martes, 26 de marzo de 2019

Week beginning Monday, March 25

Sciences-Po:

What we covered on Wednesday, March 27: Press review + Quiz + 3-stage activity based on an article by The Economist on gender pay gaps. Here is our white board.
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Homework for Wednesday, March 3: Reading comprehension part of the activity above + Guided press review:  read the following article by The Economist

CAE: 
Excellent review of a TV series by The Guardian.

What we covered on Tuesday, March 26: Press review + activity based on the above-mentioned review + course book p32-33

Homework for Thursday, March 28: Review writing 3a p30. Here is an excellent tutorial on inversions if you're interested.

IMPORTANT INFO: THE PROGRESS TEST I MENTIONED THE OTHER DAY WILL TAKE PLACE ON THE 9TH AND 11TH OF APRIL

What we covered in class on Thursday, March 28: Course book p34-37

Homework for Tuesday, April 2: Writing task p36-37 (make sure you read the instructions and pieces of advice carefully) + Press review + review p38

martes, 19 de marzo de 2019

Week beginning March 18

Sciences-Po:

What we covered on Wednesday, March 20: Press review + grammar lesson on possessives & gerunds (last part of last week's activity) and gradable / ungradable adjectives. Here is our white board.
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Homework for Wednesday, March 27: LEARN all the vocabulary contained in theDiversity speech + Ticking the right boxes activities and review relative clauses + possessives and gerunds + gradable / ungradable adjectives. Here is a Quizlet that should help you review the vocab in question. Feel free to complete it with the rest of the vocab we've seen in class.. 

CAE: 

What we covered on Tuesday, March 19: Press review + homework correction + course book p27-28. Here is our white board

Homework for Thursday, March 21: All exercises p29

IMPORTANT INFO: THE PROGRESS TEST I MENTIONED THE OTHER DAY WILL TAKE PLACE ON THE 9TH AND 11TH OF APRIL

What we covered in class on Thursday, March 21: we thoroughly reviewed relative clauses + course book p31 and p32 (1 a-d) This is our white board.



Homework for Tuesday, March 25: Press review + Writing strategy p30 + review relative pronouns & clauses here

martes, 12 de marzo de 2019

Week beginning Monday, March 11

Sciences-Po:

What we covered on Wednesday, March 13: Press review + error-correction activity on the press review writings + we completed the activity based on a speech by Riz Ahmed. Here is our white board. And here is a quizlet with most of the vocabulary in question to help you learn it.
Here is more information on defining and non-defining relative clauses.

Homework for Thursday, March 14: Start learning the vocabulary from the activity above + review the error-correction document.

What we covered on Thursday, March 14: Relative clauses + 3-stage activity based on an article by The Guardian  Here is all the vocabulary we covered.

Homework for Wednesday, March 21: LEARN all the vocabulary contained in the above-mentioned activities (Diversity speech + Ticking the right boxes) and review relative clauses. Here is a Quizlet that should help you review the vocab in question. Feel free to complete it with the rest of the vocab we've seen in class (see document above). 

CAE: 

What we covered on Tuesday, March 12: Press review + we completed last week's activity including this grammar tutorial on possessives and gerunds. Here is the vocab from the video.

Homework for Thursday, March 14: Review the grammar tutorial along with the vocabulary above

IMPORTANT INFO: THE PROGRESS TEST I MENTIONED THE OTHER DAY WILL TAKE PLACE ON THE 9TH AND 11TH OF APRIL

What we covered in class on Thursday, March 14: Error-correction activity + course book p23-24

Homework for Tuesday, March 19:  Press review + reading activity p24-25 + all exercises p26. 

martes, 5 de marzo de 2019

Week beginning Monday, March 4

Sciences-Po:

What we covered on Wednesday, March 6: Press review + activity based on a speech by Riz Ahmed. We'll finish correcting the vocab next Wednesday.

Homework for Wednesday, March 13: Press review + do as many exercises on the following website (Grammar revision) and take notes on the points you'd like us to review.

IMPORTANT: Since we have to finish on the 29th of May and there are three bank holidays until then, we had to find another 2-hour session in order to reach the 30-hour threshold. We settled for Thursday, March 14, 9-11 am.

CAE: 

What we covered on Tuesday, March 5: Press review + homework correction + course book p19-21 including a tutorial on the subjunctive.

Homework for Thursday, March 7: Review the subjunctive (here is a summary of what we covered in class) and write 5 sentences using all the possibilities we covered (active/passive/negative/continuous) at least once  + "Review"p22 + start writing your letter of request 5p21 --> due date: Tuesday, March 12

IMPORTANT INFO: THE PROGRESS TEST I MENTIONED THE OTHER DAY WILL TAKE PLACE ON THE 9TH AND 11TH OF APRIL

What we covered in class on Thursday, March 7: Homework correction + Stages A, B and C of an Activity based on an article by The New York Times and a video by The Economist (we'll watch the video next week). Here is the key to stage A

Homework for Tuesday, March 12:  Press review + letter of request 5p21