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Talking about dreams, hopes, ambitions and plans
Learn how to talk about your dreams, hopes, ambitions and plans. Useful grammar and vocabulary presented in a fun and engaging way.
Hofstede – The Culture Factor
Learn how to talk about culture using the Hofstede Culture Factor and its six dimensions.
Lessons from the Life of Marie Skłodowska Curie
14 lessons from the life of the famous scientist. Speaking lesson.
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Business Phrasal Verbs – part 2
Black Box Thinking
Mistakes can be our greatest teachers – if we learn from them. Black Box Thinking shows how embracing failure leads to real progress. Are you making the most of your mistakes?
So you want to be an architect – part 1
Learn what it means to be an architect from Doug Patt. Did you know that an architect is also an inventor?
Leverage Points – How to get unstuck in work and life – Dan Heath
Learn six ways you can fix what is not working well according to Dan Heath, the author or Reset: How to Change What’s Not Working.
Idioms with brain and mind and left-right brain dominance
This lesson teaches some cool idioms with brain and mind and explores the topic of left-right brain dominance.
Testujemy Metody – Comparative and superlative adjectives
SPECIAL LESSON – Test six ways of learning grammar. Become an expert at creating and using comparative and superlative adjectives.
Why we work so much
Why do we work so much? What can history of work ethic teach us about the reasons for our busy working lives?
Talking Picture – Goals
Let’s talk about goals. Answer some questions about setting goals and study a few model answers.
Why we can’t focus
How Social Media Keeps You Poor
Five Ways to Supercharge Your Career
Idioms and metaphors – Happiness is Yellow
How to talk about happiness in English? Actually, you will be surprised how many idioms and metaphors there are to talk about being happy in English.
Try something new for 30 days by Matt Cutts
Have you heard about 30-dat challenges? Here’s a TED talk about this fun idea presented by Matt Cutts.
Idioms and metaphors – organization is growth and plants
Personal Brand: Four Principles of Distinction by William Arruda
Learn four principles of managing your personal brand from the pioneer of the topic: William Arruda.
Time Traveler’s Dilemma
TALKING PICTURE – Party
Girls Auto Clinic
Ricardo Semler of Semco
Be water my friend by Shannon Lee
The Long Game by Darie Clark
Grit by Angela Duckworth
General English Grammar – Diagnostic Test
How to express contrast – advanced level
Idioms with parts of the body
A Tale of Two Lives – story-based vocabulary test
General Vocabulary Test – diagnostic test
5 Ways People Are Dumb With Money
This lesson is about how people make predictable financial mistakes. It discusses five common financial mistakes: the endowment effect, the sunk cost fallacy, transaction utility, mental accounting, and the tendency to spend unexpected income on frivolous things.

































