English Conversation Course

Read the article at  https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/oct/08/flat-pack-to-the-future-how-ikea-shaped-our-lives and discuss it. Present your personal experiences.

Read the article at  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/23/facebook-global-takeover-f8-conference-messenger-chatbots  and discuss it. Present your personal experiences.

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.    09-15.10.2017 2.    16-22.102017 3.    23-29.10.2017 Wojtek K., Sylwia P., Tomasz M., Andrzej G., 4.    06-12.11.2017 Jakub A., Mieczysław Sz., Michał W.,Maciej W. Olaf R. Wojtek P. Michalina M.    Jakub M., Andrzej N., Marcel S., 5.    13-19.11.2017 Marcin M., Łukasz D., Mykola G., Maciej G.,  Yevhen S , Jacek W.,Krzysztof K., 6.    20-26.11.2017  Yevhen Sh., Tomasz T., Daniel C., Jakub L., Denys D., Emil W., Pylyp R.  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: 1.     consist of text (ca.400 words). 2.     include photos, videos (only  in English ). 3.     be interesting to read, watch and comment on. If I do not like the topic, I can ask you to prepare a new presentation. 4.     be submitted in the Word file or the Google docs (no PDF files). 5.     include the sources used. 6...

Wine I won’t lie if I say that everyone tried many kinds of wine but there is only few of us who really know something more about this beverage. The first wines were made in middle-east part of our globe about 3000 years b.c.  It’s a long time ago, isn’t it? Ok, wine’s history is little boring, let me describe what types of wine we have and how it’s made. The flavor mainly depends on grapes that are used. There are many factors affecting the quality of the vine like insolation, plants around vine, type of water, etc. Those factors have only a little influence on colour of wine. Color rather depends on the way of making wine. So, how it’s made? At first we have to squeeze the juice out under the pressure plate. In next step we have to initialize fermentation proces. There are several ways to do that, sometimes it’s a natural proces without any interference but sometimes it’s enhanced by chemical addons. Fermentation is very long proces and it mostly takes several weeks. On the ...

Sailing Have you ever tried to sail? Maybe you want to try? I’m 23 and I’ve never do that untill integration trip of our company. It was three days of incredible fun and experiences. But let’s start from the beginning. There were about 50 people so we had 9 yachts (about 5/6 people on the boat). We’ve set off from Giżycko and finished in Trygort. Everyday we were getting up about 9-10 a.m (it was so hard to wake up after great party in the port), swimming all day long and after 8-9 hours later we were returning  to the port to have a party. After this trip I’ve enrolled on the course to make a yacht skipper patent. I’ve learned at lot about yacht types, native rules, weather, etc. There are many kinds of yachts and I want to describe some of them. The first I’ve ever sailed on was Sigma 600 It’s really small and so fast yacht. Sigma was invented and created  first time in 2011 and it’s became one of the most popular in 6 years. It has 6 meters long and about 8 met...

Dan Gilbert, author of "Stumbling on Happiness," questions the view that we are unhappy if we do not get what we want. Our "psychological immune system" allows us to feel happy even when things do not work out as planned. https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy?language=pl What do you think about that? What makes you happy?