Bienvenue au parcours BLOSSOM in English !
Nous sommes heureuses de vous compter parmi nous dans cette aventure.
Apprendre une langue, c’est comme planter une graine : avec un peu d’attention chaque jour, elle grandit et s’épanouit.
Notre plateforme K’Osez Kaizen a été créée pour vous accompagner dans ce cheminement, pas à pas, avec bienveillance et constance.
Ici, vous trouverez des vidéos, des enregistrements, des quiz et même des prompts IA pour pratiquer avant chaque séance. Grâce à ce travail en autonomie, nos rencontres en présentiel (ou en ligne) sont encore plus pratiques, interactives et vivantes.
Notre objectif :
✨ Vous aider à gagner en autonomie.
✨ Vous montrer l’importance d’un contact régulier avec la langue.
✨ Vous donner confiance en vos capacités d’apprendre à votre rythme.
This video focuses on how to introduce yourself in English at a more advanced level (C1–C2). Lucy contrasts simple introductions with more natural and detailed ones. She provides a variety of expressions for different contexts: polite ways to begin an introduction, how to introduce others, share names and nicknames, mention mutual connections, or recognize someone you might have met before. She also covers how to explain where you’re from, what brings you to an event, and how to add personal touches like hobbies or interests. Through example dialogues, Lucy shows how to move from a basic exchange to a confident, engaging conversation starter.
This lesson explains how to ask someone about their job in a polite and natural way. While “What’s your job?” or “How do you afford to live there?” are grammatically correct, they can sound nosy or rude. Mary Daphne shows several more tactful alternatives, from formal (“What line of work are you in?” / “What do you do for a living?”) to informal (“So, what do you do?”). She also introduces expressions to ask about current projects (“What are you working on at the moment?”), daily activities (“How do you spend your days?”) and “side hustles” — passion projects that can become income streams. By the end of the video, learners know multiple ways to talk about jobs, side projects, and interests without sounding intrusive.
The speaker describes leaving a stable, well-paid job to pursue her passion and how this decision changed her life. She explains that many people, especially in Africa, are conditioned to see life as a survival race and rarely pause to reflect on what truly fulfills them. She shows that passion is not only for the rich or retired and shares two success stories (Esther and Musa) of young people who turned their talents and interests into impactful enterprises. She defines passion as a collection of life experiences that give deep fulfillment, and says passion can become a career only if combined with skills, market demand, and proper positioning. Her message: look inward, identify what brings joy, build skills, and align daily work with your true self to become unstoppable.
Take look at the pdf with idiomatic expressions to talk about feelings, and then try the quiz.
This video is a friendly conversation between Tom and Rachel about their recent travel experiences. They talk about places they visited (Italy, Japan), activities they enjoyed (visiting museums, riding a gondola, eating local food), learning local words, buying souvenirs, and keeping travel journals. They show how travel teaches culture, history, and self-discovery. The dialogue models natural ways of speaking about past trips, food, and future plans.
The speaker explains that one year ago they quit their job to travel the world. Their first day was stressful at the airport surrounded by taxi drivers, but things improved at a friendly hotel with fantastic food. On the second day they explored the local area, enjoyed street food and even had seconds. The third day was disappointing — a tourist bar and club were expensive with terrible music, making the night a waste of time. Day four, however, was amazing: they went fishing with local people, enjoyed the sun and good company, caught many fish, and watched a breathtaking sunset over the ocean.
Three travellers recount memorable flight experiences. In story one, a 21-year-old is treated like an unaccompanied minor after her anxious dad goes into “full parenting mode”; she’s pre-boarded, offered a colouring pack, and even invited to the cockpit before the captain realises her true age. In story two, a passenger repeatedly sees an acquaintance in a wheelchair on a long trip via Dubai; later he discovers the man used a fake doctor’s certificate to “pass as” a wheelchair passenger and receive special treatment—apparently a common practice. In story three, a mother and son mix up check-in and departure times, arrive late, and can’t be seated together—until a compassionate desk agent upgrades them to business class so they can sit side by side and enjoy unexpected comforts.
Listen to Anurag's podcast episode about four different types of travellers, and then answer the quiz questions.
