Class: Saturday, 27^th / Monday, 22^nd  - Wednesday, 24^th February

Unit 9B / 9C: Cash free / World Issues

Pages: 90; 92 - 93

Grammar:

a/an vs one; few, a few, quite a few

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/determiners/determiners.htm

http://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/923/difference-between-hundred-a-hundred-and-one-hundred

Productive suffixes
http://hoangdungz.blogspot.com.es/2012/05/suffixes-productive-suffixes-and-word.html

Vocabulary: perish, performance enhancing drugs, convenience /grocery store, loot, tax haven, evict, seize/ garnish a bank account,

To review definitions given in class and see further examples, click on the following links:

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/

OR simply look them up in Google.

Homework: Workbook – pg. 46 – 47; (only Sat. group; pg. 48 ex. 1)

Extras, if you have time:

TED Talk

Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies

https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson

James A. White – The little problem I had renting a house

https://www.ted.com/talks/james_a_white_sr_the_little_problem_i_had_renting_a_house?language=en

Entrevista Satish Kumar Education (Sub español)

Class: Saturday, 20^th / Monday, 15^th - Wednesday, 17^th February

Unit 9A: The price of happiness

Pages: 86 – 89; 91

Grammar:

Simple vs Continuous – verbs with different meaning

http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/non-continuous-verbs

http://poligo.com/articles/grammar/verbs-different-meanings-when-they-are-states-and-actions

Vocabulary: inheritance, strive, lessen, taper off, fuzzy, peer, conspicuous, to qualify, healthiness, gain, grip, disruptive

To review definitions given in class and see further examples, click on the following links:

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/

OR simply look them up in Google.

Homework: Workbook – pg. 44 - 45

Extras, if you have time:

Dan Gilbert: The surprising science of happiness

https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy

Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis on Greek economic problems (20Feb12)

Class: Saturday, 13^rd / Monday, 8^th - Wednesday, 10^th February

Unit 8C: The pros and cons

Pages: 83 - 85

Grammar:

Idiomatic phrases

http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/

http://www.learn-english-today.com/idioms/idioms_proverbs.html

Vocabulary: bike/cycle path, frayed, strain, male chauvinism, patriarchy, matriarchy, flirtatious, put off, homemaker, tyre, juggle, crutch

To review definitions given in class and see further examples, click on the following links:

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/

OR simply look them up in Google.

Homework: Workbook – pg. 43; AND, Composition – Textbook, pg. 83, ex. 5. (180 -200 words)

Extras, if you have time:

Amy Webb: How I hacked online dating

https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_webb_how_i_hacked_online_dating

Esther Perel: The secret to desire in a long-term relationship

https://www.ted.com/talks/esther_perel_the_secret_to_desire_in_a_long_term_relationship

George Carlin - Political Correctness is fascism pretending to be Manners..................

Class: Saturday, 23^rd / Monday, 25^th - Wednesday, 27^th January

Unit 8A: Fear!

Pages: 80 - 82

Grammar: Whoever, whenever, etc.

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions1stedition/ad_unit_page/unit10/grammar10/exercise1?cc=us&selLanguage=en

Vocabulary: slope, up/down/in/out/back/forward, Driving under the influence (DUI) wound, blow, sore, ache, to flatter, pay compliments, credit crunch, moody, spill, wrath, sloth, frown

To review definitions given in class and see further examples, click on the following links:

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/

OR simply look them up in Google.

Homework: Workbook – pg. 40 ex. 3; pg. 41 - 42

Extras, if you have time:

TED Talks

Robert Waldinger: What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness

https://www.ted.com/talks/robert_waldinger_what_makes_a_good_life_lessons_from_the_longest_study_on_happiness

Statistics on Burglaries

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Burglaries

Article

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jan/24/bike-helmet-appetite-danger

Class: Saturday, 16^th / Monday, 18^th - Wednesday, 20^th January

Unit 8A: Finding Time

Pages: 78 – 79; 80

Grammar: Past forms with present or future meaning

http://www.perfectyourenglish.com/grammar/past-tense-with-present-meaning.htm

http://www.learnwithus.info/publ/english_grammar/tenses/past_verb_forms_with_present_or_future_meaning/5-1-0-37

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1535_questionanswer/page42.shtml

Vocabulary: endorse, soot, mist, scrub

To review definitions given in class and see further examples, click on the following links:

http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/

OR simply look them up in Google.

Homework: Workbook – pg. pg. 38; pg. 40 ex. 4 and 5

Extras, if you have time:

Hazel Henderson on solutions

Class: Saturday, 9^th / Monday, 11^th - Wednesday, 13^th January

Unit 8A: Finding Time

Pages: 76 – 77; 79

Grammar: Past forms with present or future meaning

Vocabulary: security deposit, tin/can, ascetic, repeal, leap year, procrastinate, low-energy bulb, carbon footprint

To review definitions given in class and see further examples, click on the following links:

http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/

OR simply look them up in Google.

Homework: Workbook – pg. 39

Extras, if you have time:

James Lovelock on the end of Civilization

Lord Monckton: Global Warming big scientific fad

Marie Curie

Martin Luther King Jr.

Newspaper article

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/08/rubbish-humans-dumping-litter-geological-epoch

Remember: Progress Test 1 on 9th and 12th December

Group: Monday, 30^th November; Wednesday, 2^nd December;

Saturday, 5^th December

Unit 7B/7C: Every step you take / Not guilty!

Pages: 72 -74

Grammar: Review –

Formal and Informal ways of comparing

http://library.bcu.ac.uk/learner/writingguides/1.18.htm

http://www.dcielts.com/task-1-2/compare-and-contrast/

Position of adverbials

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/adverbs-and-adverb-phrases-position

Position of Adverbs in English Sentences

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9OWrWr4fmA

Connecting word – purpose

http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-85663.php

Use of commas

http://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/commas_in_lists.htm

Conditionals (non-basic form and mixed)

http://www.speakenglish.com.tr/self-study/ingilizce-advanced-seviyesi-konu-anlatimlari/ingilizce-conditionals-basic-and-non-basic-forms-turkce-konu-anlatimi

http://www.edufind.com/english-grammar/mixed-conditional/

Impersonal report structures

http://menuaingles.blogspot.com.es/2009/12/impersonal-passive-impersonal-reporting.html

Vocabulary: landfill, bias, to pile up, forsake, for sake, to fine, lad, storm (off), to dawn, ceiling, to bail, nip, allege, swarm, bud, gullible, outlaw

To review definitions given in class and see further examples, click on the following links:

http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/

OR simply look them up in Google.

Homework: Workbook – Finish up any exercises you have not done. You have the Key

Extras, if you have time:

United States Demographics Profile 2014 - IndexMundi

http://www.indexmundi.com/united_states/demographics_profile.html

TED talk

Bryan Stevenson: We need to talk about an injustice

https://www.ted.com/talks/bryan_stevenson_we_need_to_talk_about_an_injustice