Week beginning Monday, February 29

ICAI: 

EPP B2 :

What we covered in class on Monday: Course book p61-62

Homework for Wednesday: Finish the "language practice" p62

What we covered in class on Wednesday: We did a creative activity called "one feeling, one place". 

Homework for Monday, March 7: Press Review

EPP C1 :

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Press Review + course book p98-99 

Homework for Thursday: Learn the vocab we covered in the product-description (including the article on Surface) and nanotechnology sections. Remember the video is due on March 15...

What we covered in class on Thursday: Vocabulary Quiz + Course book p99

Homework for Tuesday, March 8: Press Review

ICADE:

1º E1: Business English C1:

What we covered in class on Monday: Peer correction of the graph description. Course book p35-40

Homework for Wednesday: All exercises p41-42

What we covered in class on Wednesday: Course book p43-46 + Listening Test.

Homework for Monday, March 7: All exercises p47-49

2º E2: Business English: Communication skills C1

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Press Review + we watched this video on Damien Hirst / studied interesting vocab + course book p91-94 

Homework for Thursday: All exercises p 95 and 96 except the video p96.

What we covered in class on Thursday: Listening Test + Course book p95-97

Homework for Tuesday, March 8: Press Review

Week beginning Monday, February 22

ICAI: 

EPP B2 :

What we covered in class on Monday: 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) or this one (from the 1950's to today). 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 Wednesday: Find other examples online for the words you looked up and write them down.

What we covered in class on Wednesday: We finished the above-mentioned activity + course book p57-60

Homework for Monday, February 29: Exercises 3p61 and 4p62

EPP C1 :

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Press Review + Course book p86-93

Homework for Thursday: Vocabulary practice p94-95

What we covered in class on Thursday: Course book p94-97 

Homework for Tuesday, March 1: Press review

ICADE:

1º E1: Business English C1:

What we covered in class on Monday: Presentations (part 2). Congratulations to all of you!

Homework for Wednesday: Press Review

What we covered in class on Wednesday: Graph language p32-33 + we watched these two videos: T T2 did this exercise: T3 and compiled this document with graph description language.

Homework for Monday, February 29: Write a 150-word short article describing a graph of your choice. Learn the graph language description contained in the document above.

2º E2: Business English: Communication skills C1

What we covered in class on Tuesday:Press Review on retail banking + Course book p60-67

Homework for Thursday: Exercise 5 (Credit Cards and Mortgages) p68 +Crossword puzzle p69

What we covered in class on Thursday: Course book p71-76

Homework for Tuesday, March 1: Press Review + exercises 1 and 2 p77-78

Week beginning Monday, February 15

ICAI: 

EPP B2 :

What we covered in class on Monday: Elevator pitches + Course book p55

Homework for Wednesday: Press Review + finish the crosswords p55.

What we covered in class on Wednesday: Press review + Course book p55-56 

Homework for Monday, February 22: No homework, have a good weekend :) 

EPP C1 :

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Press Review + course book p77-80

Homework for Thursday: Writing p81

What we covered in class on Thursday: Course book p82-85

Homework for Tuesday, February 23: Press Review. 
If you failed to attend our class, make sure you team up with your classmates (groups of 5 max) for the presentation/video due on March 15.

ICADE:

1º E1: Business English C1:

What we covered in class on Monday: Press Review + course book p18-25

Homework for Wednesday: Finish your presentations!

What we covered in class on Wednesday: Presentations (part 1)

Homework for Monday: finish your presentations + Press Review

2º E2: Business English: Communication skills C1

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Quiz + Press review + course book p42-44 + second stage of last week's activity.

Homework for Thursday: Put your answers to the above-mentioned activity in writing.

What we covered in class on Thursday: We did stage 2 of the above-mentioned activity + course book p44 + 53 + 59

Homework for Tuesday: Press Review on retail banking: find an article related in some way to the retail banking field.  

3º E4: International Business Differences and Market Research

What we covered in class on Monday:

Homework for Friday:

What we covered in class on Friday: 

Homework for Monday:

Week beginning Monday, February 8

ICAI: 

EPP B2 :

What we covered in class on Wednesday: Elevator pitches part 1

Homework for Monday, February 15: Press Review + If you haven't done your elevator pitch yet, work on it! 

EPP C1 :

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Homework correction + Press review + activity based on a video by The Economist

Homework for Thursday: No homework

What we covered in class on Thursday: Speaking part of the above-mentioned activity + course book p75-77

Homework for Tuesday, February 16: Press review

ICADE:

1º E1: Business English C1:

What we covered in class on Wednesday: We worked on the presentations.

Homework for Monday, February 15: Press Review (presentations are due on Wednesday Feb. 17 and will be worth 20% of this semester's continuous assessment so make sure you put a lot of effort into them)

2º E2: Business English:Communication Skills 

What we covered in class on Tuesday: We finished last week's activity + course book p31-33

Homework for Thursday: Learn all the concepts we covered on Mergers and Acquisitions

What we covered in class on Thursday: Course book p33-35 + 41 + 3-stage activity based on an article by The Economist. More info on Poison Pills

Homework for Tuesday, February 16: All exercises p42-43 + Press Review + revise the merger and acquisition / sources of finance concepts for the quiz. Bring today's activity with you, we'll do the second part in class.

Week beginning Monday, February 1

ICAI: 

EPP B2 :

What we covered in class on Monday: Course book p51-52 + we introduced the concept of an elevator pitch and watched this example.

Homework for Wednesday: Learn the product description vocabulary, watch the example above again and find a (revolutionary?) idea for your own elevator pitch . 

What we covered in class on Wednesday: Each student wrote their own elevator pitch. 

Homework for Wednesday, February 10: Proofread your elevator pitch (or write it if you failed to attend today's class.....) and be prepared to present your product to the class.

EPP C1 :

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Course book p61-69

Homework for Thursday: Error-correcting exercise p70

What we covered in class on Thursday: Course book p70-73

Homework for Tuesday, February, 9: Error-correction exercise p74 + Press Review.

ICADE:

1º E1: Business English C1:

What we covered in class on Monday: Press review + Course book p16-17 + worksheet 1.2 + first stage of an activity based on a special report by The Economist. 

Homework for Wednesday: If you failed to attend today's class, make sure you complete the above-mentioned worksheet and hand it in on Wednesday. For the rest of the class: Exercises 1 and 2 p18.

What we covered in class on Wednesday: We continued the activity based on The Economist's special report on generation Y. Here it is. 

Homework for Wednesday, February 10: You did great today so enjoy the long weekend :) Next class will be entirely devoted to the presentation so make sure there is at least one laptop per group. The layout of your presentation will be particularly taken into account so make sure you give it special attention. Remember what went wrong in your first presentation so that you don't make the same mistake(s) twice :)

2º E2: Business English:Communication Skills 

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Press Review + Course book p20-28 (Well done people! :) Handout on business structures 

Homework for Thursday: No homework

What we covered in class on Thursday: Course book p29-30 + communication files p47+50 + activity based on a video by The Economist

Homework for Tuesday, February: Course book p48 and 51, watch the videos on moodle and follow the instructions + answer the questions contained in the speaking part of the above-mentioned activity. NO press review.