Taking a poll!

We've finished our unit about talking on the telephone. What would you most like to study next?
(Leave your answer in the comments section!)

• Meetings
•  includes presenting ideas, agreeing and disagreeing, running a meeting, interrupting, structuring a talk and more 
• Travel
• includes how to book travel, checking in and out, eating out, riding in a taxi, dealing with airport problems and more
• Grammar 
• includes verb tenses, comparatives, questions, passive voice and more
• Email 
• making a first contact, writing either friendly or formal emails, writing a forceful email, explaining many ways, following up, complaints by email and more
• Projects  
• how to plan, make updates, justify changes, make excuses, announce a new project, talk about money, talk about employees, talk about future projects
• Dealing with people 
• small talk, making a suggestion, criticizing, praising, compromising, showing how to do something, ask for help, make offers and more
•  Socializing   
• how to meet up for the first time, how to catch up, how to tell a story, how to describe someone else, how to make and decline offers and more

More telephone practice

I hope you had a great Chuseok!

I found some great resources for more practice having telephone conversations. Visit the link below and click on the links under the "Module 1: Telephone" section. See you back in class on Tuesday!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/business/talkingbusiness/

Gaga meat dress update!

The designer of Lady Gaga's meat dress announced it will be dried so it can be saved. Wow!

http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2010/09/lady-gaga-meat-dress-to-be-preserved/

Telephone and Lady Gaga!

First a link to the Telephone song we've been learning:

And some of the costumes Lady Gaga wore in the music video:

And more interesting costumes and articles about the crazy singer!

• Click here- Lady Gaga's "meat dress" and other costumes the Video Music Awards
• Click here- Lady Gaga's "bubble dress"- is it copied from a famous designer?
• Click here- Lady Gaga loses underwear made by Queen of England's designer
• Click here- Time magazine names Lady Gaga "Most Influential Person of the Year"

Lady Gaga and Beyonce

Listen to sample telephone conversations!

Here's a great link to listen to and read telephone conversations. You can choose to listen, read or both. It's also good practice listening to a British accents.

Oxford English Press Telephone conversation

image from www.dr-susan.com

Cute panda bear welcomes you to Power Up blog!

Just to get things started, a cute panda bear who is not very good at hiding.