Class: Additional Post for the Saturday group (20^th Dec. 2014)

Vocabulary: to swarm, stingy, succinct, concise, to cry over split milk, household (chores), life expectancy, worth(y), worthless, valuable, invaluable, priceless, value, consumerism, bias, to be biased, praise, ice pick, remodel, home improvement

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

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

OR simply look them up in Google.

Extras, if you have time:

Jamie Oliver: Teach every child about food

http://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_oliver/transcript?language=en

Class: 19^th December/10^th January

Review of the exam

Unit 8A: Finding time

Pages: 76

Grammar: Past forms with present or future meaning

Vocabulary: Phrases with ‘Time’

Homework: Merry X-mas! My gift to you: NO HOMEWORK.

Extras, if you have time:

Marie Curie

Rosa Parks and the Bus boycotts

Martin Luther King "I have a dream" with Subtitles

Glee - Jingle Bell Rock (Lyrics)

Class: Additional Post for the Saturday group (13^th Dec. 2014)

Grammar: Subjunctive
http://www.englishpage.com/minitutorials/subjunctive.html
https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verbs-subjunctive.htm

Thank you Olga!

Vocabulary: to see smtg. through, cookies (originally ‘magic cookies’)

Extras, if you have time:

TED Talk

Catherine Crump: The small and surprisingly dangerous detail the police track about you
http://www.ted.com/talks/catherine_crump_the_small_and_surprisingly_dangerous_detail_the_police_track_about_you/transcript?language=en

Class: 5^th /20^th December 2014

Unit 7B/C: Not guilty!

Pages: 72 - 74

Grammar: Connecting words - condition

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/topics/language/connecting-words-which-express-a-condition/

Vocabulary: to cram, the next of kin, pre-nuptial, inheritance, god-forsaken, bias, penchant, to pile, intimacy, to lose your marbles, wet behind the ears, to swarm, to nip out, to stash

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

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

OR simply look them up in Google.

Homework: Workbook – pg. 38; pg. 86 ex. 12 – 14; and, Review for the test

Extras, if you have time:

Hubertus Knabe: The dark secrets of a surveillance state

http://www.ted.com/talks/hubertus_knabe_the_dark_secrets_of_a_surveillance_state/transcript?language=en

BBC News - Why people change the way they speak