Tuesday 24 April 2012

Homework 26 April

The Power of Habit
The Economist business book review

http://www.economist.com/multimedia?bclid=1213687636001&bctid=1566812835001

Listen/ summarise and presesnt in speaking to the class by applying "the Golden Rule".

24 April

PROJECT WORK

Work in a group and prepare requirements for the presentation on home reading!
1.
Review our presentation lesson and,in particular,  this link
http://www4.stat.ncsu.edu/~reich/st810A/oral.pdf
2.
Review the following lesson materials
http://aeatmru.blogspot.com/search/label/Paraphrasing%20skill%20development

http://aeatmru.blogspot.com/search/label/acessay%20writing
3.
Prepare a concise list of requirements











Thursday 19 April 2012

Thursday 5 April 2012

Homework

Task. Paraphrase the text below.

To a psychologist, lots of human rituals look a lot like the automatic behaviours developed by Skinner's pigeons or Dickinson's rats. Chunks of behaviour that do not truly have an effect on the world, but which get stuck in our repertoire of actions.
We cling to these habits because we – or ancient animal parts of our brains – do not want to risk finding out what happens if we change. The rituals survive despite seeming irrational because they are coded in parts of our brains, which are designed by evolution not to think about reasons. They just repeat what seemed to work last time. This explains why having personal rituals is a normal part of being human. It is part of our inheritance as intelligent animals, a strategy that works in the long-term, even though it clearly does not make sense for every individual act.
From:

Stafford T. Sporting superstitions: Why do we have them? 27 March 2012 [interactive] [accessed 05 April 2012] http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120327-why-do-we-have-superstitions/2

05 April Lesson

More on paraphrasing
https://www.indiana.edu/~istd/cases.html