sábado, 20 de diciembre de 2014

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)

domingo, 14 de diciembre de 2014

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

sábado, 6 de diciembre de 2014

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

sábado, 29 de noviembre de 2014

Class: Additional Post for the Saturday group (29^th Nov. 2014)

Vocabulary: bunk bed, fraudster, scam, to grill, to chip, icicle, John/Jane Doe, Dear John/Jane letter, watertight

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:

I found this article that explains the difference between organic and ecological produce.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/timigustafsonrd/2011/08/29/natural-organic-ecological-%E2%80%93-what%E2%80%99s-the-difference-should-you-care/

About P. D. James:

http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2014/11/27/actualidad/1417096953_570414.html

PD James: 'Some people find conventions liberating'

Adam Dalgliesh Proposes - The Murder Room by PD James - Martin Shaw

Steven Pinker on bad and good writing

viernes, 28 de noviembre de 2014

Class: 28^thNovember / 13^th December 2014

Unit 7B: Every step you take

Pages: 69 - 72

Grammar:

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: footage, dumb down, water down, stalker, tag,

Data Mining - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining

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. 36 - 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

George Orwell 1984 Telescreen Exercise

The Lives of Others trailer

domingo, 23 de noviembre de 2014

Class: Additional Post for the Saturday group (21^st Nov. 2014)

Vocabulary: zebra/ pedestrian crossing, turnip, artichoke, petty crime/cash, heinous, good behaviour, life sentence, driving under the influence (DUI), over dose (O.D.), non- fiction, fiction, pulp fiction, hard-boiled

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:

Love Story - Originally sung by Andy Williams (with Lyrics) [HD]

Double Indemnity Official Trailer #1 - Edward G. Robinson Movie (1944) HD

Dashiell Hammett Documentary

Raymond Chandler "Mysteries & Scandals"

Class: 21^st / 29^th November 2014

Unit 7A: Getting away with it

Pages: 66 -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: Phrases with get and to surveil, to libel, to mug, to fine, manslaughter, pederasty, (statutory) rape, tax haven/ evasion/ avoidance, predator, misdemeanor, felony, theft, sentence, to give yourself away, finger print, alibi, blow the whistle, whistleblower, woolly, smooth, outwit, outsmart, stagger

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

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

Homework: Workbook – pg. 34 – 35

Extras, if you have time:

Stephen Fry on American Prison Facts