Week beginning Monday, May 20

Sciences-Po:

What we covered on Friday, May 24: Presentations + revision

Homework for Wednesday May 29: FINAL EXAM! REVIEW EVERYTHING WE'VE COVERED THIS SEMESTER:

Introverts and extroverts:
Activity itself / Quizlet / 

Writing tips:
Paragraph writing / Parallel structure 

Error-correction activities:
Writing 1 error-correction activity 
Writing 2 error correction activity

Grammar:
Subjunctive / Relative clauses / Reported speech / More grammar if need be

Unconscious bias and equal opportunities:
Activity itself / White board with more vocab

Riz Ahmed:
Activity itself / Quizlet (including "Ticking all the right boxes") / White board correction of the activity / Video

Ticking all the right boxes and Use of English:
Activity itself / White board with gradable-ungradable adjectives and possessives + gerunds / Additional vocab

Gender pay gap:
Activity itself / White board / 

Survey and report writing + graph description:
10 commandments / white board 1 / white board 2 / graph description

CAE: 

What we covered on Tuesday, May 21: Course book p 76-77 including the following activity on gradable and ungradable adjectives.

Homework for Thursday, May 23: Review the document above

What we covered on Thursday, May 23:

IMPORTANT: The final exam will take place on the 30th of May and the 4th of June. Make sure you attend at least one of the two sessions.

Homework for Tuesday, May 28: Press review 

Week beginning Monday, May 13

Sciences-Po:

IMPORTANT MESSAGE: DUE TO YOUR EXAM SCHEDULE, WEDNESDAY'S CLASS HAS BEEN CANCELLED, WE'RE DOING OUR BEST TO FIND AN ALTERNATIVE 

What we covered on Wednesday, May 8: Presentations

Homework for Friday, May 24: Start revising everything we've covered so far:

Introverts and extroverts:
Activity itself / Quizlet / 

Writing tips:
Paragraph writing / Parallel structure 

Error-correction activities:
Writing 1 error-correction activity 
Writing 2 error correction activity

Grammar:
Subjunctive / Relative clauses / Reported speech / More grammar if need be

Unconscious bias and equal opportunities:
Activity itself / White board with more vocab

Riz Ahmed:
Activity itself / Quizlet (including "Ticking all the right boxes") / White board correction of the activity / Video

Ticking all the right boxes and Use of English:
Activity itself / White board with gradable-ungradable adjectives and possessives + gerunds / Additional vocab

Gender pay gap:
Activity itself / White board / 

Survey and report writing + graph description:
10 commandments / white board 1 / white board 2 / graph description

CAE: 

What we covered on Tuesday, May 14: Homework correction + course book p67-69 including a group writing

Homework for Thursday, May 16: Review p70 + Reading comp. p72-73

What we covered on Thursday, May 16: Course book p70-75. Here is our white board.

IMPORTANT: The final exam will take place on the 30th of May and the 4th of June. Make sure you attend at least one of the two sessions.

Homework for Tuesday, May 21: Press review

Week beginning Monday, May 6

Sciences-Po:

What we covered on Wednesday, May 8: Presentations

Homework for Wednesday, May 22: Start revising everything we've covered so far:

Introverts and extroverts:
Activity itself / Quizlet / 

Writing tips:
Paragraph writing / Parallel structure 

Error-correction activities:
Writing 1 error-correction activity 
Writing 2 error correction activity

Grammar:
Subjunctive / Relative clauses / Reported speech / More grammar if need be

Unconscious bias and equal opportunities:
Activity itself / White board with more vocab

Riz Ahmed:
Activity itself / Quizlet (including "Ticking all the right boxes") / White board correction of the activity / Video

Ticking all the right boxes and Use of English:
Activity itself / White board with gradable-ungradable adjectives and possessives + gerunds / Additional vocab

Gender pay gap:
Activity itself / White board / 

Survey and report writing + graph description:
10 commandments / white board 1 / white board 2 / graph description

CAE: 

What we covered on Tuesday, May 7: Q&A session on the writings handed out (essays) + Press review + course book p59-61 + tutorial on Parallel structure

Homework for Tuesday, May 9: Finish all exercises p61

What we covered on Thursday, May 9: Homework correction + course book p62-65

IMPORTANT: The final exam will take place on the 30th of May and the 4th of June. Make sure you attend at least one of the two sessions.

Homework for Tuesday, May 16: All exercises p66 

Week beginning Monday, April 29

Sciences-Po:

What we covered on Wednesday, April 24: Press review + reports were handed in (if you weren't able to attend our class, you have until midnight tonight -April 24- to send me your report) + Presentation techniques: Video on how to make a great power point presentation + what to do with your hands + signpost language

Homework for Wednesday, May 8: Devise your presentation (duration: 5 minutes per person
 --> around 15/20min per group). This is what I expect from you.

CAE: 

What we covered on Tuesday, April 30: Press review + Q&A on the progress test + Course book p58 (homework correction) + 3-stage activity based on an article by The Economist

Homework for Tuesday, May 7: Press review

Week beginning Monday, April 22

Sciences-Po:

What we covered on Wednesday, April 24: Press review + reports were handed in (if you weren't able to attend our class, you have until midnight tonight -April 24- to send me your report) + Presentation techniques: Video on how to make a great power point presentation + what to do with your hands + signpost language

Homework for Wednesday, May 8: Devise your presentation (duration: 5 minutes per person
 --> around 15/20min per group). This is what I expect from you.

CAE: 

What we covered on Tuesday, April 23: Course book p50-51 and 162

Homework for Thursday, April 25: No homework

What we covered in class on Thursday, April 25: Course book p55-57

Homework for Tuesday, April 30: Press review + essay p52-53 + exercises p58

Week beginning Monday, April 8

Sciences-Po:

What we covered on Wednesday, April 10: Press review + Graph/trend description (we took this graph as an example) + report writing structure + tutorial on the subjunctive. Here is a summary of the tutorial in question. Here is our white board.
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Homework for Wednesday, April 24: Press review + write a 350-word report (one report per group) on the results of your survey. Before you start writing, read the report on theatre-going intentions and analyse it (here is the original activity I devised around the report in question with the definitions of interesting words and phrases highlighted on page 3) and its complete correction. I also recommend you do this exercise again ;)

CAE: 

What we covered on Tuesday, April 9: Progress Test

Homework for Thursday, April 11: No homework

What we covered in class on Thursday, April 11: Course book p45-49

Homework for Tuesday, April 23: Press review

Week beginning Monday, April 1

Sciences-Po:

What we covered on Wednesday, April 3: Press review + we started a dossier on survey techniques / report writing (make sure you get it from your classmates). Here are the "ten commandments" of good survey writing. Students teamed up in groups and devised a survey questionnaire on equality and diversity in society (they agreed on an angle beforehand). This is today's white board
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Homework for Wednesday, April 10: Press review + Finish your questionnaire, send it to me per email and carry it out (you need at least 50 respondents). If you are not part of a team yet, make sure you contact your classmates and join a group or form another one.

CAE: 

What we covered on Tuesday, April 2: Press review + course book p 38-42

Homework for Thursday, April 4: 4a and b p42 + Use of English p43

IMPORTANT INFO: THE PROGRESS TEST WILL TAKE PLACE NEXT TUESDAY, APRIL 9TH 

What we covered in class on Thursday, April 4: Error-correction activity + course book p43-44 and paragraph writing tutorial

Homework for Tuesday, April 9: NO PRESS REVIEW --> MOCK EXAM

Homework for Thursday, April 11: All exercises p45