Mind

Our brains are amazing - all the things that happen without us even thinking about them. Check out the podcasts on Ideas - one talks about our memory and one on sleep. (Beware - these are designed for native speakers!)

Have you heard about the difference between the right and left sides of our brain. The two different sides are supposed to govern different functions.

Left Brain Thinking
Logical Sequential Rational Analytical Objective Looks at parts

Right Brain Thinking
Random Intuitive Holistic Synthesizing Subjective Looks at wholes

Check out the Funderstanding website for more detail on this. Which do you think you identify with? Try out this simple quiz to see which side of the brain you favour. Then answer the quiz in the sidebar.

Work

Most people work somewhere, some time in their lives. It might be paid employment, or you might have your own business or work at home. You might be working part-time while you are studying. For all of us, working is part of our everyday life, and so it is good to focus our language study on this topic.

If you go to Work and beyond on this blog, you can read a bit about my working experiences, But we'd like to hear about your work too.

Tell us about your past work experience and also what you'd like to do in the future. Go to the Work VoiceThread and add your spoken comments next to your photo. If this is too difficult on your computer, you might like to add a comment to this blog, telling us about your work past and future.