TED ed Archives - Watch and Talk Method

15 Oct Why Are We So Attached To Our Things?

Posted at 07:04h in B1 - Intermediate, Non Guided, North America, Partial Lesson Plan, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Psychology, TED ed

Any hoarders, "collectors" or celebrity memorabilia fans in the house? After witnessing the “violent rage” shown by babies whenever deprived of an item they considered their own, Jean Piaget – a founding father of child psychology – observed something profound about human nature: Our sense of...

22 Oct The language of lying

Posted at 17:46h in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Partial Lesson Plan, Popular Culture, Psychology, Technology, TED ed

We hear anywhere from 10 to 200 lies a day. And although we’ve spent much of our history coming up with ways to detect these lies by tracking physiological changes in their tellers, these methods have proved unreliable. Is there a more direct approach? The...

11 Jun The ethical dilemma of self-driving cars

Posted at 09:46h in B1 - Intermediate, B2 - Upper-intermediate, C1 - Advanced, Complete Lesson Plan, Popular Culture, Technology, TED ed

This is a potentially devilishly fun lesson where you can ask students some tricky questions to explore ‘worse case scenarios'. The video focuses on the ethics of self-driving cars and brings up the prickly question of who gets to decide how these cars should react...

28 May The bridge problem

Posted at 16:12h in A2 - Pre-intermediate, Complete Lesson Plan, Problem Solving, Psychology, TED ed

This lesson is fun way to introduce talk about alternative ways of thinking and can work well as either a mid-term break, or as a prequel to the lesson on critical thinking, for example, or to wind down the course at the end of the...

5 tips to improve your critical thinking

26 Feb Tips to improve your critical thinking

Posted at 11:11h in A2 - Pre-intermediate, Complete Lesson Plan, Management, North America, Psychology, TED ed

This lesson is based on “Critical Thinking” and revolves around a very accessible video on the subject. As usual, there is a lot of potential for segues and going deeper into the subject but it can also be a “light and short“ lesson depending on...