You are going to watch a TED talk on starting a movement. Describe any movements that you know about, e.g.
- Anti-immigration movements (e.g. the Minutemen volunteers guarding the American/ Mexican border)
- Anti-nuclear protests (e.g. those in Japan post-Fukushima)
- Anti-war movements (e.g. the protests against the war in Vietnam)
- Civil rights movements (e.g. Black Lives Matter)
- Ecological movements (e.g. anti-whaling groups)
- Independence movements (e.g. Gandhi’s non-violent campaign for Indian independence)
- Movements within political parties (e.g. the Tea Party movement within the American Republican Party)
- Pro-democracy movements (e.g. Arab Spring, Orange Revolution in Ukraine)
- Protests against military bases
- Religious movements (e.g. new pilgrimages)
- Social media campaigns (e.g. Twitter campaigns)
- Youth movements, e.g. hippies, mods, punks, skinheads and goths
What do those kinds of movements have in common?
What do you think the stages of starting a movement are?
Put the following stages in order:
- A leader/ A “lone nut” (e.g. the shirtless guy dancing on his own)
- A second follower
- People who were sitting on the fence/ People who want to be part of the in-crowd
- The first follower
- The tipping point/ The movement gets momentum
- Three more people
- Two more people
Rank those stages and people from the most important to the least important.
Watch Derek Simons’ TED talk on starting a movement and listen for which of those people/ stages is the most important (a crucial role, an underestimated form of leadership, emulated by the followers, etc) and which is not so important (over-glorified, gets all the credit without necessarily deserving it, etc).
Decide which of those two people each of the phrases refer to, then maybe watch again to check.
need the guts to stand out and be ridiculed
a crucial role
show everyone else how to follow
calling to his friends
an underestimated form of leadership
emulated by the followers
over-glorified
get all the credit
have the courage to stand up and join in
Collocations
Without looking above for now, try to match up the words below to make common collocations.
ladies and momentum
let’s watch a movement happen
the guts to stand gentlemen
with a crucial fence before, now have no reason to
show everyone else how to follow
calling to his friends
an under- estimated form of leadership
transforms a lone point
three is a nut into a leader
now you’ve got out and be ridiculed
This is the tipping crowd, and a crowd is news
as more people join in, it’s less risky
those that were sitting on the role
they will be part of the in- alone
let’s re- glorified
remember the importance of nurturing…
guy that is standing credit
the biggest lesson, if you noticed, …is that…
leadership is over- effective
he’ll get all the crowd if they hurry
transformed the lone nut into a leader
that would be really in- guts to stand up and join in
have the cap some lessons from this
Look above, read the transcript and/ or watch the DVD again to check.
Which words and phrases above can be used to start and end a presentation? What other phrases can you use to start and end a presentation?
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