Week beginning Monday, March 28

English C.A.E. Preparation Stage 2:

REMEMBER YOU NEED TO CHOOSE YOUR SPEAKING PARTNER FOR THE EXAM BY THURSDAY

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Homework correction + course book p88-90

Homework for Thursday: Exercises p90-91

What we covered in class on Thursday: Homework correction + course book p92-93

Homework for Tuesday, April 5th: ex5+6 p93 + Press Review 

PDI: 

What we did in class on Friday: Press review + we finished the Mad Men activity + Listening test + Activity on the song "Strange Fruit" and its relevance for the Civil Rights movement + reading comprehension activity based on an obituary by The Economist (of two prominent Civil Rights figures)

Homework for Friday, April 8th: Press Review + finish the activity above, highlight the sentence "watching him from the beach, deeply worried, was Dan Warren..." and read this tutorial on gradable / ungradable adjectives and do the following exercise. 

Presentations are due on May 6th. They should last a maximum of 7 minutes. You're more than welcome to dig into your own area of expertise to find a suitable topic. We will work on presentation language next Friday.

Week beginning Monday, March 14

English C.A.E. Preparation Stage 2:

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Press Review + course book p77-79

Homework for Thursday: No homework :) By the way, those of you who are taking the official CAE exam in June should choose their speaking partner a.s.a.p..

What we covered in class on Thursday: Course book p80-81 + 87

Homework for Tuesday, March 29: Exercises p82-83 + Essay p84-85 + (optional) Review p86. This is the article I mentioned in class.
REMEMBER YOU NEED TO CHOOSE YOUR SPEAKING PARTNER FOR THE EXAM

PDI: Scroll down to the previous entry :)

Week beginning March 7

English C.A.E. Preparation Stage 2:

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Writings were handed out and we did this error-correction activity.

Homework for Thursday: No homework :)

What we covered in class on Thursday: Course book 75-77

Homework for Tuesday, March 15: Press Review + exercises 2b and 3a p77 Here is the article we talked about in class.

PDI:

By the way, I just saw this very interesting article on gender equality and working women

What we covered in class on Friday: Press Review + Conditionals + first stages of an Activity based on the first episode of Mad Men (season 1)

Homework for Friday, April 1st: 

1. Make sure somebody updates our quizlet account with all the vocabulary we covered today :) This should make your life easier...
2. Press Review 
3. Write a review (200-300 words) on the Mad Men episode we viewed in class. Here is a very good review of a TV series to draw inspiration from. 
The normal structure of a review is as follows: 
  -Title/type of film/short introduction of the topic
  -Plot summary 
  -Overall impression
  -Opinion in detail, acting, music, direction...
  -Recommendation
A good idea would be to identify these structural elements in the review above before you start writing yours.

Enjoy the holiday! :)

Week beginning Monday, February 29

English C.A.E. Preparation Stage 2:

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Course book p71-73

Homework for Thursday: All vocabulary exercises p74

What we covered in class on Thursday: Homework correction + 3-stage activity based on a video by The Economist Films.

Homework for Tuesday, March 8: Prepare the speaking part of the activity above.

PDI: 

What we covered in class on Friday, March 4: Follow-up discussion on gender balance + Press Review + we watched the following video until min.22:00 and held a discussion on the findings mentioned in the video. Third conditional in context thanks to this article by The Guardian and these exercises (we'll finish correcting them next Friday).

Homework for Friday, March 11: Press Review + learn the vocabulary we covered and review the third conditional and mixed conditionals here then have another shot at the exercises we did in class.