2NA Discourse markers

http://speakspeak.com/english-grammar-exercises/upper-intermediate/despite-in-spite-of-although-even-though-2

http://www.englishbee.net/lessons/advan_exer/although_despite/quiz/quiz.htm

http://www.better-english.com/vocabulary/howeveretc.htm

http://a4esl.org/q/h/9901/gc-connectives.html

2NA Hard work

One employee said: "Not receiving breaks is one of the cons you get pretty used to", while another said: "Unsociable work hours, most of which are spent working alone."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/07/04/10-worst-companies-work-uk-according-employees/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OuG2b7V2sU

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/jul/28/cosmetics-companies-mica-child-labour-beauty-industry-india-

2NI Future forms

We have different ways of talking about the future. We often use going to (+ infinitive), the present continuous (to be + -ing) or will (+ infinitive). The structure we use depends on the function of what we want to say, whether we are talking about arrangements, plans, predictions, etc.

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar-vocabulary/grammar-videos/future-forms

http://www.english-4u.de/future_ex3.htm

2NA Robot ethics

Prof. Alan Winfield is Director of the UWE Science Communications Unit as well as a leading roboticist. He is the author of Robotics: A Very Short Introduction.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08ffv2l

2NA What I'm really thinking

The Guardian runs a weekly series called What I'm really thinking where people in different jobs or situations reveal their true feelings.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/series/what-im-really-thinking

2NI Present simple or continuous ?

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-simple-present-continuous-1.html

2NA What jobs will still be around in 20 years?

Robots will  take over the more repetitive tasks in professions such as law, with paralegals and legal assistants facing a 94% probability of having their jobs computerized. According to a recent report by Deloitte, more than 100,000 jobs in the legal sector have a high chance of being automated in the next 20 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbHAYC2Rnq0

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/26/jobs-future-automation-robots-skills-creative-health

2NI More about food

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnx3/clips

2NA Profile

Taylor Swift is a multi award winning, platinum selling American singer-songwriter. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, before moving to Nashville, Tennessee at age 14 to pursue a career in country music.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b091s2z6

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qjz5/episodes/player

Kazuo Ishiguro wins 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2017 has been awarded to English author Kazuo Ishiguro who, according to the Swedish academy, “in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/06/kazuo-ishiguro-neil-gaiman-sebastian-barry-nobel-win

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/nobel-prize-in-literature-2017-english-author-kazuo-ishiguro-wins-a7984426.html

https://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2015/jan/16/kazuo-ishiguro-the-remains-of-the-day-books-podcast

2NI Innovative new products coming from bakeries

Much of this hybrid hysteria started with the Cronut, a clever croissant-donut creation that launched in New York in 2013. Come 2016, people are still lining up at the Dominique Ansel Bakery about an hour before it opens to collect the gluttonous snack, with the bakery enforcing a strict Two-Cronut per customer limit.

https://www.bakersmaison.com.au/about-us/blog/cronuts-cruffins-advent-of-bakery-hybrids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO4pOKe71i4

2NA Friday Kahlo

The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) is now regarded as one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century.

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/frida-kahlo

https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/frida-kahlos-wardrobe#intro

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tly3h

We're not eating our roast dinners

We’re eating less meat. It seems the traditional joint of roast meat is seeing the biggest drop in sales. Over the last year in the U.K. not only have we tucked into 157 million fewer of them, but the retail analyst Kantar Worldpanel say the roast no longer features in the U.K. top five favourite meals. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05g6y3j