Class: 21^st February

Unit 7: Science and Research

Can-Do Objectives: 

     Explain and discuss news stories about science

     Express surprise and disbelief

     Discuss the uses and abuses of statistics

     Explain and discuss news stories about science

Pages: 48 - 51

Grammar: Passives

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive

Vocabulary: slippery slope, wedge, see-through, performance-enhancing, How on earth…, onslaught, fuzzy, beyond me, dubious, to scam, make a buck, feasible, reckon, deploy, to stack, to bombard, to assess

HW: Workbook - pg. 40, 41, 42 (Reading)

Also: Below is the TED Talk I mentioned in class. It is included on a list of talks about data. You might enjoy watching any of the other ones.

Ben Goldacre: Battling bad science

http://www.ted.com/playlists/130/the_dark_side_of_data.html

THE DARK SIDE OF DATA (11 TALKS)