CA4: Stress:friend or foe?
Pre-tasks 4.2
Start by doing the exercises which you can find in the classroom in the Materials section:
Stress: friend or foe?: Part 2 Is stress all bad?.Be sure to use the different vocabulary
and grammatical structures you have learnt as you do the following task.
When you have finished, share one thing that you have learnt from these materials
(vocabulary or grammar point) to the I have learnt something today folder in the Forum.
Task 4.2
Overview
Task type
To do
Where
Length
% CA mark
Individual
Speaking
Langblog
1-2 minutes
45
Before you do Task 4.2, have a look at one or two of these TED Talks which explore aspects
of psychology:
❏https://www.ted.com/talks/vs_ramachandran_the_neurons_that_shaped_civilization
❏https://www.ted.com/talks/andreas_ekstrom_the_moral_bias_behind_your_search_re
sults
❏https://www.ted.com/talks/gary_wolf_the_quantified_self
For this task, you are going to audition to be one of the speakers in a TED Talk. Choose a
topic within your degree that motivates you. Do some research and prepare the details
of a short presentation.
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