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Presentation How to come up with (= invent ) a solid outline and an interesting question? Start with a list of your ideas and examples: AI is becoming bigger and bigger movies / books Valley of the Uncanny Singularity We need someone / new frontier (JFK) taking over 2015, AlphaGo ; AlphaZero alphazero an algorithm, self learning programme / software progress Then try and sort them (thematically, or chronologically, etc.) : 1.  AI is a boon ( a good thing ) AI is becoming bigger and bigger fascination in movies, books Self learning programmes Progress of science, medecine, etc. 2.  AI is a curse ( a bad thing ) fear of taking over AlphaGo, better than us Valley of the Uncanny (we're afraid of robots) Singularity, etc. CONC We need someone / New Frontier     considered like / as: I did it like a pro (but I'm not really one) I did it as a hero (because I'm one)  An android = [oid] paranoid / void HK= Sarcasm / [...zem] t...

Presentation WW2 Cap. America as propaganda Sentinels of Liberty To what extent is Captain America a myth and a hero? German-Americans during WW2. Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria are the three countries where polio is endemic. "P., A. and N. are the three remaining countries where polio is endemic." The campaign to eradicate polio has begun in 1988. "the global campaign to eradicate polio, which began in 1988, is facing a whole new set of uncertainties." (l.6-7) There are two polio viruses that still exist, and a third type has been eradicated last year. "three poliovirus strains have existed since 1999: wild types 1, 2 and 3." (l.24) This document was written in the Washington Post in Jan. 2020. see last line. It's a fairly recent document. Social media in Pakistan created false rumors about vaccination. Social media in Pakistan has accelerated false rumors about vaccination, leading to waves of refusal by parents....

Presentation Try and nuance your thoughts If your document is a text / speech, you should quote it and analyse it a bit.  Pay attention to tone, words and references. Here for instance, the words " Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction " highlights a sense of fear and gives the speech an apocalyptic twist.  Fear-mongering  / doomsayer / Malthusian approach. Other expressions insist on the " urgency ." Then the speech pinpoints ( develops ) the themes of guilt ( culpabilité ) and threat ( menaces ) : " you would be evil ," " We will never forgive you ," and " change is coming ." Whether or not you think it's a good speech doesn't really  matter, you have to be an observer. 

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Presentation US flag - > Stars and Stripes we will question ourselves and wonder why Captain America is... - > I will wonder why... a symbol - > it stands for all other examples - > Uncle Sam poster (I Want You) / Top Gun - > Soft power interesting - > far-reaching / essential, etc. ironical - > Cap. America as an Aryan warrior, nazism? protecting the world vs isolationism  (Monroe Doctrine / Cold War...) Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria are the three countries where polio is endemic. The campaign to eradicate polio has begun in 1988. There are two polio viruses that still exist, and a third type has been eradicated last year. This document was written in the Washington Post in Jan. 2020. Social media in Pakistan created false rumors about vaccination. There were 8 cases in 2017, as compared to 128 today. This increase is a major SETBACK. 2 policemen were killed during a polio vaccination campaign. homework=all the statements are true. Tr...

Presentation imitating / mimicking  designèd - > [id] uniquement après un <t> ou un <d> automatism - > [iz ə m] a task - > [t æsk] an engine - > [end ʒɪn] "singularity" / "uncanny valley" 1. robots are a boon 2. robots could be a curse 1. Robotics and employment 2. robots as utopia 3. Robots and fiction - > The Terminator / Westworld / Metropolis / Blade Runner / I, Robot unparalleled effort a milestone one of the greatest health achievements just inches away from eradicating polio crippling disease mode of transmission population density underserved communities, socially and politically millions of health workers door to door in remote areas in heavily populated cities on road, on water, on train tracks... how to reach people? one of the toughest of challenges celebrities helped to persuade people and change attitudes. Today we listened to an audio document. Here is what we heard: in 2009, there were m...

Anti-vaxers (Sonia + Tia + Bastien) Dorothea Lange as a polio survivor (Lucie + Hendrisca) The eradication of Smallpox What’s an iron lung? (1 st stanza of the song) The Rotary International The Black Death (Eden + d'Helena) NEXT THURSDAY PRESENTATION "as follows" outline OMS - > HGO obesity as an epidemic low income poverty induced obesity ? organic food eco-friendly it represents the idea well. Body shaming / Body positivity to be considered as a hero / like a hero Today we listened to an audio document. Here is what we heard: in 2009, there were more cases in India than in any other country. It's a document from Unicef TV. India is just inches away to stop transmission. It's about the longest Polio free period. Thousands of parents were persuaded to get their children vaccinated. Mobile vaccination teams were created. It dealt with challenges. Celebrities are here to help India with stopping polio transmission.

ongoing = that is taking place right now a sickness = quand on ne se sent pas bien / nausée / esprit an illness = ill = malade /  a disease = maladie plutôt grave an epidemic = une épidémie a plague = une peste / la peste / fléau flu = grippe (influenza) cold = rhume an increase = une augmentation a decrease = une baisse perennial = éternel, sempiternel ubiquitous = omniprésent   Could it be polio?   It shadowed their entire lives the text deals with polio symptoms. it was difficult for the sick to find a position when they slept.  It was easy to know if you had polio. children and old people were more likely to get it. Aspirin didn't work, so it was then / at that time that you knew it could be polio. the surrounding people / relatives never knew what was happening.  the virus targeted the brain first. it said there was a post-polio syndrome. Post-polio was not very serious. it said that the sick were is...

Ending Polio Now We introduced the new topic through a presentation showing two maps, one from 1988 and the other from 2017. We understood that it dealt with a disease. A few documents presented the symptoms of that bane ( plaie ): an engraving from Ancient Egypt depicted a man with an atrophied leg who needed a crutch to move. A manuscript from the Middle Ages showed the same phenomenon. Lastly, we came across (=to see, to consider) a Chinese illustration from the 19th century about the same issue. Photographs of Franklin Delanoe Roosevelt [ROOzeVELT] helped us understand it was about poliomyelitis (or, Polio).  There's an ongoing battle to eradicate this disease. ongoing = that is taking place right now a sickness = quand on ne se sent pas bien / nausée / esprit an illness = ill = malade /  a disease = maladie plutôt grave an epidemic = une épidémie a plague = une peste / la peste / fléau flu = grippe (influenza) cold = rhume an increase = u...

Nouns pitfalls a breakthrough a downside a watershed a moot point a pipe dream the apex of a hot-button issue a doomsayer a hot topic a turnabout intricacy a sheer fact a smokescreen a rosy picture Verbs to be teeming with to dismiss a fact to crack down on to trump something to point out something to brush up something to circumvent s.o/sth to play down sth to side with s.o to be lambasted it can lead to to gain ground to underpin to skyrocket to be committed to doing sth How to write a question : en anglais, on ne dit pas " problematic ," mais " question. " De même, on évitera d'utiliser  we  mais plutôt  I . On vous demande un avis personnel, bien documenté, bien structuré. Vous avez une problématique? Montrez-là! De même pour le plan. Pour ce faire, vous pouvez : - utiliser une phrase interrogative :  to what extent is monstrosity a quintessential element of imagination?  -  utiliser une interrogative indirecte (ça c'...