Monday 20 December 2021

Rising grocery prices put pressure on millions of Americans already facing food insecurity

 


Social media activism

 


Pay It Forward - Trailer

 


How Millennials Are Reshaping Charity And Online Giving

 NPR's Elise Hu explores how young donors are changing charity as we know it.





Complete the missing information.

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.
 

WHO Redefines Burnout As A 'Syndrome' Linked To Chronic Stress At Work

 


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.

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.

BBC - Dr Rob Yeung - happiness at work


 

Health hurt by overtime work