Week beginning Monday, January 27

Welcome everybody! This will be your class blog for the duration of the course!

1st year:

What we did in class on Wednesday, January 29: Course introduction + 3-stage activity based on an article by The Economist.

Homework for Wednesday February 5: Complete the activity in question (2, 3 and 4). Learn the vocabulary we covered + Press review* + view the following Ted Talk and take notes.
*Press review: select and read an article from any section of the following sources: 
The Economist, The Times, The NY Times, FT, The Guardian, The Independent, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Toronto Star, The Nation and take notes on the main points & supporting details of the article.

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3rd year:

What we did in class on Wednesday, January 29: Course introduction + 3-stage activity based on an article by The Economist (and its audio version). Here is the correction along with additional vocabulary.

Homework for Wednesday February 5: Learn the vocabulary we covered + Press review: select and read an article from any section of the following sources: 
The Economist, The Times, The NY Times, FT, The Guardian, The Independent, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Toronto Star, The Nation and take notes on the main points & supporting details of the article.
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Week beginning Monday, January 20

What we did on Tuesday,  January 21: Homework correction + course book p64-65 including group writing 6p65. Here is some interesting debate vocabulary. And some more here. This is today's whiteboard with cause / consequence linkers.

Homework for Thursday, January 23: Revise everything we've covered so far and identify the points you'd like us to review. If you were unable to attend our class, make sure you do the above-mentioned writing.

What we did in class on Thursday January 23: We finished unit 5. 

Homework for Tuesday, January 28: --> FINAL EXAM. BE PUNCTUAL!!! Good luck!

Week beginning Monday, January 13

What we did on Tuesday,  January 14: Oral projects

Homework for Thursday, January 16: Reading p62-63 (all exercises except Speaking)

What we did in class on Thursday January 16: Homework correction + course book p60-61 

Homework for Tuesday, January 20: NO PRESS REVIEW. Exercises 8, 9 and 10 p61 + 4, 5 and 6 p165. 

FINAL EXAM: JANUARY 28

Week beginning Monday, January 6

What we did on Tuesday,  January 7: Bank holiday

Homework for Thursday, January 9:

What we did in class on Thursday January 9: Oral projects

Homework for Tuesday, January 14: Press review (it will be the last one)

FINAL EXAM: JANUARY 28