Week beginning Monday March 19

ICAI:

C2.1:

What we did on Monday, March 19: Press review + course book p45-48

Homework for Friday, March 23: finish the exercise p48

What we did in class on Friday, March 23: Creative writing activity (Thanks a zillion to Javier, Manuel and Daniel, I had a fantastic time!! :)

Homework for Friday, April 6: Assessed assignment 4 and... finish the exercise p48.

HAVE A GREAT EASTER HOLIDAY :)

ICADE: 

4º E4

What we covered in class on Tuesday, March 20: Booklet p37-41

Homework for Thursday, March 22: Assessed assignment 5 p41

What we covered in class on Thursday, March 22: Vocab revision + We did Assignment 5 p41 together. Here it is.

Homework for Tuesday, April 3: Review all the vocabulary we've covered so far. Have a great Easter holiday!! :)

3º E4 :

What we covered in class on Monday, March 19: Presentations and Press Review

Homework for Friday, March 23: no homework

What we covered in class on Friday, March 23: Creative writing activity based on the vocabulary from Quizlet 1 (Amazon) and Quizlet 2 (Diversity speech)

Homework for Friday, April 6: Learn all the vocabulary we've covered so far this semester, both in the book AND in the following supplementary activities: Quizlet 1 (Amazon), Quizlet 2 (Diversity speech)   Here is the vocabulary on Foxconn / Apple, Paraphrasing + extra cause-effect vocab (the rest is in the book). Graph description language. 

HAVE A GREAT EASTER HOLIDAY :)

2ºE2 / E4 

What we covered in class on Tuesday, March 20: Book Club

Homework for Thursday, March 22: No homework

What we covered in class on Thursday, March 22: Activity on diversity based on a speech by actor Riz Ahmed. Here is a quizlet to help you learn the vocab in question :)

Homework for Tuesday, April 3: Read Shoe Dog (75 pages or another 20%) and work on your presentations! Have a great Easter Holiday!! :)

Week beginning Monday, March 12

ICAI:

C2.1:
What we did on Monday, March 12: Press review + speeches + we worked on our presentations

Homework for Friday, March 19: Watch the following Ted Talk on effective Powerpoint presentations.

What we did in class on Friday, March 16: Speeches + we worked on our presentations

Homework for Monday, March 19: Press review (bring your booklets along, we will NOT work on the presentations)

Assessed assignment 4, due date: 6th of April


ICADE: 

4º E4

What we covered in class on Tuesday, March 13: Booklet p33-35 including the following video.

Homework for Thursday, March 15: Review inversions

What we covered in class on Thursday, March 15: Albane and I worked on her cover letter ;)

Homework for Tuesday, March 12: Press review

3º E4 :

What we covered in class on Monday, March 12: Quizz + we finished the Paraphrasing and Apple activities. Here is our white board.
Presentations: the following companies were chosen
Adidas
Toms
Phenix
Salesforce
Patagonia

Homework for Friday, March 16: Start working on your presentations + start learning the vocabulary from the Apple activity.

What we covered in class on Friday, March 16: We did an activity based on the speech Riz Ahmed gave to the British members of parliament on diversity. We'll finish correcting the vocab on Monday. Here is our white board with the first part.

Homework for Monday, March 19: Press review + Presentations

2ºE2 / E4 

What we covered in class on Tuesday, March 13: Book club including a review-writing activity.

Homework for Thursday, March 15: No homework

What we covered in class on Thursday, March 15: we worked on the presentations (assignment 4 from the "Apple / Foxconn" activity. Due date: Tuesday April 10

Homework for Tuesday, March 20: Shoe Dog book club: read until page 150 and fill out the What/So what/Now what form

Week beginning Monday, March 5

ICAI:

C2.1:
What we did on Monday, March 5 : Press review + course book p38-42

Homework for Friday, March 9: Assignment 3 p36 + review the vocab mentioned in last week's entry (test) + read the rest of the article here and take notes (as indicated p42)

What we did in class on Friday, March 9: Speeches + Quiz + Course book p43 + students browsed the internet and chose the company they will do their presentation on (assessed assignment 4)

Homework for Monday, March 12: Press review. Assessed assignment 4, due date: 6th of April
Ecosia and Ecoalf have already been chosen.

ICADE: 

4º E4

What we covered in class on Tuesday, March 6: vocab revision + course book p29

Homework for Thursday, March 8: No homework

What we covered in class on Thursday, March 8: we decided to do assessed assignment 4 p29, due date Thursday, March 15. Course book p31-32
Inés chose Fairphone
Albane chose 727sailbags

Homework for Tuesday, March 12: Press review
3º E4 :

What we covered in class on Monday, March 5: Course book p71-78 including this activity on paraphrasing. Here is our white board.

Homework for Friday, March 9: Exercises (c) and (d) of the above-mentioned paraphrasing activity (last page). Learn all the cause / effect structures we've seen + the vocab from "Corporate Ambitions" + review all paraphrasing techniques.

