2019-01-29 TED: vocab, women leaders

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - Notes from all classes
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http://historyofenglishpodcast.com/ - Interesting historical podcast about the development of English, starting with old Indo-European
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Homework: read the text more carefully and answer the questions on p. 47
Key Details
16, Avani Singh
economic
single
environmentally friendly
women
hope
Statistics
1 50% (50% of women are in the workforce, and 50% of them are in the service industry)
2 stayed the same (about 16% of the women in the workforce)
3 Vietnam, Cambodia, Nepal, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania
4 closest: Rwanda, farthest: Jordan or Pakistan (depending on how you compare them)
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Do you understand the vocabulary on p. 49.
find - found = discover/encounter
found - founded = establish/create
fund - funded = finance/pay for
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https://corpus.byu.edu/coca/ - Analyze the frequency of different words and phrases
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Who is Sheryl Sandberg?
Use the text on p. 50 to answer the questions on p. 51.
1 She managed Google’s online sales operation and was an economist for the World Bank.
2 Women who choose an active career are not confident and assertive, and companies do not appropriately recognize those who are.
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Homework: p. 52 - Read the excerpt from the talk and answer the questions (part B is predictions)