Week beginning Monday, May 18, 2020

Sciences Po double degree First and Third years:

Exam results and overall grade: in the end, I will send each of you your exam duly corrected along with your overall course grade.

Satisfaction survey: if you haven't already taken it, we would be very grateful if you could do so, I included the link in the "reminder" email I sent this morning.

I would also like to say a resounding thank you to all of you for an extremely gratifying semester albeit in such unusual circumstances!

I wish you all a wonderful summer!

See you in a couple of years!

Take care

Jeanphi

Week beginning Monday, May 11, 2020

REMEMBER, THE FINAL EXAM WILL TAKE PLACE NEXT WEDNESDAY (May 20) BE PUNCTUAL

1st year:

What we covered in class on Wednesday, May 13: Exam revision + Listening test trial (here) -bear in mind there will be 6 or seven audio files / questions in the real test- + Creative writing. Here is our whiteboard.

Homework for MONDAY, MAY 18: finish today's creative writing (in groups) / if you weren't able to attend our class, follow the instructions here (on page 3) and use 10 words / phrases from the activities of your choice and send me the word document by Monday.
This will be your last assignment of the continuous evaluation.

Homework for Wednesday, May 20: Review everything we've covered this semester (see links in last week's entry) 

3rd year:

What we covered in class on Wednesday, May 13: Exam revision + Listening test trial (here) -bear in mind there will be 6 or seven audio files / questions in the real test- + Creative writing. Here is our whiteboard.

Homework for MONDAY, MAY 18: finish today's creative writing (in groups) / if you weren't able to attend our class, follow the instructions here (on page 2. disregard the part about the 40 points, those are the exam instructions this will be your last assignment of the continuous evaluation) and use 10 words / phrases from the activities of your choice and send me the word document by Monday.

Week beginning Monday, May 4 2020

As last Wednesday, we will use Google Meet as a virtual classroom. You will receive an email around 5 minutes before the beginning of our class inviting you to a Google Meet session. Make sure your computer / laptop / phone has enough battery life left or is connected to a reliable energy source. 

1st years and 3rd years: Final exam scheduled for May 20: it will include:

1. Reading comprehension (article --> multiple choice questionnaire) 20 points

2. Listening comprehension (Live Quizizz questionnaire based on 10-second audio files) 20 points

3. Use of English / grammar  20 points

4. Writing & Vocabulary 40 points


1st year:

What we did in class on Wednesday, May 6: Presentations

Homework for Wednesday, May 13: Unfortunately we won't have time to finish last week's activity so review absolutely everything we have covered this semester (including part I of said activity) and take notes on what you would like us to review next week.

Here is everything we have covered this semester:

Introverts & extroverts: activity itself / Ted Talk / extra vocab Ted Talk / Error-correction activity Noémie... 

Parallel structures.

Unconscious bias:  activity itself / whiteboard 

Riz Ahmed's diversity speech: activity itself / whiteboard  / video

Ticking boxes: activity itself / whiteboard / possessive gerunds video / whiteboard 2

Survey techniques & report writing : activity itself / 10 commandments / report writing whiteboard / error-correction reports

Subjunctive: tutorial / our review / whiteboard

Graph description 

Paragraph writing

Corporate misbehaviour: Heartless Apple: Activity itself / whiteboard / Complete article / whiteboard 2

Dutch supermarkets: Activity itself / whiteboard

3rd year:

IMPORTANT: FROM NOW ON CLASSES WILL START AT 15:20 AND END AT 17:20


What we covered in class on Wednesday, May 6: We corrected episode 4 and finished the series. Here is our whiteboard

Homework for Wednesday, May 13: Review absolutely everything we have covered this semester and take notes on what you would like us to review next week.

Here is everything we have covered this semester:

Amazon deforestation:  activity itself / whiteboard / quizlet 

What unites us and robotic dogs: activity itself / radio programme / whiteboard / quizlet robotic dogs 

Watching the English: Activity itself / whiteboard

Error-correction essay AI

Detroit and Manchester: Activity 1 / Activity 2 / Quizlet / whiteboard / whiteboard 2 

Surveillance capitalism: activity itself / whiteboard / video / quizlet / error-correction & whiteboard / more error-correction

E-Estonia: Episode 1 Whiteboard 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 whiteboard 2 & 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 whiteboard 4 & 5 / video  

Week beginning Monday, April 27

As last Wednesday, we will use Google Meet as a virtual classroom. You will receive an email around 5 minutes before the beginning of our class inviting you to a Google Meet session. Make sure your computer / laptop / phone has enough battery life left or is connected to a reliable energy source. 

1st years and 3rd years: Final exam scheduled for May 20: it will include:

1. Reading comprehension (article --> multiple choice questionnaire) 20 points

2. Listening comprehension (Live Quizizz questionnaire based on 10-second audio files) 20 points

3. Use of English / grammar  20 points

4. Writing & Vocabulary 40 points


1st year:

What we did in class on Wednesday, April 29: Eco-tourism and plastic-free supermarkets. Here is our whiteboard (with the correction). We will finish the activity next week after the presentations.

