Selfie TV series – is a perfect choice for those who want to relish the long-standing story by Bernard Shaw “Pygmalion” in the modern world of social networks, marketing, and corporate wars.
The series follows the life of Eliza Dooley, a sales representative who is obsessed with Instagram, has 263,000 followers and incessantly posts her selfies. At some point, she realizes that "friending" people online is not a substitute for real friendship, and she seeks help from her co-worker Henry Higgs, a marketing image guru.
In the course we benefit a lot from this series, which is mostly set in the office:
small talk;
pitches;
establishing relationships with colleagues;
social networks;
modern social problems;
love life.
Each episode is a lesson for both Eliza and Henry. And for us. Their emotional dialogues, topical vocabulary, and complex phrases made their way to active listening, speaking, writing, and vocabulary exercises.
The main idea of this course is to help you boost your listening skills. Since the characters can speak quite fast the TV series makes ideal listening practice materials. Inside you’ll find listening oriented activities which will help you
to get the main idea;
to go into detail;
to work with vocabulary, grammar;
to combat auditory hallucinations;
to notice great functional language (invitations, offers, refusals, agreement, disagreement, etc.)
There is one proper writing task in each episode, which consolidates your language knowledge from the episode and gives you support in writing a well-elaborated IELTS-style essay step-by-step. For example, In Episode 1 you are just given a task to test your skills whereas by Episode 6 you’ll have learnt how to take care of the introduction and conclusion, arrange paragraphs and use discourse makers.
The materials are arranged in a spiral way: you will revisit the target vocabulary from the previous exercises and even episodes. This will give you a sense of progress and accomplishment upon both every exercise and every episode.
The course has already been run in a SBERBANK in-company group and proved its effectiveness and engagement. Since then, I have enriched it with new listening exercises, the writing section, and of course interactivity. Tune in.
This course (B2/C1) embraces active listening practice with some psychology and therapy points thrown in.
“The Shrink Next Door” is an American psychological black comedy-drama. It reveals the primary meaning of the word “shrink”, which is actually an informal equivalent of “therapist”. Interestingly, it is inspired by the true story. When Marty first meets Dr.Ike, he just wants to get better at boundaries; he learns all about them and what happens when they get crossed. Boundaries in therapy are there for a reason, and this show allows us to see just how bad it can be when those boundaries are crossed.
For 8 units on this course I hand-picked the video extracts with the most vivid examples of:
breaching boundaries;
brainwashing the patient into believing that he can't function without the shrink;
manipulating and exploiting the patient;
gaslighting;
As we go along on the course and learn from Marty’s therapy experience we benefit from:
lexical tasks;
speaking tasks;
listening and decoding tasks;
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Nothing beats a smart interactive blend of hot-button lexis with related videos from all-beloved TV series.
This course is the case (B2-C2).
This time we’ll be following the life of a vibrant woman. Who is she?
She embodies varies characters from
Ted Lasso;
Sex and the City;
And just like that;
and of course, «The Chicktionary. From A-Line to Z-Snap, the Words Every Woman Should Know» book;
Her experience embraces it all:
owning the most expensive bag and losing it;
flirting with THE guy over a book in a café;
negotiating the territory with a fiancé;
falling in love with the wrong guy;
rocking it when pregnant;
being self-sufficient and stunning;
I made it a point to cover the most relatable aspects on the course:
storytelling;
cohesion;
negotiations;
listening decoding (British);
reacting to news (accepting an offer);
irony;
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If you are up for a vivacious lexical trip with this Diva, buckle down.
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