English C.A.E. Preparation Stage 2:

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Course book p45-46 + paragraph writing tutorial.

Homework for Thursday: Paragraph writing exercise 4a p46. Make sure you peruse the above-mentioned tutorial again beforehand. 

What we covered in class on Thursday: Course book p47-48 (p49: 3a, b, c)

Homework for Tuesday, January 12th: All exercises p50-51 + Writing p52-53 (I will collect task 5-6 p53).

I wish you all a Wonderful Christmas and a Fantastic New Year! 

MOCK EXAM DATES

The mock exam will take place on February 11 and 16
Please remember that attendance is 100% compulsory!

Week beginning Monday, December 7

English C.A.E. Preparation Stage 2:

What we covered in class on Thursday: Course book p 43-45

Homework for Tuesday, December 15: Press Review + Future in the past p45 (3a, b, c and 4)

Week beginning Monday, November 30

English C.A.E. Preparation Stage 2:

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Writings were handed out. Course book p40-41 + error correction activity

Homework for Thursday: No homework. Make sure you bring your review so that we can complete the above-mentioned activity (20min tops :).

What we covered in class on Thursday: We finished the error correction activity and compiled the following file
+ course book p42.

Homework for Thursday, December 10: Use of English p43. Have a good long weekend / bank holiday :)

Week beginning Monday, November 23

English C.A.E. Preparation Stage 2:

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Writings were handed in. Course book p32-34

Homework for Thursday: All exercises p34-35

What we covered in class on Thursday:Course book p34-40

Homework for Tuesday, December 1: Review p38 (recommended but optional) Reading task p40-41 ("gapped text" 4)

Week beginning Monday, November 16

English C.A.E. Preparation Stage 2:

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Press Review + course book p28-29

Homework for Thursday: Finish exercise 5a p29 and do exercises 1, 2 and 3 p30 

What we covered in class on Thursday: Homework correction + introduction to review writing through the following article by The Guardian

Homework for Tuesday, November 24: Writing task3a p30. Make sure you read the above-mentioned review again before you start planning your writing.

Week beginning Monday, November 9

English C.A.E. Preparation Stage 2:

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Press Review. The writings were handed out. Activity on mistake identification & correction. This is the document we compiled.

Homework for Thursday: No homework

What we covered in class on Thursday: Course book p24-27

Homework for Tuesday, November 17: Press review.

Week beginning Monday, November 2

English C.A.E. Preparation Stage 2:

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Essays were handed in. Press Review + Course book p16-17

Homework for Thursday: All exercises p18-19

What we covered in class on Thursday: Homework correction + course book p23

Homework for Tuesday, November 10: Press Review + Reading comprehension 1, 2 and 3a/b p24-25. Have a good long weekend :)

Week beginning Monday, October 27

English C.A.E. Preparation Stage 2:

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Press review + course book p13-14

Homework for Thursday: Exercise 4a: write down a few ideas you might want to use in the letter in question.

What we covered in class on Thursday: Group writing activity p14 + Listening p15. 

Homework for Tuesday, November 3: Press Review + Writing task 5p21 based on 2p20 (it is advisable to do all the previous exercises p20-21)

Week beginning Monday, October 19

English C.A.E. Preparation Stage 2:

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Press review + course book p9-10

Homework for Thursday: Use of English p11.

What we covered in class on Thursday: Course book p11-12 + tutorial on the subjunctive

Homework for Tuesday, October 27: Press Review + read the above-mentioned tutorial and do the exercise again.

Week beginning Monday, October 12

Welcome everybody, this will be your class blog for this year.

This is how it works:

English C.A.E. Preparation Stage 2:

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Course introduction + 3-stage activity based on 2 articles by The Economist.

Homework for Thursday: Press review: find an article from the following sources: The Economist, The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, The New York Times, FT, The New Yorker and write a short summary of the article (100 words max) or take notes (8-10 lines).

Buy the following books: Expert Advanced, plus Book 1 of the 2015 CAE Examination Papers with Answers. Thanks! 

What we covered in class on Thursday: Press Review activity + Course book p7+8

Homework for Tuesday, October 20: Press review (see above) + "Multiple Matching" exercise 3 p8. Don't forget to purchase the book (Expert Advanced)

Wednesday, July 29

What we covered in class today: Course book unit 8.

Homework for tomorrow: Revise everything for the exam!! GOOD LUCK :)

Tuesday, July 28

What we covered in class today: we finished unit 7.

