GLN ENGLISH CLUB

Saturday, 1^st October 2011

No 12, Lane 8, Nguyen Thi Dinh Street, Trung Hoa Ward, Cau Giay

FACEBOOK

Not so long ago, people lived in a world without Facebook - a social networking site that was launched in 2004 and now attracts over 500 million users. Today, Facebook has become a common place for a lot of people to share their information, photos and so on. But is Facebook really good for you? Has it brought about a valuable element to your life, or distracted you from your daily life and work? Come and share your knowledge with GLN EC this weekend!

2:30 – 2:45: Breaking the ice

  Let’s get down to sharing

2:45 – 3:00: Warming up

  Play the game: “Collecting the pieces”

3:00 – 3:30:  Discussing in pairs

  Do you use the Internet and Facebook? For you, what does Facebook mean?

  Is Facebook really a fantastic social networking tool? Can you list some of its advantages? What are potential drawbacks from using Facebook?

  Do you use any other kind of social network? (Yahoo 360, Zing, Twitter, My Space, LinkedIn…) Is it good in comparison with Facebook?

  Further discussion: Recruiters nowadays are increasingly checking Facebook page profiles of employees before making a hire. What is your opinion on this trend?

3:30 – 3:40: Watch a video clip

3:40 – 4:20: Working in groups

  There will be three groups. Each will be given three words or phrases. The group’s job is to draw what appear in the papers without using any letters which are already provided.

4:20 – 4:30: Expansion Activity

  Listen to the “Facebook” song

Karoshi- a hot issue of Japan

Karoshi is known as one of the popular issue in Japan. It can be understood as “death from work”. “What are the reasons for this serious problem? How has Karoshi affect Japan and other countries? What do we need to do to avoid it?” Those questions were discussed at GLN EC on September, 24^th, 2011.

There were a lot of members concerning about this problem. It was surprised that almost the  participants shared their deep understanding relating to Karoshi. All members agreed that perhaps, the habit of working hard was one of the reasons for Karoshi phenominum.

Especially, in this program, when asked “ Whether have Karoshi appeared in Vietnam or not?”, almost said “no” or “few opportunities to happen”. The interesting questions: “ Karoshi, more advantages than disadvantages, is that right?” “ What has the government done to solve this problem?” were shared in an enthusiatic way.

In conclusion, trying to balance between your work and your life was one of the good way to avoid Karoshi

Karoshi - Death from overwork

Recently, people have been more concerned about one problem that happens in Japanese, it is Karoshi - considered as the death from overwork. Why is it so popular and getting more and more increasing nowadays in Japanese? Is this good or bad? What are the solutions to save people from it? Let’s enjoy with us to share your ideas and discuss at GLN EC meeting on Saturday, September 24th 2011.

GLN ENGLISH CLUB

Karoshi - Death from overwork

Saturday, 24^th September 2011

No 12, Lane 8, Nguyen Thi Dinh Str, Trung Hoa Ward, Cau Giay

    2:30- 2:45: Breaking the ice

-  Making friends with others

    2:45- 3:15: Discussing in pairs

-  What is Karoshi (a word from Japanese)? What do you think about it?

-  Is Karoshi only in Japanese? Is it good for our society - in Vietnam?

-  Are you usually over hard-working in your workplace? Do you like this?

-  What are the solutions to save people from Karoshi in your opinion?

    3:15- 3:45: Warming up

-  Playing an interesting game 

    3:45-4:20: Discuss in groups

       Some people say that Karoshi has both pros and cons, but it seems to have more advantages than disadvantages. Do you agree with this idea? Give your reasons for your answer. Let’s make a presentation about it.

   4:20-4:30: Expansion activity

- Presenting based on words given in 1 minute as funny as possible (just for 10 quickest members), the person who performs the best is our winner.

Shopping - Differences from men to women, from the Northern to Southern!!!

“Do you usually go shopping? Where often do you go shopping? And what kinds of goods and services that you want to buy?”...Those questions in the hot topic “Shopping” were discussed in a warm and hot atmosphere in GLN EC on Saturday, 17^th September.

All the members were attracted by “Shopping” because of its popularity and essence for our daily life. “Although everyone in everywhere does shopping, most people do not care much on what is your shopping’s style? And why do we have different trends in buying, especially between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh cities? – All were answered in details…

Through the experiences, both male and female groups pointed out their styles of shopping, which were very interesting, funny and totally different. The male’s group tended to buy some long-lasting and expensive things while the female’s group focused on clothing, cosmetics and something needed for the daily life with cheap prices. That brought us to competitive discussions at the end after relaxing with such crazy games as “What is the right price?” or “Count the numbers”

After that, we had long-lasting-after program for further discussion in order to improve speaking English more. Surely, all of us not only had an effective meeting but a nice day to share our ideas with the friends in GLN….

      Shopping habits in Viet Nam

It seems that shopping has become a trend nowadays, especially clothes - shopping. A lot of people always find time to go shopping whether they are busy or not. Every person has different shopping habits, but statistically it is mostly women who say “I love shopping”. There are also many differences in the shopping habits of men and women. And, do you know what are they?.... Let’s come and share with GLN English Club in this weekend program with the topic: “Shopping habits in Viet Nam”!

