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 :)

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