Materials & Resources

From our Course Syllabus (c1bymffordpto1, 30 pdf pages), in English now:

Materials and resources

Free:

Books to get:

  • We Should All Be Feminists, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (essay; social change) – Oct/Nov Reading In Class
  • Pay It Forward, by Catherine Ryan (novel; social change) – December (start Reading in class) – January individual OPs (Review, summary, opinion, fav excerpts, useful language) and/or written Review
  • Language Myths, by various linguists (essay; society, language and culture) – March OPs

Documentaries to get:

  • Baby Human. Geniuses in Diapers (neuroscience, on the development of intelligence) – December/January
  • (to pick in class: Documentaries) – March

TV Series to get: one season of one

  • Friends, How I Met Your Mother (20 min., everyday language), or any other you like, to work on one same episode once a week for a few weeks.

Free:

  • Story of Stuff (documentales): http://storyofstuff.org/, 20 minutes. Who want(s) to prepare an activity with this for us all in class?

Recommended:

  • Old textbooks (but don’t get obsessed; what you need is more use of authentic materials and less textbook-kind-of-learning. You’ve done that for far too many years)
  • A monolingual dictionary, e.g., Oxford Advanced English Dictionary
  • Phrasal Verbs Plus, by Michael Rundell (Macmillan)
  • Don’t Get Me Wrong, by Brian Brennan & Rosa Plana (PONS)
  • The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, by David Crystal (expensive)
  • Create a mediateque with documentaries and TV series
  • Read women writers: essayists like Cordelia Fine (neuroscience, UK) or Angela Davis (social struggle, philosopher, US), poets like Sylvia Plath or Audre Lorde (US), narrators like Leonora Carrington (UK), Emma Donoghue (Ireland), Margaret Atwood (Canada), or Carson McCullers (US)…
  • Teaching and Learning Through Multiple Intelligences (3rd Edition) by Linda C. Campbell, Bruce Campbell, Dee Dickinson (Allyn and Bacon, 2003)