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: