sábado, 28 de septiembre de 2019

Week beginning Monday, September 30

Welcome everybody, this is your class blog for the semester :)

We'll be in Multiusos 1109 on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:00 to 11:00

What we did on Tuesday, October 1:  3-stage activity based on an article by The Economist

Homework for Thursday, October 3: Finish question 2 from the activity above. Review the vocabulary and buy the course book: National geographic Learning / LIFE Student's book / Upper Intermediate Second Edition (British English B2)

the book shop in Filología is open this week 
Mon-Fri  9:30 to 19:30 h
You get the usual 5% UCM discount. 


Multiusos:  Mon-Thurs 16:30 -19:15 h

What we did in class on Thursday: We finished the activity we started on Tuesday + watched this video (here's some extra vocab from the video in question) and answered comprehension questions + quizlet on all the vocabulary we covered in both activities + introduction of the course book

Homework for Tuesday: Press Review as explained in class:

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 content 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
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