Category: Class

A Job Interview

B1 –  Intermediate

A job interview is an important tool for employee selection. It involves a conversation between a job applicant and an interviewer.

Let’s watch a sample interview and be ready to answer the questions about it.

Discussion Questions:

  1. Talk about a typical interview in your country.
  2. Talk about your last job interview.
  3. What kinds of jobs have you applied for? Have you ever applied for a job you don’t have any experience in? How did it go?
  4. How do you answer this interview question, “How do you describe yourself?”
  5. What advice can you give to someone attending a job interview for the first time?

Dancing Cha-cha

B1 – Intermediate

Dancing is a pleasurable activity that involves a lot of body movements.  As they say, rhythmic body movement is instinctive but learning some steps won’t hurt.

Let’s learn the basics of dancing cha-cha-cha or or simply cha-cha.

Discussion Questions:
1 What are the 4 basic elements of Cha-Cha?
2. Do you like dancing? How often do you do it?
3. What kinds of dancing can we see in your country?
4. What kind of music do you think is good to dance to?
5. Do you think being a professional dancer would be a good job?

Anti-College

C1 – Advanced

Is college fast becoming irrelevant for many or most students? A lot of students and families are taking on enormous debt with no guarantee of a well-paying job so they ask whether technical or other programs might be the smarter choice.

Let’s find out how Jeremy Rossmann, the founder of Make School program, tries to reinvent college.

Discussion Questions:

1. How different is Make School from a traditional college?
2. Is going to college still relevant?
3. Is the college tuition reasonable in your country? Is it easy to get scholarships or government grants?
4. Which is more important, the essential skills in life you’ve learned to develop on your own or the artificial structure in college about the “real world”?
5. What do you think of the higher education system in your country?

Chocolate Child Slaves

B2 – Upper Intermediate

For the most of us, chocolate is a guilty pleasure. We probably think  we shouldn’t have it but why not reward ourselves after a long, tiring day?  Yet for thousands of children in the cocoa fields of West Africa, chocolate is not a source of pleasure but of a hard and hazardous work. Children working in the cocoa farm are victims of trafficking or slavery. They are kept out of school because their families need their help in the farms and 12-hour workdays make it impossible for them to attend school.

Watch the short video clip to know the bitter truth behind chocolate production.

 

Discussion Questions:

  1. What was your reaction to the film? What did you learn?
  2. How do you see child labor?
  3. How might this problem be addressed?
  4. What do you know about child labor laws and regulations in your country?

 

 

 

Water Scarcity

B2 – Upper Intermediate

Water scarcity is the lack of sufficient available water resources to meet the demands of water usage within a region. It already affects every continent and around 2.8 billion people around the world at least one month out of every year. More than 1.2 billion people lack access to clean drinking water.

Watch the video to know more why the taps run dry.

Discussion Questions:

  1. Is there/Has there ever been water crisis in your region / country?
  2. Why are there severe water shortages around the world?
  3. What are the causes of water scarcity?
  4. What are some solutions to  global water crisis?

 

Investment Scam Targets Instagram Users

B2 – Upper Intermediate

Scams that start on the internet are becoming more and more common nowadays. Sometimes, you’ll encounter fake websites tricking you into installing software that look legitimate but that is really just a virus or scams that are designed to lure people into investing money.

Please read the article to find out more about this new scam.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47358892

Discussion Questions:

  1. What is this new online scam?
  2. How does it lure people into investing money?
  3. How can getting scammed online be avoided?
  4. Why do you think some people get easily tricked by online scams?

Extinction Crisis Threatening Global Food Supply

B2 – Upper Intermediate

Right now, our soils, freshwater, oceans, forests, and biodiversity are being rapidly degraded. The decrease in the global diversity of plants and animals puts food security at risk. The report identified that changes to how land and water are used and managed, pollution, climate change, overharvesting, population growth, and urbanization caused the declining biodiversity which could have disastrous effects on our planet.

Read more about this  the article below:

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/22/health/food-biodiversity-report-intl/index.html

Discussion Questions:

1. What can be done to increase food production?

2. How can we preserve plants and animals’ natural habitats?

3. What environmental effects will this cause?

4. How can changing our diets save plants and animals from extinction? Should we rethink how we grow, share, and consume food?

5. What are your thoughts on the fact that we hold the extraordinary burden of responsibility to avert much of the damage we have done to the environment?

6. What is your reaction that just in the past 50 years, we have seen the destruction of 60% of mammal, bird, fish and reptile populations?

7. Would you know if this is an issue in your country as well? Do you think that this issue is attracting increasing attention in your country?

 

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The Trolley Problem

B2 – Upper Intermediate

We are put in a situation where we must make a moral decision; and what if between two possible moral imperatives, neither of which is unambiguously acceptable or preferable. It’s moral dilemma at its finest.
Here’s a scenario:
How would you decide if the two options you had would cost someone’s life? Could your action be justified?

Watch the video below and find out more about the trolley problem.

Discussion Questions:

1. What is trolley problem?

2. What do you consider in making a moral decision?

3. If you were the one to press the switch, would you let the trolley barrel down the track that would kill five workers or divert the trolley onto a second track with one? Or could there be a more ethical solution to the problem?

4. What are some real world applications of trolley problem? (Note: This is not always about sacrificing people’s life.)

The Placebo Effect

B2 – Upper Intermediate

One doctor made up a fake drug and used every skill he had to convince a group of people it was a cure for their fears, phobias, addictions and insecurities. He was able to get some remarkable results, but in fact the drug was nothing more than a sugar pill.

Can a “fake” treatment really cure an ailment?

Watch the video below to learn more about the placebo effect.

Discussion Questions:

1. Explain the placebo effect. How is it used in a medical research?

2. What are the positive and negative effects of the placebo effect?

3. What conditions do you think can a placebo produce results even when people know they are taking a placebo?

4. Talk about your own experience of a placebo effect.

5. What if all medicines were placebo all along?