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QUESTIONS

Part 1 (Comprehension Questions ):

1. What is an extraordinary gift according to the speaker?
2. And what does she consider as total freedom?
3. At what age does her mother let her go backpacking off to Greece?
4. What specific phrase changed the speaker’s life? The day when her whole life started.
5. How long did she learn to navigate after hearing that phrase?
6. She actually managed to get a ride on a Whitbread Round the World Race boat. But she went as what?
7. Was she a good cook?
8. Who sponsored Maiden?
9. They sailed around the world with what message?
10. Maiden is sailing around the world on a five-year world tour for what purpose?

Part 2 (Express Yourself Questions):

1. Have you ever been sailing? Where did you sail to?
2. Where in the world would you like to go sailing the most?
3. Have you ever felt seasick? Where were you?
4. How many meters long was the biggest boat you have ever been on?
5. When did you last see a sailboat? Where was it?
6. If you were to build your own sailboat, what would you name it?
7. In many countries sailors don’t know how to swim, what do you think of this?
8. Are there any famous sailors or ship captains from your country?
9. How does a sailboat move forward against the wind?
10. What would you fear most if you went sailing far into the ocean?

QUESTIONS

Part 1 (Comprehension Questions ):

1. What does the speaker call the machine that could brush one’s teeth?
2. Is her toothbrush helmet recommended by dentists?
3. When did she finish making this toothbrush helmet?
4. She carved out this little niche for herself on the internet as what?
5. What did she say is the easiest way to be at the top of your field?
6. She came up with a setup that would guarantee success 100 percent of the time. What was that setup?
7. What is the first step in her process of building a useless machine?
8. What was one thing she was really nervous about giving presentations?
9. What did she call that device which rotates around and you can put anything on it?
10. What is the true beauty of making useless things to her?

Part 2 (Express Yourself Questions):

1. What’s the best invention ever? Why? Who invented it?
2. What’s the worst invention ever? Why? Who invented it?
3. Who’s the most famous inventor that you know? What are his inventions?
4. What would you like to invent?
5. Do you think time machine is a future invention?
6. Do you think inventions always have some bad side effects?
7. Do you think one day people can live on other planets? What inventions do they need to realize this dream?
8. Do you know any inventor who was not successful when he was alive?
9. Do new inventions always create new problems?
10. What is the world’s most useless invention?

QUESTIONS

Part 1 (Comprehension Questions ):

1. Who did the speaker beat in 1895 and become the World Chess Champion?
2. 12 years later, he was fighting against one computer in a match called what?
3. In the most famous human-machine competition since John Henry, the speaker played two matches against the IBM supercomputer. What is the IBM supercomputer called?
4. When he first met Deep Blue in 1996 February, how many world championship games had he played?
5. What should we do to get the most out of our technology, and to get the best out of our humanity?
6. In what year did the speaker play this human-plus-machine competition against another elite player?
7. Under what name was this human-plus-machine competition against another elite player?
8. What specific chess tournament produced a revelation in 2005?
9. Who participated in this tournament?
10. Who were the winners of that tournament?

Part 2 (Express Yourself Questions):

1. Can you play chess?
2. Is chess a sport?
3. If you agree that chess is a sport? Why?
4. If you refuse chess being a sport, why?
5. Can you explain some of the rules of chess?
6. Can you name all the six chess stones and their moves?
7. Can you play any card games?
8. Is playing card games a sport?
9. Can you pick one card game you can play and talk about its rules?
10. When was the last time you played a card game?
11. Do you know any other brain sports like chess or cards?

QUESTIONS

Part 1 (Comprehension Questions ):

1. People who experienced a lot of stress in the previous year had a 43 percent increased risk of dying. Is it true or not?
2. Now the researchers estimated that over the eight years they were tracking deaths, 182,000 Americans died prematurely from what?
3. What is the 15th largest cause of death in the United States last year?
4. What does it get you if you’re breathing faster?
5. What would be the result for those participants who learned to view the stress response as helpful for their performance?
6. What are the typical stress responses?
7. But in the study, what happens when participants viewed their stress response as helpful?
8. What does the new science of stress reveal?
9. What is a neuro-hormone called and what are its functions?
10. Oxytocin is also a stress hormone; so, what happens when oxytocin is released in the stress response?

