martes, 28 de abril de 2015

Week beginning Monday, April 27

ICAI: 

EPP B2 (Mon. & Wed.):

What we covered in class on Monday: We watched season 1 episode 1 of Whitechapel

Homework for Wednesday: Revise for the exam!!

What we covered in class on Wednesday:

Homework for Monday, :

EPP C1 (Tues. & Thur.):

What we covered in class on Tuesday: We watched season 1 episode 1 of Whitechapel

Homework for Thursday: Revise for the exam!! Watch this video again, it might prove useful...

What we covered in class on Thursday:

Homework for Tuesday,:

ICADE: NO CLASSES


lunes, 20 de abril de 2015

Week beginning on Monday, April 20

ICAI: 

EPP B2 (Mon. & Wed.):

What we covered in class on Monday: Vocab revision activity. Here is the Word document containing all the vocab covered in supplementary activities

Homework for Wednesday: Go through the second part of the course book and identify what you would like us to review in class.

What we covered in class on Wednesday: Revision. Graph description (upward / downward trends)...

Homework for Monday: Review everything we've covered (final exam on Wednesday)


EPP C1 (Tues. & Thur.):

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Course book p115-116 + this video / article

Homework for Thursday: No homework

Homework for Tuesday: Start revising for the exam...

ICADE:

1º E1: Business English C1:

What we covered in class on Monday: Vocab revision activity. Here is the document containing all the vocab covered in supplementary activities.

Homework for Tuesday: Go through the course book (2nd semester) and identify what you would like us to review in class.

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Revision

Homework for Thursday: No homework

What we covered in class on Thursday: We watched the first episode of Whitechapel (Season 1. BBC)

Good luck with the exam!!!

2º E2: Business English: Communication skills C1

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Vocab revision activity. Here is the document containing all the vocab covered in supplementary activities.

Thursday: TEA PARTY :) A zillion thanks to all of you, I had a great time :) 
God, those cupcakes Alejandra... They were out of this world!... 
Thanks again and good luck with the exam!!! 
Online quizz option


lunes, 13 de abril de 2015

Week beginning Monday, April 13

ICAI: 

EPP B2 (Mon. & Wed.):

What we covered in class on Monday: We continued with the dossier on civil rights in America and viewed these 3 documents:
Doc 1
Doc 2
Doc 3
We then debated on racial bias both in America and in Spain.

Homework for Wednesday: Read this NYTimes article on the topic (if you feel like it :)

What we covered in class on Wednesday: Introduction to translation.
Stage 1: we analyzed an appallingly bad translation along with its possible consequences ;)
Stage 2: in pairs you had a go at translating this text back into English

Homework for Monday, April 20: Bring all the supplementary material (texts, articles) we covered during the second semester, we'll do a vocab revision activity.

EPP C1 (Tues. & Thur.):

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Course book p110-111. We also viewed this interesting video on company organization design.

Homework for Thursday: Exercises C, D and E p112

What we covered in class on Thursday: Course book p113-114

Important info on the exam: The final exam will indeed take place on Thursday, the 30th of April.

Homework for Tuesday, April 21: (Optional) View this video on emotional marketing

ICADE:

1º E1: Business English C1:

What we covered in class on Monday: Course book p119-123

Homework for Tuesday: No homework

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Course book p124-127

Homework for Thursday: Finish the I-phone Swot analysis p127 use your own insights + internet research.

What we covered in class on Thursday: Course book p132-133

Homework for Monday, April 20: Review all the vocab we've covered in our supplementary activities and bring the texts in question with you.

2º E2: Business English: Communication skills C1

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Course book p100-105. 

Homework for Thursday: Ex3 p105

What we covered in class on Thursday: Spontaneous debate on a social media event trending topic + Episode 1 of The House of Cards (British version).

Homework for Tuesday: Review all the vocab we've covered in our supplementary activities and bring the texts in question with you.


martes, 7 de abril de 2015

Week beginning on April 6 2015

ICAI: 

EPP B2 (Mon. & Wed.):

What we covered in class on Wednesday: 2-stage activity on an obituary by The Economist
Homework for Monday, April 13: No homework

EPP C1 (Tues. & Thur.):

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Course book p100-103

Homework for Thursday: Read text 2 and 3 and write one sentence apiece summarizing the gist of each text.

What we covered in class on Thursday: Introduction to translation.
Stage 1: we analyzed an appallingly bad translation along with its possible consequences ;)
Stage 2: in pairs you had a go at translating this text back into English

Homework for Tuesday, April 14: Read the rest of both texts and compare

ICADE:

1º E1: Business English C1:

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Homework correction + Course book p113 & 117

Homework for Thursday: Finish reading the text p117-118 and do the exercise contained in the "design and marketing" paragraph + ex 1p118

What we covered in class on Thursday: Introduction to translation.
Stage 1: we analyzed an appallingly bad translation along with its possible consequences ;)
Stage 2: in pairs you had a go at translating this text back into English

Homework for Monday,: Read the rest of both texts and compare

2º E2: Business English: Communication skills C1

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Course book p94-99

Homework for Thursday: (Optional) Food for thought from The New Yorker (a good follow-up article on our dossier on Civil Rights in America)

What we covered in class on Thursday: Introduction to translation.
Stage 1: we analyzed an appallingly bad translation along with its possible consequences ;)
Stage 2: in pairs you had a go at translating this text back into English

Homework for Tuesday,: Read the rest of both texts and compare