~After+the+Workshop

=__**After the Workshop**__=

__Language in Cultural Context__
How language transformed humanity [with Mark Pagel] http://www.ted.com/talks/mark_pagel_how_language_transformed_humanity.html

The world’s English mania [with Jay Walker] http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/jay_walker_on_the_world_s_english_mania.html

Don’t insist on English [with Patricia Ryan] http://www.ted.com/talks/patricia_ryan_ideas_in_all_languages_not_just_english.html

· // `The History of English’ // from The Open University (12 minutes) : @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3r9bOkYW9s&list=PLA03075BAD88B909E&index=11&feature=plpp_video

· Arthur Yap’s poem being read at the 2011 Singapore Writers Festival (3 minutes): @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTl7t1zGKk4

@http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/

__ Language as a way of Knowing (TOK Link) __

· RSA Animate: //Language as a Window into Human Nature// (11 minutes): @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-son3EJTrU&feature=relmfu Steven Pinker shows how the mind turns the finite building blocks of language into infinite meanings.

__ Language and Mass Communication __

= · Short film//` Could Have Been Love’// (3 minutes): = @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUe3sbtqI2Q

· Short film `//Doll Face’// (5 minutes) (This film presents a visual account of how our desires and identities are easily shaped by social pressures that surround us and which are extensively influenced by the media): @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl6hNj1uOkY

Here is the link for 'Outfoxed' - a free site for watching documentaries.

@http://freedocumentaries.org/int.php?filmID=43

__For Social Media Week...__
futurehipsters.com

__ **A video link for Part 1 and/or Part 2** __
The Power of Simple Words - @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz8E8UOBFJQ&list=PLF9A468788928A351&feature=plcp&context=C4b14b44FDvjVQa1PpcFMX7Ta7yFwAxQvYwevP-FVLZbYrhZodTO8=

**__Lesson for either Language part of the syllabus__**
@http://www.channel4.com/programmes/make-bradford-british/articles/home

__**Resources for Language units:**__

It has a central theme of racism and this links in with it.

It could also be used for a Language & Power unit of work for Lang/Lit, I am working on this at the moment. Part 1 or Part 2?

Also here are articles from The Guardian and The Telegraph about the programme

@http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/02/make-bradford-british-channel-4-race

@http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9117088/Make-Bradford-British-thanks-for-nothing-Channel-4.html

**Students could produce a variety of text types such as:**-

write their own review after viewing. Write letters to the participants of the experiment or the facilitators. Blog post taking opposing stand points Diary - as a participant which would vary depending on their choice

It opens up discussions about the language of racism (the N. word is used in the programme) attitudes, prejudice, manipulation through the media and the language choices of Channel 4 and much much more.