Week beginning Monday, February 25

Sciences-Po:

What we covered on Wednesday, February 27: Press review + quiz + debate on anonymous cvs.

Homework for Wednesday, March 6: Press review summary of at least 200 words to be handed in. Review reported speech (we'll use it during the press review activity). Please remember the class starts at 9:00!

Grammar revision (we'll check this out together next Wednesday but it doesn't hurt to have a quick look at it beforehand :)

IMPORTANT: Since we have to finish on the 29th of May and there are three bank holidays until then, we will have to find another 2 hours in order to reach the 30-hour threshold. We'll talk about it next Wednesday but I'd be grateful if you could start looking into it! Thanks!

CAE: 

What we covered on Tuesday, February 26: Letters (4b p14) were handed in. Press review + course book p15-17 (until 3b)

Homework for Thursday, February 28: Language development 2 p18

IMPORTANT INFO: THE PROGRESS TEST I MENTIONED THE OTHER DAY WILL TAKE PLACE ON THE 9TH AND 11TH OF APRIL

What we covered in class on Thursday, February 28: Error-correction activity + course book p17

Homework for Tuesday, March 5: Press review + Language development 2 p18

Week beginning Monday, February 18

Sciences-Po:

What we covered on Wednesday, February 20: Press review + Wordcloud on unconscious bias + We watched the following video on a Google HR experiment (until min26) + This activity. Here is some more vocab from the article on anonymous cvs.

Homework for Wednesday, February 27: Think of 5 arguments in favour & against anonymous cvs and complete the table at the end of the activity above. Review all the vocabulary we've covered so far, including the above-mentioned words/phrases.

CAE: 

What we covered on Tuesday, February 19: Press review + quizz + course book p10-12

Homework for Thursday, February 21: All exercises p 13

IMPORTANT INFO: THE PROGRESS TEST I MENTIONED THE OTHER DAY WILL TAKE PLACE ON THE 9TH AND 11TH OF APRIL

What we covered in class on Thursday, February 21: Course book p13-14

Homework for Tuesday, February 26: Press review + Assignment 4a-b p14 

Week beginning Monday, February 11

Sciences-Po:

What we covered on Wednesday, February 13: We finished last week's activity on introverts and extroverts (here is some additional vocabulary) and reviewed reported speech + parallel structures + paragraph writing. Here is the quizlet we created. We also did an error-correction activity based on our mistakes.

Homework for Wednesday, February 20: Press review + learn all the vocabulary we've covered so far and review the error-correction activity above.

CAE: 

Welcome to your class blog this semester :)

Please read this letter from Administration.

This is the book you have to purchase (if you haven't done so already of course!):

ADVANCED EXPERT Coursebook by Jan Bell and Roger Gower
PEARSON
ISBN: 978-1-4479-6198-7

What we covered on Tuesday, February 12: Course introduction + 3-stage activity based on an article by The Economist.

Homework for Thursday: I) Finish part B (1 and 2) from the activity above. II) Watch the following video and take notes. Vocab hunt: at some point the speaker uses 3 synonyms of the verb "to imitate". Find them! :)

What we covered in class on Thursday, February 14: We finished the above-mentioned activity (here is some more vocab) and started the course book (p6-10)

Homework for Tuesday, February 19: Finish all exercises p10 +  LEARN the vocabulary we covered in the Introverts vs Extroverts activity + 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 + take notes on the main points & supporting details of the article.

Week beginning Monday, February 4

Sciences-Po:

What we covered on Wednesday, February 6: Course introduction + 3-stage activity based on an article by The Economist.

Homework for Wednesday, February 13: 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 + take notes on the main points & supporting details of the article.

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