[GLN EC Sunday] Topic 08/09: The gift of life

“The most precious gift one possesses is life. A human being only lives once. And his duty is to live his life fullest – so he will not regret his wasted youth, so he will not pity his own past full of mistakes and error – and in the end, when that person closes his eyes he could peacefully and proudly dictate: all my life I dedicated to the most noble career…”
– How the Steel was Tempered – Nikolai Ostrovsky –
We were born are a gift which was given by the God. Since then we would have to face many things called fate and ends by the death. Yet our lives, our very existence is extremely fragile – like a cherry blossom. If a cherry blossom was so fragile, and how could we spend the gift of life was given to us the time we were existed? All these questions shall be answered by our discussion today of the GLN English Club!

                                                               THE GIFT OF LIFE
                                             14:30 – 17:30 Sunday, September 8th 2013
                               10th  Floor, Keangnam Landmark 72, Pham Hung Str, Tu Liem, Hanoi
                                                           

14:30 – 14:50: Breaking the ice
  • Making friend with each other
14:50 – 15:30: Discussing in pairs
  1. What is “the gift of life” from your opinion? Why do you think so?
  2. How did you spend your “gift of life”? How would you spend it in the future? Why you choose that path?
  3. What is your plan for the next 5, 25 and 50 years? Have you used up your “gift of life” then?
15:30 – 15:50: Relaxing
  • Playing an interesting game
15:50 – 17:20: Brainstorming
  • Discuss in groups and present the story of the “gift of life” onto paper. After then, each group will have 5 minutes to present about the drawing. There would be no winner-loser but comments and appraisal by the M.C to every member after finishing the presentation. 

[GLN EC Saturday] Topic 07/09: ECONOMIC TERMINOLOGIES

Every field of study has its own language and its own way of thinking. Mathematicians talk about axioms, integrals and vector spaces. Psychologists talk about ego, id and cognitive dissonance. Lawyers talk about venue, torts and promissory estopped. Economics is no different: Supply, demand, elasticity, comparative advantage, consumer surplus, deadweight loss – terms are part of the economist’s language. So what do these terms mean? How do you understand about them if you are not student learning about Economics? In fact, these terms are everywhere in our daily lives – all day, every day! However, we have no chance to approach and talk about. Therefore, why don’t you come to GLN EC on Saturday afternoon this week and get your own understanding about Economic terminologies?


For further information, let’s go through the following timeline:

Economic terminologies
2:30pm Saturday, 7th September 2013
10th Floor, Keangnam Office Building, Pham Hung Str, Tu Liem Dist,  Ha Noi.


2:30 – 3:00: Making friend
3:00 – 3:45: Playing game
·        Get started: “Catch the new words”
3:45 – 5:00: Discussing in pairs/groups
Deep understanding of economic concepts
A.    Concept of Economics in general
1.      What does Economics study? Tell us its definition
2.      What are microeconomics and macroeconomics?
B.     Microeconomics
3.      What is market?
4.      How do you understand “Demand & Supply” terms in economics? Do they have any relation with each other? Let’s take an example to show their relationship.
5.      Supposing that income and number of buyers are two factors influencing on demand quantity? How do they work? Let’s give us examples.
C.    Macroeconomics
6.      What is GDP?
7.      What does the term unemployment mean? Why are there always some people unemployed?
8.       What is inflation?
D.    General question
9.      What is economic crisis? How does it affect you?

5:00 – 5:30: Free talk