Week beginning Monday, October 29

What we covered on Tuesday, October 30: Press review + Speaking activity p75 using signpost language + course book p76-77 + paragraph writing

Homework for Tuesday November 6: Press review + Read Writing Focus p172 & this handout on Parallel Structures + review the above-mentioned Paragraph Writing tutorial --> THEN DO 4A P77

Oral project: will be done towards the end of the course in groups of 3/4. 5 minutes per person. We mentioned the idea of an overarching topic for all presentations along the lines of: Customs and Traditions in Spain's regions / Pivotal moments in the world's history / Health & Lifestyle (Nutrition, Health and Safety at work, Carcinogenic products...) etc. 

Week beginning Monday, October 22

What we covered on Tuesday, October 23: Press review + Homework correction + Supplementary activity on possessive adjectives and gerunds

Homework for Thursday October 25: Review p149 + the activity above

Important: The mid-term skills test will take place on Thursday, November 22 and the final exam will take place on Thursday, January 31.

Here is a reminder of the assessment process (in the end we will indeed do the oral project):

40% - final exam
60% - continuous assessment

The 60% continuous assessment breaks down like this:

10% - Oral project
10% - Attendance / participation
10% - Mid-term skills test
30% - In class tasks / written tasks / quizzes / homework in general / speaking ability...

Oral project: will be done towards the end of the course in groups of 3/4. 5 minutes per person.

What we covered in class on Thursday: Course book p74-75 (except the Speaking part) + signpost language
Oral project: will be done towards the end of the course in groups of 3/4. 5 minutes per person. We mentioned the idea of an overarching topic for all presentations along the lines of: Customs and Traditions in Spain's regions / Pivotal moments in the world's history / Health & Lifestyle (Nutrition, Health and Safety at work, Carcinogenic products...) etc. 

Homework for Monday October 29: Press review + revise the above-mentioned signpost language + watch this video on how to make effective Power Point (Canva etc.) presentations and take notes.

Week beginning Monday, October 15

What we covered on Tuesday, October 16: Press review + Homework correction + Course book p70-71

Homework for Thursday October 18: LEARN the vocabulary we've covered so far: Introverts & Extroverts + course book unit 5A + 6A-B (until p71) and review simple and continuous verbs

Important: The mid-term skills test will take place on Thursday, November 22 and the final exam will take place on Thursday, January 31.

Here is a reminder of the assessment process (in the end we will indeed do the oral project):

40% - final exam
60% - continuous assessment

The 60% continuous assessment breaks down like this:

10% - Oral project
10% - Attendance / participation
10% - Mid-term skills test
30% - In class tasks / written tasks / quizzes / homework in general / speaking ability...

Oral project: will be done towards the end of the course in groups of 3/4. 5 minutes per person.

What we covered in class on Thursday: Quiz + course book p72-73

Homework for Monday October 23: Press review + Grammar: a, b, c, d and e p73 + exercises p149

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

Week beginning Monday, October 1 2018

C1.2:

WELCOME EVERYBODY :)

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

This is the book you have to purchase if you don't have it already (it is available in the lobby of the building)

Cambridge English / EMPOWER C1 / Student's book with online assessment

ISBN code: 9781107530140

EMPOWER ADV C1 SB/ONLINE ASSESSMENT          

Student questionnaire Day 1

What we covered on Tuesday, October 2: Course introduction + 3-stage activity based on an article by The Economist.

Here is an extremely interesting Ted Talk on the topic

Homework for Thursday October 4: Get the above-mentioned book! 

What we covered on Thursday, October 4: Unit 5A, course book p56-57 + grammar p146

Homework for Monday October 8: Finish exercises p146 + 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

Semaine du lundi 11 juin

Ce que nous avons fait en cours lundi 11 juin: Examen final.

MESSAGE IMPORTANT pour Yoveslav, Andrés, Gael, Julia et Juan: Une autre session de l'examen final a été organisée à la demande de Cristina et Laura qui ne pouvaient pas être présentes aujourd'hui. Cette session alternative aura lieu le 22 juin à 9h du matin au Multiusos, en la sala de tutorías. 

Semaine du lundi 4 juin 2018

Ce que nous avons fait en cours lundi 4 juin: Révisions et Quizlets de vocabulaire. Voici la classe que nous avons créée, elle n'est malheureusement pas exhaustive mais ça devrait vous aider à réviser votre vocabulaire... ;) Voici notre tableau d'aujourd'hui


Devoirs pour Mercredi 6 juin: Voici l'ordre de passage de l'examen oral:

16:30 Inés García 
16:37 Mercedes
16:44 Inés Bedmar
16:51 Ibrahim
16:58 Adrián
17:05 Yoveslav
17:12 Andrés
17:19 Gael
17:26 Julia
17:33 Leandro
17:40 Juan
17:47 Cristina
17:54 Adriana
18:01 Laura

MESSAGE IMPORTANT: N'oubliez pas de remplir les enquêtes d'évaluation qui vous ont été envoyées! Vous avez jusqu'au 10 juin minuit.

Ce que nous avons fait en cours mercredi: Examen oral.

Devoirs pour lundi 11 juin: Révisez bien pour l'examen final!!! Voici une page intéressante pour tout type de doute grammatical. IMPORTANT: Ceux qui n'ont pas pu venir à l'examen oral passeront lundi. VOICI le vocabulaire patiemment accumulé et gentiment partagé par Inés :)