Welcome back to the official Teachify podcast, I’m delighted to be recording another episode because right now, this has become one of the most exciting things I do while stuck in quarantine. That’s to say that I actually look forward to recording these podcasts, however sad that might sound. For those of you who are listening to this episode before checking out the previous ones, I would like to invite you to go back to the first episode called ‘Teachify your life’ in which Mickey and I introduce ourselves, the podcast and our company. Once you’ve listened to the podcast you’ll be able to answer questions like the following; who’s Mickey? How long has Lewis lived in Seville? Where are they from and more. Let’s stop beating around the bush and get straight to the point of this episode. This week we’ve been teaching our lovely students whilst focussing on the way we work, both nowadays in quarantine and before this happened by analysing different aspects of work in the 21st century such as feedback, burnout, creativity and other intriguing facets of work. Besides that, we have found some fascinating TED Talks about the topic which provide some great vocabulary and grammar structures. Have you heard of TED Talks? What are TED Talks? What type of talks are you most interested in? Well, according to their website…TED is a non-profit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages. Meanwhile, independently run TEDx events help share ideas in communities around the world. Honestly, I can’t praise TED enough for the work they do and I always recommend their videos, and podcasts to my students once they reach an intermediate level in order to consume authentic content on a range of topics so that they keep their motivation up by watching or listening to talks they’re curious about. Another one of the advantages of TED is that they have a team of translators that are volunteers who subtitle TED Talks to help disseminate knowledge, research and big ideas across languages and borders. What this means is that if you’re paying attention to one of these presentations you can do it without subtitles, with subtitles in English or in Spanish or plenty of other languages. Whilst I would always suggest subtitles in English, there are some benefits of subtitles in your language just in case you come across some strange words or expressions that are complicated to translate. Most of the time, I’d say that the translations are useful more than anything just to set your mind at ease to know what the equivalent of a word is in your language. I, for one, often find myself going a bit crazy if I hear or see a word in another language that I understand in the context but I can’t, for the life of me, think of the translation in my mother tongue. The bottom line is that TED Talks are a wonderful resource to have a look at and a listen to over the days, weeks, months and years to come. Now, to conclude this week’s episode of the podcast, did anyone tune in to take part in the live class that Will and I taught last Friday? If you did, you’ll know that we explained conditionals, had a general chitchat and before I left to have a much-needed nap, I told a joke. Do you remember it? Here goes, why did the scarecrow get promoted? Because he was outstanding in his field! It’s terrible, I know, but I like to think that that is what makes it funny. Don’t you agree? ...