Who's Your Nanny?

Discuss

1. Do you know anyone who has a foreign nanny (or helper) living in their home? If yes, who and why?
2. Would you like to hire a foreign nanny to care for your children? Explain why or why not.
3. Do you know anything about the laws regarding hiring foreign nannies, helpers or maids?

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Butt Watching

Tuesday 22 February 2011

Men - be honest! - how often do you (secretly) "check out" other women? You know, on the bus, on the train, walking down the street...

Today's article is very short. However, it contains a lot of words and expressions that you may not know. It is also an interesting article (I think).

After you have read the article, take a look at the YouTube video below.

Or maybe you want to watch the video first... :)

Discuss

1. If you are a man, how often do you “look” at women (in a sexual way)? Describe the last time you did this?
2. If you are a woman, how do you feel if a man “looks” at you (in a sexual way)? Describe the last time this happened to you.
3. In the video, you see men with their girlfriends looking at the other girls behinds. If you are a man, would you ever do this? If you are woman, how would you feel if your boyfriend did this?

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"Chinglish" Signs...

Monday 21 February 2011

For many visitors to Taiwan, reading the road signs can be a problem. For example, is it "Shin-Sheng North Road", "Xin-Sheng North Road", or Shing-Shen North Road"? It can be very confusing.

Discuss

1. What is "Chinglish"? Can you think of any common "Chinglish" mistakes that native Chinese-speaking people make?
2. Have you ever noticed any signs with "Chinglish" translation mistakes?

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My Perfect Valentine!

Valentine's Day has already passed for this year. But that's okay - we can still talk about it!

Discuss

1. Do you care about Valentine’s Day? How do you normally celebrate Valentine’s Day?
2. Talk about a particularly special Valentine’s Day that you remember.
3. If you could choose anyone in the world to be your valentine for a day, who would you choose and why?

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Google Recieves 1000's of Resumes

Talk About It

1. Would you be interested in working for Google? Why or why not?
2. What do you think would be the good things about working for Google? Can you think of any bad things?

Vocabulary

embark on (v) = begin

spree (n) = a lot of activity in a short period of time

flood (v) = very large amount (usually used to describe water)

topped (v) = was more or higher than (before); exceeded

exceeding (v) = being more or higher than (before); topping

*Mountain View = A city in California where "Silicon Valley" is located. Read more about it here.

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