phone english blogB2 – Upper Intermediate
What leads to success? Richard St. John, a success expert who spent a lot of years researching about it, gives 8 principles to address this question.
Click on the link to find out:
https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_st_john_s_8_secrets_of_success
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C1 – Advanced
Robots and Artificial Intelligence are rapidly advancing in the recent years. Are you one of the thousands of people who are worried about job opportunities in the future? Let us see things in a different perspective and learn more from the specialists.
Watch the video below.
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B2 – Upper Intermediate
When you were young, have you ever thought of being a farmer? Do you want to work outdoors or indoors? This new school is trying to teach millennials who want to work on a farm. In a society where technology is everywhere, farming has been often put behind thus creating a huge demand in the workforce for young people to work in the land.
Let’s watch and read the article below about this below:
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B2 – Upper Intermediate
Why do people travel? For pleasure? For work? For religious purpose? For soul-searching? Really, it all depends on the person. But how can we make most of our experiences while we travel? Let’s watch the video below and figure out together how we can become “conscious travelers”.
B1 – Intermediate
Did you ever think that you could change the world by…making your bed? Yes, it may sound silly and irrational. Howbeit, this simple housework could have a deeper message to tell. Watch the snippet of U.S. Navy Adm. William H. McRaven’s speech about why we should make our bed.
Discussion Questions:
1. What are some simple housework and office tasks that you do every day? How do you feel after you carry out those tasks?
2. What do you consider your biggest accomplishment so far? What do you want to accomplish by this year and how do you believe you can attain them?
3. What three things would you change about the world if you could?
4. In your own way, how could you change the world?
B1 – Intermediate
As defined by Britannica, persuasion is the process by which a person’s attitudes or behavior are, without duress, influenced by communications from other people. It often involves manipulation. People get manipulated which can sometimes be offensive while some only try to persuade to stop others from making hasty decisions.
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B2 – Upper intermediate
Different industries in coal and oil mining and alike have been the back bone of our economy but unfortunately they leave a lot of contamination and cause environmental pollution. Asia is one of the biggest and fastest growing continent in the world. There are hundreds of factories that are located there. Will it be possible to change from industrialization to a green economy?
The video below suggests how they can have a “green economy” which is both sustainable for their development and environment.
Discussion Questions:
B1 – Intermediate
Business is all about good communication. While communicating with customers is important, internal communication must be given attention, too.
Communicating effectively with your colleagues minimizes misunderstandings and increases work efficiency. Active communication also produces healthy working relationships. This, in turn, creates a more pleasant and less stressful work environment.
Watch the video about a conversation with a colleague.
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B2 – Upper Intermediate
Post-truth, ‘Face with Tears of Joy’ Emoji, vape, and selfie are just some of the words Oxford declared as Word of the Year in the past four years.
Find out last year’s Word of the Year and why Oxford chose it.
And the Word of the Year 2017 is…
Discussion Questions:
1. How did youthquake come into rise?
2. What do you think of the youth in this generation?
How do they differ to the youth in the past?
3. Explain how you can observe youthquake in Spain in the recent years.
4. What is the most significant cultural, political, or social change that arose in Spain last year? What significant cultural, political, or social change would you like to emerge in Spain?
5. If you could coin a word, what would it be?
6. What could you choose as 2017 Spanish Word of the Year?
B2 – Upper Intermediate
Food preservatives are substances added to food items in order to inhibit, retard or arrest the process of fermentation, acidification, and decomposition of food items’. Or, in other words, they are a type of food additive which prolong shelf life and keep products from being broken down by microorganisms
But the question is, how safe are they? Watch the video and be able to discuss the questions that follow:
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