phone english blogB2 – Upper Intermediate
Do you meet awkward silences during your talks with anyone?
Here are some tips to make a conversation more effective and interesting.
Discussion Questions:
1. What is your opinion of the video?
2. Are you a sociable person?
3. How do you engage in conversation with other people?
4. What topics do you usually talk about? What topics do you avoid?
5. What are other ways to have a smooth interaction/conversation with other people?
B2 – Upper Intermediate
If you have ever been to Japan, there is probably one thing you quickly noticed and asked yourself was, “Why are there many vending machines everywhere?”. In fact, there is one vending in every 23 Japanese.
Watch the video and find out why in Japan, there are vending machines everywhere.
Discussion Questions:
B2 – Upper Intermediate
As much as sports are enjoyable, it can also be perilous or at times, even deadly. Athletes understand the perils in their respective sports. Tragically, sometimes this means even their lives are can be at risk.
Let’s find out what is considered the most dangerous sport in the world. Play at your own risk.
Discussion Questions:
1. What sport do you play? Tell us about your own experience of getting an injury.
2. Do you know any athlete who suffered from a serious injury or died while competing?
3. Despite the risks, why do people obsess over sports like football, basketball, and boxing?
4. If you could, would you ban these dangerous sports?
B2 – Upper Intermediate
Happiness can be defined from different perspectives. Others find happiness mainly in relationships with others especially from family and friends while some depend on success and material things.
Our sources of happiness may differ but there are ways to make our pursuit of happiness easier.
Please read the article below to know the 10 ways to be happier.
Discussion Questions:
B2 – Upper Intermediate
Today’s technology is rapidly evolving and now with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle also known as a drone, our agriculture will soon be revolutionized.
Read the article below to know how Thai agriculture could expand and evolve.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/03/asia/bug-away-thailand-drones-intl/index.html
Discussion Questions:
B2 – Upper Intermediate
All commercial dumpsters may be filled with garbage or trash, but in some, they contain food that is still safe to eat. Inside Edition’s Chief Investigative Correspondent Lisa Guerrero and food waste expert Rob Greenfield went to a dumpster outside a CVS store in Orlando, Florida. They searched for food inside garbage bins and were shocked to see that edible food are really going to waste.
Watch the video and see what they have found:
Discussion Questions:
B2 – Upper Intermediate
Being an interpreter is a demanding job as they consecutively think and speak in different languages. A slight nuance may actually be catastrophic. Despite the complexities of language and cultural exchanges, how are miscommunications prevented?
Watch the video and learn more about
Discussion Questions:
1. How do interpreters master their skills?
2. How are interpreters appreciated in your country?
3. How do interpreters prevent miscommunications?
4. What is your impression about this job? Given a chance, would you like to be an interpreter?
5. What are your thoughts on this statement: “War is what happens when language fails”?
B2 – Upper Intermediate
‘To be employed is to be at risk, to be employable is to be secure.’
Skills, understandings and personal attributes are all important for anyone to have in today’s job market.
Watch the video to know what employers exactly look for an applicant.
Discussion Questions:
B2- Upper Intermediate
What if you could make money or type something just by thinking about it? What if you could get richer, get healthier or even live longer? It sounds like science fiction, but it might be closer to reality than we think.
Super smart people could be walking down the street; men and women who’ve paid to increase their intelligence. Dr. Cerf believes we will be able to control our lives better if we have more control over our brains.
Listen to the audio about smart chips:
Read the transcript here: https://deepenglish.com/2019/04/become-more-intelligent/
Discussion Questions:
1. Would you want to get a smart chip implanted on your brain?
2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of smart chips?
3. What will be the social implications of smart chips?
4. Will the smart chips create intelligence inequality?
5. What are some brain exercises that help enhance our intelligence?
B2 – Upper Intermediate
Every painful sensation is coming from our brains and there is no pain without the brain. Does that mean can we think the pain away? Just how much power does the mind have over pain?
These are the biological and psychological factors that influence how we experience pain and how our nervous system reacts to harmful stimuli.
Watch the video to know more:
Discussion Questions:
1. How do you deal with pain?
2. What unbearable physical pain have you experienced?
3. Do you try not to focus and try to just keep trying various things to numb the pain?
4. What pain management techniques do you know of?
5. Have you consulted a pain specialist before?