Sticking to the Deal: Managing Supplier Risk CEFR: B2 Read/Listen first ⚡ Learning goals Can summarise a supplier risk clearly and propose a practical response. Can negotiate a small concession while keeping the tone professional. Can agree next steps and monitoring actions after a short call. ✨ Key language Could we add a safety clause? […]
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Finding Middle Ground on an Olympic Sponsorship Budget CEFR: B2 Read/Listen first ⚡ Learning goals Can argue for a sponsorship strategy while keeping the discussion factual. Can propose a workable compromise on budget and priorities without sounding defensive. Can plan outreach to prospective clients and agree next steps in writing. ✨ Key language find some
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Reporting a Technical Incident Clearly CEFR: B2 Read/Listen first ⚡ Learning goals Can write a short incident report that summarises what happened and when. Can explain causes, consequences, and risk using clear technical language. Can propose next steps and recommendations for a supplier and a client. ✨ Key language We have just repeated the test
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Fixing a Tech Glitch Before a Teams Lesson CEFR: B2 Read/Listen first Word count: 141 ⚡ Learning goals Handle a simple tech problem and keep the lesson on track. Explain steps clearly using time words like while, after, and until. Ask for a short delay politely and confirm what is working. ✨ Key language I'll
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The power of listening CEFR: B2 Video Show full transcript There’s an ancient and well-known philosophical riddle that asks: “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it still make a sound?” A scientific view is that, while a tree will make waves in the air, to
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Ten Meters of Thinking: The ABC of Communication CECR: B2 Video Show full transcript This space is reserved for the full verbatim transcript of the talk. For copyright reasons, paste your licensed transcript of “Ten Meters of Thinking: The ABC of Communication: Paul Hughes at TEDxInnsbruck” here, split into clear short paragraphs. ⚡ Learning goals
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Talk to strangers CEFR: B2 Show full transcript Who knows that you’re here? I’m not asking a deep spiritual question about the nature of existence; I want to know about your community footprint and who will realize if you’re not where you’re supposed to be. For too many years I lived as an absentee citizen
Rethinking nuclear energy CEFR: B2 Show full transcript the terrible devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan did not just take a toll on human lives it also took a toll on our future in terms of energy development particularly with nuclear power here with us to tell us more and what some of the implications
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Learning to be awesome at anything you do, including being a leader CEFR: B2 Watch the video Show full transcript When was the last time you had no idea what you were doing? OK, I’ll go first. A couple of years ago I decided I wanted to learn Spanish in preparation for a trip I
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Putting the human back into human resources | TEDx CEFR: B2 Watch the video Show full transcript who here has heard the term Human Resources who here has used the term Human Resources who here thinks they know what the term Human Resources means yeah many times when we talk about human resources we're talking
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