A kind request

To all my students,

If you have a Linkedin account then please connect to me here.

Also please like my Converse English Facebook page.

Thank you

:)

Jeremy

Benchmark Advanced Ted Talk

Here is the video from Monday 31st's lesson:

Benchmark Advanced Reading

Here are the answers to the reading exercises from units 1 & 2:

Unit 1

1. 1 The board of directors
1.2  It can affect ethics, risk-taking and bottom-line performance.
1.3 Board members often lack an understanding of corporate culture,

3.
1 G
2. F
3. D
4. C
5. A
6. E

Unit 2

3
1. D (para 1)
2, B (para 2)
3. C (para 4)
4. D (para 5)
5. A (para 6)
6. B (para 7)

Benchmark Adavnced Grammar HW

Benchmark Advanced

A second link worth looking at :)

Benchmark Advanced - Personal Study

Here is a link worth checking out :)

Tuesday CAE Group - Steve Jobs

Here is a video from today's lesson:

Benchmark Advanced Monday 24th October

Why good leaders make you feel safe

Here is the TED Talk for Monday's lesson

Benchmark Higher - Relative Clauses

Please read the summary of relative clauses and do the exercises bellow.

Grammar Workshop 1

Benchmark Higher - Compassion at Google

Watch the video to complete the exercises from today's lesson: exercises 4 & 6.

Comprehension

4 Watch Chade-Meng Tan’s talk on TED.com. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F) according to the speaker?

1 Matthieu Ricard is the happiest man on the planet because he is very rich. _____

2 More people would be compassionate if compassion was fun and profitable. _____

3 Three members of Google managed to raise enough money to build a school for 200,000 people in India. _____

4 The social responsibility team at Google was formed as part of Google business strategy. _____

5 There are two components of compassion: affective and motivational. _____

6 Compassion can help grow very successful business leaders. _____

7 Leadership training in Google focuses on personal growth. _____

8 ‘Search Inside Yourself’ is a Google course which develops attention, self-knowledge and self-mastery, and creates new mental habits. _____ 

Language focus – corporate social responsibility

6 Watch a part (3.10−5.40) of the TED Talk again. Complete the collocations in bold with these words.

action donate initiative medical money pattern responsibility

1 ‘In Google, expressions of corporate compassion almost always follow the same _______________ .’

2 ‘It starts with a small group of Googlers taking the _______________ to do something.’

3 ‘The first example is the largest annual community event – where Googlers from around the world _______________ their labour to their local communities ...’

4 ‘… they learned about a region in India where 200,000 people live without a single _______________ facility.

5 ‘And they raise enough _______________ to build this hospital …’

6 ‘In China for example, one mid-level employee initiated the largest social _______________ competition in China ...’

7 ‘… the company decided to form a social _______________ team just to support these efforts.’

Benchmark Advanced - Key

The key you need assign yourself to my classes on the ELC portal is Nor4

Benchmark Advanced Student Book and registration

Just to remind you,

the book you need to get is Business Benchmark Advanced

Also please remember to register on the School's portal:

http://elc.vot.pl/moodle/login/index.php

Advanced Speaking Wed 12th October

Here is the Steve Jobs video we watched:

Benchmark Advanced Reading Homework

Please read the following article and be prepared to discuss it in class on Monday 24th October.

Stupified

Benchmark Higher Writing Assignment

For your first writing assignment I would like you to think about procrastination.

What is it, why do we do it and can it ever be helpful?

Please watch the TED Talk bellow and write a review using the instructions at the bottom of this post.

Good Luck :)

Writing Task

1. Write a 200-250 word review of Tim Urban's talk. Describe his main idea as well as presenting your views of both his talk and the wider topic of procrastination. Ensure that you critically assess both his presentation and and his ideas, providing arguments to support your assessment.