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!

Week beginning Monday, March 23

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, March 25: Here is a tutorial on the subjunctive and our summary. Here is the correction of the first report writing activity on theatre-going intentions. Here is the comprehensive dossier we've been using.

Homework for Wednesday, April 1: Carry out your survey (100 respondents at least) and review the subjunctive & the vocabulary and report writing techniques we covered.

3rd year:

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

What we covered in class on Wednesday, March 25: We completed last week's activity on Manchester (here is our whiteboard)

Homework for Wednesday April 1: Assignment 4 at the end of the above-mentioned activity + Start learning the vocabulary from Module II (Rise and fall of industrial cities) 

Here is more information on the great city of Manchester if you're interested:
Option 1: a short yet comprehensive tourist-oriented video with everything Manchester has to offer
Option 2: too cool to be true... ;)

Week beginning Monday, March 16

LATEST NEWS: Please download and / or print out the following activities before our Wednesday class. We will use Google Meet from now on as a virtual classroom starting Wednesday, March 18. 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. Do not activate your individual microphone, you will communicate with me and the rest of the group through a chat. The press review activity is temporarily suspended.

1st year:

What we did in class on Wednesday, March 18: This is our whiteboard. Here is the comprehensive dossier we will be using for the next two classes. Direct link to the survey techniques we covered in class.

Homework for Wednesday, March 25: Devise your survey and send it to me by Tuesday, March 24, 2pm so that I have time to correct them all before our next 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, March 18: We completed last week's activity on Detroit (Vocab Quizlet) and here is the second activity of the module, on Manchester, whose two initial videos we watched and commented. Link to video nr. 1   Link to video nr. 2.
Here is our whiteboard.
Here is more information on the great city of Manchester if you're interested:
Option 1: a short yet comprehensive tourist-oriented video with everything Manchester has to offer
Option 2: too cool to be true... ;)
Homework for Wednesday March 25: Start learning the vocabulary contained in Part I: Detroit. The quizlet supplied above should help you with that.

Week beginning Monday, March 2

LATEST NEWS: I will send you an email on Monday or Tuesday with instructions. We will use Google Meet from now on as a virtual classroom starting Wednesday, March 18.The press review activity is temporarily suspended.

1st year:

What we did in class on Wednesday, March 4: Press review + we completed Module 1 on Equality and Diversity with the following activity. Here is our whiteboard

And here is an excellent video on possessive gerunds.

Homework for Wednesday, March 11: Press review + Complete the above-mentioned activity (translation) + LEARN all the vocabulary and concepts contained in Module 1.

3rd year:

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

What we did in class on Wednesday, March 4: Press review + Quiz + we started Module 2 on the Rise and Fall of Industrial Cities.

Homework for Wednesday March 11: Press review