martes, 29 de marzo de 2016

Week beginning Monday, March 28

ICAI: 

EPP B2 :

What we covered in class on Wednesday: Writings were handed in. Course book p74-77
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Homework for Monday, April 4th: If you failed to attend our class send me your writing per email before tomorrow 12.00 noon. For the rest of the class: vocab exercise p77

EPP C1 :

What we covered in class on Tuesday: We introduced the concept of an elevator pitch, watched this very good example and worked on our individual elevator pitches (due on April 12th).

Homework for Thursday: Press Review

What we covered in class on Thursday: Press Review + Listening test + John Oliver video on Donald Trump

Homework for Tuesday, April 5th: Work on your elevator pitch

ICADE:

1º E1: Business English C1:

What we covered in class on Wednesday: Writings were handed in. Course book p72-77. If you're interested, here is a relatively good video on financial statements (the guy has a couple of other accounting videos that are pretty good too) that should make up for my shortcomings in that area ;)

Homework for Monday, April 4:  Those of you who did not attend our class have to send me their writing per email this afternoon or else they'll get a zero. Press Review

2º E2: Business English: Communication skills C1

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Course book p105-108 + we watched this video on rating agencies + vocab revision

Homework for Thursday: Those of you who did not attend our class should update our quizlet page (please make sure you don't make any mistakes). Learn all the vocabulary we covered this semester (cf Quizlet).

What we covered in class on Thursday: Vocab quiz + course book p109-111 + Last week tonight on Donald Trump.

Homework for Tuesday Press Review  

lunes, 14 de marzo de 2016

Week beginning March 14


ICAI: 

EPP B2 :

What we covered in class on Monday: Press review + review of organisational structures + Siemens organisational chart + course book p69-73 (including this video)

Homework for Wednesday: Review all the vocabulary of unit 5 so far.

What we covered in class on Wednesday: activity based on a video by The Economist Films.

Homework for Wednesday, March 31 : Write a 200-word company/product description about one of the ventures described in the video. Make sure you use most of the vocab we covered in class (course book + activity above)

EPP C1 :

What we covered in class on Tuesday:Presentations / videos. Well done people!! :)

Homework for Thursday: Presentations / videos part 2


What we covered in class on Thursday: Presentations / videos part 2 + we viewed this video.

Homework for Tuesday, March 29: No homework :) Enjoy the holiday!

ICADE:

1º E1: Business English C1:

What we covered in class on Monday: Press Review + course book p52-53 + 65-66

Homework for Wednesday: Finish exercises p66-67

What we covered in class on Wednesday: Course book p68-70 + activity based on a video by The Economist Films.

Homework for Wednesday March 30: Write a review (250-350 words) on something you've seen or read (you can use the video we viewed in class). Here is a very good review of a TV series to draw inspiration from. 
The normal structure of a review is as follows: 
  -Title/type of film/short introduction of the topic
  -Plot summary 
  -Overall impression
  -Opinion in detail, acting, music, direction...
  -Recommendation
A good idea would be to identify these structural elements in the review above before you start writing yours.

2º E2: Business English: Communication skills C1

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Press review + course book p103 and worksheet 7.1 p165 + vocabulary revision: we opened a quizlet account with the following login: edosicade and password (Paz's nickname followed by 1234). Quizlet

Homework for Thursday: Carmen is updating "Here comes Superboss", I want the rest of the class to update the other 3 study sets (3 or 4 words per person?) 
LAST-MINUTE MESSAGE: Except Carmen, nobody has done anything on Quizlet, you've got an hour and a half... ;)

What we covered in class on Thursday: activity based on a video by The Economist Films.

Homework for Tuesday March 29: Write a review (200-250 words) on something you've seen or read (you can use the video we viewed in class). Here is a very good review of a TV series to draw inspiration from. 
The normal structure of a review is as follows: 
  -Title/type of film/short introduction of the topic
  -Plot summary 
  -Overall impression
  -Opinion in detail, acting, music, direction...
  -Recommendation
A good idea would be to identify these structural elements in the review above before you start writing yours.

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:



lunes, 7 de marzo de 2016

Week beginning Monday, March 7

ICAI: 

EPP B2 :

What we covered in class on Monday: Press Review + course book p63-65

Homework for Wednesday: Exercises p66-67

What we covered in class on Wednesday: Homework correction + Listening Test

Homework for Monday, March 14: Press Review

EPP C1 :

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Press Review + course book p99 (writing + peer-correction)

Homework for Thursday: Work on your presentations/videos (due next Tuesday...)

What we covered in class on Thursday: We worked on the presentations/videos. 

Homework for Tuesday, March 15: Finish your presentations/videos. Please remember that the mark will account for at least 25% of this semester's continuous assessment...

ICADE:

1º E1: Business English C1:

What we covered in class on Monday: Homework correction + Stage 1 of an activity based on an article by The Economist

Homework for Wednesday: Stages 2 and 3 of the activity above.

What we covered in class on Wednesday: We finished the above-mentioned activity and extended the debate :)

Homework for Monday, March 14: Press Review

2º E2: Business English: Communication skills C1

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Press Review + stage 1 of an activity based on an article by The Economist

Homework for Thursday: Stages 2 and 3 of the activity above.

What we covered in class on Thursday: We fiished the above-mentioned activity + course book p98-101 + graph language

Homework for Tuesday, March 15: Press review + exercises p101 and 102