💼 Business English Made Simple

🚀 How productive are you? // Quiz // Listening skills

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Daniel Tanner
August 13, 2023

English made simple

Hi English learners! 👋 

Welcome back to English made simple by ChatBubble. Your weekly collection of activities and games to take your English level from intermediate to advanced.

This newsletter is designed to be one complete lesson. If you want to do it all, that’s great! You can go through the activities from top to bottom. If you only have 2 minutes to do one activity, that’s great too! Scroll through and choose whatever you find interesting. 😄 

Today’s edition is focused on business English 💼 , and we’ll be discussing the theme of productivity.

When most people want to do more, they simply work longer hours, but maximizing the time already available to you is the key to improving your productivity.

Before we start, how productive do you think you are? Do this quick quiz to find out whether you are very productive, average or if you have low productivity! (Like me…oops 😝 )

How productive are you? 🎲 

Do this quick quiz to find out whether you are very productive, average or if you have low productivity!

⏱️ 3-5 minutes

Is this productive? 🎲 

First of all, what does it mean to be productive? Decide if you think these activities are productive or not, and let’s see if we agree with each other! 😆 

⏱️ 3-5 minutes

The unexpected key to boosting your productivity 🚀 ⏱️ 15-20 mins 🎧️ Listening 🔤 Vocabulary

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We’re going to hear what entrepreneur and CEO of Every, Dan Shipper thinks about productivity. However, before you watch the video, you’ll need to know the following words for emotions and feelings to understand his ideas well.

Do the quiz below and see if you can match all 18 emotions and feelings to the pictures. 3, 2, 1, go….

Emotions quiz 🎲 

Do you know these 18 feelings and emotions? Play the game to find out!

⏱️ 5 minutes - vocabulary

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Great job! Now it’s time to hear from Dan Shipper. Watch the video and answer the questions below.

Reply to this email with your answers and I’ll get back to you 🤗 

  1. Dan Shipper thinks it’s important to be aware of your emotions if you want to be productive. (1:08) True / False

  2. What does Dan say about awareness? (2:07)

  3. What does Dan say about observation? (3:10)

  4. What does Dan say about experimentation? (4:09)

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Here are some comments from other people who’ve watched this video. Which comment do you agree with most?

Comment A

Comment B

Comment C

Congratulations on being so productive! You’ve just taken one more step towards English fluency. ✋ 

Leave a comment or reply if you enjoyed this edition of English Made Simple. Now I think it’s about time you got back to work, don’t you? 😉 

See you next time!

Dan @ ChatBubble

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