Building connection through conversation
Being environmentally mindful can mean much more than composting your food scraps and recycling packaging. There are hundreds of little gestures that can contribute to making the planet healthier. How many try to pack litterless lunches? Do you use plastic produce bags for your fruits and vegetables? Do you use…
Are your clothes environmentally friendly? Do you even know. I didn’t. Manufacturing clothes is a complex industry that involves chemicals, non-ethical labour (child labour), shipping, and very high carbon emissions (5% over the overall carbon emission every year). Clothes define us. Make us feel pretty or handsome, help us feel…
In three minutes this video gave me goosebumps. It’s not the first time I encountered the idea that kindness is contagious, but it’s another thing to watch someone put it into practice. The gratefulness, the “someone sees me”, the “someone cares” leaps right out of the screen. “Can I help…
If you could go anywhere on vacation, no budget, no constraints, where would you go? Erik Conover is a filmmaker and traveler and he has used social media to help him discover new and little know traveling gems. He challenged his YouTube followers to make suggestions for the most incredible…
If you could do a job a week, which would they be? Level: beginner, intermediate and advance Ever feel like you want to re-invent yourself? Like even though you are an English teacher, you could have also been a baker, or a computer programmer. In the spirit of practicality, we…
What did or do you want to be when you grow up? Level: beginner and intermediate If you are like me, that question makes you cringe. Why? Because I have wanted to be so many things. Narrowing it down was a stressful process filled with doubt–even today. Of course it’s…
Why do humans treat their pets like human beings? Yep, I’m guilty of that sometimes. And why wouldn’t I? Sometimes my dog is nicer to me that my children are. This phenomena is called anthropomorphism and there are many reasons we do this. Somehow the relationship with a pet is a…
Are you protected from identity theft? It’s a scary thought really because my own personal answer is: I don’t know. I change my passwords regularly, I back up my computer, I don’t open any emails that ask me to give my personal information, and I never, repeat never, give my…
Can you spot the lie? We would play this game for hours in long car rides. The object is to tell two things about yourself that are true and one thing that is false. The other participants have to say which they think is the lie. Rules Each player thinks…
Prepositions can be a bit nebulous to second language learners. Yet they do a lot of heavy lifting when it comes to meaning. So in many cases, it’s important to get it right. Here is a very short activity that requires the participants to complete the questions with the correct…
