Colours in design. The importance of culture
You will watch a video about Design Influences on design: Culture. Then you will have a listening comprehension activity and a speaking activity about differences in cultures and their impact on the different types of buildings.
One diverse world - handout and listening task
This handout will give some basic information about the concept of VUCA and the following exercises will provide various adjectives to describe the modern world.
Life under lockdown
Covid -19 is no joking matter, but a few coronavirus and quarantine jokes can brighten your day. You will find them in the activity: Pun on words -Covid 19.
You may need to use a dictionary for the idiomatic expressions you will encounter in "Expressions for undergoing hardship" task.
An interview about social mood during/after the pandemic
We are all experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic in different ways. We are also eyewitness to world-changing events developing in real-time. Axel, a computer science student at Poznan University of Technology is talking about his experience with the pandemic. Listen to the interview, and think of additional questions you would like to ask students from other countries. In mixed groups with students from other countries, prepare interviews and record them.
Pandemics and related topics - scavenger hunt
Play this scavenger hunt about pandemics and related topics.
Guess the origin of a word
In this task, you will find some information about origins of different loanwords that entered English. You will also be able to learn some new vocabulary as well as explore the topic of loanwords further and quiz each other about various loanwords with your peers using the link below.
Know yourself - handout
This handout will give you information about personality traits (OCEAN) and will help you create a profile about yourself. You can use this profile to introduce yourself to your team members, and also to guide yourself in professional life, and to understand others' behaviour and actions.
Reading and understanding the OCEAN traits will also give you useful vocabulary.
Reporting on team meetings - handout
This handout explains that one team member should take turns to keep the minutes of team meetings and outlines the type of information that needs to be included.
In addition, the handout provides examples of the type of language that is used in writing up meetings.
