lunes, 23 de febrero de 2015

Week beginning February 23

ICAI: 

EPP B2 (Mon. & Wed.):

What we covered in class on Monday: Course book p57 including this video. We also watched the following video on the product life cycle and its actors:




Homework for Wednesday: Activity p59

What we covered in class on Wednesday: Vocab-searching activity stage 1: We didvided the class into two groups. Members of group 1 individually looked for interesting words in this text while members of group 2 did so in that text (only in the central part). Once they had identified the words they looked up their definitions on the Merriam Webster website and made a list of 10 definitions on a separate sheet of paper (without the solutions!) as follows:

1. (verb) To move or walk in a slow or unsteady way.
2. (expression) To....

Homework for Monday, March 2 : Finish the list in question so that we can do stage 2 on Monday.

EPP C1 (Tues. & Thur.):

What we covered in class on Tuesday: NO CLASS TODAY 

Homework for Thursday:

What we covered in class on Thursday: We.... didn't do much today... Course book p83-84

Homework for Tuesday, March 3: Watch the following video in preparation for our next class on the legalisation of cannabis and take notes on the points made by the different speakers.



ICADE:

1º E1: Business English C1:

What we covered in class on Monday: Course book p49-54

Homework for Tuesday: All exercises p55 and 56

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Course book p56-58

Homework for Thursday: Finish ex. 3 p58

What we covered in class on Thursday: Course book p58-59 (and 81-84) 

Homework for Monday, March 2: Activity p60. FINISH READING GAIN. The exam will take place on Monday!

2º E2: Business English: Communication skills C1

What we covered in class on Tuesday: We compiled the most interesting mistakes from the exam on Gain. Here is the document we came up with in class.

Homework for Thursday: No homework.

What we covered in class on Thursday: Course book p41-44

Homework for Tuesday, March 2: Gucci exercise p44



lunes, 16 de febrero de 2015

Week beginning Monday, February 16

ICAI: 

EPP B2 (Mon. & Wed.):

What we covered in class on Monday: Course book p47-49. We also read this article and analysed the following organisational chart

Homework for Wednesday: Activities p50 and 51 related to the diagrams p49.

What we covered in class on Wednesday: Course book p52-55

Homework for Monday, February 23: Read p56 (it'll take you 1 minute ;)

EPP C1 (Tues. & Thur.):

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Course book p79-80

Homework for Thursday: No homework.

What we covered in class on Thursday: Course book p81-82

Homework for Thursday, February 26: Finish exercises B and C p82-83

ICADE:

1º E1: Business English C1:

What we covered in class on Monday: 3-stage activity based on an article by The Economist + video (from min.6:00 to 40:00) + mini debate.

Homework for Tuesday: Watch John Oliver's take on the subject ;)




What we covered in class on Tuesday: Course book p45-47

Homework for Thursday: Read Gain...

What we covered in class on Thursday: Course book p47-49

Homework for Monday, February 23: Read Gain...

2º E2: Business English: Communication skills C1

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Exam on Gain.

Homework for Thursday: No homework. Bring your course book!

What we covered in class on Thursday: Course book p33-35 + we listened to the following radio show with Richard Powers

Homework for Tuesday, February 24: read course book p36-40 and do exercise 1p41



lunes, 9 de febrero de 2015

Week beginning Monday February 9

ICAI: 

EPP B2 (Mon. & Wed.):

What we covered in class on Monday: We heard the last elevator pitches

Homework for Wednesday: No homework after all!

What we covered in class on Wednesday: Course book p44-46

Homework for Monday, February 16: Exercise 3 p47

EPP C1 (Tues. & Thur.):

What we covered in class on Tuesday: 3-stage activity based on an article by The Economist

Homework for Thursday: Read the following article

What we covered in class on Thursday: We watched the following video as a conclusion to our activity on ethics & Big Pharma.




Homework for Tuesday, February 17: Watch John Oliver's take on the subject ;)




ICADE:

1º E1: Business English C1:

What we covered in class on Monday: Course book p24-30 including assessed writing 1a (in pairs) p30

Homework for Tuesday: If you didn't attend today's class you must do the above-mentioned writing task. Otherwise read Gain...

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Course book p39-40

Homework for Thursday: Exercises 5a and 5b p40-41

What we covered in class on Thursday: Course book p41-43

Homework for Monday, February 16: Read Gain....

2º E2: Business English: Communication skills C1

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Course book p27-30

Homework for Thursday: Exercise 4p31 and 6 & 7p32

What we covered in class on Thursday: 3-stage activity based on an article from The Economist 

Homework for Tuesday, February 17: Finish Gain (EXAM)



martes, 3 de febrero de 2015

Week beginning Monday February 2

ICAI: 

EPP B2 (Mon. & Wed.):

What we covered in class on Monday: Elevator pitches

Homework for Wednesday: No homework

What we covered in class on Wednesday: Elevator pitches

Homework for Monday, February 9: Watch this. On a scale from 1 to 10 how "revolutionary" would you say it is? ;)




EPP C1 (Tues. & Thur.):

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Course book p63-69

Homework for Thursday: Exercises p70+71 

What we covered in class on Thursday: Course book p72-75

Homework for Tuesday, February 10: All activities p76-78 (for the last exercise just write down a few ideas) 

ICADE:

1º E1: Business English C1:

What we covered in class on Monday: Activity on the first episode of Mad Men's season 1

Homework for Tuesday: Read Gain...

What we covered in class on Tuesday: We finished the activity on Mad Men.

Homework for Thursday: Read Gain...

What we covered in class on Thursday: Course book p 21+23-24

Homework for Monday, February 9: Watch video 3 on moodle (upcomillas intranet) and do activity p22

2º E2: Business English: Communication skills C1

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Course book p17-21

Homework for Thursday: Language use exercises p21 + 22 + Comparing & contrasting ex. p25-26

What we covered in class on Thursday: 2-stage activity on an article by The Economist + we watched the following video (the first 15 minutes) and discussed its main points & the similarities with the article.

Homework for Tuesday, February 10: For those who attended our class: read Gain... For everybody else: Make sure you do the activity above as the vocab in question will be part of the final exam.