_2-1-Love and friendship, LLCE1°_2-3-Confrontation to difference, LLCET°_2-3-Initiation and apprenticeship, LLCET°_3-1-Exploration and adventure | Tags: , , , , , , | Commentaires fermés sur Mary Shelley and her monstruous creation

Get Your Brain Back

Here is a very cunning commercial advertising a new high tech product to « get your brain back » suggesting that past new technologies are already outdated and that you need to buy a new one to avoid the dangers of the old ones. Very smart indeed !!

Catégories: AMC1°_1-2-Science and techniques, promises and challenges, B1B2-2. Private Space & Public Space, B1B2-4. Citizenship & Virtual Worlds, B1B2-5. Fictions & Realities, B1B2-6. Scientific Innovations & Responsibility, LLCE1°_2-2-Relation between the individual and the group | Tags: , , , | Commentaires fermés sur Get Your Brain Back

WWF

Catégories: A2B1-7. Saving the Planet & Designing our Futures, AMC1°_1-2-Science and techniques, promises and challenges, AMC1°_2-1-Being heard, AMCT°_1-2-Public and individual freedoms, AMCT°_2-2-From the protection of Nature to ecological transition, AMCT°_3-1-Power and influence, AMCT°_3-2-Rivalries and interdependencies, B1B2-6. Scientific Innovations & Responsibility, B1B2-7. Diversity & Inclusion | Tags: , , , | Commentaires fermés sur WWF

Greenpeace

Catégories: A2B1-7. Saving the Planet & Designing our Futures, AMC1°_1-2-Science and techniques, promises and challenges, AMC1°_2-1-Being heard, AMCT°_2-2-From the protection of Nature to ecological transition, AMCT°_3-1-Power and influence, B1B2-1. Identities & Exchanges, B1B2-2. Private Space & Public Space, B1B2-6. Scientific Innovations & Responsibility, B1B2-7. Diversity & Inclusion | Tags: , , , | Commentaires fermés sur Greenpeace

Man VS Machine : limits and interactions

Is THIS the future of Mankind? WHAT IF THE MACHINE STARTED TO HAVE FEELINGS …  

Catégories: AMC1°_1-2-Science and techniques, promises and challenges, B1B2-1. Identities & Exchanges, B1B2-6. Scientific Innovations & Responsibility, LLCE1°_1-3-Utopias and dystopias | Tags: , , | Commentaires fermés sur Man VS Machine : limits and interactions

Advertising: persuasive techniques & the art of rhetoric

Had you ever thought about it ? how influential and insiduously manipulating advertising can be ….

Catégories: AMC1°_1-1-Production and circulation of knowledge, AMC1°_2-2-Informing and being informed, AMCT°_3-1-Power and influence, B1B2-4. Citizenship & Virtual Worlds, B1B2-6. Scientific Innovations & Responsibility | Tags: , | Commentaires fermés sur Advertising: persuasive techniques & the art of rhetoric

The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind …

Have you found all the movies referred to in this parody ?

Catégories: AMC1°_1-2-Science and techniques, promises and challenges, AMC1°_2-3-Representing the world and oneself, AMCT°_2-1-Frontier and space, AMCT°_2-2-From the protection of Nature to ecological transition, AMCT°_2-3-Rethinking cities, B1B2-5. Fictions & Realities, B1B2-6. Scientific Innovations & Responsibility, LLCE1°_1-3-Utopias and dystopias | Tags: , , , , | Commentaires fermés sur The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind …

Store Wars or the Organic Rebellion

A delicious parody that you’ll never forget … but you need to be a Star Wars’ fan to understand it to the full !

Catégories: A2B1-6. Creation & Relation to Arts, A2B1-7. Saving the Planet & Designing our Futures, AMC1°_1-2-Science and techniques, promises and challenges, AMCT°_2-2-From the protection of Nature to ecological transition, B1B2-5. Fictions & Realities, B1B2-6. Scientific Innovations & Responsibility, LLCE1°_1-3-Utopias and dystopias | Tags: , , , , , , , | Commentaires fermés sur Store Wars or the Organic Rebellion

From Fiction to Reality: just a matter of Time?

Catégories: AMC1°_1-2-Science and techniques, promises and challenges, B1B2-5. Fictions & Realities, B1B2-6. Scientific Innovations & Responsibility, LLCE1°_1-1-creative and visionary imagination, LLCE1°_1-3-Utopias and dystopias | Tags: , , | Commentaires fermés sur From Fiction to Reality: just a matter of Time?

Conversation with Star Trek’s Captain Kirk

Point of view of a famous sci-fi actor and writer on what the future holds for us  

Catégories: A2B1-7. Saving the Planet & Designing our Futures, AMC1°_1-2-Science and techniques, promises and challenges, AMC1°_2-3-Representing the world and oneself, AMCT°_2-1-Frontier and space, B1B2-5. Fictions & Realities, B1B2-6. Scientific Innovations & Responsibility, LLCE1°_1-3-Utopias and dystopias, LLCET°_3-1-Exploration and adventure | Tags: , , , , | Commentaires fermés sur Conversation with Star Trek’s Captain Kirk