sábado, 27 de febrero de 2016

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)

domingo, 21 de febrero de 2016

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)

sábado, 13 de febrero de 2016

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..................

miércoles, 3 de febrero de 2016

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

miércoles, 20 de enero de 2016

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

jueves, 14 de enero de 2016

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

martes, 8 de diciembre de 2015

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

domingo, 29 de noviembre de 2015

Group: Saturday, 28^th November 2015

Unit: 7B Every step you take

Pages: 70 - 72

Grammar:

Impersonal Reporting Structure

http://random-idea-english.blogspot.com.es/2013/06/passive-reporting-structures.html

www.english4all.pro.br/Impersonal%20reporting.ppt

Vocabulary: data mining, to claim, lousy, catch -22, phishing, CCTV, allege, household, setback, outcry, onset, landfill, bias(ed), forsake

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. 36, ex. 3; pg. 37

Extras, if you have time:

TED Talk

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

Newspapers in English

www.thebigproject.co.uk/news/

Articles

Five ways work will change in the future

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/nov/29/five-ways-work-will-change-future-of-workplace-ai-cloud-retirement-remote

It’s simply harder to eat well when you are poor

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/29/kis-junk-food-dont-blame-parents

BBC News

https://www.youtube.com/user/bbcnews

jueves, 26 de noviembre de 2015

Group: Monday, 23^rd / Wednesday, 25^th November 2015

Unit 7A/7B: Getting away with it / Every step you take

Pages: 68 - 72

Grammar:

Mixed Conditionals

http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/conditionalintro.html

Formal Conditionals

http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/wereto.html

Impersonal report structures

http://random-idea-english.blogspot.com.es/2013/06/passive-reporting-structures.html

Vocabulary: decay, puddle, water-tight, alibi, icicle, creepy-crawly, to mug, tycoon, claim

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. 36, ex. 3; pg. 37

Extras, if you have time:

TED Talk

Glenn Greenwald: Why privacy matters

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

Fiddler on the roof - If I were a rich man (with subtitles)

George Orwell 1984 Telescreen Exercise

The Lives of Others trailer

lunes, 23 de noviembre de 2015

Group: Saturday, 21^st November 2015

Unit 7A: Getting away with it

Pages: 66 - 69

Grammar:

Mixed Conditionals

http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/mixedconditional.html

http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/conditionalintro.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv344.shtml

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/ar/comment/68013

Vocabulary: famished, indulge, to give oneself away, reprehensible, condemnable, pursue, pursuit, burgle, burglarize, manslaughter, scratch, woolly, decay, puddle, alibi, maggot

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.

Also:

Oxford Online Collocations Dictionary

http://oxforddictionary.so8848.com/

Homework: Workbook - pg. 33 - 35; Writing – Compare living in a small town to living in a big city. (The comparison is easy, at least I believe so, but what I will be looking for in your piece of writing is, obviously, the ‘correct’ use of comparative and adverbial phrases as seen in the unit. Position yourself in favor of one or the other and support your argument logically and coherently, please.) (180 -220 words)

Extras, if you have time:

TED Talk

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

Roald Dahl

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl

Roald Dahl Biography 0002

miércoles, 18 de noviembre de 2015

Group: Monday 16^th / Wednesday 18^th 2015

Unit 6C / 7A: Short story radio / Getting away with it

Pages: 64 – 68

Grammar:

Conditionals (Mixed)

http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/mixedconditional.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv344.shtml

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/ar/comment/68013

Vocabulary: cattle, to smuggle, to give yourself away, silk

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.

Also:

Oxford Online Collocations Dictionary

http://oxforddictionary.so8848.com/

Homework: Workbook - pg. 33; pg. 34 ex. 1 – 3 ; Writing – Compare living in a small town to living in a big city. (The comparison is easy, at least I believe so, but what I will be looking for in your piece of writing is, obviously, the ‘correct’ use of comparative and adverbial phrases as seen in the unit. Position yourself in favor of one or the other and support your argument logically and coherently, please.) (180 -220 words)

Extras, if you have time:

Stephen Fry on American Prison Facts