English Conversation Course

       Lots of us have a problem with sleeping. Especially this time, when we spent most of our days at home, our biological clock is working different. Sleeping is one of the most important thing for our productivity, creativity and even our immune system! It is very important to sleep well, and so I present to you a few tips for a better sleep! :) QUESTIONS: Do you go to sleep regularly (at the same time every day)? How long do you sleep usually? What is your sleeping routine? 

Among Us is a very fun, yet simple, game. It looks as it was drawn in Paint, mechanics is not complicated mimicking a live party game called ‘Mafia’. Released in June 2018 and shortly after its launch it has about 50 daily active users. A daily active user is defined as a user that launched a game at least once within 24 hours’.  Now it has about 65 million daily active users and its number is growing exponentially. https://twitter.com/forte_bass/status/1309253675760513025 So… what’s the fuss about? The game’s action is set on a spaceship and the crew (up to ten people) are given various tasks regarding maintaining the ship, correcting its course and repairing any damage. Their goal is to complete all the tasks. But among them there is an impostor (up to 3 of them) whose mission is to kill all of them before they accomplish their goal or to sabotage the ship so severely that everyone dies. The crew has to hurry up or find the spy. https://gamingsociety.pl/artykul/among-us-zna...

This semester I’ve decided to shake things a little bit and approach a new subject outside my expertise and learn something new myself. In order to do that I have browsed through my boyfriend’s YouTube subscriptions and I found Veritasium. Veritasium is a popular science channel hosted by Derek Muller which has almost 8 million subscribers. His main interests hover  around physics, astrophysics and mathematics, but you can also learn something new about pyramids or vitamins overdose. Thanks to this channel you can broaden your horizons, stimulate your brain and build a set of conversation starters ;) So here is my proposal to you – a short riddle to solve. Please do pause in the middle of watching the video or read my questions before you get to the end of the video! Enjoy! Questions: Pause halfway through watching the video. Do you know what point the host is trying to prove? Have you ever heard about the black swan story? Can you find some beliefs of your own that you reg...

  Bill Bernat is a recovering addict living with bipolar condition who advocates for mental health awareness through speaking, comedy and storytelling. In Ted Talk he raises a difficult society topic which is a depression. He also gives advices how to talk to people with mental issues and what we should avoid. I invite you to watch the video. Questions: 1.        Do you often talk with people with depression? Do you feel awkward when you do? 2.        Are you willing to be friend with them or maybe you prefer to avoid them for some reason? 3.        What would you do if someone close to you told you he was depressed? 4.        Do you have your own way how to help people fight with their depression?

  Imagine going on holiday with your family to the different country. For sure you are going to use airport services to travel from one place to another. Airports are some kind of transition stops in our journey, right? But what if I tell you that they can be the reason and destination in travel themselves? For further explanation let me first tell you about some fact: Singapore for years wins prestige prices for most outstanding airports in the world. Yet they do not plan on stopping developing and creating new ports with even more amazing ideas. Welcome to the Jewel – the newest pride of Changi airport Jewel Changi is a nature-themed entertainment and retail complex on the landside of Changi Airport in Singapore. It’s signature is the centrepiece world’s tallest indoor waterfall – The Rain Voertex, which is surrounded by a terraced forest setting. The waterfall is additionally illuminated with the lights and will also be a place for multimedia shows. Passengers there are surr...

Please watch this TED talk which focuses on the scientific approach of measuring the impact that video games have on human brains and answer the questions below:  Did you know that the average age of gamer is 33 years old? If you were to estimate this number before you watched the talk, what would be your guess? Have you expected that people who spend a lot of time in front of a computer actually have slightly better vision and visual cognition than people who don't? What influence do games have on your attention and distractibility? Ignore the details of the previous questions and think about you opinion on video games and their impact on people's (mainly children's) health. Did the talk change your opinion (or parts of it)? In what way? If not, can you point out an argument made by Daphne which you don't agree with? Elaborate on why. Even if you agree with Daphne, can you think of an argument against video games? What could be a legitimate argument against playing vid...