Part 2 (Express Yourself Questions):

1. What kinds of things cause you to stress?
2. How can a lot of stress affect your physical health?
3. What are some good ways to reduce stress? What works best for you?
4. What kinds of jobs do you think are the most stressful?
5. How do you behave when you are under a lot of pressure?
6. Who are you most likely to talk to when you are worried about something?
7. Does feeling stress change the way you eat? How?
8. What sort of music do you listen to when you want to relax?
9. How can stress affect your sleeping patterns?
10. What do you think is the most laid-back job in the world?
11. What are some bad or unhealthy ways to relieve stress?
12. Does reading or watching the news cause you concern?

QUESTIONS

Part 1 (Comprehension Questions ):

1. In a recent survey of millennials asking them what their most important life goals were, how many percent said that a major life goal for them was to get rich?
2. How many percent of those same young adults said that another major life goal was to become famous?
3. What is the longest study of adult life that’s ever been done?
4. How long have they tracked the lives of 724 men, year after year, asking about their work, their home lives, their health, and of course asking all along the way without knowing how their life stories were going to turn out?
5. What are the lessons that come from the tens of thousands of pages of information that we’ve generated in these lives?
6. What is the first lesson about relationships?
7. How about the second big lesson?
8. What is the third big lesson that we learned about relationships?
9. Who were the happiest people in their 75-year study?
10. Whose quote is this: “There isn’t time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.”?

Part 2 (Express Yourself Questions):

1. How often do you arrange to meet friends?
2. How often do all the members of your family get together?
3. What differences has the internet made to people’s ability to keep relationships going over long distances?
4. In what ways can people keep in touch with friends/family over the internet?
5. Do you send/receive many emails to/from friends/family?
6. The human being is said to be a “social animal”. One of the main criticisms made of the internet is that we’re getting used to relating to people we’ll never meet. What are the implications of that?
7. Does it worry you that many children nowadays spend more time in front of computer games than actually playing with their friends?
8. How many friends can the average person truly have?
9. How many friends can you have on Facebook?
10. How would you define a friend? Do you have different kinds of friends?

QUESTIONS

Part 1 (Comprehension Questions ):

1. What part of Sudan is Darfur?
2. Where did the speaker and his family used to live before reaching the camp?
3. What does the word “otash” mean?
4. Why is it called so (otash)?
5. What is the name of their IDP camp?
6. What does the speaker refer to as the basic right of every child?
7. What did the speaker say is the greatest power that’s ever known to all?
8. What did he say should be a priority and should be available for all children?
9. What languages can Makhtoum speak fluently?
10. What is his (Makhtoum) biggest dream?

Part 2 (Express Yourself Questions):

1. How important is education?
2. Does your country have a good education system? What are its strengths and weaknesses?
3. Which countries have the best schools and universities? Why are they considered good?
4. Is education only for the young? What things should people learn as they grow up? What should people learn after they have grown up?
5. Henry Ford said, “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” Do you agree? Why?
6. Do you enjoy learning new things? Give an example if you can.
7. Does studying make you tired? Is it hard work? How can a student get energy for study?
8. What characteristics should a good teacher have?
9. Have you ever considered becoming a teacher? Why or why not?
10. Who has taught you a lot in your life?

QUESTIONS

Part 1 (Comprehension Questions ):

1. What it is that allows you to have interactive conversations with a hologram of a real Holocaust survivor, according to his talk?
2. According to the speaker, what is something special and more profound and personal than what books or lectures, or movies could ever teach us?
3. Who is in addition to being a Nobel Prize winner in physics was also known as a legendary teacher?
4. What does their pipeline use to convert and input audio into these mouth points?
5. Their goal was to build an accurate model of a person, not to what?
6. As a researcher, he’s also working on countermeasure technology for what purpose?
7. What is one of the tools they plan to release?
8. What is a Reality Defender?

