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Monday AUDIO LESSON

“Smaller plates help reduce obesity”

WORD CHECK UP

1. Alternative

2. Fancy

3. Reduce

Guide Questions

1. What springs to mind when you hear the word 'obesity'?

2. How does the size of your plates affect how much you eat?

3. What's the best way to lose weight?

4.

5. Personal Application:

1. What experiences do you have of going on a diet?

2. Should restaurants give smaller portions?

3. When is it difficult to stop overeating?

CONVERSATION

You reap what you sow !!!

Rachel As you all know, our client, Royal Company Limited, is planning to hold a product release

press conference next month. They're impressed with our proposal and decided that we

shall organize the activity.

Sally That's terrific ! We did everything we can on this proposal, it's lucky that we didn't waste

our breath on the presentation.

Simon Albert, congratulations.

Albert Well, you reap what you sow.

Rachel Our first progress meeting with them will be next Wednesday. We should now make

certain arrangements for your duties. Albert, you will be in charge of invitations and

brochures. Simon, please send an invitation to every journalists and reporters on our

contact list. Give them a call and confirm their participation.

Simon OK. Should I prepare name tags for each of them ?

Rachel Absolutely. You're getting into the swing of things. As for you, Sally, please contact the

hotel and deal with the venue issue.

Explanation :

You reap what you sow - Everything that you do has repercussions. It comes back to you one

way or another.

Example : Watch the way you live your life because you reap what you sow.

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1509/150917-obesity_1.mp3



Tuesday ARTICLE

Travelling to and from work is work The European Union has ruled that workers with no fixed office should be paid for travelling to and from their first and last appointments of their day. This could have a huge impact on the payroll

expenses of companies across Europe. The European Court of Justice said that the journeys of workers who do not have a fixed place of work, and who travel between their home and their customers’ premises, are to be paid work. This means potentially higher salaries for care workers, sales staff, plumbers, nannies and other company employees who work from home. The court said it was to protect the health and safety of workers and ensure they did not work longer than 48 hours per week. The ruling means that thousands of companies across Europe could be forced to change their business arrangements. Many will have to rearrange the working schedules of employees to ensure that their first and last appointments are near their homes. A

British employment lawyer, Chris Tutton, told the BBC that: "Unless [bosses] adjust working hours or ask employees to opt out of the 48-hour working week, employees could quickly exceed the number of hours they are legally allowed to work. Bosses could therefore soon find that they are operating illegally and be at risk of facing costly claims against them." The ruling does not affect people's daily commute to their normal, fixed place of work.

WORD CHECK UP

1. Huge

2. Expenses

3. Ensure

Personal Application:

1. What do you think about what you read?

2. What springs to mind when you hear the word 'working'?

3. What do you think companies feel about this new ruling?



Wednesday PICTURE ANALYSIS

DISCUSSIONS:

1. What’s the setting of this picture?

2. Who are the characters?

3. What are they doing?

4. What is the issue in this photo?

5. What lesson can we learn from this?

6. What happen to Syria?

7. Do you think USA can help these refugees? Why or why not?

8. Why some European countries helps these people and others don’t?

9. Whose responsibility is it to help them?

10. What could be the solution to this problem?

GRAMMAR REFRESHER:

In each of the sentences, there is an error. Point out the error and then correct it. 1. A lion's strength is superior than a wolf's. 2. This book is preferable than that one. 3. This question is the most easiest. 4. Fire broke out last night. 5. The honey is made by bees. 6. Most Europeans are fond of the bread. 7. She won a first prize. 8. The men are rational beings. 9. Dead man tells no tales. 10. All the men are equal.



Thursday DEBATE

THE INTERNET BRINGS MORE HARM THAN GOOD The Internet is a network connecting computers across the world. It has its origins in military and academic projects dating back to the 1960s, but began to be more widely available from the end of the 1980s. The creation of the World Wide Web (1989) and web browsers (early 1990s) gave ordinary people easy ways of getting around the Internet. Over the past fifteen years, millions of different websites have been set up, giving people the chance to shop, do business, play, learn and communicate online. Over the same period it has become much easier, cheaper and faster to get online in order to do these things.

Pros: The Internet gives millions of people access to information they would not otherwise have had, which is a huge benefit. People who read the news, offline or online, are not inherently dupable, they like all people do not simply accept messages they are, to varying degrees, critical of what they read and not simply passive. When people spend a lot of time reading online content they can differentiate between bloggers who are untrustworthy or extremely biases from bloggers who carefully refer to legitimate sources. The problem of bad information in news-making is not unique to the Internet; there are lots of trashy magazines and poorly researched news content in traditional print channels of communication as well.

Cons: The Internet has become a major source of information for many people. However, online information has usually not gone through the same checks as newspaper articles, books or factual television programming. There is a higher risk that some of the facts or quotations from a particular source in an article are false. Whereas newspapers might lose customers if people find out they have been ‘selling lies’, a blog and other online content can be easily created and uploaded as well as just as quickly being deleted. If people base their opinions on the information they find online, they could well be basing their opinion on false information. WORD CHECK UP

1. Inherently

2. Dupable

3. Varying

Personal Application:

1. What can you say about the issue?

2. How does the internet help you with your everyday life?

3. Which side are you with the debate? Why?



Friday BUSINESS IDIOM FOCUS

Read and be familiar with the Business Idiom below and use them in

your conversation.

Why study idioms?

One of the keys to speaking like a native is the ability to use and understand

casual expressions, or idioms.

Knock Someone's Socks Off

Hi, John. What's new ?

Oh, nothing too much with me, but you ought to see Fredo's new car. It'll knock your

socks off!

So, he finally got that Italian sports car he's been dreaming about.

He sure did. When you see all the custom features that it has, you'll get so enthused and

excited you won't know what to do.

Boy, I can hardly wait to go for a ride in it.

Lose One's Shirt

I happened to bump into Dole at lunch yesterday afternoon.

What's new with Dole these days ?

He wasn't doing so well. For one thing, he told me he lost his shirt at the races.

Dole has always liked to bet on the horses. I'm not surprised that he lost a great deal of

money. Yeah. At this rate he'll never have a penny to his name.

Lemon

Have you seen Joe's new car yet ?

Yeah. It looks good, but she's had nothing but problems with it.

That's too bad. It sounds like she got a real lemon.

She sure did. No sooner did she drive it home from the dealer's than it

proveddefective and started breaking down.

Out of the Woods

Although Eric was well on his way to recovering from his bout with pneumonia, he was

still not out of the woods. The doctors told him that he would have to take it easy and

avoid exposure to cold, since he was not out of danger and difficulty yet.

Eating Someone

Hey, Alice. What's been eating you lately ? Don't you realize how rude and irritable

you've become?

I know. I'm really sorry for the way I've been acting.

Well, why don't you tell me what has been bothering and upsetting you and maybe we

can work your problem out together.

I'll admit that it would help to talk to someone about it.

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