Homework for tomorrow: Press review + exam task p64-65

Monday, July 27

What we covered in class: Course book p48-49 + 51 + 54-55

Homework for tomorrow: Press review. Exam task p58-59. (check the words you don't understand in a dictionary)

Friday, July 24

What we covered in class today: Mock exam + correction

Homework for Monday: Press review.

Thursday, July 23

What we covered in class today: Course book p44, 46-47 and 48 (act.1). Here is the activity I mentioned should you want to do it at home. Here is an interesting exercise on adverb+adjective collocations.

Homework for tomorrow: Writing task set on Monday. No press review. Review everything we've covered so far for the mock exam. 

Wednesday, July 22

What we covered in class today: Course book p 38 and 42

Homework for tomorrow: Press review + ex2 and 5 (exam task) p44

Tuesday, July 21

What we covered in class: Course book p32-33 + 35

Homework for tomorrow: Press review + ex1 and 2 p38.

Monday, July 20

What we covered in class today: Writings were handed out. We came up with this document containing the most common mistakes + course book p28.

Homework for tomorrow: Press review as usual

Homework for Friday:  Writing preparation p30 + exam task 10p31

Friday, July 27

What we covered in class today: Mad Men activity + 3-stage activity based on an article by The Economist.

Homework: Press review as usual. For those who have done the above-mentioned 3-stage activity (not compulsory) watch the following video (from min. 5:00 to 40:00), I'm sure you'll find it very interesting!

Have a good weekend :)

Thursday, July 16

What we covered in class: Progress Test + Ex6 p23 + paragraph writing ("introduce / state / illustrate" concept) and course book p26-27

Homework for tomorrow: There will be no Press Review tomorrow so -unless you want to of course ;)- you don't have to read any article! Essay on marijuana mentioned in Tuesday's entry + do the reading task p27 (if we haven't done it in class).

Wednesday, July 15

What we covered in class today: Writing p22-23 + lesson on the Subjunctive.
Here is a good online tutorial along with some exercises.

Homework for tomorrow: Press review as usual + above-mentioned exercises on the subjunctive + ex.6p23. Please read "quick steps to writing a report" p23 as well.

Tuesday, July 14

What we covered in class today: Course book p16-17 + 19.

Homework for tomorrow: Press review (as usual) + start learning the vocabulary we have covered so far. Don't hesitate to use quizlet 

Monday, July 13

What we covered in class today: Course book p10-12 + 14

Homework for tomorrow + Friday: Press review activity, as usual (see previous entry). Writing for Friday: Finish the writing activity p 14-15 (if you haven't done exercise 1, do it and self correct p122) as a preparatory task for the following essay:

You have participated in a debate on whether or not to legalize Marijuana in Spain and have decided to write an essay to express your opinion in writing. 220-260 words.

Use 2 of the following approaches on the topic:

Public health

Individual freedom

Tax revenues for the State


Here are some of the ideas expressed during the debate:

- Legalising marijuana would 

- ..."allow drug use and addiction (by no means the same thing) to be treated as the public-health issues they are" and thus impose quality controls and regulations.
- ...encourage people to consume harder drugs such as heroin or cocaine.

- ...enable the State to use the money collected through taxes on its consumption for educational or cultural purposes.

You may if you wish make use of these opinions but you should use your own words as far as possible.

Here is a selection of more articles on the topic.

Friday, July 10

Hi everybody and welcome to your blog for the duration of this course :)

What we covered in class today: Course introduction + 3-stage activity -including a debate- based on an article by The Economist.

Homework for tomorrow: Watch this video. Choose any article from the following sources: The Economist, The Guardian, The Independent, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post and write down the main ideas of the article and why you liked/disliked it. You will have to do this every day for the duration of the course (on top of any other homework exercise you might be given) since we will begin every class with a 10-min press review.

Have a nice weekend :)

Thursday, June 18

What we covered in class today: We did a 3-stage activity based on an article by The Economist and the corresponding audio file.

Homework for tomorrow: Revise for the exam! Good luck!

Wednesday, June 17

What we covered in class today: Written projects were handed out + Q&A session. Exercise on graph language and multiple-choice reading comprehension task.

Homework for tomorrow: start revising for the exam!

Tuesday June 16

What we covered in class today: We came up with a 3-column list covering most of the vocab used in trend description. We analysed the structure of an article by The Guardian describing the findings of a survey.

Homework for tomorrow: Learn the above-mentioned vocab

Friday, June 11

What we covered in class today: We finished the activity on "The magic of diasporas", did a listening test + a hands-on introduction to translation.

