Week beginning Monday, January 23

ICADE:

4º E4

New classrooms semester 2:  Tuesday: O-312 Wednesday: E-006

What we covered in class on Tuesday, January 24: Quiz + Course book p101-103

Homework for Wednesday, January 25: Buy the booklet for semester 2 (as indicated below BUT YOU DON'T NEED TO BRING IT ALONG AT THIS STAGE, WE WILL FINISH OUR CURRENT BOOKLET ON WEDNESDAY + do a follow-up activity) and do exercises p103-104 (except D)

Inglés IV

COMPANY PERFORMANCE

ENGLISH FOR FINANCE AND INVESTMENT

4ºE4 – Tercer idioma

(Segundo cuatrimestre)

Curso 2016-2017

What we covered in class on Wednesday, January 25: We finished the lesson on IPOs (course book p104-105) and did a 3-stage activity based on an article by The Economist.

Homework for Tuesday, January 31: Finish answering the questions and learn the vocabulary of the above-mentioned activity along with the lesson on IPOs.

2ºE2  

New classroom semester 2 Tuesday and Thursday: O-102

What we covered in class on Tuesday, January 24: Press Review + course book p5-8

Homework for Thursday, January 26: Learn the vocab related to the "Superboss" activity + the characteristics of a Sole Trader and the abbreviations we saw.

What we covered in class on Thursday, January 26: Quiz + Course book p10-13 

Homework for Tuesday, January 31: Press review

ICAI:

3º/4º EPP C1

What we covered in class on Tuesday, January 24: Press Review + Course book p58-59 including the assessed writing skill.

Homework for Thursday, January 26: No homework. If you failed to attend our Tuesday class, do the writing task p59 and hand it in on Thursday.

What we covered in class on Thursday, January 26: Course book p60-61 + introduction to the British degree grading structure + related article. 

Homework for Tuesday, January 31: Press review

1º B2.1

What we covered in class on Monday, January 23: Press review + homework correction + we reviewed This presentation / signpost language + speaking activity + we viewed this video on How to avoid death by Powerpoint

Homework for Friday, January: Work on your presentations! Reemember, they are due on Monday, January 30.

What we covered in class on Friday, January 27: Course book p7-11 (first half)

Homework for Monday, January 30: Presentations. 

Week beginning Monday, January 16

ICADE:

4º E4
New classrooms semester 2:  Tuesday (today): O-312 Wednesday: E-006

What we covered in class on Tuesday, January 17: 3-stage activity based on an article by The Economist.

Homework for Wednesday, January 18: Learn the vocabulary of the above-mentioned activity

What we covered in class on Wednesday, January 18: Course book p99-100 including these two texts: LTD PLC

Homework for Tuesday, January 24: Learn all the vocabulary from the "Superboss" activity + today's lesson on Public and Private limited companies. Do exercises p101 and 102 -except C- (it will help you learn your lesson on the characteristics of PLCs and LTDs)

2ºE2  
New classroom semester 2 Tuesday and Thursday: O-102

What we covered in class on Tuesday, January 17:  3-stage activity based on an article by The Economist.

Homework for Thursday, January 19: Start learning the vocabulary of the above-mentioned activity

What we covered in class on Thursday, January 19: Course book (second semester!) p1-5 (we stopped just before the video t)

Homework for Tuesday, January 24: Purchase the book for semester 2! Press review. 

ICAI:

3º/4º EPP C1

What we covered in class on Tuesday, January 17: Press review + speaking part of last week's activity

Homework for Thursday, January 19: Learn the vocab of the activity in question

What we covered in class on Thursday, January 19: Course book p56-57

Homework for Tuesday, January 24: Press Review + finish the "write logically" exercise p57

Here is an interesting tutorial on parallel structures + good exercises: 1 and 2

1º B2.1

What we covered in class on Monday, January 16: We finished the above-mentioned activity + watched this video on the power of introverts + started the B2.1 booklet (p1-4)

Homework for Friday, January 20: Read this article by The BBC on the #Ilooklikeanengineer case we discussed in class.  

What we covered in class on Friday, January 20: Booklet p5-6, we watched this video and started working on presentations due on January 30th. Each group has to find an invention they find particularly striking in a given decade and present it along these lines: Historical background, problem that needs solving, information on the inventor(s), how they came up with the idea etc. + impact and consequences on society as a whole. You will have to compile the information from at least 3 different sources which you will identify at the end of the presentation. You CANNOT plagiarise and will have to paraphrase everything. These are the decades assigned so far. You may choose another decade or join an existing group if you failed to come to class today.

Homework for Monday, January 23: Press review + finish reading the text p6 ("The challenges of engineering today") and try to deduce/infer the meaning of the words you don't understand using the technique we covered today.

