Job interviews & other discussion topics from www.news.wm.englishtrainers.org : week ending 20.12.2015
10 Body Language Mistakes to Avoid in Job Interviews
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www.businessnewsdaily.com – Your answers to job interview questions aren’t the only thing that can make or break your chances of landing work. Body language also plays a large role. Facial expressions, posture and other physi… |
Swearing means you’re smarter
| www.rt.com – The study, which has the lengthy title ‘Taboo word fluency and knowledge of slurs and general pejoratives: deconstructing the poverty-of-vocabulary myth’, was published in the November issue of the… |
Christmas in Japan – Dreamreader
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dreamreader.net – Do Japanese people celebrate Christmas? They certainly do! Christmas in Japan is seen as a time for couples to spend a romantic evening together. Younger Japanese people might get together with … |
German birthrate jumps to quarter-century high
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www.thelocal.de – Data released by the Federal Office for Statistics show that in 2014, a woman of childbearing age had given birth to an average of 1.47 children, meaning that the birthrate was at its highest in th… |
German trendsetters rent out live Christmas trees
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www.thelocal.de – “Most of all we want to show that consumption can also work a different way,” says Happy Tree founder Sebastian Schönfeld. “I see this completely as also being a prompt to think about things in oth… |
Jürgen Klopp -The Normal One – Handelsblatt Global Edition
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global.handelsblatt.com – Jürgen Klopp, never one to hide a smile, is smiling more than ever these days. After a dismal season last year with his club of seven years, Borussia Dortmund, Mr. Klopp is winning again, in his ne… |
Beckenbauer’s claims ‘absurd’ – Blatter
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www.thelocal.ch – German football has been engulfed by claims that a 6.7 million euro ($7.2 million) payment to FIFA was used to purchase the votes of four members of FIFA’s executive committee in 2000 — days befor… |
Facebook offices in Hamburg vandalised
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www.theguardian.com – Vandals have damaged the entrance to a building in Hamburg that houses the offices of social network Facebook, smashing glass, throwing paint and spraying “Facebook dislike” on a wall, according to… |
Is Donald Trump a Democratic secret agent? – BBC News
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www.bbc.com – Republican leaders are currently thrashing about – holding secret meetings, issuing confidential memos and making public denunciations – as they approach a state of near panic over what Donald Trum… |
Thousands Of Brazilians Take To The Streets To Demand President’s Impeachment
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www.huffingtonpost.com – SAO PAULO, Dec 13 (Reuters) – Thousands of Brazilians took to the streets of major cities on Sunday to demand President Dilma Rousseff’s ouster, but the first nationwide protests since formal impea… |