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Pollution and Climate: Week 4: Studying Bill Gates's Revised Viewpoint on Climate Change

Pollution and Climate: Week 4: Studying Bill Gates's Revised Viewpoint on Climate Change

Ian Gardiner
Analysis, Climate Change, Discussion, Greenhouse gases, Pollution, Economy, Vocabulary

image credit: pbs.org

Pollution and Climate: Week 4: Studying Bill Gates's Revised Viewpoint on Climate Change

This week, we will continue to read the October 28, 2025 blog post of Bill Gates on his revised viewpoint on Climate Change. You can access the original post (with photos!) below:


Gates Notes for the UN Climate Conference in November 2025 called COP30

Using only 6th Grade English vocabulary, our class reading is a revision of the original article by Chat GPT. Our reading is on this week’s supplementary page linked here:


Pollution and Climate Week 4: Bill Gates's Revised Viewpoint on Climate Change

I invite everyone to spend some time with the vocabulary list at the end of the article. To read the short article summary and its associated vocabulary list, you can click HERE.

We are nearing the end of our Autumn Sessions, which will have its final session on November 29, 2025.

We will be spending several sessions after that, starting on December 6, 2025, on Winter Art, Christmas Art, and Dreaming Big for 2026!

Pollution and Climate: Week 3: Bill Gates pens a new view on Climate Change

Pollution and Climate: Week 3: Bill Gates pens a new view on Climate Change

Ian Gardiner
Climate Change, Discussion, Environment, Pollution, Vocabulary, Vocabulary Lists
image credit: www.gatesnotes.com

Pollution and Climate: Week 3: Bill Gates pens a new view on Climate Change

This week, we will examine the October 28, 2025 blog post of Bill Gates on his new view on Climate Change. You can access the original post here:
Gates Notes for the UN Climate Conference in November 2025 called COP30

I have this long blog post summarized by CoPilot and have it in 9 smaller parts; each part is what we will use in our next meeting for oral reading practice and to understand the mind of one of the world’s top business and social leaders when it comes to Climate Change and setting Climate Change reduction goals for the planet.

The readings (with photos!) are on a supplementary page linked here:
Climate Change supplementary page November 8, 2025

We are nearing the end of our Autumn Sessions, which will have its final session on November 29, 2025.

We will be spending several sessions after that, starting on December 6, 2025, on Winter Art, Christmas Art, and Dreaming Big for 2026!

April 26, 2025: AI in 4 steps from online text to picture creation

April 26, 2025: AI in 4 steps from online text to picture creation

Ian Gardiner
AI prompt writing, Discussion, Paragraph writing, Vocabulary, AI Drawing with Prompts
Image credit: ChatGPT from 4 supplied prompts.

We will use AI in 4 steps:

1) Use an online book (we first take turns reading aloud from the selection) and get ChatGPT to take 3 paragraphs from that book, rewrite them using only 8th grade English vocabulary, and then we will again take turns reading aloud from the updated writing provided by ChatGPT.

2) Use ChatGPT to rewrite these paragraphs as lyrics. The class will then take turns reading aloud from this lyric writing.

3) Use Suno AI to write a song using those lyrics and a voice we choose from the Suno AI menu.

4) Get ChatGPT to use these lyrics to compose a picture or a painting. Students will submit their prompts to alter the picture or painting in the chat, and Mr Ian will add that prompt; this process will continue until we are satisfied with the picture or painting that represents all the work from online text to finished picture!

Intercultural Communication Workshop 1

Intercultural Communication Workshop 1

Ian Gardiner
Communication, Discussion, Essay Writing, Intercultural, Vocabulary, Writing

Image credit: Pearson Education, Inc. © 2012

What is intercultural communication?

Definition: Intercultural Communication is when people from different cultures effectively communicate with each other in verbal and non-verbal ways.

Our workshop today will be led by Dao.

Dao will lead some activities to ensure everyone understands the concept of Intercultural Communication. For example, the class will study the image above and make some educated inferences about the people in the image: What might be the background of the people in the image (country of origin, ethnicity, profession, languages spoken, etc).

So please be proactive and engage with us ^-^

September 21-October 12, 2024 Fall Sessions

September 21-October 12, 2024 Fall Sessions

Lanifah Dao
Discussion, Vocabulary, Writing, Artificial Intelligence

Get Al to write at least 1 paragraph (up to 10 paragraphs) composed of 8 sentences and no more than 30 sentences that contains 3 to 5 new vocabulary words for an English learner at 1 level above beginner.

I recommend using Google docs so that you can easily highlight your chosen vocabulary words and use the built-in functionality to find the definitions with just a few clicks!

Robot child image credit: unsplash

The House of Wisdom Ngôi Nhà Trí Tuệ New York: Assignment for May 25, 2024

The House of Wisdom Ngôi Nhà Trí Tuệ New York: Assignment for May 25, 2024

Lanifah Dao
Discussion, Writing

The assignment for May 25, 2024, the last session of the school year before we begin the House of Wisdom English Teachers and Students Summer Series, involves looking back to the beginning of this year and sharing your thoughts on our weekly gathering:

Write at least 1 paragraph, using AI if you'd prefer, about what you liked and learned from our time together at the House of Wisdom New York for 2024.