For more information, let’s look at the following timeline:

GLN English Club

Shopping habits in Viet Nam

Saturday, September 17th, 2011

No 12, Lane 8, Nguyen Thi Dinh Str, Trung Hoa Ward, Cau Giay

2:30-2.45: Breaking the ice

•           Making friends with others

2:45-3.00: Warming up

•           Playing an interesting game “What is the right price?”

3:00-3:30: Discussing in pairs

•           How many kinds of goods and methods of shopping are there? Let’s share with us in details

•           What is your shopping habit? (Time, place, amount of money….)

•           Shopping is also a way to help us become happy, but it may be harmful if this habit makes us addicted. In your opinion, what are the disadvantages of shopping addiction?

•           For further discussion: Someone says that the shopping habits of northern people differ from southern ones. What do you think about this opinion?

3:30-3:45: Playing an interesting game

3:45-4:25: Discussing in groups

•           What are the differences in the shopping habits of men and women?

            => Let’s discuss in groups and make presentation

4:25 – 4:30: Ending the program

Enjoy the mid-autumn festival with GLN EC!

Mid-autumn festival (or Full- moon festival) is considered as one of the most-three popular festivals for Vietnamese, as well as some Asian countries. How do you think about this traditional festival? What do you do in this special day? What are the changes in the past and the present? GLN EC had an interesting programs related to mid-autumn at Faculty of Languages and Culture of France at Hanoi National University’s campus last week.

 Vietnamese’s Mid-autumn festival is getting more attractive to almost everyone, not only for children nowadays. After covering all the contents of this topic including the origin of Mid-autumn, some popular activities in this festival and some changes in the traditional and modern ones and so on, we played some interesting and crazy games, which helped us relaxed and understood more deeply about the meaning of this festival in Vietnam.

                                              Playing a game together

                                         Discussing about the mid-autumn festival

 Nearly 30 members divided into 2 groups to make the lanterns by themselves. A lot of great ideas were presented for 2 lanterns. Each one had its special messages that make us amazing.

                                               Making the lantern

                                                 Are they boys? 

                                           Showing the group's lantern

After this meeting, we had a small buffet party to wish everyone have a great day on Mid-autumn festival.

                                               Taking the picture together

Here are some other beautiful and funny pictures from GLN’s mid-autumn program:

Who is she?

                                                      What are they talking about?

Let’s enjoy a unique mid - autumn festival with GLN

     Have you had any plan for the upcoming mid-autumn festival yet? Do you want to enjoy a completely different and unique mid-autumn festival? Or do you want to make friends and listen to a lot of interesting sharings in mid- autumn festival? Come to GLN EC this Saturday to discover and enjoy the wonderful atmosphere of the mid-autumn festival!

     GLN EC’s outdoor program with the theme “Mid-autumn Festival” will be held at the school yard of University of Languages and International Studies at 3 PM, Saturday, 10/09/2011. Beside chances of practicing English and improving such important soft skills as presentation skill, teamwork skills, you also have the opportunities to listen to a lot of interesting sharings related to Mid-autumn and play some “funny and crazy” games. Especially, you will have chances to receive a lot of amazing and cool presents from GLN EC in the role of the participants. Because of the limited number of attending members, let’s take this great opportunity by quickly registering as instructed by the following form:

Full name: …………………………………………………………………

School/ Address: ………………………………………………………….

Tel: ………………………………………………………………………..

Email: ……………………………………………………………………..

Please send your registration to email: glnclub@gln.edu.vn before 9 AM, 09/09/2011.

(Note: Because of the limited participants (25-30 members), so “first come” will be “first served”)

If you have any question, please contact us through the following hotlines:

Ms. Hoang: 01666 109 598

Ms. Dao:     0168 9946 859

Here is the timeline for our program:

 GLN English Club

 Mid- Autumn Festival

         University of Languages and International Studies – Pham Van Dong Street

3:00 - 3.15: Breaking the ice

• Making friends with others

3:15 - 3:30: Warming up

•       Playing a “warming – up” game

3:30 - 4:00: Discussing in pairs

•             Do you know the origin of the mid- autumn festival? What do people often do in this festival?
•       And what do you often do in the mid-autumn festival? Could you share with us about your most memorable one?
•            Do you see any difference between the mid- autumn festival in the past and that of the present?
•            Do you think “the mid- autumn festival has now become the day for both adults and children”?          Why?

      => Let’s share and take chances to receive presents from GLN EC

4:00 - 4:15: Playing the game: “Guess who?”

4:15 - 4.45: Working in groups

• Making a lantern and presenting the ideas of your group

     => The best group will receive the presents from GLN EC
4:45 – 5:00: Playing an ending game

Announcement for this week

Hi all,

     
       Here is an announcement for this week: "Because this Saturday falls on our national holiday, so it will be a day off in our GLN EC. Wish you all a great holiday and see all of you next week!”. Thanks a lot