Week beginning Monday, January 9

HAPPY 2017 TO ALL OF YOU :)

4º E4

HERE ARE THE FINAL GRADES FOR SEMESTER 1

Revisión de examen el jueves 12 de enero de 13:30 a 15:00 en la sala de profesores del Instituto de Idiomas (Icade, ala Este, sótano).

IMPORTANT: THERE'S BEEN A ROOM CHANGE FOR OUR WEDNESDAY CLASS:

TUESDAYS: O-312
WEDNESDAYS: E-006

See you on Tuesday!

3º E4 

HERE ARE THE FINAL GRADES FOR SEMESTER 1

Revisión de examen el jueves 12 de enero de 13:30 a 15:00 en la sala de profesores del Instituto de Idiomas (Icade, ala Este, sótano).

2ºE2 / E4 

HERE ARE THE FINAL GRADES FOR SEMESTER 1

Revisión de examen el jueves 12 de enero de 13:30 a 15:00 en la sala de profesores del Instituto de Idiomas (Icade, ala Este, sótano).

ICAI 

3º/4º C1

HERE ARE THE RESULTS OF THE FINAL EXAM (SEMESTER 1)

Please bear in mind that the final grades may vary (upwards or downwards) according to the continuous evaluation marks that will be calculated after this afternoon's (Tues. January 10) last round of interviews.

Revisión de examen el jueves 12 de enero de 13:30 a 15:00 en la sala de profesores del Instituto de Idiomas (Icade, ala Este, sótano).

What we covered in class on Thursday, January 12: 3-stage activity based on a video (Gear Shift) by The Economist Films. 

Homework for Monday, January 16: If you haven't attended today's class, view the above-mentioned video. Press review

B2.1

What we covered in class on Friday, January 13: 3-stage vocabulary-enhancing activity based on an article by The Economist.

Homework for Monday, January 16: Exercise 2 from the above-mentioned activity + Press Review: read an article from the following sources and write a short summary or take notes on the main ideas and supporting details of the text:

The Guardian / The Observer

The NY Times

The New Yorker

The Times

The Independent

The Telegraph

The Economist

Week beginning Monday, November 28

4º E4

What we covered on Tuesday, November 29: Press Review + We finished last week's activity + Writings were handed out + error-correction

Homework for Wednesday, November 30: Complete the correction of your summaries.

What we covered on Wednesday, November 30: Revision

Homework for Tuesday, November: EXAM 

3º E4 

What we covered in class on Monday, November 28: Presentations

Homework for Friday, December 2: No homework

What we covered in class on Friday, December 2: Presentations + revision

Homework for Monday, December 5: Review everything we covered in the course book plus the following supplementary activities:
Mad Men
Conditionals
Management training
Subjunctive
Error correction 2
E-sports
How to write a good summary
Report writing activity
Shareholder activism
Error correction 1

2ºE2 / E4 

What we covered in class on Tuesday, November 29: Presentations

Homework for Thursday, December 1: Start reviewing all the vocab from our supplementary activities.

What we covered in class on Thursday, December 1: Presentations

Good luck with the exam

ICAI 3º/4º C1
THIS SEMESTER'S FINAL EXAM WILL TAKE PLACE ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1:
Review all the content of the book until page 52 + the vocabulary contained in these 2 supplementary activities: Introverts vs Extroverts + Solar frontiers (the rest will not form part of the exam) + this error-correction activity

The remaining job interviews will take place on the first day of class, i.e. January 10. Make sure you come to class if you haven't done the interview yet.

Week beginning Monday, November 21

4º E4

What we covered on Tuesday, November 22: Interviews + Listening test + course book p73

Homework for Wednesday, November 23: Read the theory and do the following exercise.

What we covered on Wednesday, November 23:  Course book p83-85 + we started an activity based on a video by The Economist Films.

Homework for Tuesday, November 29: Press Review 


3º E4 

What we covered in class on Monday, November 21: Error-correction activity

Homework for Friday, November 25: Work on your presentations. Cécile found this fantastic piece by The Economist on Populism and Nationalism around the world! A brilliant synthesis of all your presentations. Make sure you review the error-correction document above...

What we covered in class on Friday, November 25: 3-stage activity based on an article by The Economist

Homework for Monday, November 28: Finish your projects/presentations

2ºE2 / E4 
IMPORTANT MESSAGE: MAKE SURE YOU BRING YOUR LAPTOPS WITH YOU ON TUESDAY. THANKS.

What we covered in class on Tuesday, November 22: We worked on the final projects.

Homework for Thursday, November 24: No homework.

What we covered in class on Thursday, November 24: 3-stage activity based on an article by The Economist.

Homework for Tuesday, November 29: Start learning the vocabulary from the above-mentioned activity. Finish your presentations.

ICAI 3º/4º C1

Personal job interviews: schedule for the coming weeks (remember you have to bring a job advert with you)

November 17: Enrique, Javier Olavarría, Carmen, Javier de la Pinta, Pablo, Mónica, Carlos Tapia. 
November 22: Conchita, Gloria, Pedregal, Muniozguren, Requesens, Rocio, Marian. 