Homework for Tuesday: Read the following article + finish your written projects. Have a good weekend :)

Thursday, June 11

What we covered in class today: We watched a video on racial bias in law enforcement in the USA today and held a debate on racial (and otherwise) bias in Spain. We also started a 3-stage activity on an article by The Economist.

Homework for tomorrow: Finish the vocab-searching activity and answer the comprehension questions in part 2.

Wednesday, June 10

What we covered in class today: We finished the activity on the obituary and studied (and listened to) the song "Strange Fruit" and its background.

Here is the original version by Billie Holiday and this is Carmen Mc Rae's version

Homework for tomorrow: work on your written project and do not forget to print out yesterday's document on error correction.

Tuesday, June 9

What we covered in class today: We finished the error-correction task (please print out the document in question and put it on your bedside table :) and started a 3-stage activity based on an article by The Economist.

Homework for Wednesday: Finish the vocab.-searching part of the activity. Try to refrain from using dictionaries ;)

Monday, June 8

What we covered today: We did the gap-fill exercises you had prepared at home and started an error-correction activity based on the mistakes you made in last week's summary.

Homework for tomorrow: Read this again (especially the 5-step process).

Friday June 5

What we covered in class today: We finished the activity on Mad Men and watched the following video until 21:00.

Homework for Monday: Create a 10-item gap-fill exercise (using a selection of the vocabulary we've seen so far) along these lines:

"Fill the gaps using the correct form of the words below:

To juggle / entry-level / .....

She managed to _________________ a part-time job as well as being fully commited to the course. "

Tip: to obtain this last sentence I googled "managed to juggle" and "The Guardian".


 

Wednesday, June 3

What we covered in class: We viewed the first episode of Mad Men season 1 and started the activity.

Homework for Friday (Thursday is a bank holiday!!): Create a "quizlet" with all the vocabulary covered so far in The Mommy Track, The weaker sex -optional- and Mad Men. Do parts 2 and 4 of the above-mentioned activity.

Tuesday, June 2

What we covered in class: 

- Written project. DUE DATE: 12/06
- Homework correction
- Third stage (speaking) of yesterday's activity
- Brief introduction to "Quizlet"
- Vocab-retention activity

FYI: Here is a very interesting handout on paragraph writing (for the written project, not the summary below!)

Homework for tomorrow: Read the following article and write a 150-word summary

Monday June 1

3-week PDI course: A warm welcome to all of you :)

What we've done in class today: Course introduction + 3-stage activity on an article by The Economist. 

Homework for Tuesday: Write down a few ideas for part B of the above-mentioned activity. Watch the following video and take notes. What do you think of the point made by Hillary Clinton? How is it similar to what we covered in class?

NOTES FINALES FRANÇAIS C1.1

Voici vos NOTES FINALES pour l'année 2014-2015.

Félicitations à tous et bienvenue en C1.2 :)

Bizzz à tous et encore mille mercis pour cette super année :)

FINAL MARKS PRE-ADVANCED

PRE-ADVANCED FINAL MARKS

It goes without saying that I only included given names for online confidentiality purposes.

Congratulations to all of you!! Best. Jeanphi

Semana del lunes 25 de mayo

English Pre Advanced:

What we covered in class on Monday: Final exam part 1 

Homework for Wednesday: None

What we covered in class on Wednesday: Final exam part 2

Thanks a zillion for this wonderful year :) All the best. Jeanphi

Français C1.1 :

Ce qu'on a fait en cours lundi: Examen final 

Mille mercis pour cette merveilleuse année ensemble!!! J'espère que nous nous reverrons l'année prochaine!!! Bises à tous. Jeanphi

Message pour Alodia: Si tu veux passer l'examen mercredi de 18:00 à 19:30 pendant que mes élèves d'anglais feront la deuxième partie de leur examen, n'hésite pas!!

Semana del lunes 18 de mayo

English Pre Advanced:

What we covered in class on Monday: Final exam: Speaking. We'll do the reading, use of English and listening on Monday and the writing on Wednesday.

Remember: There will be no classes on Wednesday!!!

Français C1.1 :

Ce qu'on a fait en cours lundi: Synthèse de documents en groupes.

Devoirs pour mercredi : Continuez vos révisions et identifiez les points de grammaire ou concepts qui ont trait aux personnages vus en cours que vous ne saisissez pas.

Au fait, je ne sais pas si vous avez vu mais Jean Michel Cousteau présente en ce moment à Cannes le film l'Océan Secret 3D :) En voici la bande annonce

Ce qu'on a fait en cours mercredi : Fin de l'activité de synthèse de documents et révisions.

Devoirs pour lundi : Révisez bien et bonne chance!!