Jobs & Work

Do you like/love/hate your job? Would you like a change? Just need to learn and/or revise any new vocabulary?
Click here and enjoy :)   

http://www.learnenglish.de/vocabulary/jobs.htm

 http://esl.about.com/library/listening/bllis_joblikes4.htm

Presentation TIPS

As you know, this year you have to prepare and make an oral presentation about a topic you like. Have you started doing it? Not yet? Do you need some help? Take a look to these tips. We guess they will help you to do it right and attract everybody's attention!

http://www.eslgold.com/business/signposting.html

http://www.learn-english-today.com/business-english/presentations-phrases.htm

Body Parts Game

For you to play and practise.

http://www.sporcle.com/games/g/3letterbody 


And much more games to learn and have fun on the top and right sides of the web.

BLACK FRIDAY or BUY NOTHING DAY?

Once Thanksgiving Day is over, what's your position on Black Friday? Does it make sense even suffering such a ferocious crisis?

Take a look to this video and tell us your opinion: are you for sales consuming or do you defend the buy-nothing-day position?

Health myths

Many myths are wrong for several reasons, but many of them begin with a grain of truth.
Read this New York Times blog entry

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/29/11-health-myths-that-may-surprise-you/

and tell us what other myths you know or have you been told about health.
Have they affected your daily life some way?

REMEMBER, REMEMBER...

Listen to this girl explaining what's this celebration about...

and think about similar ones we have in our country, if any.

Some Halloween tips

Just in case you are in the need of using them :)

 

Feelings & Emotions

You may have done an intelligence test some time in your life.
But have you ever done an emotional intelligence test? Try this one, and tell me your opinion:

http://www.queendom.com/tests/access_page/index.htm?idRegTest=3037 

Should emotional literacy be included in our children's curriculum, as in some places in the UK?

A real rip-off personality test!

Have you ever done a personality test, let's say, while reading a (usually women's) magazine? 

Speed flatmating -a new trend among young people

Easy and quick, but... is it realiable? Is it somewhat related to first impressions? Say what you think about it.

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