Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Big data and privacy for 28th of February 2014

Here you can have access to a TED talk entitled "The Dark side of data".

Here you can find another talk entitled "Making sense of too much data". 

Thank you Francisco!

Exercises with audio: meetings

Here are three audio files for the exercises that are hereby made available:

Audio 1 for exercises no. 1 and 2 on the first page

Audio 2 for exercises 3 and 4 on the first page

Audio 3 for the last exercise on the second page

Signposting and survival tactics

Here you can find a four-page document with exercises on signposting and some survival tactics, which could come in handy during a negotiation. (Source: Presenting in English by Mark Powell)

Opinions, agreeing and disagreeing

Here you can find some phrases which can be used to express your opinions, agreements and disagreements along with some exercises.

Useful phrases and expressions for meetings

Here are the links for some lists of useful phrases and expressions we have covered so far:

- Agreements, disagreements and interruptions
- Opening and setting the agenda
- Moderating

BBC on meetings

Here you can have access to the BBC website on meetings, where they have useful expressions and/or phrases contextualized in short dialogues available as audio streams with transcripts.