For homework, please:
Browse the page Room for Debate - NYTimes.com and consider what topic areas/questions you could see yourself pursuing for the prepared debate on the exam.
Read the file "Should there be a meat tax" on Ilias and identify the best example/detail/piece of data used between the two responses. (This "best detail" doesn't necessarily have to be in line with your genuine stance towards the question -- in a way, all the better if it doesn't because this is extremely useful for developing convincing counter-arguments!)
Listen to the first 9 minutes of this interview Changing Your Mind: A Conversation with Ray Dalio - YouTube and identify where the speaker thinks our aversion for admitting ignorance and/or being wrong comes from. (The Intelligence Squared YouTube channel might prove to be useful to you for in "shopping" for a prepared debate question/general listening practice.)
Read the "foreign words in English" file on Ilias and do exercise 25.1 from the "foreign words exercises in English" file. See if you can add five other foreign words to those introduced on these pages which you've heard change in their English pronunciation/stress (and possibly even spelling).
Prepare a distinct thesis statement is response to each of these debate questions and bring these with you to class:
1. Should artists be role models for society?
2. Should there be a meat tax?
3. Can people truly change?
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