Parenting is probably one of the toughest jobs on the planet. We all do it slightly differently and usually have fairly strong beliefs about how it should be done. In this post I have two references for you. First a psych-quiz on parenting styles: And then a series of open…
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Cats or dogs? Chocolate or ice cream? Making comparisons can ignite some interesting debates with the simplest of prompts. Most of my posts include some sort of first language ressource to use as a launch pad or a vocabulary building tool. However, sometimes I like to see what words live…
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I grew up in multicultural Canada. Just in my small group of friends there was me (franco-british), an Indian girl, a Lebanese girl, an Israeli girl, and a German girl. We loved to compare ourselves. We could spend all evening just playing “how do you say…in your language,” we would…
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Clinical testing of new medicines and therapies is quite a layered and rigorous process. And still, when a drug reaches the general public, there can be unexpected outcomes. This TED talk features Nina Tandon introducing a new biotechnology process that may prevent some of these outcomes. For your science students…and…
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This post is devoted to all the students who are in the business and sales field. But if you are like me and enjoy a little behavioural psychology, this presentation will fascinate you. Pre discussion What is it that makes us say yes to one person and no to the…
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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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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…
