Tasks for students

Student’s name: Yerzhigit Symbat,

Dudnik Alevtina

Group 10

Date: 20122309

Academic Listening and Note taking

Dan Dennett: Cute, sexy, sweet, funny

№	Word	Definition	Example
1	Artificer	someone who is the first to think of or make something	In the theory with which we have to deal, Absolute Ignorance is the artificer
2	Pamphlet	a small book usually having a paper cover	A creationist pamphlet has this wonderful page in it
3	Amuse	To cause to laugh or smile by giving pleasure	And, of course, we are amused by jokes because they are funny.
4	Intrinsically	Of or relating to the essential nature of a thing	There’s nothing intrinsically sweet about honey.
5	Wiring	A part of the body's physiology or neurology that determines or controls something, such as a capability or disorder	Sweetness was born with the wiring which evolved.
6	Beak	the projecting jaws of a bird, covered with a horny sheath	He found that that orange spot on the gull’s beak
7	Diapers	garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement	It’s important that we love babies, and that we not be put off by, say, messy diapers
8	Debug	To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in	Our bumper sticker for this view is that this is the joy of debugging.

Student’s name: Yerzhigit Symbat,

Dudnik Alevtina

Group 10

Date: 14.06.13

Academic Listening and Note taking

Dan Dennett: cute,sexy,sweet,funny

№	Word	Definition	Example
1	Artificer	To cause to laugh or smile by giving pleasure	In the theory with which we have to deal, Absolute Ignorance is the artificer
2	Pamphlet	Of or relating to the essential nature of a thing	A creationist pamphlet has this wonderful page in it
3	Amuse	A part of the body's physiology or neurology that determines or controls something, such as a capability or disorder	And, of course, we are amused by jokes because they are funny.
4	Intrinsically	garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement	There’s nothing intrinsically sweet about honey.
5	Wiring	someone who is the first to think of or make something	Sweetness was born with the wiring which evolved.
6	Beak	To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in	He found that that orange spot on the gull’s beak
7	Diapers	a small book usually having a paper cover	It’s important that we love babies, and that we not be put off by, say, messy diapers
8	Debug	the projecting jaws of a bird, covered with a horny sheath	Our bumper sticker for this view is that this is the joy of debugging.

Answers

1. e

2. g

3. a

4. b

5. c

6. h

7. d

8. f

Source:

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_dennett_cute_sexy_sweet_funny.html

Student’s name: Islyamova Malika

ID 20101128

Group 2

Academic Listening and Note taking

Dan Dennett: Cute, sexy, sweet, funny

1. Write the main idea of early critic’s phrase about Darwin’s inversion reasoning.

2. Explain all points giving in the lecture according to the strange inversion:

1. Why cake or honey sweet

2. Why girls sexy

3. Why babies cute

4. Why jokes are funny