Saturday, September 28, 2013

BBC on setting the agenda

Here you can have access to the BBC webpage on setting the agenda during a meeting.

Saturday, September 21, 2013

National streotypes

During our next session, we will be talking about the national stereotypes regarding our countries of origin, i.e.,  Belgium, France, Poland, Romania, Spain and the USA. We will be proceeding with people's sharing their immediate associations concerning a given country, and then, the person from that country responds by agreeing or disagreeing with these opinions.You may want to consider the issue of friendliness as one of the attributes among others.

Here is a webpage where you can find a list of some national stereotypes.  It is just to give you some ideas and/or anticipate what could be brought up about your country during our next session.

Opinions, agreeing and disagreeing

Here you can find some phrases which can be used to express your opinions, agreements and disagreements along with some exercises.

BBC on meetings

Here you can have access to the BBC website on meetings, where they have useful expressions and/or phrases contextualized in short dialogues available as audio streams with transcripts.