Many students (especially business students) want to learn how to contraol their emotions in the situation of stress, e.g. when speaking English in public. I think this presentation may help you: 

http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_levitin_how_to_stay_calm_when_you_know_you_ll_be_stressed

For the coming weekend please click on this TED playlist on language change and choose at least one you will watch and talk to me about as of Monday-ish :)

http://www.ted.com/playlists/228/how_language_changes_over_time

Our natural stress response is designed to give us the energy needed to perform our best. But stress isn’t all good. When activated too long or too often, stress can damage virtually every part of our body. 

Watch the TED-Ed lesson and check yourselves: 

​http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-stress-affects-your-body-sharon-horesh-bergquist?utm_source=TED-Ed+Subscribers&utm_campaign=1a51a2e24a-2013_09_219_19_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1aaccced48-1a51a2e24a-47579881

Students! This is sooooooooo exciting http://www.ted.com/talks/sandrine_thuret_you_can_grow_new_brain_cells_here_s_how

You must watch it! We will talk!

Is doodling a good thing or a bad thing? Do you doodle in business meetings? Watch http://www.ted.com/talks/sunni_brown and find your answers to the question: should we or shouldn't we do it? 

vocabulary:

•Encounter resistance
•Profound impact on
•A flattering definition
•An offensive definition
•A belief needs to be burst
•Retain information
•Deep information processing
​•All modalities simultaneously
•Eradicate
•intimidating

Please take a look at this four-minute presentation and tell me: is it a good presentation? What is good about it? What is not? 

•http://www.ted.com/talks/arianna_huffington_how_to_succeed_get_more_sleep

Vocabulary for you to learn:

•unlock billions of big ideas that are at the moment dormant inside us
• sleep-deprived women
•fainted from exhaustion
•sleep deprivation has become a virility symbol
•He bragged that he had only a 4 hour-sleep