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Meeting #12 Goal Setting - Personal Development

Leventcim hi! Today's topic is "Goal Setting" and conversations about life and business around "Goals". I would like to remind you this topic along with the questions ask in order to achieve it.  " We all have goals and talking about them actually gets us more encouraged to do something about them. Sharing goals is also a good thing to help get them done. A good set of questions is: What are your current goals in life? How do you plan to reach your goals? How often do you set goals for yourself? What goals have you set and achieved in the past? How do you feel when you reach your goals? " I would strongly suggest you to watch the following videos from easy to difficult: Please also check the following link to find Zig Ziglar's 7 steps of Goal Setting: https://worldofwork.io/2019/07/zig-ziglars-seven-steps-of-goal-setting/ Here is your task: List your goals in all areas of life, i.e. Social, Career, Financial, Spiritual, Family, Physical, Intellecua...

Assignment #21 Conversational Phrases

Leventcim Good Morning! I loaded quite a few videos and study materials for you to dwell on last week, that's the reason I stopped sending additional assignments. I know that you have a very limited time.  How about this? One week we focus on Grammar, and another week we shift focus on Vocabulary. So that you can enrich your knowledge and skills quickly. You may take the opportunities on job to use new grammatical rules and words, phrases, phrasals step by step as we progress.  This week we carry on with phrases from beginner to advanced, since we did Grammar las week. Please check the explanations beneath the videos too. Here we go: Even though they may seem advanced, I know that you will bump into many of these expressions in real life. I recommend that you pick up the ones that you quickly start using in your daily conversations, and also gain familiarity to those you find more advanced at your level.  Have a wonderful week, and see you at 9 tonight. Aren

Assignment #12 Daily Expressions and Small Talks at work

 Dear Levent, Today's subject is about daily expressions and small talks. I recommend that you repeat as you listen and that you take notes in your notebook, so that you become more familiar by using what you learn here.  These videos and tastks will probably fill your 45 minutes.  Good luck with them! Aren

Assignment #9 A Brief History Of Ukraine (And Why Russia Wants To Control It)

 Dear Levent, Today's topic is about Ukraine again. Please answer the following questions briefly: - What are the critical events in the history of Ukraine? - Is the origin of Russians and Ukrainians the same? - Why does Russia want to control Ukraine?  All the best, Aren

Assignment #7 American vs Canadian ENGLISH Differences!

 Dear Levent, Please watch and compare the differences. Take notes of what you observe after watching. There are 2 parts of this comparison subject.  I presume that you have 45 minutes today. So you can distrubute watching them through the day.  Best, Aren

Assignment #5 - 20 Screenwriting Tips from Quentin Tarantino

Dear Levent, As you must have returned from holiday, we can focus on more serious studies. This time I am sending a 2 days' assignment for you to complete which incorporates listening, reading and writing skills as well as critical thinking about the subject. I may also ask you to present your thoughts about this assignment sometime later. So, probably speaking skill will be included too.  I hope that you enjoy watching this 20 minutes video about screenwriting tips given by Quentin Tarantino.  - Please take a note of each tips. Pause and think about them.  - Write down your comments whether they are right or wrong. Criticize his ideas.  - Use other resources from the Internet if you need, i.e. Wkikipedia, Youtube, Google etc.  Just a reminder: You can slow the speed of the videos on youtube and turn on the subtitles too.  All the best, Aren  

Assignment #2 - At a Restaurant and Introducing James

Leventcim good morning!  Today's topic is "Basic English Vocabulary for Restaurants" As you watched "Paying at a restaurant" yesterday, this topic goes very well with it, especially when you are in a Tango Festival!  James is another good teacher of EngVid's. This is James' Page on EngVid.  https://www.engvid.com/english-teacher/james/ Please try to use what you learn when the opportunity comes. Then you will have learnt what you watch and study.  You can write down your comments below after watching the video. Good luck! Aren

Assignment #1 Building Daily Habit

  Dear Levent, I think that we should start studying today as you have already taken your test and as we have collected the study materials.  Please spare only 15 minutes to watch the following videos and to practice by either writing or speaking out loud the examples which are included inside them. You can look for similar examples by searching the internet too.  You can write your comments below if you like. Good luck! PAYING AT A RESTAURANT ( BY EMMA) https://www.engvid.com/paying-at-a-restaurant-vocabulary-culture/