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Know Your World #67: The Great Global Warming Swindle

▶️ Here’s a 2007 British documentary that claims global warming is a swindle (=cheating). The term “global warming” has since been abandoned in favour of the more universal “climate change”. It’s been heavily criticised for going against mainstream science.

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Know Your World #68: AI can do your homework. Now what?

▶️ Should students be allowed to use AI? Here’s how the world of homework is changing. Good food for thought!

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🎉 Special Day: The #1 classical New Year song

▶️ Auld Lang Syne is a 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scottish song that is rivaled (=challenged) only by ABBA’s Happy New Year. Check out the story behind it.

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🎊 And Happy New Year, everyone! Look forward to Afandi English nourishing (=feeding) your hungry mind in 2024.

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Know Your World #69: The benefits of being bilingual

▶️ Demand more from your brain and it will do more for you! Such is the case with bilingualism, which has been shown to be more beneficial than we thought!

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🏮 Special Day: Welcome the Year of the Dragon!

▶️ Tune in to the world’s biggest televised event – the Chinese Spring Festival Gala. It’s a potpourri (=mix) of bombastic (=big, shocking) musical performances, spectacular kongfu (=Chinese martial art) shows, not that funny standup comedy and lots of propaganda (=advertising for the government). And it’s going on RIGHT NOW! 👇

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTEG19BHt1U

🐉 By the way, the year of the dragon is considered the luckiest one!

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Talking Point #6: Snippets

▶️ Cats are amazing creatures. They manage to teach complex history lessons in just 20 seconds. But it doesn’t stop there. People form their opinions about society and politics on TikTok, and even one minute is a long time there. And damn me if I write too much on my channel – people will unsubscribe.

We live in a world of “snippets” – super short pieces of written information with more and more visuals (=using pictures or videos). What’s your take (=your opinion)?

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Know Your World #70: Bloom’s Taxonomy

▶️ You may say you think a lot, but thinking is not the same as thinking! There is a hierarchy (=system of levels) to that.

Why does it matter?
❗️Whether we are students or teachers, we need to aim for higher thinking skills in education.

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Know Your World #71: What brands do to your brain

▶️ We like to think that we’re in control of ourselves, but brands seem to be very close to our heart and have more power over us than we like to think.

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Know Your World #72: Guns, Germs and Steel (Part 2)

▶️ This documentary from 2005 is a real classic. It tries to answer the question why Europeans, and more broadly Westerners, have dominated the globe for so long. Watch Part 1 here.

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Know Your World #73: People in the World

▶️ How many people have ever lived on this planet? Let this infographic give you some idea.

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Know Your World #74: The pork taboo

▶️ Billions of people around the world don’t eat pork, usually for religious reasons. But it’s interesting to investigate (=check) this taboo (=a rule not to do sth) scientifically and look into historical reasons.

❗️Contains potentially (=possibly, maybe) upsetting imagery (=pictures).

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Know Your World #75: The End of Globalisation?

▶️ Here are two videos explaining the recent slowdown (=decrease, becoming less) in globalisation as the world moves towards multipolarism (=having many centres).

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Talking Point #9: Hate Speech

▶️ Social division (=people being against each other), discrimination and hate crimes (=crimes against groups in society) – especially Western countries who are promoting freedom of speech are struggling with the effects of hate speech. Each solution comes with other problems.

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Know Your World #76: The History of English as a Global Language

▶️ How did English become the world’s first language? Watch this animated video to understand the basics.

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