Class: 21^st/22^nd March

Unit 12: Knowledge and Technology

Can-Do Objectives: Talk about knowledge and technology

    Discuss how to access information

Pages: 118 – 119, 121, 127

Grammar: Participle clauses

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv305.shtml

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/int/grammar/grammar_10_012e?cc=global&selLanguage=en

Vocabulary: to be an issue, to make a point, to put to smo., outsource, key in, to boost, dashboard, shallow, frail, scurvy, splinter, commute

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

http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/

OR simply look them up in Google.

Homework: Workbook – pg. 80; 81 ex 3a & b; pg. 86

Also:

What is SPAM?

1. Food

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(food)

2. Electronic spamming

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamming

The sketch - Monty Python - Spam

General Knowledge

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_knowledge 

QI television show

http://qi.com/

A TED Talk - Evan Williams: The voices of Twitter users

http://www.ted.com/talks/evan_williams_on_listening_to_twitter_users/transcript

Class: 14^th/15^th March 2014

Unit 11: Climate

Can-Do Objectives: Report a point of view

                                React to a point of view

                                Emphasize one’s opinions

Pages: 113, 115 -117

Grammar: Cleft sentences

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv149.shtml

http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/sent-cleft.html

Vocabulary: glee, smug, maverick, blackout, sewerage, pipe-dream, grid, beam

deceitful vs. deceptive
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/104884/deceit-vs-deception
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090709144920AAnW56n

Homework: Workbook – pg. 75 ex 6, pg. 76 ex 10, pg. 77 ex 15 (250 words)

Also: Realistic Alternatives – Watch and listen to these videos.

Living Off the Grid - Our Story and our Plan

OFF-THE-GRID, CHEAP SOLAR MONTANA CABIN IN A FOREST

A TED Talk: John Hardy: My green school dream

http://www.ted.com/talks/john_hardy_my_green_school_dream/transcript

Here is the page I told you about in class. My friend makes this.

http://midomo.es

Class: 7^th/8^th March 2014

Unit 11: Climate

Can-Do Objectives: Describe an ongoing process

    Understand imagery in a poem

    Talk about climate change

    Conduct a debate

Pages: 111-112, 114, 116

Grammar: Present progressive active and passive

http://www.grammarbank.com/present-continuous-passive.html

Vocabulary: Review and hives, run-way, re-wind, scrape, make redundant, to render

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

http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/

OR simply look them up in Google.

Homework: Workbook – pg. 77 except ex 15; pg. 79

Also: Here are opposing views about Global Warming.

James Lovelock on the end of Civilization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm6v-U3K2OI

Lord Monckton: Global Warming big scientific fad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKrw6ih8Gto

The IPCC provides an internationally accepted authority on climate change.

http://www.ipcc.ch/

And from a different angle, a TED Talk.

 Wade Davis: Dreams from endangered cultures

http://www.ted.com/playlists/117/words_words_words.html

Class: 28^th February/1^st March

Unit 11: Climate

Can-Do Objectives: Talk about climate change

    Describe an ongoing process

Pages: 110 – 111; 112, 114, 117

Grammar: Passives; word formation

http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/strategy/p3pt5a.htm

http://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/word-formation/word-formation-sentences1.htm

http://www.autoenglish.org/FCEUse/FCEUsePart3.htm#Introduction_

Vocabulary: spur, on the spur of the moment, popsicle, soak, eerie, pace, hit upon, to be blown away, to shed, to trigger, steadily, calf, hideous, to stun, bliss, stifling, heart-rendering

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

http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/

OR simply look them up in Google.

Homework: Workbook – pg. 75 ex 7 & 8; pg. 76 ex 9; pg 78

Also: As mentioned in class, here is a video of a definitely not politically correct vision of ‘Climate change’.

 

George Carlin - Saving the Planet

Class: 21^st/22^nd February

Unit 11: Climate

Can-Do Objectives: Talk about climate change

                                 Describe inventions and how they work

                                 Discuss proposals

Pages: 106, 108 -109

Grammar: Review Inversion; Passives

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive

Vocabulary: dweller, malnourished, sanitation, raw materials, pillars, to give in, advocacy, tackle, deflect

Homework: Workbook – pg. 73 and 74

 

Also: For those of you who don’t know who Richard Branson is this interview will be most helpful.

 

Richard Branson: Life at 30,000 feet

http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_branson_s_life_at_30_000_feet.html

The following TED Talk is a must. Notice the date it was given. Ask yourself what the situation must be like now.

 

Al Gore: New thinking on the climate crisis

http://www.ted.com/talks/al_gore_s_new_thinking_on_the_climate_crisis.html

Class: 14^th/15th February

Unit 10: A Sense of Belonging

Can-Do Objectives: Persuade other to take action

                                 Describe an organization

    Explore strategies for analyzing authentic text

                                 Present something in the best possible light

Pages: 100 – 101, 102 & (105) (107)

Grammar: Inversion

Vocabulary: evict, repossess, mortgage, shelter, pledge, claim, swapping, tear-jerking, distress, flee, fleeting, shanty, idle, ailment, thump, turnstile, ensconced, scope

Homework: Workbook – pg 68 ex 5&6; 70 – 71

Also: Here are a few interesting links for you to click on that relate to the topic of our unit.

http://www.homelessworldcup.org/news

Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about_charity_is_dead_wrong.html

THE LIST: The greatest rivalries in club football, Nos 10-1

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1214200/THE-LIST-The-greatest-rivalries-club-football-Nos-10-1.html

Class: 7^th February

Unit 10: A Sense of Belonging

Can-Do Objectives: Giving opinions with various degrees of emphasis

                                 Talk about rivalries

Pages: 103, 107

Grammar: Inversion

Vocabulary: rivalry, hoard, clique, mob, gang, team, crew

Homework: Workbook – pg. 66 ex. 1a, b, and c; pg. 67 ex. 3; pg. 69 ex. 7

Also: Here is a Ted Talk that will be useful for our next class.

Rory Stewart: Why democracy matters

http://www.ted.com/talks/rory_stewart_how_to_rebuild_democracy.html