practise
Android Employed - Unit of Measurement
https://vimeo.com/226795992
Before you watch
- Which jobs could a robot do at your workplace?
- If not at your workplace, where would robots be useful?
While you watch
- How long has Derek worked for the company?
- How do the other office staff treat the robot?
- Why does he get fired?
- Why's the robot better?
- How does Derek respond?
- Which office item does Derek take?
- How many hours is the robot able to work?
- "You seem on edge Derek". What does this mean?
- Which job does the other robot do?
- Derek spent a lot of time doing something he hated. What was it?
- "Accounting is not your forte, Derek?" What does 'forte' mean?
- What does Derek change his mind about?
- How's Derek's new life?
After you watch
- Do you think the robot was a good counsellor?
- Could robots replace councellors?
6 Minute
cultural differences:- argument
- gestures
- shaking heads and hands
- thumbs-up signal
- example of wrong understanding in Dubai
new words (for me):
- no hard feelings
- trot
- fall out with somebody
- nod in agreement
- nodding and shaking a head
hair:
- hair-raising situations - when do you get goose bumps?
- why did we (people) lose or are we losing our hair?
- men have more hair on their body than women
- baldness, to be follicly chalenged
- Why is hair so important to us? Why do we have to shave, wax, trimm and pluck?
- hair as sign of getting older: hair today, gone tomorrow:)
- miracle od nature - when we're ageing our hair get stronger
- the main goal of rich people - regenerate their body cells
other new words or phrases:
- hair-raising
- get goose bumps
- hair follicle
Questions, problems
I have a favour to ask.
Can I pronounce it: I've a favour to ask.
When we're talking it's better, if I ask you:
What do you think?
What are you thinking?
Hair na hairs - what's the difference by using them?
the difference again:
I was in university.
I was at university.