  Some games are just too expensive You all have heard about games. Computer games, board games, card games. The Sims and Counter-Strike, Monopoly and Scrabble, Poker and Uno. There is wide variety of games even within the very same categories. The categories I just introduced are just a few among many, many others. You can categorise games even further – team-based computer games, team-based board games, etc. You get the point. You can also categorise them in a completely new way – how much money you must or, in some cases, can spend on them. Let us take a really simple example at first –the majority of board games simply require you to buy a box with the game itself and, occasionally, if that game's developer supports extensions (like additional cards for Dixit [1] ), you can buy them in addition to the core game to enhance your gameplay. But this is not always the case. Let us inspect World of Warcraft - a computer game that requires a monthly subscription. To play WoW,...

 I would like to talk about controversial topic which is Esports in the Olympics. Here is a short video about why Esports should be in the Olympics in 2024. Watch it and post some thoughts about it. Questions: 1. Why does Esport audience continue to grow? 2. Have you ever dreamed about become Esport player? 3. Do you think that Esport should be in the Olympics?

    November 2020 is a special month this year for citizens of United States. Nation is going to choose the next president for following four years. In US, there are two parties that dominate political scene for years which are Democratic Party and Republican Party. Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination without any serious opposition alongside incumbent vice president Pence. On the other hand, Joe Biden was chosen as a candidate for presidential run from Democratic Party. sources:https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plik:Donald_Trump_official_portrait.jpg, https://www.biography.com/political-figure/joe-biden The future president is not chosen directly by people. They are voting in their states for candidate, but each state has its own number of electors and that officials have right to vote at Electoral College. Every state has different number of Electors depend on the population in particular state. For instance, State of California has 55 electoral votes, but Alaska h...

       What is love? Love can be described as a feeling of adoration, affection, euphoria, butterflies in the stomach. Usually, love is directed towards another human being. But is it possible to trigger the most unexplained, desired and poetic feeling in the world with globally accessible, legal substance? Theobrama coca , also called “food of the gods” is dark chocolate, most common sweet among kids and adults. According to recent discoveries and studies, this delicious treat has plenty of benefits for mental health. Science Focus says that dark chocolate contains many chemical substances, which can create the same effect of euphoria as the feeling of love!  Phenylethylalanine , an anti-depressant, which can additionally boost the feelings of attraction and excitement, resulting in big increase of our self-esteem  Theobromine , a stimulant which can cause the effect of being high, comparable to some well-known drugs, such as marijuana leaves Antioxidant...

Should oceans be classified as endangered? The impact of humans’ industrial development has made drastic and irreversible changes to our planet’s ecosystem. After countless warnings and evidence provided by scientists and environmentalists, governments across the globe have finally taken into considerations what devastating consequences this global crisis can lead to. Main factors that contribute to this situation are pollution, deforestation, poor management of agriculture, obtaining and use of fossil fuels and many more. As the list goes on, most of these issues relate to life on land. When it comes to oceans, which cover approximately 70% of Earth’s surface, we think mostly of plastic contamination. But is it all that we should be concerned about?                Global warming not only has caused ice caps to melt, which directly increased the sea level around the world, but the increase in water temperature has contributed to the destructi...

 The dark side of the universe The mysterious name and confusing description of dark matter have been inspiring works of fiction for a long time. When mentioned in literature, films or computer games it is usually described as a source of almost magical or extraordinary physical behaviour and even as material from which you could craft weapons. But what exactly is dark matter from a scientific point of view? The answer is that even certified researchers still don’t know it well. As scientific research is based on things we can observe and measure, it’s difficult to define it comparing it to the matter   that we encounter and experience on a daily basis. A common element, which includes atoms and provides them with mass, is called the Baryonic matter and it doesn’t interact with dark matter. Furthermore, the dark matter is entirely invisible to light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation, making it inaccessible for detection. Because of its gravitational effects on celes...