Do schools kill creativity? Advanced shadowing lesson
Ken Robinson opens his TED talk with jokes about the conference and about dinner parties, where saying you work in education makes people go pale. He then argues that all kids have tremendous talents and that creativity is as important in education as literacy.
What you practise by shadowing it
- Greetings and a question tag: Good morning. How are you? It's been great, hasn't it?
- Stress on the words he sets side by side: I want to talk about education, and I want to talk about creativity.
- A short comment at the end of a sentence: you're not often at dinner parties, frankly. And you're never asked back, curiously.
- Advanced
- Video
- 3:58
- 55 sentences
Practise it in the app
Free, no account needed. The app plays one sentence and waits for you to say it.
First sentences
Good morning.
How are you?
It's been great, hasn't it?
I've been blown away by the whole thing.
In fact, I'm leaving.
The video has 55 sentences. The rest are in the app. Practise them all
Words and phrases
- creativity
- the ability to have new ideas
- extraordinary
- very unusual and impressive
- blown away
- very impressed
- have no idea
- not know at all
- capacities
- abilities to do or learn things
- talent
- a natural ability to do something well
- vested interest
- a strong personal reason to care about something
- contention
- an idea someone argues is true
- play out
- happen and develop
- pin you to the wall
- keep you talking and not let you go
- goes deep
- matters very much to people
How to practise this clip
- Listen for the rhythm: which words are strong and where the speaker breathes.
- Say each sentence at the speaker's speed, as one smooth phrase.
- Score your tries to see which words did not come through, then practise those sentences again.
Want to practise every day? See the 15-minute routine.
Source
Ken Robinson at TED, on YouTube
