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2.8 KiB
- English Lesson
- https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230120-five-ways-to-be-calm-and-why-it-matters
- Five ways to be calm – and why it matters
- serenity - Gelassenheit
- Stoic serenity
- put all into wider perspective
- stay calm when making decisions
- Electronic escape
- soundtrack that will promote peacefulness like ambient rainforest sounds
- Art of tranquillity
- visual art, one viewer's tranquil, meditative experience
- Harmony of haiku
- Japanese poetry, haiku, which consists of 17 syllables in three lines
- Zen idea of a oneness with creation
- the composition of haiku is so intuitive, it is almost unconscious.
- Find your flow
- absorbed in something we love ...enter an almost trance-like state of calm, mesmerised
- make a commitment to quiet time
- Solution
- look /seek / search work towards solutions
- search is less formal
- find / come up with / produce a / reach / work out solution
- propose a solution
- complete vs partial
- agree on / arrive at solution
- solution for/to sth
- happy / neat / good / ideal solution - everyone is satisfied
- look /seek / search work towards solutions
- Cares and concerns
- stress you out
- outwait sth. - wait till it is over
- 1. When someone "brings something to the table", it means that he/she _____________________.
- has something to offer ✅
- has nothing to offer
- buy everyone lunch
- 2. HP is one of Dell's main _____________________.
- computers
- competitors ✅ (contestant / competition)
- controllers
- 3. It's pretty hard to _____________________ against big, established companies.
- compete ✅ (go up against)
- complete
- competition
- 4. James _____________________ last year.
- changed his jobs
- changed jobs ✅
- made a change in jobs
- 5. It's not good to _____________________ yourself entirely to your career.
- denigrate
- detonate
- dedicate ✅ (commit / devote)
- 6. Bill, I need your _____________________ on this. What do you think of this design?
- intake
- install
- input ✅ (thoughts)
- 7. I thought you _____________________ at the conference.
- did a really good job ✅
- really did a job
- did really a good job
- 8. P1: We've got a meeting in 10 minutes. Do I have to _____________________? P2: Yes, you do.
- atone
- attend ✅ (take part / show up / be present)
- attain
- 9. I'd like you to do a little _____________________ on investment strategies.
- present
- presenting
- presentation ✅
- 10. He's away ______________________ at the moment, but he'll be back in an hour.
- from his desk ✅
- from a desk
- from the desk
- DONE pick sth. and prepare little excerpt
- https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230120-five-ways-to-be-calm-and-why-it-matters
- IT-Governance
- umfasst die Abstimmung der IT-Technik und der Prozesse in allen Unternehmensbereichen mit der Strategie und den Geschäftszielen.