REMEMBER: NO class on Saturday, 7^th February!!!!!!

Class: Additional Post for the Saturday group (31^st Jan. 2015)

Grammar:

Reporting and Indirect Questions

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/reported_speech/questions2.htm

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/int/grammar/grammar_06_022e?cc=global&selLanguage=en

https://english.lingolia.com/en/grammar/sentences/indirect-questions/exercises

Vocabulary: blue movies, to feel blue, tabloids/sensationalist press, gossip magazines, solar panel, halogen light bulb, mist, to amortize, to feel appreciated, latchkey kid, eugenics, gene pool, survival of the fittest, to snoop

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. Clicking on Images can be quite helpful.

Darwin Awards

http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2014.html

Great Smog

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

Florence Nightingale - Biography

Abu Al Qasim Al Zahrawi-10t

The Sting - Trailer

Class: 23^rd January / 14^th February 2015

Unit 8C: The pros and cons

Pages: 82 - 85

Grammar:

Wish / If only

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-reference/wish-and-if-only

Idiomatic phrases

http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/

http://www.learn-english-today.com/idioms/idioms_proverbs.html

Vocabulary: reassure, on leave, leave of absence, maternity leave, compassionate leave, sick leave, misogyny, harem, reciprocal

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. 40 ex. 3; pg. 41 – 43

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

Class: 16^th / 31^st January 2015

Unit 8B: Fear!

Pages: 79 -82

Grammar:

Other grammar points

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/sep/30/10-grammar-rules-you-can-forget

Whoever, whenever, etc.

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions1stedition/ad_unit_page/unit10/grammar10/exercise1?cc=us&selLanguage=en

Vocabulary: hoax, beatify, device, devise

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: Composition – Eye for eye OR Turn the other cheek: both phrases come from the Bible but which do you think is best to follow?  (180 – 220 words)

Extras, if you have time:

The following is in Italian (no subtitles either). Here, a class is being given on how to open a safe. Brilliant Italian post-war cinema.

I soliti Ignoti  - Totò professore di scassinaggio sulla terrazza

Statistics on Burglaries

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Burglaries

Stephen Jay Gould – No such thing as a fish

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

Oda Nobunaga

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

Class: 9^th / 17^th January 2015

Unit 8A: Finding time

Pages: 76 -79

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: wrapper, pantry, SUV, to (reach a) compromise, to (make a) commitment, soot

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. 39; pg. 40 ex. 4 and 5

Extras, if you have time:

James Lovelock on the end of Civilization

Lord Monckton: Global Warming big scientific fad

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)

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

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