Monday, 21 November 2016

Monday's assignment

Good morning all,

Listen to this talk and answer the following questions:

  1. Why did the presenter mention “My fair lady”?
  2. What is the percentage of youth the speaker has mentioned? How many text they send? How often?  about a third of American teenagers send more than a hundred texts a day
  3. What are the ten advice the speaker mentioned to have a great conversation?Number one: Don't multitask .Number two: Don't pontificate. Number three: Use open-ended questions. Number four: Go with the flow. Number five: If you don't know, say that you don't know. Number six: Don't equate your experience with theirs. Number seven: Try not to repeat yourself.Number eight: Stay out of the weeds. Number nine:Listen.  Number10: Be brief.
  4. Now, complete the table and add as many words or phrases that you have learned from the talk.


Word/phrase
Meaning
Sentence
Compromise
agreement

Competence


Pontificate


Pushback


Pundits


Conservative


Liberal
open to change

Go with the flow


Brag about


Promotion


Condescending


Rephrasing


Miniskirt


potential
 showing the capacity to become  into something in the future

trivial
little value

equate
compare




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