📜READING PICKS – Articles, blog posts, quizzes and more:
Article from Mind Tools: Beating Self-Sabotage: Recognizing and Overcoming It
"You can't do that!" "That's way too difficult!" "If you try, you'll probably just fail anyway." These statements sound as if they're coming from a tyrannical and cruel person with a mission to destroy self-confidence. Unfortunately, all too often, we can be the tyrant and our target can be ourselves. (Continue reading)
"You can't do that!" "That's way too difficult!" "If you try, you'll probably just fail anyway." These statements sound as if they're coming from a tyrannical and cruel person with a mission to destroy self-confidence. Unfortunately, all too often, we can be the tyrant and our target can be ourselves. (Continue reading)
Article from BBC TRAVEL: The end to a French cheese tradition?
After years
of lobbying, industrial producers are now allowed to make camembert with
pasteurised milk. As a result, one of France’s beloved cheeses may be
disappearing for good. (Continue reading)
Article from BBC CAPITAL: Why suppressing anger at work is bad
How faking
your feelings at work can be damaging – We all put on a front a work, but
researchers have found that burnout can relate closely to how employees manage
their emotions during emotional or stressful interactions.
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- Adverb Adjective Collocation Games set 1 ⇒ Which adverb best goes with which verb? (When you finish, click on “Next Game” and get a full new set of pairs! There are 10 games.)
- Adverb Adjective Collocation Games set 2 ⇒ Which adverb best goes with which verb? (When you finish, click on “Next Game” and get a full new set of pairs! There are 10 games.)
- Adjectives
- Plurals (1)
- Plurals (2)
❓ QUIZ ⇒ Random Phrasal Verb Quiz (Test your understanding of phrasal verbs with these random phrasal verb quizzes. Each time you 'start again', it will show you a new quiz generated from a phrasal verbs database.)
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