Part 2 (Express Yourself Questions):

1. What is Artificial Intelligence?
2. What are some benefits or potential positives of AI?
3. What are some risks or potential dangers of AI?
4. Are you more optimistic or pessimistic about artificial intelligence technology? Why?
5. One often mentioned risk is that AI (or robots) will take over people’s jobs; what do you think about this argument?
6. How would you feel about having a robotic colleague?
7. Do you think Artificial Intelligence also means that computers could possibly become conscious or self-aware? Why / why not?
8. How is AI helping you in your everyday life?
9. How would you like artificial intelligence to help you in the future?
10. Which scenarios of AI use in the economy do you know?
11. Would you like a robot to do a service for you? Or do you prefer human beings? What if robots did it to a cheaper price?
12. Which movie about AI do you like? Why?

QUESTIONS

Part 1 (Comprehension Questions ):

1. Who were the project’s lead engineers of the Golden Gate Bridge?
2. What was the home to 96-kilometer-per-hour winds, swirling tides, an endless blanket of fog, and the earthquake-prone San Andreas fault?
3. Who was convinced that the bridge could be built; and that it would provide San Francisco’s commuters more reliable passage to the city?
4. What kind of bridge consists of a single beam anchored at one end and extended horizontally like a diving board?
5. Who was that colleague together with Ellis who convinced Strauss to pursue a different approach?
6. What different approach are they referring to?
7. Since the strait’s depth prevented them from drilling or digging the foundations, what was dropped on the ocean floor, to create openings for pouring concrete?
8. How many workers died when an entire scaffolding platform fell in 1937?
9. The Navy had been pushing hard to paint the bridge with what colors?
10. Who thought that the primer itself paired nicely with the strait’s natural backdrop?

Part 2 (Express Yourself Questions):

1. What comes to your mind when you hear the word ‘bridge’?
2. What do you think of California?
3. What are your favorite structures in California?
4. What do you know about life in California?
5. Would you like to live in California?
6. What has been the longest bridge you have crossed so far?
7. How challenging do you think it is to build a bridge?
8. Have you ever thought of becoming an engineer?
9. What skills should a good engineer possess?
10. If there is one bridge you would like to personally see; what would it be and why?

QUESTIONS

Part 1 (Comprehension Questions ):

1. What is one key benefit of dreaming which is associated with an enhanced ability to solve next-day problems according to Mr. Walker’s talk?
2. What is the second benefit of dreaming?
3. Why is REM-sleep dreaming considered an emotional first aid?
4. What have scientists discovered after learning a virtual maze?
5. What appears to be an essential ingredient to so much of our waking lives, according to the speaker?

Part 2 (Express Yourself Questions):

1. Do you usually have dreams?
2. What was the nicest dream you could remember?
3. What about the worst?
4. How often do you remember your dreams? 
5. Have you ever had a dream which seemed to come true? What happened?
6. In your culture, do specific dreams have a specific meaning?
7. Did you know that Abraham Lincoln supposedly foresaw his own assassination in a dream? What do you think about it?
8. Are dream messages sent from our unconscious, predictions of the future, or the brain’s way of cleaning out information?
9. Do your dreams ever affect your moods? Explain.
10. Do you tell people about your dreams?
11. Do you read books on dream interpretation? What is your opinion on it?
12. Have you ever dreamed about dead people?
13. Have you ever dreamed of a language that you don’t speak?
14. Has anyone told you that you walked or talked in your sleep?
15. Do you agree with the idea that “Life is like a dream”?

QUESTIONS

Part 1 (Comprehension Questions ):

1. According to this article when do we constantly negotiate?
2. What does a successful negotiation about?
3. How many ways did the speaker give when negotiating?
4. What questions do we possibly consider on our first step?
5. What was the first example given in doing research?
6. What’s the second step/way?
7. What do we possibly feel when negotiating?
8. TRUE or FALSE: “Emotional distancing is a strategy to be very attached to the possible outcome of the negotiations.”
9. What’s the third way?
10. In negotiation, why is it important to listen well?

Part 2 (Express Yourself Questions):

1. Have you tried making negotiations at work or somewhere else?
2. Where do you usually negotiate?
3. Can you say, you’re good at it/negotiations?
4. Do you think it is always worth it to make negotiations when we can?
5. Have you made any negotiations with your parents/children before?
6. Give your opinion on this: “You can leave the dance floor and move up to the balcony.”
7. Who would benefit the most in every negotiation?
8. Have you ever refused a negotiation before?
9. Do you know someone who’s really a good negotiator?
10. What is/are the bad side/s of making negotiations?