English Conversation Course

Esports Recently esport has been growing and becoming more and more popular among many professional and occasional gamers. This type of gaming activity has become so famous that in 2015 the term ‘’esports’’ was officially added to the dictionary as ‘’competitive tournaments of video games, especially among professional gamers’’. eSports http://www.pcgamer.com/esports-is-now-officially-in-the-dictionary/ Evolution of esports https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JOMh-pv4p8 The beginning of esports reaches almost two decades back, when the first multi-player PC games were created and published: Doom – Id Software 1993 Warcraft – Orcs&Humans – Blizzard 1994 Command and Conquer – Westwood Studios 1995 Quake – Id Software 1996 Age of Empires – Ensemble Studios 1997 At first, video games competitions were popular among the local communities of players or groups of friends. The first official league was founded in 1997 in Dallas by Angel Munoz and it was called CPL...

Programming your mind for success / Carrie Green / TEDxMancheser Nowadays we have many various opportunities regarding our career and educatio nal paths, therefore we set different goals in our lives, which we want to accomplish to be satisfied with who we are and as a result to develop our competences, skills and knowledge. With all the scopes of areas which we can pick and decide to pursue, we can do nearly anything we’d like, according to our preferences and interests. Anybody can become an expert in a specific field, but it does not have to be one field at all. We do not have to limit ourselves and with all the educational programmes, courses and certificates, we can basically pick a few topics and areas which we find interesting and explore them as we wish. On the way to achieve whatever we want and truly desire, there can appear multiple obstacles and issues which we may have to deal. This is why it is crucial for us to learn how to stay focused and motivated. While...

Read the article at http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170220-cant-unplug-heres-how-to-navigate-your-digital-anxiety and comment on it. Present your experiences.

Read & watch about two approaches to work-life balance and comment on them/discuss them. Present your personal experiences. Sources: http://www.bbc.com/capital/gallery/20170223-the-boss-who-doesnt-believe-in-work-life-balance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdpIKXLLYYM

Put your name on the list of blog moderators (choose a week when you would like to do it). Remember, blog moderation  is an obligatory part of the course.  What do you do as a moderator? Choose some theme for your week. Put on the blog links to interesting articles, films, presentations, etc.  Comment on them and encourage your group to discuss them  with you and other course participants. 1.        06-12.03.2017 2.        13-19.03.2017 Michał P., 3.        20-26.03.2017 Karolina M., Denys D., Sylwia P., Jacek W., 4.        27-02.04.2017 Agnieszka G., Damian K., Maciej G., Krzysztof L., Piotr P., 5.        03-09.04.2017 Krzysztof S., Jakub M., Paulina G., Filip M. 6.        24-30.04.2017 Łukasz G., Nina M., s14335, Żaneta M., Anastasiia L., 7.    ...

You should prepare  2 presentations: one based on text with some short videos and photos; the second one should be a video, e.g. a TED presentation with your introduction and questions to discuss. You  moderate  your presentations (ask questions, comment on your friends’ opinions). Your moderation will be evaluated. Moreover, each week you read/watch and comment on/ discuss your colleagues’ presentations. Send me your presentations at least  a week before  the date of their  publication .  Your presentation should: consist of text (ca.400 words). include photos, videos (only  in English ). be interesting to read, watch and comment on. If I do not like the topic, I can ask you to prepare a new presentation. be submitted in the Word file or the Google docs (no PDF files). include the sources used. not offend anyone’s beliefs. Ignorance of the rules  will result in the course failure. Attention! I will not evaluate any pre...

Collage in art. 4 artists you should know about them. Mary Lum Interdisciplinary artist Mary Lum in her collage work combines photographic fragments of urban architecture, architecural elements found in vintage comic books and acrylic print on a paper to creat new spaces suggesting the intertwined facts and fictions of urban experience. Cutting and layering paper is analogous to wandering it the city. In her works we can find fatastic world mixed with our everyday views. Mary has been member in the Visual Arts department of Bennington Collage since 2005. Gordon Magnin Images from high-fashion , body-building and pornography are based choice of the artist. He play with human body in every possible way. Repetition, converting, using geometrical shapes lets him create inimitalbe humans creatures. His art is somehow discomposing and refer to this days cult of the body. Virginia Echeverria As she says she attempts to to make manifest an invisibl...