Monday, October 29, 2012

US Elections

Here you can find a BBC piece with the highlights of the first debate.

Here you can find another BBC piece with the highlights of the second debate.

Here you can find a BBC news piece on the key points of the third debate.

Here  is a Guardian article on which candidate is supported in different parts of the world.

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Living and working at home vs. abroad

Here is an article on the benefits of working abroad for the global economy.

Here is another article for people considering moving abroad for work.

Finally, here is an online forum on the topic.

Monday, October 15, 2012

Low-cost airlines vs. national flag carriers

Here you can find a BBC interview with Ryanair's CEO.  Thank you Raul!

Here is an article from The Economist on the airline sector in Europe.

Sunday, October 7, 2012

Basic negotiation skills

Here you can find the handouts with some basic negotiation skills.

Future of the euro

Our negotiation can have two parts: first, reach a common ground on the preservation of the monetary union, and secondly, discuss whether or not a fiscal unity is needed to preserve the monetary union.

Here is an article from The Economist on the future of the euro.  Here, our negation can take place between two camps arguing for the disintegration vs. the preservation of the monetary union.

Here is another other article from The Economist on the two different conceptions of the origin of money, which could be useful to read for the second part of our negotiation, i.e., preserving the monetary union with vs. without a fiscal union.

Composite sentences with future tenses

Here you can find many exercises on future tenses.  I am also hereby making a list of all the tenses and key words available. You can do exercises 18 - 28, which deal with future tenses. Remember: we do not use 'will' in the part of these sentences with the linking word.