diff --git a/schule/englisch/EN_2025-02-06.typ b/schule/englisch/EN_2025-02-06.typ new file mode 100644 index 0000000..90b7827 --- /dev/null +++ b/schule/englisch/EN_2025-02-06.typ @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +#import "@preview/grape-suite:1.0.0": exercise +#import exercise: project + +#set text(lang: "en") + +#show: project.with( + title: [Training: Listening], + seminar: [English Q2], + show-outline: true, + author: "Erik Grobecker", + date: datetime(day: 6, month: 2, year: 2025), +) + +#show "->": sym.arrow +#show "=>": sym.arrow.double + + +- #link("https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/listening/c1-listening")[britishcouncil] + += Mediation + +== writing a short speech +// (Trying to see how far I can progress in a certain time) + += Listening + ++ nothing is more enjoyable, in her own world, like an artist ++ tought her how to cook, recipes, cooked with her since she was five ++ really think about her dream, sacrifices, being a normal kid ++ became her business partner, opens the shop while she's still in school, runs it during the day ++ diligence, great flavor ++ hard work, responsibility, awarness of customers ++ fresh foods, more extracts than sugar + +#pagebreak() + += Writing + +== An article by David Brooks - "If it feels right ..." + +=== Summary + +The article "If it feels right...", +written by David Brooks and published by the New York Times on the 9th of september in 2011 +is about how young adults percieve right and wrong. +Brook and his team asked questions in an empirical study, regarding these question of morality or ethics, +after which they categorized their results. +They found that most of the 230 people they interviewed, +to them, didn't have any ethical standing and just regarded it as a matter of individual opinion. +The team then assumed teenagers, if given more ressources, would cultivate their moral intuitions. + +=== Destroying a point (lightly) + +A first point that can be used to critisize this very well made article by Mr. Brooks, +would be the lacking dataset, 230 individuals interview is in any shape or form way ot lackluster to form any meaningfull conclusion, +as the reiterate 230 young adults wouldn't even make up a single school, and with that can't be seen representation of an entire generation. + +Secondly, not only is Brook overstating the importance of how 230 people solved his survey, +he is also judging this directly and comparing their thoughts with his, but also tries paint them in a negative light.\ +This is seen, when comparing he states that "moral thinking didn't enter the picture", regarding a way of thinking, which is not his own, +as unmoral and as something that could be cultivated upon to the state which Brook sees as good.\ +Directly categorizing that morality is based on the percerption of an individual is by that quickly thrown into the bin of having a non-cultivated moral intuition, +with no further description for why it should be seen as such. + +Thirdly, the article also uses negativly connoted words together with the "youth of today" almost like a clockwork, +creating a dogmatic impression to readers, which they would then apply to many of a generation. +An example of such writing can be seen in the "#underline[depressing]" result, "#underline[groping] to say anything sensible" or the "#underline[rambling] answers"