IN FULL SWING

Do you remember the quizz we did on Friday about WORK?  Here's the link where you can check whether you were right in your answers?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/youmeus/quiznet/newquiz100.shtml

How well did you do? Why don't you take other quizzes from that site? There are scores!!

And here are the photocopies I've given you so far:
1. Tuesday 25th September: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_Nb3d84W0THc3dqOVBHS3FJTVE
2. Tuesday 16th October: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_Nb3d84W0THUTFfc1pCV2tjd2c
3. Thursday 18th October: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_Nb3d84W0THRUFHMUNCZHdlNGM
4. Tuesday 23rd October: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_Nb3d84W0THY2N6dE8zSm0wdGc
5. Friday 26th October: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_Nb3d84W0THcDRDWkZ5cFd2bEE

MORE THAN HAPPY

Do you know what ARBEJDSGLÆDE means? Watch this video and find out!

 

 

  

What makes us happy or miserable in our job? You can read these articles if you are interested in this topic, and I'm sure you are!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6246249.stm

http://humanresources.about.com/od/success/tp/happy_work.htm

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacquelynsmith/2012/07/27/10-steps-to-happiness-at-work/

STICK TO YOUR GUNS

You know that Lance Armstrong has been stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and many others, don't you?
Would you like to read the articles that correspond to the headlines we saw in class?
Here you are!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/oct/23/lance-armstrong-twitter-profile-tour-france

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/cycling/lancearmstrong/9626832/UCI-chief-condemns-Lance-Armstrongs-whistle-blowers-Floyd-Landis-and-Tyler-Hamilton-as-scumbags.html

STRAPPED FOR MONEY

Money and motivation. How do high pay and bonuses affect performance ?
Listen to part of a radio programme and find out what Dr Stian Reimers, a psychologist at the City University in London, has to tell us about this issue.
I'll give you the transcript next week.

BBC Radio 4, ALL IN THE MIND: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00skfys
transcript: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_Nb3d84W0THODFxR1dCdUcwYWc

AT FACE VALUE

What motivates us? How can we stay motivated?
Watch the following video and find out!

RAISE HELL

Hi, there. I'm sorry I have missed a few lessons: I'm on sick leave but I hope I'll soon be back at the school.
As the other day, in class, somebody mentioned the VAT increase in Spain and we talked about the verbs RISE (intransitive) and RAISE (transitive), I'm including on this post a couple of links to articles about this subject in which we can see the use of these two verbs. Do you feel like reading about the economy?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9391554/Spanish-PM-Mariano-Rajoy-raises-VAT-3pc-in-shock-U-turn.html#

http://www.tmf-vat.com/tmf-in-the-media/spanish-vat-rate-to-rise-from-18-to-21.html