TED: Ideas Worth Spreading

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 TED Conferences  LLC (Technology,  Entertainment, Design) is a  media organization that  posts talks online for  free distribution under the  slogan "ideas worth  spreading." Ted talks are  not mere entertaining tools  but they represent a very useful way to expand  your knowledge about a  certain topic.

Teachers can choose a video about a specific topic  and work with it with their students. Different tasks  can be assigned before, during and after watching  the video. 

For example, in the course of studies English  Language IV, in order to work with listening  comprehension, the teachers decided to use a TED  talk called “The danger of a single story”:  The Danger of a Single Story. Students were given a worksheet in which they had  activities related to the main ideas, key details,  understanding sequence of events, among others

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