Week beginning Monday, April 29

Sciences-Po:

What we covered on Wednesday, April 24: Press review + reports were handed in (if you weren't able to attend our class, you have until midnight tonight -April 24- to send me your report) + Presentation techniques: Video on how to make a great power point presentation + what to do with your hands + signpost language

Homework for Wednesday, May 8: Devise your presentation (duration: 5 minutes per person
 --> around 15/20min per group). This is what I expect from you.

CAE: 

What we covered on Tuesday, April 30: Press review + Q&A on the progress test + Course book p58 (homework correction) + 3-stage activity based on an article by The Economist

Homework for Tuesday, May 7: Press review

Week beginning Monday, April 22

Sciences-Po:

What we covered on Wednesday, April 24: Press review + reports were handed in (if you weren't able to attend our class, you have until midnight tonight -April 24- to send me your report) + Presentation techniques: Video on how to make a great power point presentation + what to do with your hands + signpost language

Homework for Wednesday, May 8: Devise your presentation (duration: 5 minutes per person
 --> around 15/20min per group). This is what I expect from you.

CAE: 

What we covered on Tuesday, April 23: Course book p50-51 and 162

Homework for Thursday, April 25: No homework

What we covered in class on Thursday, April 25: Course book p55-57

Homework for Tuesday, April 30: Press review + essay p52-53 + exercises p58

Week beginning Monday, April 8

Sciences-Po:

What we covered on Wednesday, April 10: Press review + Graph/trend description (we took this graph as an example) + report writing structure + tutorial on the subjunctive. Here is a summary of the tutorial in question. Here is our white board.
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Homework for Wednesday, April 24: Press review + write a 350-word report (one report per group) on the results of your survey. Before you start writing, read the report on theatre-going intentions and analyse it (here is the original activity I devised around the report in question with the definitions of interesting words and phrases highlighted on page 3) and its complete correction. I also recommend you do this exercise again ;)

CAE: 

What we covered on Tuesday, April 9: Progress Test

Homework for Thursday, April 11: No homework

What we covered in class on Thursday, April 11: Course book p45-49

Homework for Tuesday, April 23: Press review

Week beginning Monday, April 1

Sciences-Po:

What we covered on Wednesday, April 3: Press review + we started a dossier on survey techniques / report writing (make sure you get it from your classmates). Here are the "ten commandments" of good survey writing. Students teamed up in groups and devised a survey questionnaire on equality and diversity in society (they agreed on an angle beforehand). This is today's white board
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Homework for Wednesday, April 10: Press review + Finish your questionnaire, send it to me per email and carry it out (you need at least 50 respondents). If you are not part of a team yet, make sure you contact your classmates and join a group or form another one.

CAE: 

What we covered on Tuesday, April 2: Press review + course book p 38-42

Homework for Thursday, April 4: 4a and b p42 + Use of English p43

IMPORTANT INFO: THE PROGRESS TEST WILL TAKE PLACE NEXT TUESDAY, APRIL 9TH 

What we covered in class on Thursday, April 4: Error-correction activity + course book p43-44 and paragraph writing tutorial

Homework for Tuesday, April 9: NO PRESS REVIEW --> MOCK EXAM

Homework for Thursday, April 11: All exercises p45