Homework for Wednesday, May 5: Work on your presentations (assignment 4 here). Team up in groups of 3 or 4, create a Power Point presentation, upload it to the internet via https://www.slideshare.net/. The idea is for you to give us the link next Wednesday to enable us to follow the presentation simultaneously on our respective computers -with your instructions of course-. Here is a video on effective presentation + signposting + video on communication and public speaking skills + a revision of graph description vocab if you need it.

3rd year:

IMPORTANT: FROM NOW ON CLASSES WILL START AT 15:20 AND END AT 17:20


What we covered in class on Wednesday, April 29: We corrected episode 2 and moved on to episode 3.
Here is our whiteboard.

Homework for Wednesday May 6: Read episode 4 of our series and dothe vocab-fishing activity. You may do it individually or in pairs. We will correct it in class and move on to the final episode.

Week beginning Monday, April 20, 2020

As last Wednesday, we will use Google Meet as a virtual classroom. You will receive an email around 5 minutes before the beginning of our class inviting you to a Google Meet session. Make sure your computer / laptop / phone has enough battery life left or is connected to a reliable energy source. 

1st year:

What we did in class on Wednesday, April 22:  Error correction activity based on the mistakes you made in your reports. Here is the key. Make sure you study it thoroughly since it will be part of the final exam. We also completed last week's activity on corporate misbehaviour. Here is the vocabulary we covered.

Homework for Wednesday, April 29: LEARN all the vocabulary and concepts (possessives and gerunds, paragraph writing, graph description, subjunctive) we've covered so far. Here is the quiz in question it is available until Wednesday, 15:30. By the way I found a super interesting video/tutorial on possessive gerunds if you need more explanations: here it is.

3rd year:

IMPORTANT: FROM NOW ON CLASSES WILL START AT 15:20 AND END AT 17:20


What we covered in class on Wednesday, April 22: Error-correction activity based on the mistakes you made in your writings. Here is the key. We also watched this video to follow up on the first episode of our E-Estonia series. This is our whiteboard 

Homework for Wednesday April 29: Read episode 2 of our series and follow the instructions (1, 2 and 3). You may do it individually or in pairs. We will correct it in class and move on to episode 3.

Week beginning Monday, April 13

As last Wednesday, we will use Google Meet as a virtual classroom. You will receive an email around 5 minutes before the beginning of our class inviting you to a Google Meet session. Make sure your computer / laptop / phone has enough battery life left or is connected to a reliable energy source. 

1st year:

 IMPORTANT: Some of you still haven't sent me their report, please do it in the next two days!

What we did in class on Wednesday, April 15: This is the document we worked on. Here is our whiteboard. 

Homework for Wednesday, April 22: Read the second part of the article here and follow the instructions contained in the above-mentioned document. No need to send me anything, we will correct it in class.

3rd year:

IMPORTANT: FROM NOW ON CLASSES WILL START AT 15:20 AND END AT 17:20


What we covered in class on Wednesday, April 15: We corrected the vocabulary task from last week's activity (here is a quizlet to help you learn the vocab in question). We then started a thorough activity based on a special report on Estonia by the New Yorker. Here is the first episode. This is our whiteboard

Homework for Wednesday April 22: Revise all the vocabulary we covered in unit 2 (Manchester and Detroit: here is the quizlet set of the first part but you'll have to complete it with these words) and Surveillance capitalism (quizlet above). Here is the link. The test will be available for 24h (April 21 12:40 - April 22 16:45), you will need to log in with your real name and surname and will only have one go. Answers will be timed and will only count if submitted within the allotted time frame. I trust you so please don't try to take the test several times under a bogus name because I would have to cancel the whole thing. Thanks :)

Week beginning Monday, March 30

As last Wednesday, we will use Google Meet as a virtual classroom. You will receive an email around 5 minutes before the beginning of our class inviting you to a Google Meet session. Make sure your computer / laptop / phone has enough battery life left or is connected to a reliable energy source. 

1st year:

What we did in class on Wednesday, April 1: Here is the comprehensive dossier we completed. This is our whiteboard. Here is the graph description language we covered and a tutorial on paragraph writing. Happy Easter!

Homework for Wednesday, April 15: Carry out your survey (100 respondents at least) and write your report (assignment II in the above-mentioned activity).

3rd year:

IMPORTANT: FROM NOW ON CLASSES WILL START AT 15:20 AND END AT 17:20


What we covered in class on Wednesday, April 1: Radio programme +  we started an activity based on this video and an article by The Economist. Here is the correction of the first stage.

Homework for Wednesday April 15: Reading comprehension I and II, i.e. read the article titled "Is Google, an evil genius?" and follow the instructions. Happy Easter!