English Conversation Course

N owadays technology is getting more and more advanced with each year.Along with it's advancement a question about the future of transportation comes to mind. Developing our transportation system won't only change how we commute on a daily basis or travel. It will also have a significant impact on our environment by reducing the amount of air pollution. Here are some projects that are being developed in order to revolutionize our transportation: Hyperloop The concept for this transportation method is being driven by well-known entrepreneur Elon Musk. Hyperloop is using capsules and tubes for transport. Above is the picture of such capsule within the tube that is able to transport 28 persons with enormous speed of 1200 km/h. The concept was first published on 2013. According to Elon plans first route would connect 2 major cities in America: Los Angeles and San Francisco ( ~600 km ). Just to give you an estimation of how much time you would save here are the s...

Probably everyone heard about stock exchange, especially NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) and our Polish market - GPW. We generally know that stock exchange has huge potential for growing your capital and even bigger potential for losses. The word ‘growth’ and green indexes cause faster beeping of our hearts, almost everyone would like to multiply their assets and becomes millionaire or rentiers. On the other hand, losses are even more common and there are plenty of people who went bankrupt because of investments all their money into assets on stock exchange market. If it’s so risky, why do we get into, and eventually, how exactly does it work? To understand the rules of a stock exchange, first, we should move back into the beginnings of the XVI century, when huge colonial movements have been started. In the 1602 Dutch East India Company was established to support and fund trade voyages around the globe. Demand for exporting and importing goods constantly growing, but voyages r...

Bees are probably the most important species on Earth, but when we go deeper into the hive world, we realize how little we know about them. They are incredibly hard-working, have complex habits and have a variety of jobs. I would like to share with you interesting video which explains how bees collect pollen, how their bodies are adapted for doing it very efficiently and, eventually, how they prepare bread for feeding all members of hive. Bees are so extraordinary that I decided to share one more video. Both of them are pretty short so you won’t spend the whole day watching it. :) It is about distributing jobs and responsibilities in a hive. If you liked it, I recommend you reading “Hive” written by Laline Paull.   Bees are able to gather even 140 thousands of pollen particles and it might even one-third of insect weight. I would say than the bee on this picture even more as the pollen balls attached to her legs are nearly as big as her abdomen! Qu...

Did you know the emotion we experienced just right before the anger is actually fear. We can be get angry almost every small reasons, you don't like the weather and get angry, you don't like your sport team and got angry. But would you consider it as an advantage and if you were spend a little time to explore what were you afraid of from did you know that you could better understand where your anger comes from? Let's see the video below     Questions; Do you think you can control your anger in difficult situations? What do you think, how does anger affect the human body and mind? Would you like to get rid of feelings of anger in your life?

Every day, scientists make new discoveries, engineers build the machines of the future, astronauts explore space. And, it would seem that we already know so much about our planet. But there's something that's shrouded in mysteries and riddles. Oceanic world. Nowadays, we have explored only 3% of the water and 97% of it remains - unknown.   What's in there, in the depths? The emptiness? Or the new world we're about to discover? In this video, David Gallo, tells about amazing creatures living in depth of the ocean. Each of them is unique  and possesses skills that we could use in our lives. Questions: What's the most unusual animal you know? Would you be interested to know what's in the depths of the ocean? And what do you think is there? Could the skills of these creatures be applied in our life?  Which area?

Nowadays, there are many paid and free online and offline resources for learning foreign languages. But not every person is a real polyglot. A lot of people find it difficult to learn words and memorize grammar rules.  And exists a belief, to be a polyglot - you must be born as a polyglot. But is it true?   Irish polyglot, Benny Lewis, shared his advice to learn foreign languages quickly and effectively, to date he knows 12 languages and speaks them freely and confidently. It all started when he moved to Spain, he took expensive Spanish language classes to learn the usual phrases and rules. The study was so complicated, he had to repeat the same words over and over. He's already had a failure learning German and Irish. And after half a year of studying he barely could ask a simple question: “How much?”, “Where is..?” etc. A few years later, in Budapest, during one of the conferences, he was already fluent in Hungarian, one of the most difficult languages. He...

Employee retention is nowadays one of the most important things for companies as hiring new ones and introducing them to their position is a considerable expense of money,time and also overwhelms other teammates. Watch below short video in which you'll hear what makes employees happy and also answer the questions afterwards. 1) What factors are important for you while looking for a job? 2) What do you think companies can do to reduce employees turnover ? 3) Were you ever not satisfied with your job? - If your answer is yes please describe the reason.

Experiments that lead to experiencing near-death and out-of-body experiences are both thought-provoking and interesting. Phenomena resulting from incomplete activity in certain parts of the brain may open your horizons: near-death experiences and extra-bodily experiences Let's come to the first phenomenon James Whinnery, an air force teacher, published a series of experiments and training simulations for pilots exposed to high-force force, simulating near-death experiences. Whinnery realized that these pilots had the same experiences as the death threshold.  the pilots described their experiences as sometimes seeing a short-term tunnel appearance, sometimes with a feeling of gliding or paralyzing in the air (similar to a feeling of sleep paralysis or nightmare) and seeing bright light at the end of the tunnel. Whinnery completed the centrifuge model used in pilot training as a result of many years of work.  With this training model, pilots were able to c...

Wherever people were, what kind of work they wouldn’t do, they always preferred to rest. They loved rest and to amplify it they were creating whole cultures, religions, holidays as well as they discovered and produce substances to improve this saint and wonderful time. They were creating a thousands of amazing food and beverages. From well know beer through sunny wine to stronger drinks alcohol takes his earned place close to us for many years. People brew it from basically everything they had. And one of those is mead. Mead is basically fermented honey with water, sometimes with added juice or herbs it is known around the globe and is strongly connected to ancient times especially in more colder regions. It is also our Slavic speciality. People loved bees and their honey, it was only a matter of time before they discover how to make alcohol from it. Mead was well know in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece among Nords, Slavs and Celts. The earliest bottles of this beverag...