Marcus meets Rob and Fernanda after a long time apart and they catch up. Marcus has quit his job, started teaching, and talks about why he changed careers. Rob shares his long experience as a teacher. They discuss recent and past travel: Rob and Fernanda have just come back from Brazil (São Paulo, Rio, beaches, the Amazon), while Marcus backpacked across China and India before starting his new job, and traveled around Australia last year (road-tripping by caravan to Uluru). The chat mixes present perfect (life experiences, recent results, “have you ever…?”) and past simple (finished events with time markers: last year, a few days ago). They end by making spontaneous lunch plans and linking their experiences with a friend who’s also traveled widely.
In this video, travel YouTuber Nikki shares six essential tips for traveling successfully with friends — a real-life topic full of natural, spontaneous expressions. She explains that traveling with friends can be fun but stressful if expectations aren’t clear. Her tips cover self-awareness, communication, compromise, and money management — skills just as important as language when traveling.
This video because is packed with authentic spoken English: idioms (“go with the flow,” “hit the reset button”), phrasal verbs (“hang out,” “check in”), and natural conversation structures (“you know what I mean,” “trust me”).
It’s a perfect model for B1–B2 learners who want to talk confidently about group travel, express opinions, give advice, and manage misunderstandings — in real, fluent English.
The speaker, Amy E. Gallo, recalls a consulting job where she constantly disagreed with a client but avoided saying so—until she accidentally forwarded a snarky email to that client. Forced to apologize, she realized she’d equated disagreement with unkindness. Drawing on research in neuroscience, negotiation, and emotional intelligence, she explains why conflict feels threatening (the amygdala hijack) and why we often chase likability and avoid dissent. She offers a simple approach to make conflict productive with kindness: (1) take the other person’s perspective (use a “most generous interpretation”), (2) set a clear goal for the conversation (deliverable, relationship, or closure), and (3) pinpoint what you’re disagreeing about—task, process, or status—to de-personalize the issue. She admits common mistakes (making it about “me,” arguing to “win,” speaking while triggered) and ends with a calming mantra: “Sometimes people are going to be mad at you—and that’s okay.” The talk models healthy, compassionate disagreement as a life skill.
In this video, Some Guy Named Dave, an American living in Portugal, talks about the major cultural differences and shocks Americans often experience when visiting Europe.
He explores several areas of contrast:
Languages, dining habits, tipping culture, transportation, schedules, personal space, dress code, history, currency.
Overall, he encourages travelers to keep an open mind, learn, adapt, and embrace culture shock as part of the travel experience.
In this video, a traveler shares her first impressions of the UK and the many cultural differences she noticed compared to other European countries and her home in Vietnam.
She admires the beautiful old architecture and historic buildings, the convenient but ancient underground, and the charm of double-decker buses and pubs.
She also talks about British politeness, Harry Potter’s massive cultural influence, and London’s incredible theater scene.
At the same time, she notices the unpredictable weather, the high cost of living, and some differences in behavior—like jaywalking, yelling in the streets, and protecting your phone from thieves.
Despite these shocks, she ends by saying the UK is her favorite country to visit, full of culture, kindness, and creativity.
In this video, the presenter interviews people in Brighton about the biggest “don’ts” in British culture.
Several “rules” come up again and again: never jump the queue, never stand on the left on an escalator (you stand on the right, walk on the left), and don’t say pants when you mean trousers, because pants means underwear in British English.
They also talk about the very British habit of over-apologising – saying “sorry” all the time, even when something isn’t your fault. People mention tuts, huffing and even a bit of “argy-bargy” (a small argument) when someone breaks these unwritten rules. The video shows how British people can be both polite and passive-aggressive at the same time: they may complain indirectly, but they care a lot about queues, escalators and politeness.
In the video, Lucy presents 15 funny but very useful English idioms. She explains each expression, gives clear meanings, and adds example sentences from everyday life. Some idioms are about exaggeration (a storm in a teacup, everything but the kitchen sink), others about death in a humorous way (as dead as a doornail, to kick the bucket), and others describe people and behaviour (the lights are on but no one’s home, to do a runner, to pick someone’s brain). She also includes idioms for being alert (keep your eyes peeled), testing ideas (put the feelers out), praising something (the best thing since sliced bread), telling people to relax (take a chill pill), and joking when you embarrass yourself (I’ll show myself out). The tone is playful, but the idioms are all natural and can be used in real conversations.
