English for slow business

        Think before you read  1. What does Black Friday mean to you? 2. What's the story behind it?  3. Mention other traditions that have connections with consumming. 4. How often do you buy stuff you don't need?   Now , read the text   The psychological reason you are sucked into Black Friday buys. 5. After reading the text, how can we explain that we buy more than we need?  6. What are the techniches used?  7. Think about your shopping habits and explain how can you connect them with the information in the text.     

    Volodymyr Zelenskiy: The unlikely hero of the Ukrainian resistance The country’s president, initially perceived as a political lightweight and an easy target for Putin, now represents a legitimate commander in chief of a country at war       ( from El Pais in English)  What do you think of this image. Think of adjectives that can be applied to both characters.   Have a look at the adjectives in the link. What of these would you use to describe Putin and Zelenski?    WHO IS WINNIG THE WAR?  Less than a week into the war, it seems increasingly likely that Vladimir Putin is heading towards a historic defeat. He may win all the battles but lose the war. Putin has the  dream of rebuilding the Russian empire. The lie below is that Ukraine isn’t a real nation,  and that the inhabitants of Kyiv, Kharkiv and Lviv want Moscow’s rule. But Ukraine is a nation with more than a thousand years of history, and Kyiv was already ...

How does the economy work? Economics is a complicated subject. To make things easier imagine a  simple example. Samuel Greedy founds a bank in el Dorado, California. A. Stone, a building contractor finishes his first big job and receives a payment in cash of  $1 million. He deposits this sum in Mr Greedy’s bank. The bank now has $ 1 million in capital. Jane McDoughnut wants to set a restaurant in El Dorado. She doesn’t have enough money   so she goes to the bank and presents her business plan.She gets $1 million loan. McDoughnut now hires Stone to build her new restaurant. His price is $1 million. She pays him.  -How much money does Stone in his bank account? (1)____________________ - How much money (cash) is located in the bank? (2) ______________________ But it doesn’t stop here. Two months later Stone informs McDoughnut that, due to problems  and expenses, the bill for c...