[GLN EC Sunday] Topic 3/11: CLIMATE CHANGE (Adjustable time of this meeting)

For many environmentalists, the world seems to be getting worse. The biggest change can realize that more evidences of climate change have been presented by the news media for recent years. In the fact that it effects on global issues from humankinds to natural habitats; for instance, that species are becoming extinct in vast numbers, that the planet’s air and water are becoming ever more polluted. Admittedly, human beings have not still been preventing particular situations, even their poor individual perceptions continue rising. Therefore, we need to instruct to the conception of climate change to reduce to be harmful to the environment. Let’s come and enjoy discussing this topic in English at GLN English Club with the topic “Climate Change”. 

                                                                      CLIMATE CHANGE

                                                      SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3th 2013

                          10th Floor, Keangnam Landmark 72, Pham Hung Str, Tu Liem, Hanoi

 

14:00 – 14:30: Breaking the ice

• Make friend with others

14:30 – 15:20: Discussing in pairs

1. What is climate change? What kind of climates do you suppose that it has been happening in our lives and some another countries? Give various examples.
2. What factors do you think that the climate could affect more drawbacks in your hometown? How do they pose?
3. 3.     Let’s compare the climate between over 30 years ago and nowadays.
4. 4.     What solutions and preventions do humankind, the government as well as international organizations implement and adapt to decline above-mentioned phenomenon?

15:20 – 15:45: Relaxing

• Play a game

15:45 – 16:30: Working in groups

Create a mind map what your group assume that there have been several causes and solutions about climate change to present. Each of member in your group forces to reveal an individual idea during the presentation.

[GLN EC Saturday] Topic 2/11: Music

“How do you often listen to music?”. It seems to be the easiest question to answer because everybody is into music. You might not like soccer,  you might not like driving fast or  you might not like money but you can’t help loving music. Let’s come to GLN English club in the Saturday afternoon to relax and enjoy all about the music topic. 

                                                                             MUSIC

                                                          Saturday, November 2nd 2013

                             10th  Floor, Keangnam Landmark 72, Pham Hung Str, Tu Liem, Hanoi

 

2:30 – 2:50 Breaking the ice 

Making friends with others

2:50 – 3:50 Discussing

1. What kinds of music are you keen on? Why?
2. Tell us about your favorite songs and your favorite music bands? Do you prefer to go to music live shows or to listen to music or watch music videos?
3. What are the pros and cons of  music?
4. In your opinion, what makes a good singer? Why are singers who sing love songs often more well-known than ones singing songs about other topics?  
5. Which countries has the most developed music industries? How do the music industries of those nations  influence the development of music over the world? What are the reasons for their success?

3:50 – 4:15 Playing games

4:15 – 5:00 Presentation

Vietnamese music industry has been developing for many years but it hasn’t had the success beyond the S-shaped country. What can we do to eliminate the drawbacks of Vietnamese music industry and make it blossom? Work in groups and make presentations to show your groups’ ideas. 

[GLN EC Sunday] Halloween

Halloween is coming. In our country, this holiday is becoming more and more popular though some ten years ago very few people celebrated it. So what do you know about Halloween? What will you do on Halloween holiday? Let’s join the discussion in this Sunday afternoon with GLN EC!

                                                                    HALLOWEEN

                                                2:30 pm, Sunday, 27th October  2013

                         10th Floor, Keangnam OfficeBuilding, Pham Hung Str, TuLiemDist, Ha Noi.

 

Conditions:  + make-up any fearsome characters what you like: ghost, witch, skeleton, vampire, mummy, monster,  .....

                     + wear some scary clothes or customes on Sunday, for example: mask, scarecrow, pumpkin,...

2:30- 2:45: Breaking the ice

Making friends with others

2:45- 3:30: Discussing in pairs 

1. When does Halloween celebration happen? Can you share with us the history and the meaning  of  Halloween? 
2. What do people usually do on Halloween day in Western countries?
3. What do you think about Halloween in Vietnam?  In which place, people know more about Halloween,  big cities or the countryside? Is Halloween as popular as Chrismas day in our country? Why (or why not)?
4. Halloween is coming. What will you do to celebrate it?  Who do you want to experience the day with you (you friends or your lovers)?  Please suggest some places where you’re going to come to.

3:30 – 3:45: Playing games

3:45 – 4:30: Working in groups 

Each group will have the same amount of pictures about Halloween, and then base on these pictures to create their own stories and one person, on behalf of each group, will tell the story of  his group.

[GLN EC Saturday] 26/10: NO MEETING

Hi all GLN EC members,

We would like to inform that there will be NO MEETING as usual on Saturday 26th October 2013 due to another activity of GLN English club. However, we will still celebrate Sunday Meeting and welcome all of you to 10th floor Landmark Keangnam to join us.

Wish you a nice weekend!

Best Regards.

GLN EC’S RECRUITMENT 2013

GLN EC’S RECRUITMENT 2013

Established on April 3rd 2010, after over 3 years of operation, GLN English Club is well-known as a friendly speaking English environment in Hanoi. So far, GLN English club has become more and more popular among English lovers. It has achieved the great improvements not only in quantity but also in quality, which has strictly followed GLN English Club’s mission statement: “Create an active and friendly environment for everyone to improve English skills”. 

GLN English Club is currently looking for enthusiastic and dynamic candidates for the positions of “Key Members” of GLN English Club.

POSITION INFORMATION

• Position title                       : Key Member
• Place of Work                    : Hanoi
• Quantity                              : 5 candidates
• Deadline for application     : 10 pm, October 13^th, 2013

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Be responsible for being MC in the weekly meetings
• Participate actively and regularly in the weekly meetings
• Develop and implement marketing actions (mainly online marketing)
• Held the meetings, workshops and events in the club
• Prepare logic tasks if required

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

• Be first and second year students in universities and colleges in Hanoi
• Fluent in spoken and written English
• Enthusiastic, highly responsible for on-duty tasks
• Good at communication and teamwork skills
• Basic IT skills, especially Microsoft Office

BENEFITS

• Improve English skills both spoken and written English
• Have chances to become our MCs
• Enhance knowledge through English topics such as social issues and common discussions
• Obtain teamwork and leadership skills
• Develop communication, presentation and organization skills
• Learn online marketing techniques
• Receive certificate from GLN IELTS Review Center after completing the required term/period.

HOW TO APPLY?

Candidates send a full CV in English to E-mail: glnclub@gln.edu.vn

These required documents should be zipped in ONE file only. The file should be under the subject: KeyMemApp_YourName

For example: Your name is Trần Văn A, so the file should be: KeyMemApp_TranVanA

RECRUITMENT PROCESS

The 1^st Round – Application Round

• The closing date to apply for the position before 10 pm,October 13^th, 2013.
• The results of application will be announced on October 15^th, 2013. The announcement will be sent by Email only.

The 2^nd Round – Interview

• Candidates will have an interview onOctober 20^th, 2013
• The result will be announced by Email on October 22^th, 2013

The 3^rd Round – Team-work

• Candidates will be divided into groups and working together in groups. Then, each group will present in turn.
• The final result will be announced by Email on October 28^th, 2013

CONTACT:

For any questions, please contact with Ms Hien: 0977252156 – MsPhu: 01649606181

 Address:  10th floor, Keangnam Office tower, Pham Hung Boulevard, TuLiem district, Hanoi

Website:  http://glnenglishclub.blogspot.com/

http://hoctienganh1phut.com/forum.php

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001091505243

https://www.facebook.com/GLNEC?ref=hl

[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, 7^th 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