Week beginning Monday October 8

IMPORTANT: HERE IS THE CLASS CODE YOU NEED IN ORDER TO ACCESS THE ONLINE PLATFORM: vA9gT3

Here are some instructions in Spanish you might find useful:

Students

There are 3 possible cases

(CLMS = https://www.cambridgelms.org/main )

1.     Antiguo alumno/mismo libro (por ejemplo – viene de A2.1 y ahora hace A2.2)

a.     Entran CLMS con su username y password

b.     ‘Click’ sobre ‘My Learning’

c.     ‘Click’ sobre  ‘Join a class’ y usa el ‘class code’ que le da el profesor

2.     Antiguo alumno/nuevo libro (por ejemplo – viene de A2.2 y ahora hace B1.1)

a.     Entran CLMS con su username y password

b.     ‘Click’ sobre ‘My Learning’

c.     ‘Click’ sobre ‘Activate a new product’ con el código del libro

d.     ‘Click’ sobre  ‘Join a class’ y usa el ‘class code’ que le da el profesor

3.     Nuevo alumno

a.     Register en la CLMS (https://www.cambridgelms.org/main)

b.     ‘Click’ sobre ‘My Learning’

c.     ‘Click’ sobre ‘Activate a new product’ con el código del libro

d.     ‘Click’ sobre  ‘Join a class’ y usa el ‘class code’ que le da el profesor

What we covered on Tuesday, October 9: Course book p58+162 & 67-68 (we started unit 6)

Homework for Thursday October 11: Start learning the vocabulary we've covered so far (Introverts & Extroverts + course book unit 5A)

What we covered on Thursday, October 11: 2 p68 (including p163) and lesson on Gradable/Ungradable adjectives and matching adverbs  (here is an interesting tutorial by the British Council and a good exercise) + p69-70.

Homework for Monday October 15: Read the tips on simple and continuous verbs and do all exercises p148. Press review: Read an article every week from the following sources and write a 100-word summary (bullet points are ok) so that you can summarize the contents of your article to your classmates on Mondays.

The New York times
The Economist
The Washington Post
The Guardian
The Independent (e.g. Voices: Robert Fisk etc.)
The New Yorker
The Financial Times
The Times
The Herald Tribune