Students explore karma, artificial intelligence, memory, and evolution. Readings and discussions develop the language to explain processes, compare beliefs and evidence, and reason about actions and consequences.
Practice: Vocabulary in context, idioms, reading comprehension, role-play, and reasoned discussion.
Vocabulary: balance, cycle, soul, responsibility, justice, energy; karma, consequences, destiny, spirituality, philosophy, secular, superstition.
Language practice: Explain beliefs, compare interpretations, and use conditional language to discuss actions and possible consequences.
Idioms & expressions: what goes around comes around, you reap what you sow, face the music, throw caution to the wind, chickens have come home to roost, a taste of your own medicine.
Reading & speaking: Explore interpretations of karma, distinguish beliefs and analogies from evidence, discuss imagined outcomes, and create a story about actions and consequences.