Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Bill Gates: "How Do You Make a Teacher Great?" Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnfzZEREfQs

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how do you make a teacher a great

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seems like the kind of question that

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people to spend a lot of time on it we'd understand very well

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and the answer is

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really

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that we don't

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let's start with why this is important

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well all of us here

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fallback have some great teachers

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we all had

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a wonderful education

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that's part of the reason we're here today part of the res were successful

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uh... i can say that even old alma college dropout

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if i had rate teachers

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and in fact in the united states

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the teaching system is worth fairly well there are

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fairly effective teachers

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in a narrow

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seta places of the top twenty percent of students

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have gotten a good education

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and those top twenty percent

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had been the best in the world if you measure them against the other top

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twenty percent

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and they've gone on

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to treat the revolutions and software and biotechnology and keep the u_s_ at

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the forefront

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the strength for those top twenty percent

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is starting to fade on a relative basis

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but even more concerning

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is the education that the balance of people are getting

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are not only is that the end week it's getting weaker

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and if you look at the economy

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it really is only providing opportunities now

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to people with better education

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as we have to change this we have to change it

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so that people have equal opportunity

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we have to change it so that the country strong and him and stays in the

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forefront of things further are driven by advanced education like

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science in mathematics

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when i first learn the statistics i was pretty stunned at how bad things are

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over thirty percent of kids

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never finished high school

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and that had been covered up for a long time because they always took the

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dropout rate as the number who started and senior year

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compared to the number of the finishing your because they were tracking

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where the kids were before that but most of the drop out since he can

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place before that so they had to raise

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the state a dropout rate as soon as that track was done to over thirty percent

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for minority kids

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it's over fifty percent

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and even if you graduate

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from

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high school

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if your local income you have less than twenty five percent chance of ever

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completely in a college degree

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if you're low income in the united states you have a higher chance of going

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to jail

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than you do it getting a four year degree

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and that you know it doesn't seem to entirely fair

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how do you make education batter

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our foundation for the last nine years is invested in this as many people

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working on it

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we've worked on small schools

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we funded scholarships we've done things in libraries

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uh... a lot of these things have a good a fact

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but the more we looked at it the more we realized

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having great teachers was the very key thing

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until he looked up with some people studying

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how much variation is there between teachers

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between say the top quartile

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the very best in the bottom quartile

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how much variation is there within a school or between schools

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and the answer is that these variations

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are absolutely unbelievable

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popped portrayal teacher

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will increase the performance of their class

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based on test scores by over ten percent in a single year

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what does that mean what that means that the entire u_s_ for two years had top

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quartile

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teachers

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the entire difference

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between us and each other would go away

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and within four years we would be blowing everyone in the world the way

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so it's time for all you need is those top quartile teachers

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and so did say well

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mild that's good we should reward those people we should retain those people

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we should find out what they're doing

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and transfer that's guilt other people

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but i can tell you that absolutely

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is not happening today

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what are the characteristics of this pop art file but what are they they look

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you might think

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well these must be very senior teachers

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and the answer is no

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one somebody is top for three years

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there

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teaching quality does not change thereafter

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the variation is very

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very small

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you might think well these are

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people it masters degrees

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they've gone back and they've got their masters of education

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this chart takes four different factors and says how much do they explain

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teaching quality

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that bottom thing which says there's no affect at all is a master's degree

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the way the pieces the works

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is there's two things the rewarded one in seniority

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packager people stopping investing your pension and the second is

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giving extra money to people get their master's degree

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but it can always associated

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would be a better teacher

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teachforamerica slight the fact

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for math teachers majoring in math is a he

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measure will affect

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overwhelmingly

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if your past performance there are some people who are very good at this

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family done almost nothing

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to studying what that is and abroad and too

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replicated to raise the average capability or to encourage the people

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with it

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to stay in the system you might say will do the dance teacher stay in the bad

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teachers leave

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the answer is on average

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fell slightly better teachers we'd the system and it's a system with

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terrified turnover

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there are a few places very few

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rate teachers are being made

Monday, November 11, 2013

What most schools don't teach

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and I was 13 when I

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first

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her my

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me a a Macintosh in 1984 as a result I was in sixth grade

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I learn to code in college freshman year of us the mast of

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on intro to computer science a row to

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around the plate tic-tac-toe thing is pretty humble beginnings I think

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the first program I wrote asked not things like what's your favorite color

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or how old are you I first learned how to make greens her call

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and their red square here on the screen the first time I actually had something

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come up and say hello world

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added the I made a computer do that was just astonishing learning approved in

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star office

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wanting to learn all of Computer Science or um

