Describe your dream house. What country is it in? Do you live in the city or the country? What does the kitchen look like? What colours would you use and where? What are some items you can’t live without?
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I love silly quizzes that tell me which Star Wars character I am or whether I am an introvert or extrovert. I definitely take them with a grain of salt, but I do find them entertaining. What’s more, the suspense creates a great natural motivation to read. So here is…
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Ah success! I feel as though this topic has been done to death. Yet I cannot resist this TED talk by Richard St. John. So short, so simple, so predictable, yet so thought provoking. St. John interviewed over 400 people, some famous, to succinctly summarize the ‘ingredients’ to success. Although…
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The news can be a challenging thing to talk about. For intermediate to advanced students, it can be motivating to talk about real world topics. CNN offers a 10 min news recap every day. You can put the close captions on so the vocabulary can be heard and read and…
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Wait what? Yes, you heard me…there is so much out there to remind us to calm down, it can be positively stressful. From meditation to prioritizing, exercising, sleeping, making lists, it can be time-consuming and yes stressful to reduce stress. Why? Thrive Global devotes an interesting article on the “Calmnivore.”…
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Sometimes deep or thoughtful discussions are good for days when your brain juice is flowing. But today’s lesson is for the days when you just want to talk about silly stuff. Like “if you were a vegetable, which would you be.” Ok, maybe not that one, but you get the…
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Fake news is the term “du jour.” How sharp do you think you are at spotting fake news? What if you were a journalist? If your livelihood depended on your ability to detect fact from fiction? In Markham Nolan’s TED talk “How to separate fact from fiction online” we see…
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Why not indulged is some culture and beauty? I love going to museums. They are like a breath of cultural air. Something about spending time with other people’s stories that inspires me. Pre discussion What type of museum do you enjoy (if at all…you can say you don’t like them…that’s…
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For all you car lovers our there, this is the discussion for you. Business Insider presents one of the world’s largest car collection of cars, with over 45o cars, held by business man Roger Dubbing. So if you want to feast your eyes on plenitudes of chrome and leather, hop…
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I know that the prospect of reading an actual novel in a second language may be much too ambitious a goal. However, I do like to sift through book reviews and talk about what students might like to read. And hey, it might get them interested enough that they will…
