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

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

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

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

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

TED Talks

Dan Pacholke: How prisons can help inmates live meaningful lives

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

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

Dashiell Hammett Documentary

Raymond Chandler "Mysteries & Scandals"

The Art Book - Gary Ross' PLEASANTVILLE (1998)