Being Assertive

Hello, dear students!

Here is the video "Thank you for Smoking".
Watch the video and say how assetive Nick Naylor is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HC3xwlfcFM&feature=player_embedded#!

Yelena Valerianovna.

Nataliya's latest choice to practice listening

    Hello,everybody!

   To practice listening today I went to ESLvideo.com and chose the video under the title "Education in India". It tells about little girls teaching children who live on the streets to read in English. Those girls are of 10-13 as far as I can judge. On one hand they are still children themselves, but from the other hand they are teachers already. Most of them know what they want to be in future, and that is not just the ambitious dreams to become stars or models. Those girls have the real ideas of their future  life. For example, one of them wants to be a physicist. And that is at the age of 13!!! Increadible, I would say. In spite of the lack of money in educational sphere in India, children are inspired to reach their aims and to help others in their willings. That is really great. 

    After having watched the episode I answered questions and reached 80%.

    Here is a picture from the video. You can see there little children from the street, who are getting their first  education:

    The second video was chosen by me from the same site. It is from High Intermediate, under the title "How Chocolate is Made". The video describes the process of producing chocolate in short. Some special secrets of producing different kinds of chocolate are also mentioned there. As usual I did some tests after watching the video extract and reached 80%.

    Generally speaking, the episode is really interesting and full of "tasty pictures". By the way, here is one of them, specially for  you. 

    Thanks for attention. 

    Written by Nataliya Hlushachenko.

P.S. I'm going to go and eat some chocolate right now, if you don't mind)))

What I am listening today

Hello, everybody!
Today I am listening music and all which is connected with it.
So, first I went to Listening|Learn English and chose one of my favourite songs - "Feeling Good" by Michael Buble. I was glad that there was even the video-clip to it. So, I listened the song once and did the task below: matched missed words in the text of the song. It was not very difficult, I wrote almost all words wright. I really liked this task, because I could combine learning with pleasure!
Next I chose the tape named "Student credit cards". I had no doubt, because just a few days ago I had lost my own credit card and I hoped, that I would find something useful for me there. And after listening I decided, that credit cards are not so nice, that they seem to us. The main reason is that sooner or later we must pay for all we bought in dept. Of course, I have done the tests below, but then I thought long time weather to look for my lost card.
Thanks a lot for benefits of such learning English!
Yours, Aliona Kovalinska. 

My Latest Listening

Hello Everyone!

Firstly, I decided to practise my listening with ESL Lab. To tell the truth I like this resource because you can check yourself. So, I was listening to the audio track from the difficult level, under the title "Where's the Movie Theater?".  It was the conversation between a man and a woman, who were talking about location of the Movie Theater. Also she described how he could get to the restaurant and the flower shop. Here is a map, which helped me to find out the right locations.

The next step was answering the questions and I got 80%.

Secondly, I choose the tape from "Listen A Minute" - 2010 World Cup (S. Africa). Well, the author was talking about the final stage of World Cup football, which took place in Africa. He said that from all over the world, people go soccer crazy. Even people who don’t like football. And I think he's right! Because it' s really brilliant event, which unites many people of different nationalities and ages. Also, he was thinking about who would win: would it be Argentina with famous Lionel Messi or England with splitting Rooney?

Written by Aliona Tonkonih 

                                                             Alina's latest listening
Hello everyone!
     This time I chose an episode 1 from videos. It is called "Pleased to Meet You". This episode is about how to make introductions in a business setting. I think it is a really excellent example of how we should greet each other at a meeting. In this video you can find  many useful and wonderful expressions for introducing yourself and other people . After viewing this episode, I understood that when meeting people, you should tell them something about yourself before being asked and when introducing a colleague, or someone you've met use the full names of both people and of course their positions.

     Then I listened to the audio track from Randall’s ESL Cyber.It is called "Job hunting". It was a conversation between  man and woman, who were talking about jobs. A man told about the most crucial factors when looking for a new job. He asks us to pay attention to the benefits and disadvantages that companies provide. After listening, I did a test, and got 80%.

     Thanks a lot.
  Written by Alina Korchan.

Natasha's latest listening

Hello, everyone!

I have just listened to the audio track from ESL-lab. It is an episode from difficult level, under the title "The Ideal Women". It was the conversation between two men, who were talking about some kind of ideal woman. Two different points of view were shown in the episode. In general I liked that track, but I can't say it was easy for me to understand everything. After having listened to that extract I answered questions and got 80%.


The second thing I chose to practice listening today was the video episode from High Intermediate in eslvideo.com under the title "Successful Coffee Maker". The extract is about James Freeman, the owner and the founder of Blue Bottle Coffee company. Mr Freeman told about the long way his company went. He shared the secret of success and assured that money is not the most important thing in business. He was just the person who did not spend the money he did not have. That was the only secret. I think that the video episode is worth seeing, espessially for people who are planning to start the own business. As usual, there was a short test after the video, I passed it and got 78%. Here you have a picture just from the episode.

Hope that you'll enjoy watching this video just as I did a few minutes ago...

Thanks a lot.

Written by Nataliya Hlushachenko.

Effective Meetings

Dear students!

Here are some tips on how to organize and conduct effective meetings.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-ZSft2OeMmzQ/6_secrets_of_effective_meetings/

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-6I_Qbry8Czo/how_to_conduct_effective_meetings/

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-uOLuPfq11YY/top_five_tips_for_running_productive_and_effective_meetings/   

http://www.meetingwizard.org/meetings/effective-meetings.cfm

Yelena Valerianovna