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