Health, aging, eHealth, diet, cooking for 4th of April 2014

Here you can find an article on eHealth from The Guardian.

Here you can find an article on diet and longevity from The Economist.

Here you find an article on healthy cooking to avoid carcinogens from The Economist.

PechaKucha

Here you can have access to PechaKucha, which is an online tool for flowing presentations.

Prezi

Here is the link for Prezi, an online tool for presentations.  You will have to create an account if you want to use it.

More tips on PowerPoint presentations

Here you can find list of do's and dont's for PowerPoint presentations.

The dont's for PowerPoint

Here you can find Don McMillan's standup on the dont's of a PowerPoint presentation.

The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint

Here you can find Guy Kawasaki's recommendations on the length (10 slides), duration (20 minutes) and font size (30 points) in a PowerPoint presentation.

Here you can find a stream of his pitch. ('Bozo' means 'fool'.)

Lists of three and the rule of three: two speeches

Here you can find the first part of Steve Jobs's iPhone product launch speech.   Here you can find Barack Obama's inauguration speech.
In both of them, please pay attention to the usage of the lists of three and the rule of 3s. Here is a stream where the rule of 3s is explained among other useful tips on making presentations.

Belgium

Here you can find the short stream about Belgium; we mentioned it during our last session.

Position of adverbs

Here are the main rules and exceptions on the position of adverbs in sentences:

First rule: if there is only one verb in the sentence, the adverb comes before the verb as in the following example: He usually comes to work on time.
Exception to the first rule: if the only verb in the sentence is 'to be', the adverb comes after the verb as in the following example:  He is usually on time.

Second rule: If there is more than one verb in the sentence, the adverb comes after the first verb as in the following example: He has already arrived at work.
First exception to the second rule: if the first verb in the sentence is an auxiliary verb with 'to', i.e., have to, need to, ought to and used to, the adverb comes before the first verb as in the following example: He usually has to start working by 9:30 AM.
Second exception to the second rule: if the first verb in the sentence is a contracted negation, the adverbs 'probably', 'possibly' and 'certainly' come before the first verb as in the following example: He probably won't come to work on time.

These being the main rules and exceptions, there is more to this topic.  You can find more information on this webpage, which also provides you with some exercises. 

Here is another document with exercises on the same topic.  You can find the key for the exercises here.

Holidays, travelling: experiences or destinations for 14th of March 2014

Here is a webpage from National Geographic on the top 10 places to visit.  This is just to inspire you.  During our next session, we can exchange some tips with each other.  You can thus think about some of your best leisure-travel experiences in order to prepare for mini presentations; each presentation should be around 5 minutes followed by comments and/or questions.

Future of the EU: a union of nations or regions for 7th of March 2014

Here you can find an article on the topic from The Economist.

Current affairs: Ukraine for 28th of February 2014

Here are the hyper-linked titles and topics for some material on Ukraine:

• I Am a Ukrainian   
• Van Rompuy's press release 
• The New York Times on Ukraine
• The Guardian on Ukraine (Thank you Bruno!) 
• National Geographic on Ukraine (Thank you Isabelle!)
•  European Voice and another piece on Ukraine (Thank you Sonia!)