Tag: video

The Money Talk for Couples

B2 – Upper Intermediate

If you want to strengthen your relationship, you have to talk about everything and that of course, includes your finances. Financial disagreements could sometimes unfortunately lead to break-up so understanding how your partner handles their money is a great way to prevent it from happening.

Watch this video to know the importance of managing your finances well as a couple.

Discussion Questions:

  1. How can couples achieve good financial management?
  2. How can disagreements with your significant other because of money matters be prevented?
  3. Agree or disagree: Not taking on money management roles in a relationship is like forgetting a foreign language. You’ll end up losing some of your ability.
  4. How do you measure financial success?
  5. What’s the one thing you wish your parents would have done differently financially?

Right Time for Elderly To Hand Over Their Keys

B2 – Upper Intermediate

Driving helps people in their senior years stay mobile and independent. However, the risk of being injured or killed in a motor vehicle crash increases as people age.

An article in the New England Journal of Medicine argues that “retirement from driving threatens one’s health and wellness.”

Watch the video to know more about it and be able to answer the questions that follow.

Discussion Questions:

  1. In your own personal view, are the elderly drivers still capable of driving? Should they be allowed to drive despite their age? Why or why not?
  2. As age affects driving ability, what should be done to maintain the safety driving on the road especially for the elderly?
  3. Do you agree that retirement from driving threatens one’s health and well-being? Explain your answer.

Lost Cause

B1 – Intermediate

People always say to never surrender but sometimes there is no reason to try anymore. There are certain things that we need to give up and move on from.

Let us hear more about it in the video.

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/english-in-a-minute-lost-cause/6007555.html

Discussion Questions:

  1. What does the idiom “lost cause” mean?
  2. Have you ever given up on something or someone?
  3. What are the signs that says you need to move on?
  4. How do you move forward after a lost cause?
  5. What are the things that you never back down from?

Travel in 2021: What To Know About Flying

C1 – Advanced

Vaccination against the coronavirus is ramping up as year 2020 ends. As a result, many people in the U.S. feel optimistic about traveling again in the year 2021.

Watch the video to know how might the vaccines impact traveling and what people need to know to prepare for following our wanderlust again. Be ready to answer the questions that follow.

Discussion Questions:

  1. How do you feel about the video? Do you think it’s safe to travel this 2021? Why or why not? Would you consider traveling this year after having the vaccine? Why or why not?
  2. How often did you use to go on a trip before the pandemic? How important is traveling to you?
  3. What are your thoughts on this statement: “After nearly a year of lost travels, some say, it’s just the thought of a future escape that counts.”?
  4. “Plan a trip. Even if you don’t end up taking it, it’s good for your mental health to have something to look forward to.” Do you agree or disagree with this? What are you most looking forward to do soon?
  5. “Experts say that the return to travel would start with leisure travels. Unlikely that the business travel would pick up right away because people are finding that you can do business fine over Zoom.” Share your thoughts on this. Would you like to be sent on a business trip around and out of your country again as soon as possible? Why or why not?

The Egg – A Short Story On Reincarnation

B2 – Upper Intermediate

Have you ever heard or seen someone saying that they are someone in their past life and puzzled you at some point as to what they are really trying to say? It is believed that this kind of phenomenon is called reincarnation when someone is reborn and have already experienced or had vision of their past life. The idea or possibility conveys both mystic and exotic sense.

Watch the video and learn more about reincarnation.

Discussion Questions:

  1. Have you heard of reincarnation? How does reincarnation occur?
  2. How is reincarnation viewed in your culture?
  3. Do you believe it could be true or not? Would you like to experience this phenomenon?
  4. If you were to be reincarnated, how would you like your new life to be?
  5. Can someone who experienced it be credible in claiming it to have happened? How could someone justify such mystic occurrence?

How Eating Out Keeps You Poor

B2 – Upper Intermediate

A lot of people are struggling with money because of different reasons; they may have student loans, health insurance, cost of housing, and many more. These are the costs that are already fixed but there is a way to lessen our expenses by cost-cutting on our luxurious habits like eating out in restaurants or drinking in bars. Although these are our ways to unwind from our busy day from work, we can also wind up with less money.

Let’s watch the video below to learn how eating out keeps you poor.

Discussion Questions:

  1. Do you bring brown-bagged lunches at work or eat out?
  2. How often do you eat out? How much do you usually spend?
  3. What are the pros and cons of eating in a restaurant?
  4. According to the video, what are the strategies to lessen eating out?
  5. How do you lessen your expenses or save more money?

Movie Theaters Are Reopening

B2 – Upper Intermediate

After five months of lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a popular chain of movie theaters, AMC Theatres, reopened its doors in certain locations. The chain said it would take all measures to enforce social distancing between seats, will mandate wearing masks and upgrade the theater air filters. However, is it worth the risk?

Watch the video and be able to answer the questions that follow:

Discussion Questions:

  1. Were you a moviegoer before the Covid-19 pandemic? How often did you use to see a movie?
  2. How do you feel about the reopening of movie theaters amidst the pandemic?
  3. If the movie theater provides adequate safeguards against the coronavirus, would you likely visit the cinema to see a movie again soon? Why or why not?

Why Fake Meat Is the Future

B2 – Upper Intermediate

Plant-based meat are becoming a more popular choice for many consumers even for the non-vegetarians. Over the last few years, the number of meat alternatives available on the market has been increasing with the rise in vegetarian and vegan eaters. As a result, the sales of meat alternatives are growing as well.

Watch the video and be able to answer the discussion questions below.

Discussion Questions:

  1. Have you tried plant-based meat before? What do you think about these meat alternatives?
  2. What do you think are the reasons why some non-vegetarians or non- vegan consume plant-based meat?
  3. What do you think is the impact of consuming plant-based meat on our health and our world?
  4. Do you think fake meat will be the future food of the world? Why or why not?

Keep It To Yourself

B2 – Upper Intermediate

There are absolutely some things that we need to keep to ourselves. Privacy is something that everyone needs to cherish especially in this era when different social media platforms are everywhere. Privacy is not an option but a necessity because what people don’t know, they can’t ruin.

Here are some of the things in our lives that we should keep in private.

Discussion Questions:

  1. Do you agree that there are things that we should keep to ourselves? What are some of those things?
  2. Are you a private person or an open book? Why is that so?
  3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of keeping things private?
  4. What are the things that you share on your social media accounts?
  5. Talk about your top three picks on the things that you should keep in private from the video.

Silent People Are Successful

B2 – Upper Intermediate

They say silent people have the loudest minds because they rather think of ideas than talk. They rather plan productive things rather than engage in discussions. Do you agree with this?

Let us learn more about the reasons why it is said that silent people are successful.

Discussion Questions:

  1. What is the difference between introvert and extrovert?
  2. Are you an introvert or extrovert?
  3. According to the video, what are the three reasons why silent people are successful? Explain each reason.
  4. Do you agree that silent people are successful? Why or why not?
  5. Talk about a person you know who keeps it to themselves but is extremely successful.