Monday 20 December 2021
How Millennials Are Reshaping Charity And Online Giving
NPR's Elise Hu explores how young donors are changing charity as we know it.
1. People from their late teens into their early '30s are establishing new patterns of______________.
2. Harrison volunteered to spend the next two years in _______________
3.When he first got to Liberia was a ________________
4. 7-year-olds drink regularly from chocolate-colored _________
5. Most childhood diseases in the developing nations he visited could be ________________ drinking water.
6. When he came back and wanted to start raising money for clean water, what was his friends' reaction?
7. He started Charity Water to help __________________________ to bring clean drinking water to the nearly 800 million people.
8. He also wanted to _____________________and trying to reinvent charity, reinvent the way people think about giving, the way that they give.
9. Amy Webb helps forecast ____________________ for nonprofit and for-profit companies.
10 Millenials want to feel like they're ____________________________. That they're investing not just their capital, but they're investing emotionally.
11. Any philanthropy without a smart digital platform - not just for donations but for empowering a community of givers - will __________________
12. They asked people to give up_____________ for clean water.
Answer key.
1.spending and donating money
2.West Africa.
3.drinking water crisis
4.swamps.
5.traced to unsafe
6. they were wary (recelosos), they don't trust charities, the thinkd they are black holes and you don't know how much money goes to help the people you are trying to help.
7. dig wells
8.set an example
9.digital trends
10. making an investment
11.be left behind
12. their birthday
Tuesday 14 December 2021
Working from home: Ups, downs for workers, employers
Watch the video and n12ote down the ups and down of working from home.
Happiness at Work: A Myth to Be Punctured?
Happiness at Work: A Myth to Be Punctured?
Listen and complete the missing information:
1. The study concludes that the happier people are at work, the better ____________________
2. When Ms. KELLAWAY kept a workplace diary of your thoughts for a week, she found out that on Monday she felt _____________________ whereas on Tuesday she felt_____________________________
3. When she looked back at her work she realized her work wasn't that great and it was that she was feeling ___________________ she judged it well.
4. When she looked back at what I'd written the previous day, which she considered one of her less happy days at work , she thought it __________________
Vocabulary:
- grumpy-unhappy and bad-tempered;
- grim- hash, repellent
- doggedly- persistent in effort; stubbornly tenacious
-angst-a feeling of dread, anxiety, or anguish.
1. The study concludes that the happier people are at work, the better ____________________
2. When Ms. KELLAWAY kept a workplace diary of your thoughts for a week, she found out that on Monday she felt _____________________ whereas on Tuesday she felt_____________________________
3. When she looked back at her work she realized her work wasn't that great and it was that she was feeling ___________________ she judged it well.
4. When she looked back at what I'd written the previous day, which she considered one of her less happy days at work , she thought it __________________
Vocabulary:
- grumpy-unhappy and bad-tempered;
- grim- hash, repellent
- doggedly- persistent in effort; stubbornly tenacious
-angst-a feeling of dread, anxiety, or anguish.
Answers:
1. their performance is.
2. sort of great and that I felt pretty good about her work
a little bit tired, grumpy, felt terrible about her work.
3.on the days when I felt happy, her work wasn't actually that great. It was because she was feeling complacent, she judged it well.
4.thought it was rather good.
Monday 6 December 2021
Tuesday 30 November 2021
The Pursuit of the Perfect Kitchen
According to the U.S. census bureau, more than half the renovations homeowners undertake involve kitchen makeovers. And realtors and appraisers say a new kitchen adds more value to a home than any other project.
But to what end? Are we worthy of our kitchens?
Why Americans Can't Quit Tipping
Listen to the podcast and answer the following questions:
Why do we as a society still tip? And how can we stop?Why does the U.S. have such a strong tipping culture? And why is it so much stronger than the tipping cultures of other countries?
Why nations differ in their tipping customs?
How hard it is to break away from that status quo and why do competitive forces make it almost impossible to go back?
Tipping as a social convention .Tipping seems to be designed to reward good service. So the better the service, you know, the higher the tip. But is that what happens in real life?
Habits: How They Form And How To Break Them
From: 0.55 to 7.53 minutes
1. Why is Gross interested in his book?2. What is the basal ganglia?
3. What do neurologists know about this?
4. What examples do they mention as something we can do without being mentally aware of it at all?
5. Why would behaviour change if you go on vacation?
6. How can habits be changed?
7.What habit did he want to break?
8. Was he successful? If so, how could he?
Monday 22 November 2021
Tuesday 16 November 2021
Saturday 6 November 2021
Wednesday 20 October 2021
Are we falling out of love with marriage? 6 Minute English
Watch the podcast from BBC learning about marriage and note down the ideas they mention on why marriages last or don't succeed.
Nearly half of migrants who arrive in Spain via Africa report violence on the journey
discuss them with your group. Then try to put them into order from the most important to the least
important. You can add more reasons of your own.
• To escape poverty
• To escape war
• To have better job opportunities
• To have a better education for your children
• To escape the political system
• To be with someone you love
• To escape natural disasters
• To learn a foreign language
• To have a higher quality of life
• To live in a country with a better climate
Tuesday 19 October 2021
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