Featured TED Talks – Intermediate

Unit 1
A life lesson from a
volunteer firefighter
Mark Bezos

Unit 2
How to start a
movement
Derek Sivers

Unit 3
An escape from
poverty
Jacqueline Novogratz

Unit 4
Don’t eat the
marshmallow!
Joachim de Posada

Unit 5
3 ways to (usefully) lose
control of your brand
Tim Leberecht

Unit 6
Talk nerdy to me
Melissa Marshall

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What I’ve learned from
my autistic brothers
Faith Jegede

Unit 8
A skateboard, with
a boost
Sanjay Dastoor

Unit 9
How to tie your
shoes
Terry Moore
Unit 10
How we can eat
our landscapes
Pam Warhurst

Unit 11
Life at 30,000 feet
Richard Branson

Unit 12
How to succeed?
Get more sleep
Arianna Huffington

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Featured TED Talks – Upper Intermediate

Unit 1
404, the story of a
page not found
Renny Gleeson

Unit 2
Keep your goals
to yourself
Derek Sivers

Unit 3
Global
population
growth, box
by box
Hans Rosling

Unit 4
Success is a
continuous
journey
Richard St. John

Unit 5
Got a meeting?
Take a walk
Nilofer Merchant

Unit 6
Please, please,
people. Let’s put
the ‘awe’ back in
‘awesome’
Jill Shargaa

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The sore
problem of
prosthetic limbs
David Sengeh

Unit 8
How to make
work-life
balance work
Nigel Marsh

Unit 9
Doodlers, unite!
Sunni Brown
Unit 10
5 ways to
listen better
Julian Treasure

Unit 11
Cloudy with a
chance of joy Unit 12
Gavin Pretor-Pinney Dare to disagree
Margaret Heffernan

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Featured TED Talks – Advanced
Unit 1
Less stuff,
more happiness
Graham Hill

Unit 2
Who am I? Think
again
Hetain Patel and Yuyu Rau

Unit 3
Making peace
is a marathon
May El-Khalil Unit 4
How I beat
stage fright
Joe Kowan

Unit 5
I’m not your inspiration,
thank you very much
Stella Young

Unit 6
How to make
filthy water
drinkable
Michael Pritchard

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Taking imagination
seriously
Janet Echelman

Unit 8
Build a tower,
build a team
Tom Wujec

Unit 9 Unit 10
All it takes is 10
Protecting Twitter
mindful minutes
Andy Puddicombe
users (sometimes
from themselves)
Del Harvey

Unit 11
How to build
with clay … and
community
Diébédo Francis Kéré Unit 12
Image recognition that
triggers augmented reality
Matt Mills and Tamara Roukaerts

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Featured TED Talks – Proficient
Unit 1
Do schools kill creativity?
Ken Robinson

Unit 2
Why I live in mortal
dread of public
speaking
Megan Washington

Unit 3
The 4 ways sound
affects us
Julian Treasure

Unit 4
Your body language
shapes who you are
Amy Cuddy

Unit 5
The magic
washing machine
Hans Rosling

Unit 6
Magical houses,
made of bamboo
Elora Hardy
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The danger of a single story
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Unit 8
How I fell in love
with a fish
Dan Barber

Unit 9
Why videos
go viral
Kevin Allocca

Unit 10
A kinder, gentler
philosophy of success
Alain de Botton

Unit 11
Build a school
in the cloud
Sugata Mitra
Unit 12
Creative problem-solving in
the face of extreme limits
Navi Radjou