Week beginning Monday, April 11

ICAI: 

EPP B2 :

What we covered in class on Monday: Course book p81 (group writing) 

Homework for Wednesday: No homework

What we covered in class on Wednesday: We do have class at 15:00 as usual, your meeting has been rescheduled and will not overlap with our class. Course book p82-84

Homework for Monday, April 18: Review the following graph description language + Press Review

EPP C1 :

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Elevator pitches

Homework for Thursday: No homework

What we covered in class on Thursday: 5 elevator pitches instead of 15... I'm still weighing up whether to let the remaining 10 students do their elevator pitch next Tuesday... Make sure you come to class!

Homework for Tuesday, April: Press Review

ICADE:

1º E1: Business English C1:

What we covered in class on Monday: Press Review + course book p92-94 + We watched this video 

Homework for Wednesday, April 13: No homework

What we covered in class on Wednesday: Course book p94-95 (the last paraphrasing exercise p95 was handed in and will count as a worksheet)

Homework for Monday, April 18: Press Review. 

2º E2: Business English: Communication skills C1

What we covered in class on Tuesday: We started a project based on a dossier on Millennials by The Economist. Another task has been added to stage 5 of the above-mentioned project: you have to write a survey on the topic you were assigned, carry it out and analyse the results. If you failed to attend our class you should team up with your classmates as soon as possible. Here is an interesting summary of signposting or presentation language. Group presentations are due on April 21st.

Homework for Thursday: Work on your presentations. Please bring your laptops on Thursday!

What we covered in class on Thursday: We worked on the presentations.
Check out ICADE/ICAI Finance & Investment Society's new webpage!

Homework for Tuesday, April 19: Press Review + work on your presentations.

Sub class. Jonathan.

Website 1
Website 2
Website 3

Week beginning Monday, April 4

ICAI: 

EPP B2 :

What we covered in class on Monday: Course book p77-80

Homework for Wednesday, April 6: no homework.

What we covered in class on Wednesday: Writings were handed out, Q&A session, Error correction activity. Here is the document we compiled.

Homework for Monday, April 11: Re-write your company descriptions taking my corrections into account. Read the document above.

EPP C1 :

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Course Book p101+111-112.

Homework for Thursday: No homework

What we covered in class on Thursday: Listening+reading comprehension activity based on an article by The Economist. 

Homework for Tuesday, April 12: Answer the reading comprehension questions from the above-mentioned activity + elevator pitch 

ICADE:

1º E1: Business English C1:

What we covered in class on Monday: Press Review. Writings were handed in. We finished unit 3. You will get an additional half mark if you apply my corrections and rewrite your reviews. 

Homework for Wednesday, April 6: Unit 4: Finish the reading exercise p87-88.  

What we covered in class on Wednesday: Course book p88-91 (we also reviewed this)

Homework for Monday, April 11: Press Review

2º E2: Business English: Communication skills C1

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Course book p112-117 + we watched the first episode of a BBC mini series called The Guilty.

Homework for Thursday: No homework

What we covered in class on Thursday: Error correction activity. Here is the document we compiled. We finished the course book! Make sure you come to class next week, we'll start a very interesting -and compulsory- group project.

Homework for Tuesday Press Review 

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  

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:

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

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