The video explains what cultural stereotypes are and how they influence the way we see people. A stereotype is a generalised belief about a group’s personality, behavior, or abilities. While stereotypes can help the brain process information quickly, they often distort reality and lead to unfair judgments.
The video distinguishes between explicit stereotypes, which people are aware of, and implicit stereotypes, which operate unconsciously and influence behavior without people realising it. It also introduces the concept of stereotype threat, where individuals perform worse because they fear confirming a negative stereotype about their group.
Finally, the video highlights that stereotypes are dangerous not because they are always false, but because they are incomplete, reducing complex human identities to a single story and creating misunderstandings between cultures.
Let's revise what we've done so far:
(feelings, hobbies, jobs, advice, conditionals, questions)
(present perfect vs past simple, comparisons, opinions, pros & cons)
The three videos together explore how to talk about famous and influential people in English, both modern celebrities and historical figures. The first video focuses on describing a favourite celebrity in a structured, coherent way, using Barack Obama as an example. The speaker explains who he is, highlights his personality (charismatic, kind, devoted to his family) and his actions (philanthropy, helping people during Covid), and gives tips for speaking exams: slow down, use clear structures, show enthusiasm, tell short stories and give examples.
The second video teaches useful expressions to express admiration and respect for well-known people, such as emulate someone, can’t get enough of, one of a kind, prominent, and withstand the test of time, and shows how we often talk about celebrities as representatives of our culture.
The third video presents a list of ten iconic historical figures (like Jesus Christ, Shakespeare, Gandhi, Newton, Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr., Leonardo da Vinci, George Washington, Alexander the Great and Napoleon), briefly explaining their achievements and how they changed the world and left a lasting legacy. Taken together, the three videos help learners develop the vocabulary, structures and strategies they need to describe biographies, talk about achievements, express admiration, and discuss why certain people have had such an important impact on history and society.
In the first video, a TED talk, Shannon Pearson tells the story of her parents’ separation, an experience which led her to avoid conflict and to over-accommodate to others.
She shares a powerful example as an HR manager and concludes that instead of dissecting each other’s behaviour, we should listen for what’s driving it.
The second recording is a British Council dialogue between Mike, a manager, Craig and Gavin about ongoing tensions at work.
The video and recording are full of useful expressions !
The first video compares life before industrialisation with life today, and then explains how to improve work–life balance. The conclusion: all work and no play – or mixing work into play all the time – will make you dull and stressed; balancing both improves performance and quality of life.
The second video, by Simon Sinek, questions the concept of “work–life balance” because balance usually suggests two opposing forces. He argues that work and life should not be enemies. If you are deeply unhappy with your work situation, no amount of yoga or extra vacation will fix the real problem.
🇫🇷 Ces vidéos explorent comment être en désaccord, négocier et faire des compromis de manière plus constructive. La vidéo 1 explique que le désaccord peut être positif s’il est respectueux et honnête. La vidéo 2 montre une négociation professionnelle où deux personnes discutent du prix, demandent plus de flexibilité et essaient de trouver un terrain d’entente. La vidéo 3 explique que la négociation n’est pas un combat mais un processus de construction de relation qui demande de la préparation, de la maîtrise émotionnelle et de l’empathie.
These three videos explore how technology is changing our lives now and how it may shape the future. The first video looks at future daily life, health, social media, travel, work, the environment and personal goals, and suggests that technology will continue to transform many areas of life while some human needs will stay the same. The second video focuses on everyday technology vocabulary and shows how people talk about devices, apps, internet problems, AI and tech habits in daily life. The third video discusses the pros and cons of technology, especially in work, travel, education, social media and family life, and shows that technology can bring both freedom and problems depending on how we use it.
These videos explore how people imagine the future and how technology could transform society. The first video presents a detailed vision of life in 2050, including nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, smart homes, self-driving transport, online education, the metaverse, digital money, and space tourism. It suggests that technology may make life faster, smarter, and more connected, but it also raises concerns about inequality, job loss, and the loss of human contact. The second video is a BBC archive clip comparing children’s predictions about the future in 1966 and 1986. It shows that many hopes and fears remain surprisingly similar: automation, overpopulation, war, computers taking over, and life on other planets. Together, the videos help students imagine future societies, weigh possibilities, and discuss both optimism and concern.