weekly class Archives - The English Training Company

Hi everyone! Here is our weekly class (28/08 – 01/09) (video, questions and opinion). “Weekly Class – What Is Virtual Reality?”. English Level = B1 & B2. Facebook bought Oculus Rim, a virtual reality company, for $2 billion dollars in March 2014. Video – Questions (watch the video from 0:00m to 1:48m) Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey […]

Hi everyone! Here is our weekly class (10/07 – 14/07) (video, questions and opinion). “Weekly Class –  How 3D Printing Is Changing Manufacturing”. English Level = B1 & B2. Video – Questions (only watch the video from 0:00 to 2:22 mins) In which part of New York City is the manufacturing factory, Bronx, Queens or Brooklyn? […]

Hi everyone! Here is our weekly class (10/07 – 14/07) (video, questions and opinion). “Weekly Class –  Are Passenger Drones The Future?”. English Level = B1 & B2. Video – Questions (only watch the video from 0:00 to 2:22 mins) How much payload (passenger and cargo weight) can Ehang 184 carry? What altitude does Ehang fly […]

Hi everyone! Here is our weekly class (03/07 – 07/07) (video, questions and opinion). “Weekly Class – Can These Startups Change the Way We Live in Cities?”. English Level = B1 & B2. Video – Questions (watch the video) What makes a city a city? What is Urban X and where is it located? What does […]

Hi everyone! Here is our weekly class (26/06 – 30/06) (video, questions and opinion). “Weekly Class: What is Mindfulness”. English Level = B1 & B2.   Video – Questions (watch the video) What is Mindfulness? How do we normally react when we nearly have a car accident? What happens next after we have an “angry thought”? […]

Hi everyone! Here is our weekly class (19/06 – 23/06) (video, questions and opinion). “Weekly Class – America´s Oldest Brewery”. English Level = B1 & B2 Video – Questions (watch the video) What year did Yuengling brewery start? What generation is the current owner Dick Yuengling? And when did he buy it? What was the current owner´s […]

Hi everyone! Here is our weekly class (15/05 – 19/05) (video, questions and opinion). “Weekly Class – Robots in companies”. English Level = B1 & B2   Listening – 5 Questions What percentage of US jobs have a high probability of becoming computerised? Experts think automation and artificial intelligence will truly pervade our lives by […]

Hi everyone! Here is our weekly class (08/05 – 12/05) (video, questions and opinion). “Weekly Class – Why do Danes happily pay high rates of taxes?”. English Level = B1 & B2   Listening – 5 Questions The Kingdom of Denmark is surrounded by the UK, Sweden and which two other countries? How much is Denmark’s […]

Hi everyone! Here is our weekly class (20/03 – 24/03) (video, questions and opinion). “Weekly Class – What is big data?”. English Level = B1 & B2 Listening – 5 Questions What is the goal of big data? What is harder to analyse than structured data? Clever companies use both ________ and _________ data flow to […]