lunes, 7 de septiembre de 2015

Week beginning Monday, September 7


ICAI: 

EPP B2 :

What we covered in class on Monday: Course -and weekly press review- introduction + 2-stage activity on 2 articles by The Guardian.

Homework for Wednesday: 

1. Buy the book:
English for Professional Purposes 3º/4ºIEM/ITL - Nivel B2 Curso: 2015-2016

 2. Watch the following video and answer these questions:

Which points from the articles does Debbie mention?
Do you agree with her?
Do you think her idea will indeed inspire the next generation of female engineers?

What we covered in class on Wednesday: Course book p3-4 (except the Reading)

Homework for Monday, September 14: Press review, i.e. select and read an article from the following sources: The Economist, The Times, The NY Times, FT, The Guardian, The Independent, The New Yorker, Nature, National Geographic + take notes on the main points & supporting details of the article.

EPP C1 :

What we covered in class on Tuesday: We watched this video and answered these questions:

Which points from last week's articles does Debbie mention?
Do you agree with her?
Do you think her idea will indeed inspire the next generation of female engineers?

Homework for Thursday: Buy the book: English for Professional Purposes (3ºIEM - 3º ITL) - NIVEL C. Curso 2015-2016.

What we covered in class on Thursday: Course book p1-2

Homework for Tuesday, September 15: Press review, i.e. select and read an article from the following sources: The Economist, The Times, The NY Times, FT, The Guardian, The Independent, The New Yorker, Nature, National Geographic + take notes on the main points & supporting details of the article.

ICADE:

1º E1: Business English C1:

What we covered in class on Monday: Course -and weekly press review- introduction + 3-stage activity based on 2 articles by The Economist. Here is the second article 

Homework for Wednesday: Buy the book: Business English (Part 1) 1ºE1 Nivel C (Primer Cuatrimestre)

What we covered in class on Wednesday: Creative writing activity based on a fictitious character named Anthony...

Homework for Monday: BUY THE BOOK... ;) + Press review (don't forget to bring along today's script on Anthony), i.e. select and read an article from the following sources: The Economist, The Times, The NY Times, FT, The Guardian, The Independent, The New Yorker + take notes on the main points & supporting details of the article.

2º E2: Business English: Communication skills C1

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Course book p1-7

Homework for Thursday: Read this article on Apple's new I-phone event (the video is also interesting if you want to watch it) and take notes.

What we covered in class on Thursday: We viewed this video and analysed what makes a video effective/popular + did a follow-up marketing activity based on finding rating parameters. Course book p7-8


Homework for Tuesday: Press review + ex. 5 p.8 and 6 p.9. Btw: here is the article we talked about in class.

3º E4: International Business Differences and Market Research

What we covered in class on Monday: Course -and weekly press review- introduction + 3-stage activity based on 2 articles by The Economist. Here is the second article 

Homework for Friday: Buy the book (if you haven't done so already):
INGLÉS III INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS DIFFERENCES AND MARKET RESEARCH
3ºE4 TERCER IDIOMA. CURSO 2015-2016. 

What we covered in class on Friday: Course book p3-7 +32-34

Homework for Monday: Press review, i.e. select and read an article from the following sources: The Economist, The Times, The NY Times, FT, The Guardian, The Independent, The New Yorker + take notes on the main points & supporting details of the article.


lunes, 31 de agosto de 2015

Week beginning Monday, August 31.

This will be your blog for this academic year!
A warm welcome to all of you!

Here is how it works:

ICAI: 

EPP B2 :

What we covered in class on Monday:

Homework for Wednesday:

What we covered in class on Wednesday:

Homework for Monday:

EPP C1 :

What we covered in class on Tuesday:

Homework for Thursday:

What we covered in class on Thursday: Course introduction + Activity based on 2 articles from The Guardian.

Homework for Tuesday: Buy the book: English for Professional Purposes (3ºIEM - 3º ITL) - NIVEL C. Curso 2015-2016.

AND: watch the following video and answer these questions:

Which points from the articles does Debbie mention?

Do you agree with her?


Do you think her idea will indeed inspire the next generation of female engineers?


ICADE:

1º E1: Business English C1:

What we covered in class on Monday:

Homework for Wednesday:

What we covered in class on Wednesday: 

Homework for Monday:

2º E2: Business English: Communication skills C1

What we covered in class on Tuesday: 

Homework for Thursday: 

What we covered in class on Thursday: Course introduction + We did a 3-stage activity based on 2 articles by The Economist.

Homework for Tuesday:  Buy the book: Business English: 
Communication Skills (Part 1) 2º ADE (E2/E4) 
Nivel B2/C (Primer cuatrimestre) Curso: 2015-2016
AND: Press review: find an article from the following sources: The Economist, The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, The New York Times, FT, The New Yorker and write a short summary of the article (100 words max).

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:


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.