Long TED Talk : Teach every children about food

1.   Summary

Jamie Oliver, a chef from UK, has worked to save people’s lives for the past 7 years. He wants to fight against the awful reality in America. America is now one of the unhealthiest countries in the world. There are 2/3 people in the USA are overweight now, and children will have 10 years shorter lifespans than their parents due to the wrong way of eating food. Furthermore, the main death-leading causes in the USA are all diet-related. In addition, the obesity deceases cost 10% of health care bills of America per year which is equal to 150 billion dollars; and in 10 years this amount will keep rising.

Oliver also told the food revolution he involved in Virginia. He pointed that the obesity and diet-related deceases not only hurt the patients themselves but also their friends and family members. Nevertheless, they are all preventable deceases.

Oliver shaped our daily food landscape into a triangle: main street, family and home. First, in the past 30 years, the big brands of fast food occupied the main streets and became a powerful power in the USA. Their power was even big enough to affect the law of food labeling. Fast food which is highly-processed and full of additives replaced local and fresh food. Second, home has stopped passing on the food culture because the change of our lifestyles. Third, people who provided the meals to the students in schools were not professional on food and limited by the tight budget. Therefore, they provided junk foods to schools.

Besides, Schools didn’t teach food knowledge to children. All the conditions above caused the serious situation in the USA.

   Oliver thinks there are 4 ways to do a food revolution in America. The first, supermarkets should put a food-ambassador in each of them to teach people how to choose fresh food materials and cook nutritious meals. Second, big brand companies should put food education in their business, and they should help their customers to wean off over sugars and fat. Third, schools should provide the local and fresh food and take two-one hour session of food in their cruses. Last but not least, families should start again to pass on the food culture.

In conclusion, Oliver think people should believe that the slightly they do will bring the change. They should educate children about food, inspire families to cook again and empower everyone to fight for obesity. If America starts to do these, all other countries will follow soon, and the world will change.

2 What listeners can learn from this talk?

     The listeners can learn 3 things in this speech. The first one is that we should care about our life skill, cooking, because everyone will face the responsibility to pass on our own food culture. It not only helps others but also save us from the unhealthy food. Second, we should supervise our government to enact strict food regulations so that we can make sure all the food we bought is safe for our bodies. Third, we should eat the food grown local rather than the highly-processed because they will be much fresher and contains more nutrition. 

TED : Don't insist on English

1. Summary    

     The speaker is Patrica Ryan, who is from the UK, has already taught English in Gulf for 30 years. At the first, she talked about the connection of losing languages and globalization of English. Indeed, we need to enter those best universities in the world, which are almost in the UK or the USA, to get the better chance of our lives. We need to pass couple tests of English, such as TOEFL and IELTS, so these test become the barrier to get into this school. Although Ryan worked as English teacher, she didn’t think we should set the English as a barrier, it means we decline people who are talented but can’t afford the test fees. On the other hand, these tests equate English and knowledge. Some people do not need so many language skills and are not good at English on their work like scientists or engineers are also declined. This circular situation will make English more and more important and many other languages die.    In addition, there are 2 more points she mentioned in this speech why we should not insist on English. The first is the importance of cross-generation communication. If we can only speak English, we can’t learn the valuable knowledge from the elders who speak their or our mother language. Second, when we stuck in a thought, other languages maybe figure it out with different vocabularies; and through the cooperation we can benefit each other whom use different languages. In conclusion, she reminded us that we should celebrate the diversity and mind our own languages.

2. What can listeners learn from this talk?  

    Listeners can learn the importance of the diversity of languages. There is no wrong to strengthen our abilities of English to communicate with people form the different countries easily. Nevertheless, we shouldn’t ignore our language or even other languages in the world. It is because that once we learn these language, we can see the brand-new culture that we haven’t ever seen. The late but not the least, different languages can help us think in multiple angles so that we can figure problems out much easier.

Movie clip：Taken 2

Which movie does this clip come from?

This clip is from the movie Taken 2

What is this movie about?

This movie is the sequel of Take 1. In Taken 1, the gang from Albania kidnapped Bryan’s daughter (Kim) who traveled with her friend in Paris and then they planned to use the drugs to force them to engage in prostitution. Bryan, who was worked in a secret service organization, came to Paris and used the professional skills he learned from works to rescue his daughter. Bryan also killed lots of members of the gang, including the ringleader (Murad)’s son, when he saved Kim . So, in Taken 2, Murad leaded the gangster to Istanbul and kidnapped Bryan and his ex-wife (Lenore) to revenge. Bryan and Lenore was tied and tortured severely in a dark room. Bryan used his mini phone to call and teach his daughter (Kim) how to find him so that he can get out and come back to save Lenore. For Kim’s safety, Bryan sent her to embassy after he get a rid of the gang. Then he kept the track of the gangster to find the chance to beat them and take Lenore out. At the end of the movie , Bryan asked Murad to forgive him because he thought Murad should accept the truth of his son’s death as all the parents of the girls whom kidnapped by him. Murad reject his proposal, so Bryan killed Murad for the everlasting  safety of his family.

What is happening in this clip?

This clip is describing how Bryan taught his daughter, Kim, to find him in such a big city, Istanbul. Because of Bryan’s work, he always had well-prepared “weapon luggage” when he traveled, Kim could find some stuffs Bryan needed, such as grenade, city map and some weapons. At first, Bryan asked Kim to throw a grenade so that he can use the sound of blasting to calculate how far he was away from the hotel. After making sure that Kim had already thrown the grenade, he started to count how many seconds pasted and then timed the speed of the sound. And then he let Kim use the length he calculated as the radius and the hotel as the center of the circle to locate where he and Lenore were on the map. Then, Kim could come there and give him a gun so that he escaped from the place they were imprisoned.

Movie trailer : The Fast and The Furious 6

Why did you select this trailer to show the class?  

Many people think the movies from Hollywood are too commercial ,and actually The fast and the furious 6 is 

absolutely a typical commercial one. But you can't deny that sometimes leaving your brain at home and going to the movie theater with exciting mood just as going to the amusement park when we was little is really enjoyable. The special effects of racing car on a big screen will make you feel the high speed of the car just like you sit in it.

And the great audio can let you hear the popular street musics and the sounds of engines. It really makes people's blood boiled. The last but not least,no matter you are a man or woman, you can always find handsome actors and sexy actresses in the movie. So, why not let your brain take a break and seeing a movie with big cast during weekends ? Maybe after seeing the fantastic cars in the movie, we'll try to work harder next week to get the car someday.

Based on the trailer, what do you think the movie is about?

This movie is from the series of  The fast and furious, so this episode must have some connections with The fast and the furious 5. At the beginning of the trailer the international police (Dwayne Johnson) come to Brazil to tell Dom (Vin Diesel) that  they find his ex-girlfriend who have already dead and now is working for Owen Shaw  (Luke Evans) who is of a multinational criminal organization. To beat the Shaw, Dom forms a best tea, and now they are ready to use their outstanding skills of racing car and the fast cars to get their family member back.