Listening practice
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Weekday – listen to English speaking content for ten minutes daily, no subtitle. Put on the link you listen to on record sheet so that I can make sure you really practice.
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Weekend– choose one episode you feel the most interesting or hardest and answer the questions on the record sheet. We would go through this episode weekly
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Practice resource–
Tedtalk–https://www.youtube.com/@TEDx/videos
BBC–https://www.youtube.com/@bbclearningenglish/videos
CNN–https://www.youtube.com/@CNN
AL Jazeera– https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
Week 1 – Great Start! 💪✨
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Weekday record sheet
Day |
Topic |
Link |
Key vocabularies(at least two) |
Monday |
Who makes Shein’s clothes? |
thrive 蓬勃發展 retail 零售 manufacturing 製造商 spacious 寬敞的 |
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Tuesday |
a simple way to break a bad habit |
reinforcement disenchanted dork cognitive |
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Wednesday |
how digital culture is reshaping our faces and bodies |
internalized inherent optimized alter |
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Thursday |
how to make learning as addictive as social media |
fraction redistribution streak spamming |
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Friday |
Are women better leader than men |
brief methodical corruption innately |
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Weekend record sheet
Topic |
Link |
What’s the main idea? |
One quote from the episode |
Choose one from the weekday record sheet and enter here… |
Week 2 – Keep Going! 🚀🔥
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Weekday record sheet
Day |
Topic |
Link |
Key vocabularies(at least two) |
Monday |
Ariana Grande Talks Eternal Sunshine and Wicked, Teases Penn Badgley Music Video Cameo | https://youtu.be/X-vnJksufEg?si=Yy6Qw_aCuTZXWSoT |
subliminally embellishment overwhelming spoiler |
Tuesday |
The AI models making huge money on Instagram | https://youtu.be/x2-G4422tYA?si=Ykqd_Zb3AZgjluEb |
prompt diffusion refinement |
Wednesday |
Plastic Surgery: The Cost of Beauty | https://youtu.be/wp4YZdSz2aA?si=JSDs6FJ6aWsHtsNX |
strive to cater to |
Thursday |
Why people believe they can’t draw – and how to prove they can | https://youtu.be/7TXEZ4tP06c?si=gQ6ddkyO4iQeVuds |
sequence rest of skeptical |
Friday |
If you’re ambitious but lazy, please watch this video… | https://youtu.be/pLpkCOvg3PY?si=nnLTMgjV7pi2krvr |
momentum dodge declutter contagious bribing |
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Weekend record sheet
Topic |
Link |
What’s the main idea? |
One quote from the episode |
Choose one from the weekday record sheet and enter here… |
Week 3 – Stay Strong! 💯💪
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Weekday record sheet
Day |
Topic |
Link |
Key vocabularies(at least two) |
Monday |
What is the future of working from home? | https://youtu.be/eCRVoXbkHnw?si=sPrxiyygOGMpPyTR |
implement pension crusade slammed |
Tuesday |
How Uniqlo Won Over North America | https://youtu.be/p18BzD5Fs9E?si=mdvgZIwQgJF-OT21 |
saturated decent uncluttered pain point iteration segment |
Wednesday |
What’s happening in Myanmar? | https://youtu.be/jvpLvY9GnJ0?si=RkjpqMfMzZ3yTMUZ |
territory atrocities regime detain imminent unprecedented femine |
Thursday |
China Coffee Wars — Why Starbucks Is Losing The Battle With Luckin | https://youtu.be/wuIkaDNcuYk?si=82vxk_fNmwiV8tAA |
proclivity stagnated plummet patriotic franchising |
Friday |
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Weekend record sheet
Topic |
Link |
What’s the main idea? |
One quote from the episode |
Choose one from the weekday record sheet and enter here… |
Week 4 – Almost There! 🎯🏆
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Weekday record sheet
Day |
Topic |
Link |
Key vocabularies(at least two) |
Monday |
Why Nike is struggling? | https://youtu.be/jUzNEoI9PpE?si=Ok4DKRCzMiw9suXG |
resonate plunge margin |
Tuesday |
Overtourism, How to be a resposible tourist | https://youtu.be/gfcKTMN-5CI?si=eeocrBhD_4WtJ9t6 |
roamer relentless scacity evited |
Wednesday |
SHOPPING | https://youtu.be/XpTjl05NVso?si=UamHEH-nUBpjCaIF |
fatigue remorse replicate revolve |
Thursday |
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Friday |
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Weekend record sheet
Topic |
Link |
What’s the main idea? |
One quote from the episode |
Choose one from the weekday record sheet and enter here… |