21/10/2013 in English Lunch, Eventos

23 Oct :: EnglishLunch – Build a tower, build a team

This week, at the begining  of English Lunch (every Wednesday from 14:30 to 15:30), we will watch the video: Build a tower, build a team with Tom Wujec. We encourage you to watch it before wednesday lunch!

Watch the video…

Topic

Team Work

Summary

Tom Wujec presents some surprisingly deep research into the «»marshmallow problem»» — a simple team-building exercise that involves dry spaghetti, one yard of tape and a marshmallow. Who can build the tallest tower with these ingredients? And why does a surprising group always beat the average?

Tom Wujec studies how we share and absorb information. He’s an innovative practitioner of business visualization — using design and technology to help groups solve problems and understand ideas. He is a Fellow at Autodesk.

Vocabulary

marshmallow, architects, figure out, spaghetti, assembling, gingerly, buckle, cheat, admire, stand back, CEO, kindergarteners,  prototypes, iterative, facilitation, common stance, step-by-step.

Tricks…

False Friends: Actual, To Attend, Camp, Carpet, Fabric, Costume, Soap, Actual, Ballon, Library, Inhabitable, Morose, Globe, Parents, Remove, Rope, Sanity, To vacuum.

Notes

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Spanish/Common_False_Cognates

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