November 24: Ripoll, Bea, Claudia, Daniel, Jaime Ruiz Quirante, Alejandro, José 

November 29: Whoever wants to do it before Christmas! The remaining interviews will take place on the first day of class, i.e. January 10.

THIS SEMESTER'S FINAL EXAM WILL TAKE PLACE ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1.

Week beginning Monday, November 14

4º E4
IMPORTANT MESSAGE: ON WEDNESDAY OUR CLASS (INTERVIEWS) WILL BEGIN AT 11H AND END AT 13H DUE TO THE "ACCENTURE PRIZE" EVENT

What we covered on Tuesday, November 15: Interviews

Homework for Wednesday, November 16: no homework. Interviews part 2!

Homework for Tuesday, November 22: Write a 350/450-word summary of this article (make sure you use your own words) NO PRESS REVIEW   How to write a good summary 

IMPORTANT MESSAGE: NEXT TUESDAY OUR CLASS WILL ALSO BEGIN AT 11:00 SINCE I WILL BE DOING THE REMAINING 3 INTERVIEWS WITH Amélie, Lucas and Robin from 10:30 to 11:00.
So Amélie, Robin and Lucas, please be there at 10h30 as usual 

3º E4 

What we covered in class on Monday, November 14: Course book p80-90 + 10 commandments of good survey questions + activity on report writing

Homework for Friday, November 18: scroll down to previous week. Summary writing.
Final project: you'll find all the information here (due date: 28th of November).

Make sure you bring your laptop on Friday!!

What we covered in class on Friday, November 18: Team work on final projects.

Homework for Monday, November 21: Press Review

2ºE2 / E4 

What we covered in class on Tuesday, November 15: Course book p87-93. Here is what you're expected to do for the final project. Due date: November 29.

Homework for Thursday, November 17: review all the technical jargon we covered on Tuesday + Exercises p91

What we covered in class on Thursday, November 17: Course book p94-97 + tutorial on the subjunctive (including this exercise) + Briefing activity based on the following video + started working on the final project,

Homework for Tuesday, November 22: Review the subjunctive + work on your projects. NO PRESS REVIEW.
This is a very good -but sadly very long- lecture on what a brief should convey. 
Here is another very good -and short ;)- video on what makes a briefing effective.

ICAI 3º/4º C1

What we covered in class on Tuesday, November 15: course book p50-52 including this video

Personal job interviews: schedule for the coming weeks (remember you have to bring a job advert with you)

November 17: Enrique, Javier Olavarría, Carmen, Javier de la Pinta, Pablo, Mónica, Carlos Tapia. 
November 22: Conchita, Gloria, Pedregal, Muniozguren, Requesens, Rocio, Marian. 

November 24: Ripoll, Bea, Claudia, Daniel, Jaime Ruiz Quirante, Alejandro, José 

THIS SEMESTER'S FINAL EXAM WILL TAKE PLACE ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1.

Week beginning Monday, November 7

4º E4

What we covered on Tuesday, November 8: Course book p58-66 + video on interview tips
T
Homework for Tuesday, November 15: Choose a job ad / master's degree brochure, and bring it along --> Job interview. Read/work on p68-79 + watch the following video

Tuesday: Margaux

Charlotte

Marie

Juliette

Jean-Baptiste

Pauline

Florian

Julie

Irene

Adélie

Wednesday: Camille

Adélie

Laury

Elena

Lucas

Marie-Hélène

Anaïs

Amélie

Magali

Cristina

3º E4 

What we covered in class on Monday, November 7: Press Review + Vocabulary quiz + Review of the possessive case + corresponding exercise. Phrasal verbs: here is a website where you can review the most common ones and do some exercises.

Homework for Friday, November 11: Review the subjunctive.

What we covered in class on Friday, November 11: Listening test + course book p74-79
T
Homework for Monday, November 14: No homework and NO Press Review see homework below for Friday, November 18.

Homework for Friday, November 18: Write a 300/400 word summary of the article I gave you in class (here it is again) using these rules.
T

2ºE2 / E4 

What we covered in class on Tuesday, November 8: Course book p72-76.
Order of adjectives (thanks Nico!):

N O Si A Sh C O M P

Number / Opinion / Size / Age / Shape / Colour / Origin / Material / Purpose 

Homework for Thursday, November 10: U3 Progress Check: exercise 1 p81 + the following exercise on adjective order

What we covered in class on Thursday, November 10: Course book p83-86 (slogans) + activity on slogans

Homework for Tuesday, November 15: Press review

ICAI 3º/4º C1

What we covered in class on Tuesday, November 8: Course book p45-48
T
Homework for Thursday, November 10: No homework, enjoy the bank holiday :)

What we covered in class on Thursday, November 10: Course book p48-50 (lead in) + we watched this video on interview preparation

Homework for Tuesday, November 15: Press review