The British Museum and The Elgin Marbles -- Should they be returned ?

 Each of these lessons are based on a topic such as the METAVERSE, NFTS or more general like the Ted talk on BLUE ZONES or tips for better PRESENTATIONS. 

This lesson is based on a trending topic which is the debate over whether the British museum should return the Elgin Marbles to the city of Athens. 

Objective – Discussing and creating a structure for debate on this occasion about the position and protection of cultural artefacts. 

Class duration – One hour sessions \ Number of students – 1 – 3 maximum

The majority of corrections are given in real time during the online class with notes taken and written in the CHAT option in Microsoft teams, google MEET or skype.

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LISTENING --- BBC six minute English listening on the place and significance of museums on a contemporary society and how they might change in the future. 

BBC Learning English - 6 Minute English / What's the point of museums?

A long time ago while studying classical studies in secondary school the debate about the Elgin Marbles and their return to Greece was already ON THE TABLE. Here we are many moons later still kicking the ball back and forth!! 

The reading below is from ARTNET and relates to a more recent round of talks about the possible REPATRITATION of the artefacts. 

Amid Mounting Public Pressure, Greece and the U.K. Have Agreed to a New Round of Talks About a Possible Return of the Parthenon Marbles | Artnet News

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Lord Elgin -- HOUSED the marbles AT the British museum. \\\\\\\

VOCAB - Pressa – dam, pantano - the water resevoir, to dub - to label something, awestruck -moved emotionally. -------

PRONUNCIATION - archaeological – [ˌɑːkɪəˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)l], ancient - [ˈeɪnʃ(ə)nt]

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The narrative from the British museum has been DUBBED the ---- Bloomsbury papers –

Bloomsbury group, name given to a coterie of English writers, philosophers, and artists who frequently met between about 1907 and 1930 at the houses of Clive and Vanessa Bell and of Vanessa’s brother and sister Adrian and Virginia Stephen (later Virginia Woolf) in the Bloomsbury district of London, the area around the British Museum. They discussed aesthetic and philosophical questions in a ...\\\\\\\

PUT pressure ON - If PRESSURE is PUT on them to return maybe, they would return them sooner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM5vFG7gZ2I

GRAMMAR - OPINIONS -- 

additional link --- 

Pope Francis returns Vatican Museums’ Parthenon marbles to Greece (theartnewspaper.com)