Listen to Sue interview Chris about his recent trip to India and especially about what surprised him.
During his travels in India, Chris went to Bangalore in the south and then to Rajasthan in the north, to The Taj Mahal in Agra, Fatihpur Sikri, Bundi, Udaipur, Jodhpur, Delhi and Jaipur, to name but a few of the fabulous places he visited.
What do you think would be the most surprising aspects of travelling in India?
Email has become the top method of communication in the workforce. Reasons for emails vary from business correspondences to personal messages.
They can be as short as one word and as long as a novella, but that does not mean that these are all appropriate or even effective.
If you have access to this method of communication in the office, then it is necessary to learn how to effectively use email at work.
Worldwide email use continues to grow at a healthy pace. In 2015, the number of worldwide email users will be nearly 2.6 billion. By the end of 2019, the number of worldwide email users will increase to over 2.9 billion.
Over one-third of the worldwide population will be using email by year-end 2019 and this is forecasted to increase over the next five years.
In 2015, the number of emails sent and received per day total over 205 billion, reaching over 250 billion by the end of 2020.
Despite the growth and prominence of mobile messengers and chat apps, e-mail is an integral part of daily online life.
In 2018, the number of global e-mail users amounted to 3.8 billion and is set to grow to 4.4 billion users in 2023.
Around 281 billion emails were sent and received each day in 2018, the figure is expected to increase to over 347 billion daily mails in 2022.
So, if you are struggling to manage your emails today, then things are set to get even worse for you.
With this in mind, is it time for change?
With the average worker spending 13 hours a week dealing with emails, businesses are potentially losing up to 28% of work time to managing email.
Listen to this podcast where we give some effective tips to manage emails and to reduce the number of emails you receive on a daily basis.
Serge on holiday in the west of The USA – a podcast with a French person who spent 3 weeks travelling around the National Parks in the west of The USA.
Serge flew from Toulouse, France to Denver, Colorado via Paris, Heathrow and Chicago.
Would this type of holiday / trip appeal to you?
Are there any surprises for you, about a holiday in North America?
Daylight saving time (DST), also daylight savings time or daylight time (the United States and Canada) and British summer time (United Kingdom), is the practice of advancing clocks (typically by one hour) during warmer months so that darkness falls at a later clock time.
The typical implementation of DST is to set clocks forward by one hour in the spring (“spring forward”) and set clocks back by one hour in autumn (“fall back”) to return to standard time. As a result, there is one 23-hour day in late winter or early spring and one 25-hour day in the autumn.
George Hudson proposed the idea of daylight saving in 1895.
Many countries have used it at various times since then, particularly since the 1970s energy crisis.
DST is generally not observed near the equator, where sunrise and sunset times do not vary enough to justify it.
Some countries observe it only in some regions and only a minority of the world’s population uses DST; Asia and Africa generally do not observe it.
DST clock shifts sometimes complicate timekeeping and can disrupt travel, billing, record keeping, medical devices, heavy equipment, and sleep patterns. Computer software generally adjusts clocks automatically.
Listen to the podcast for some unusual facts about Daylight Saving Time.
Use your imagination !
A quiz with a difference..... you provide whatever answer seems right to you !
Try this quiz BEFORE listening to the podcast. It will get you thinking and then you can find out the answers from Chris in the podcast and hear how Sue uses her imagination to come up with some plausible explanations to these 15 amazing trivia questions.
If you are a teacher, this is a great way to plan your lesson to get students using their imagination and picking up new expressions along the way.
All countries have regional food specialities; France is famous for its regional cuisine and world wide renowned foods but what about the UK ? What types of dishes do you associate with the UK ?
Sue is from Derbyshire and she has a bit of difficulty trying to name 5 regional specialities !
Do you know where Derbyshire is ? Google it to find out !!!
She mentions 5 regional specialities, listen to the podcast and then take a look at these pictures and try to find the correct name for each dish.
How does Sue describe this tart?
What does Sue really like about this meal ?
What makes this cheese so green ?
When do we eat this particular cheese ?
What does Chris say about this Northern speciality?
LEARNING TIP: After listening to the podcast check if you heard these words. What do they refer to?
