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 :)