Make a note of the different types of lies and the reasons given for doing them. When I first arrived in Moscow, I soon learnt an important lesson. I learnt that if I asked if something could be done and I received the answer, ‘OK, no problem,’ that...
Make a note of ten words or phrases which would be useful in any presentation that discusses statistics. Rapid population growth will help push the world’s population to about 9.3bn by 2050. Together with relatively high fertility levels in...
Read the text carefully. Then do this: Identify any new words. Make a note of five quotes you feel best represent the article. Prepare a mini-presentation on the subject of the article. Include the new words you identified, the five quotes from the...
‘Endless choice was supposed to herald progress, but it’s only made us more miserable.’ – explain and illustrate this quote. Endless choice was supposed to herald progress, but it’s only made us more miserable. Sometimes it’s just hard to...
Choose three different greetings that you like and put them onto the whiteboard. Then, using your chosen three greetings as your inspiration, create your own voicemail greeting. A is for academics; B is for beer. One of those reasons is why we’re...
Read the text carefully. Then prepare an oral opinion on the contents. According to today’s regulators and bureaucrats, I shouldn’t be alive. Those of us who were children in the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s or even in the early 80s, apparently...
The rules are the same as for using them before normal words.