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are trying to master this to supplant or anything like that it just start off

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because I want to do

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this one simple thing I want to make something I was fun for myself and my

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sister some

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wrote this little program and basically just have a little bit to it and wanted

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to learn something new

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looks a lot better and Booker on the Internet at a little bit to it it's

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really not unlike gonna play an instrument or something

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o'rourke you're playing sport the

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its or something very intimidating but coming at the bank that over time

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coating is something that can be learned and noms

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I know I can be intimidating a lot of things are intimidating

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but up you know what isn't blood according to people do they actually

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fairly simple

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um its it's more about the process of breaking down problems then

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I you know sort of coming out with complicated algorithms as people to

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sleep thinking about it

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you don't have to be a genius to know how to counter you need to be determined

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ditions attractions up that's about it

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should probably know your multiplication tables you don't have to be a genius to

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could you have to be a genius to read

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even if you wanna become a race car driver play baseball

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um or I you know build a house in it

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all these things have been turned upside down by software but it is you know

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computers are are everywhere he went to work in agriculture do you want to work

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in entertainment do you want to work in

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manufacturing it's just all over but

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well below

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21 night

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carry our 2013

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when are dependent on technology to communicate

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to basic information and none of us know how to read and write code

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when I was in school hours in the staff to school group called the whiskey is

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and people found that these laughed at me and you know all these things are

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like me and I don't care i think is cool and you know I'm learning a lot

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and summer for his abs ops our policy

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is literally to hire as many talented engineers as we can find

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the whole image in the system is just that they're just are enough people who

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were trained

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and have the skills today get the very best people we try to make the offices

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awesome as possible

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your fantastic chef

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free food

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designed to you know

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free laundry snacks you places to play video games and scooters

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there's always kind of interesting things

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around the office in places where you can play or relax good thinker play

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music for be creative

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you

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whether you're trying to make a lot of money or whether you just want to change

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the world computer program is incredibly empowering skill to learn

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I think if someone had told me that you

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software is really about humanity that is really about helping people

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by using computer technology it would have changed my outlook a lot earlier

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to be able to actually think of an idea and then

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see it in your hands and then be able to press a button and haven't been millions

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people's hands

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minute I think we're that for some reason the world that's really ever had

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a good experience

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just to think that and you can start something and

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your college dorm room and you can have a set of people who haven't built a big

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company before

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come together in build something that two billion people use this parameter

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daily lives as

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it's crazy to think about and it's really it's humbling and it's amazing

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the programmers have tomorrow or the Wizards love the future

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you know you're gonna look like you have magic powers compared everybody else

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it's amazing is it think it's the closest thing we have to a superpower

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the great corners arteries rock stars I'll

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better

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Saturday, October 12, 2013

Festivals and festivities

Are there any interesting festivals in your town or country?

TALKING ABOUT A SPECIAL EVENT

Give a short talk about a festival or special event from your own country or region, or any other you’ve been to.
Before you begin, make notes under these headings.

The name of the event or festival
- Where it’s held- When it takes place and how long it lasts
- What it celebrates/ the reasons for the event
- Who takes part.
- It’s origins (if known)
- What special preparations it needs,i.e. costumes/decorations
- Food and drink
- How it begins- What happens during the event/ it’s atmosphere
- How it ends- How the event has changed over the years.

Useful language
Right then, I’m going to tell you a little bit about the festival of/called …..
I think it’s one of the most (interesting/ touching ………..) I …………….
It’s a (ten-day) festival and takes place in …………………………..
As you can probably know/guess, it’s a festival which is completely dedicated to _____________________.
Many people take part in the festival.
It celebrates……………………………
Over the years It has become / it is extremely popular, people take a great deal of pride in it.
More and more people come each year to watch the ceremony.
It really is quite a moving occasion.

Zaragoza celebrates its most important festivity in honour of the Virgen del Pilar in the days before and after 12th October.
According to tradition, the Virgin Mary appeared to Saint James the apostle on the banks of the river Ebro in the same place where the basilica now stands.
The festivity has something for everyone to enjoy with cultural, musical and bullfighting activities.

Other important attractions include the processions of giants and bigheads, which are very traditional, and of course the traditional local music and dancing known as the Jota.

The most important religious acts include the offering of flowers on 12th October. People come from all over the region and the country dressed in typical regional costume to offer flowers to the virgin.
These are then used to make a very large and beautiful covering for the base of the statue. There is also a dawn mass on the same day and the beautiful glass rosary, a procession which takes place through the streets of Zaragoza at dusk on 13th.
These festivities have been declared of special national interest for tourists.

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