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