KAHOOT: Prepositions: in, at, on

Prepositions: in, at, on

Happy learning! 

"Big Brother" Vocabulary

• get on well with
• outgoing
• fairly strong opinions
• deserve to win
• bossy
• your strength is...
• snob
• cheerful
• rude 
• the mother figure 
• bubbly, light-hearted
• stick together
• honest, straightforward person 
• fools 
• rudeness 
• a good mixer 

Answer key to the Vocab worksheet "Dependent prepositions"

1. tired of                             11. good for
2. worried about                   12. chose between
3. rude to                             13. argue about
4. pleased with                    14. apologise to sb for sth
5. married to                        15. arrive in (a city or country) at (place: airport...)
6. interested in                     16. belong to
7. exited about                     17. angry with sb about sth
8. reminds me of                  18. kind to 
9. pay for                              19. ask for
10. depend on                         20. proud of

We are built to be kind

This is a four-minute video published by some researchers at the University of California. Let us watch it together and do the worksheet below.

Worksheet

Raise your hand when you hear the following words in the video.

Do you know the meaning of all of them?sympathy       offspring       genes       empathy       

frontal lobes        requires        
cognitive achievement        wealth       charity       strength    

personally fulfilling         engage          on behalf of

According to the researchers at UCLA, are the following statements TRUE of FALSE?

1-      If you feel physical pain, a part of your brain hurts.

2-      According to Darwin, compassion is really old in the nervous system.

3-      Compassion, the feeling of caring for someone in need, activates the vagus nerve, the longest bundle of nerves in the human nervous system.

4-      Upper class individuals have a lot of compassion that's produced by lots of wealth.

5-      Lower class individuals give more.

6-      16 percent of what we do is really about maximizing an individual's personal gratification and desire

7-      The brain really cares about other people.

What the difference between empathy and sympathy? Match the words to the definitions.                                

Empathy	It is about finding a silver lining
Sympathy	It is about making an emotional connection with someone

According to this other three-minute video what is the best thing to say when someone shares something with you which is very difficult?
 .....................................................................................

Do you agree? Why? Why not?

The language of successful presentations

This is a really short but hopefully inspiring and relevant video (only one minute and a half).

You can see again our old friend, Steve Jobs, president of Apple.

I can tell you from my experience working in two multinational companies that the world is about presentations. Why? Because, let's be honest, nobody reads long reports and so in real life if you have a project, you will always be asked to present it to the managing team of your company, sponsors, .... Half of the people in the world are more afraid of oral presentations than death! And so, how can we overcome this fear? by preparing and over-preparing our presentation plus learning a few tips which will make us more confident and relaxed. This is a skill which is given a lot of attention in American schools. Maybe that's why some of the best speakers in the world are American.

So let's learn form the very best!! 

This one-and-a-half video is a series of short extracts taken from a 90-minute presentation. 

Can you make a list of some of the positive language that is used? 

We'll revise and put together all of these words next week in class.

How many new words did you learn?

I discovered this video in a blog I am subscribed to with Google Reader. The blog is DigitaLang and the post is: "The language of successful presentations".

Our collaboration in the blog "Milloringlix"

This week we have the honour to be collaborating with the popular Catalan blog "Milloringlix".

We have been following this blog for some time now, it's one more way to expand our vocabulary. Last month we were invited by the author Carles Roca Font to write the "nanolliçons" of one week in October. We are very gratefull for that and exceptionally this week 7 posts are being published instead of the 3 it usually publishes. If you want to meet the seven authors which were finally chosen, check the link: Nova secció! INstiWeek

I hope you all enjoy the nanolliçons! It was good fun for us!

You can also follow the blog on its Facebook fan page which we really recommend!

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