Week beginning Monday, January 7, 2019

I MISCELLANEOUS:

First things first, I wish you all a blissful 2019!! :)

Here are the final grades for Semester I:

BECS 2ºE2-E4

ICAI Comm Skills

3ºE4

ICAI C2.2

Revisión de examen for all groups on Thursday, January 10, ICADE room E-001 from 11:30 to 13:00

ICADE annual courses: Those of you who failed the final exam but passed the continuous evaluation, make sure you arrive early on day 1 next week so that we can have a quick chat.

IMPORTANT: NEW CLASSROOMS:

3ºE4 Monday + Friday 10:30-12:30 --> E-005

2ºE2 BECS 

     Tuesday 12:30-14:30 --> O-207
     Thursday 12:30-14:30 --> E-002

ICAI C2.1 Monday + Friday 12:30-14:30 --> ICAI 301

II NORMAL CLASS BLOG:

ICAI C2.1:

What we did in class on Friday, January 11 2018: Course introduction + activity based on science and technology news stories of 2018 + New Year's resolutions. Nature article
Guardian article on New Year's resolutions

Homework for Monday, January 14: Get the course materials! The booklet is available from the photocopy desk and here is its title: Diploma en competencias comunicativas y estudios en lenguas extranjeras / Inglés C2.1 Materiales para el Aula 2018-2019 + Press review:

Read an article from the following sources (exclusively) and write a 100/150-word summary (bullet points will do too) in order to be able to explain its contents to your classmates the following Monday.

The Economist

The New Yorker

The Washington Post

The Guardian / The Observer

The New York Times

The Independent

The Times

Nature (make sure the author(s) of the article are English native speakers)

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