INTERMEDIATE AND UPPER LEVELS. LISTENING & SPEAKING. INNER CALMNESS

(RECOMMENDED AS A HOMEWORK)

1. Watch the video interview with Paul Wilson. While watching the first time, write down the questions the interviewer is asking. 
2. Watch the video again. Try to guess the meanings of the following words (they sound similar to Russian translations): 

spontaneous    combination     process     techniques     moment      focused      focus       personal   concentrate (i'm concentrating)      reflex       practices      meditate      meditating      satisfaction 
 

   3.   The speech of Paul Wilson is full of complex words. Work with vocabulary and find the meanings of the following words from the interview (if you don't know the meanings):


calmness    peaceful    peacfulness    attention     capacity    accomplishment      approaching    sustain     sustainable     sustainability   experience    tension    embrace   mindfulness  mindfully    achieve   


Are the words objects, characteristics or verbs (actions)? How do you know it? What is the suffix or suffixes of the words?


4. What is Paul Wilson's advice in the interview? He speaks about it again and again? How does he recommend to do all the things you do in life? 

5. Do you agree with him? 

HERE IS THE VIDEO:

Choose to be Calm interviews Paul Wilson

Here is a bonus: a set of English useful words. 
                                             How many of them do you know?

INTERMEDIATE. LISTENING & SPEAKING. FIND CALM AND YOURSELF DURING THE DAY.

After watching the video I have given to you below, I went to the Google pictures and surfed for @find calm@

I got really surprised when I found so many statements, just a storm of statements involving "find calm".

Some of them are for just fun, some are philosophical, meaningful and appealing to me.

Try to find yours if you like.

What do you think of them?

Do you agree with this imperatives? 

What do the sayings mean? 

And now we are getting back to the topic "SEE YOURSELF AS YOU REALLY ARE"

You have read the text about Sally who "sees herself as she really is", we have answered the questions and talked a little about Sally and the situation.

 We are going to watch the video from YOUTUBE, a one-minute speech of Paul Wilson.

Before this, Let's think of the following:

Does you life seem hectic from time to time? Do you feel like an exhausted horse at the moments?

Do you need something to renew and refresh your energy?

Listen to Paul Wilson and make notes about his recommendations (his advice)

Find calm with Paul Wilson 

(click to watch)

Comment: 
Paul Wilson is a renowned meditation teacher and author of 19 books, including The Calm Technique, Instant Calm and The Little Book of Calm. Here he shares one of his methods of finding peace of mind in everyday life.

What is the recomendation of Paul Wilson to overcome the tension of our hectic life?

Vocabulary

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hectic 

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4) разг. (лихорадочно) возбуждённый; беспокойный, активный

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I HAVE A DISCOVERY TO SHARE WITH YOU

discovery

 

[]брит. / амер.

сущ.

1) открытие; обнаружение; находка

2) то, что открыто, обнаружено, найдено

3) юр. обязательное представление документов суду

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EVERYTHING A SORT OF BUSTS UP TOGETHER.

bust-up

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сущ.

1) перебранка, перепалка, скандал; ссора

2) разрыв (отношений), развод (супругов)

bust up

фраз. гл.; разг.

1) портить, разрушать

2) ссориться

3) расходиться (о супругах)

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EVERY NOW AND AGAIN, EVERY COUPLE OF HOURS WHAT YOU DO IS PAUSE.

at times, (every) now and then, now and again, from time to time
временами


pause
 

[]брит. / амер.

1. сущ.

1) пауза, перерыв; остановка; интервал, промежуток

2) замешательство, колебания

3)

а) лит. цезура

б) остановка, понижение тона (для обозначения конца предложения)

4) муз. фермата

2. гл.

1) ( pause (up)on) делать паузу, временно прекращать, останавливаться (на чём-л.)

2)

а) находиться в нерешительности; медлить

б) тянуть время; стараться продлить (что-л.)

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 JUST SENSE WHERE YOUR FEET TOUGH THE FLOOR...

sense

 

[]брит. / амер.

1. сущ.

1) чувство; ощущение

2) обычно мн.

а) рассудок, сознание

б) разум

в) = good / common sense здравый смысл

3)

а) смысл; значение (слова)

б) резон, обоснованность (каких-л. действий и т. п.)

4) общее настроение; атмосфера, дух

5) направление

2. гл.

1) ощущать, чувствовать; воспринимать органами чувств

2) понимать; осознавать; охватывать умом

3) обнаруживать; распознавать, опознавать

Special Thanks to ABBLINGVO on-line dictionalry where I take all the translations from to make the clear picture of the image of every word. -
LingvoUniversal (En-Ru)

From Children's Rights to Children's Realities

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)

 

The Rights of A Child, are they realized?

Is it possible to realize?

have a great happy prosperous day full of joy, nice food, good place to live and to meet people you love and adore to talk and to be with!

INTERMEDIATE. LEISURE. PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF LEISURE TIME.

 PRESENT AND PAST OF LEISURE

Listen to 8 speakers answering the following three questions:

• How do you define leisure?
• What did you do for fun as a child?
•  How do you spend your free time?

 It will take 6.40 min. 

Some of them speak emotionally, some stay reserved, but anyway all they say is personal and beautiful, telling us stories. 

So, Listen to the answers, make e-notes in the table below (copy the table), try to hear all the activities they mention, get ready to answer the teacher's questions at the meeting (lesson). 

How do the speakers define leisure? 1.       __________________________________________________________________  2.       _________________________________________ 3.       _________________________________________ 4.       _________________________________________ 5.     __________________________________________________________________   6.       _________________________________________ 7.       _________________________________________ 8.       __________________________________________________________________

What did speakers do for fun as a  child? 1.       _____________________________________________________________________  2.       ___________________________________________ 3.      _____________________________________________________________________  4.     _____________________________________________________________________   5.     _____________________________________________________________________   6.     _____________________________________________________________________   7.     _____________________________________________________________________   8.      _____________________________________________________________________

How do the speakers spend their free time now?    1.        ____________________________________________ 2.        ____________________________________________ 3.        ____________________________________________ 4.        ____________________________________________ 5.        ____________________________________________ 6.        ____________________________________________ 7.       _______________________________________________________________________  8. ___________________________________________ .

THE VIDEO IS HERE. 

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Answer the three questions by yourself. 
Prepare a 45 second speech about free time according to the structure:

- How you understand what leisure is,
- What you do when you have free time,
- How it is different from the leisure activities of your friends and your parents (the older generation of your family).


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Get ready to a discussion in the class about free time, 
Think over the answers to the following questions:

• What is leisure in your country?
• What is the difference between leisure activities in your country now and 10 years ago? 
• How has the leisure changed? What are advantages and disadvantages of new activities? 

Find the information in the Internet or ask the older people about it.

 

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Here is a bonus, some TED VIDEO, "THE FUTURE OF LEISURE TIME". 

WATCH it and answer the teacher's questions.  

HAVE A GREAT TIME LISTENING, PREPARING AND THINKING!