M2: for next Friday (April 03)

Dear students,

For next Friday (April 03):

• We will finish our discussions on the article by Amartya Sen ("What Class of Civilizations?")
  
• We will start working on the "The Cost of Cotton", a report from the BBC
  
• Listen very carefully to this report from the BBC:
  

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/documentary_archive/6564445.stm

• Highlight the main ideas, check the vocabulary and start learning it
  
• prepare 5 insightful, thoughtful questions and their answers: we will use them for class discussions and debates (I might collect a sample of your work on a random basis and they will be graded, in case this preparation work is not done or forgotten, it will be simply zero)
  

On Friday (April 10), there will be another vocab quiz (first 4 pages of the handout "Governement and Politics") and on the vocabulary from the report from the BBC "The Brain Drain from Africa".

Do check this site some time before next Thursday (April 02) to know where the class will take place next Friday (April 03).

Grades (Friday, March 27):

Vocab Quizz (/20)

Average grade: 14.2
Minimum: 03
Maximum: 20

List Comp (/20)

Average grade: 12.9
Minimum: 04
Maximum: 20

Best regards,

Mounir Nassor (mounirnassor@yahoo.co.in)