Universidad de La Laguna
rev. 2023-11-14

Técnicas de expresión en un idioma moderno
Historia (2023-2024)
UNIT 4

Sessions (weeks 5-6)

TOPIC 4.1
Population

Thurs., 22 Feb.

Assignment 4.
Seven billion: how did we get so big so fast? ► 2:34 (2011 video) (transcript).
Why China's one-child policy failed ► 3:30 (2015 video) (transcript).

TOPIC 4.2
Underwater archaeology

Fri., 23 Feb.

Underwater archaeology ► 2:50 (2012 video) (transcript).

One-minute talks: from the videos.

TOPIC 4.3
Presentation skills (II)

Wed., 28 Feb.

Donald Clark: Presentations (1998-2011).
Present like Steve Jobs ► 6:54 (2008 video) (transcript).

Population

Carrying capacity

Hank Green. Human population growth. 2012. 10:54. (Crash course ecology; 3).

China's one-child policy

Nanfu Wang. What it was like to grow up under China's one-child policy. 2019. 5:57. (TED talks).

Underwater archaeology

Shipwrecks

James M. Gaines. The oldest shipwreck in the world. 2019. 10:52. (SciShow).

Sunken treasures

Who can claim sunken treasure from Spanish galleon San José? 2015. 4:45. (CBS This morning: Saturday).

Presentation skills (II)

Public speaking

Patrick Henry Winston. How to speak. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, 2018. 1:03:43. (January IAP 2018). Transcript.