Week beginning Monday, April 25

English C.A.E. Preparation Stage 2:

What we covered in class on Tuesday: We finished unit 7 and started unit 8 (p119)

Homework for Thursday: Reading task p120-121

What we covered in class on Thursday: Course book p121-123 + we started an Activity based on an article by The Economist following up on our class on solar energy.

Homework for Tuesday, May 3rd: Revise everything we covered: FINAL EXAM (Writing and Listening)

PDI: Scroll down to the previous entry

Week beginning Monday, April 18

English C.A.E. Preparation Stage 2:

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Homework correction + course book p106-107 including a vocab-enhancing activity on one's ideal home. Here is a link to a very interesting real estate ad with loads of vocabulary.

Homework for Thursday: Language development p109 (go to Expert Grammar p183 beforehand)

IMPORTANT MESSAGE: HERE ARE THE TIME AND VENUE DETAILS FOR THE OFFICIAL CAE WRITTEN EXAM 

What we covered in class on Thursday: Course book p108-111

Homework for Tuesday, April 26: Language development 2 p114.

PDI:

What we covered in class on Friday, April 22: Press Review + 3-stage activity based on an article by The Economist on pharmaceutical pricing + Video on ethics in the pharmaceutical industry + debate on whether or not ethics should prevail over intellectual property + Introduction to paraphrasing techniques. 

IMPORTANT: THERE WILL BE NO CLASS ON FRIDAY APRIL 29. OUR NEXT CLASS WILL TAKE PLACE ON FRIDAY, MAY 6.

Homework for Friday, May 6: Press Review + choose a paragraph from the article you've selected and paraphrase it (100-150 words). 

Week beginning April 11

English C.A.E. Preparation Stage 2:

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Press Review + Course book p95-97

Homework for Thursday: All exercises p98-99

What we covered in class on Thursday: Homework correction + course book p103-105

Homework for Tuesday, April 18: Reading task p104 + Essay p100-101

PDI: Important info: Friday, April 29th is a bank holiday so there will be no class that day. The classes will therefore continue until Friday May 27th rather than May 20th as originally planned.

What we covered in class on Friday: Press Review + Error-correction activity + paragraph writing + assessed graph description exercise (in pairs) + report writing activity

Homework for Friday, April 22: Review all the vocabulary we have covered so far. Press Review

Week beginning Monday, April 4

English C.A.E. Preparation Stage 2:

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Homework correction + course book p94 (here is the correction of task 2b)

Homework for Thursday: No homework (we'll do our press review activity on Thursday)

What we covered in class on Thursday: Error correction activity. Here is the document in question.

Homework for Tuesday, April 12: Press review (use this week's! :) + review all the mistakes/corrections contained in the document above. 
IMPORTANT: The Cambridge confirmation of entry document plus a copy of the exam regulations has just been emailed to those of you who are taking the official exam in June. Please keep an eye open for this email! If you have not received it you should contact Caroline or Irene about it.

PDI: 

What we covered in class on Friday: Press Review + homework correction + debate on racial bias + Video on power point presentations + Signposting language + Graph/trend description language + Graph vocab exercise (with key)
Here is the wonderful radio show we talked about in class.

Homework for Friday, April 15: Press Review + revise all the vocabulary we have covered so far (it might be a good idea to use and update our quizlet account)