What we covered in class on Friday, March 9: Activity based on an article by The Observer on corporate misbehaviour.

Homework for Monday, March 12 : Learn all the cause / effect structures we've seen + the vocab from "Corporate Ambitions" + Exercises (c) and (d) of the above-mentioned paraphrasing activity (last page) + read the second part of the article here and take notes as stated in the activity.

2ºE2 / E4 

What we covered in class on Tuesday, March 6: First part of an activity on corporate misbehaviour based on an article by The Observer.

Homework for Thursday, March 8: Read the second part of the article here and take notes as indicated in the "homework" part of the activity above.

What we covered in class on Thursday, March 8: We finished the above-mentioned activity and held a debate on feminism. We'll talk about Assessed Assignment 4 on Tuesday. Here is an interesting article on the topic by The New Yorker.

Homework for Tuesday, March 13: Buy the book in question (paper or pdf version) and read the first 100 pages then fill out the following template (make sure you include all the words you looked up in the dictionary or at least the ones you liked most in the "what" or "so what" section). This replaces the Press Review activity from now on. 

In class: after thoroughly discussing the contents of the reading sheets each group will write a review on the 100 pages in question and hand it in.

Week beginning Monday February 26

ICAI:

C2.1:

Homework for Monday, March 5 : Press review + LEARN all the vocab we've seen so far in this unit (note: we'll do assignment 3p36 on Friday March 9).
This quizlet will help you test your knowledge on the last two activities :) And here is another one for the Introverts/Extroverts article.

GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR INTERSEMESTRALES!!

ICADE:

4º E4

What we covered in class on Tuesday, February 27: Press review + course book p26-28

Homework for Thursday, March 1: If you didn't attend our class make sure you read the article p27-28 (part 1) and look up the words in bold. Finish part 3 p28, read the second part of the article  and take notes of all the specific examples of corporate misbehaviour mentioned in the article. 

What we covered in class on Thursday, March 1: We analysed the second part of the article in question and put together a comprehensive vocabulary list.

Homework for Tuesday, March 6: Start learning the above-mentioned vocabulary. If you didn't attend our class it might be a good idea to ask Albane to send you her vocab list ;)

3º E4 :

What we covered in class on Monday, Feb 26: Press Review + Course book p65-69 + this graph description language summary.

Homework for Friday, March 2: Finish exercises p68-69 and read the grammar points. Learn all the graph description language we've covered so far. Watch these videos: V1 V2

What we covered in class on Friday, March 2: Quiz + Activity on Amazon (student A  and student B

Homework for Monday, March 5 : Press review + start learning the vocabulary contained in the above-mentioned activity. This should help you test your knowledge.

2ºE2 / E4 

What we covered in class on Tuesday, February 27: Press review + Course book p59-61 + Creative writing activity based on the vocabulary contained in last week's activity

Homework for Thursday, March 1: LEARN the vocabulary in question

What we covered in class on Thursday, March 1: Quiz + Speaking part of the activity on Amazon including this video + we decided to start a book club based on the book: Shoe Dog by Phil Knight

Homework for Tuesday, March 6: Buy the book in question (paper or pdf version) and read the first 50 pages then fill out the following template (make sure you include all the words you looked up in the dictionary or at least the ones you liked most in the "what" or "so what" section). This replaces the Press Review activity from now on. 

In class: after thoroughly discussing the contents of the reading sheets each group will write a review on the 50 pages in question and hand it in.

Week beginning, Monday February 19

ICAI:

C2.1:

What we covered in class on Monday, Feb 19: Press review + course book p34

Homework for Friday, February 23: Start learning all the vocabulary we've covered so far in module II

What we covered in class on Friday, February 23: course book p34-37

Homework for Monday, March 5 : Press review + LEARN all the vocab we've seen so far in this unit (note: we'll do assignment 3p36 on Friday March 9).
This quizlet will help you test your knowledge on the last two activities :) And here is another one for the Introverts/Extroverts article.

GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR INTERSEMESTRALES!!

ICADE:

4º E4

What we covered in class on Tuesday, February 20: Course book p24-25

Homework for Thursday, February 22: Make sure you read the above-mentioned pages if you weren't able to attend our class. 3-min-speech assignment in the book

What we covered in class on Thursday, February 22: Vocabulary revision (Quizlet)

Homework for Tuesday, February 27: Press review 

3º E4 :

What we covered in class on Monday, Feb 19: Course book p51-58

Homework for Friday, February 23: Exercises p59 and 60 (do not hesitate to read the grammar reference p92-93 beforehand)

What we covered in class on Friday, February 23: Course book p61-65
GD V1 V2
Homework for Monday, February : Press review + finish exercises p65

2ºE2 / E4 

What we covered in class on Tuesday, February 20: Press review + Quiz + Course book p41-44

Homework for Thursday, February 22: No homework

What we covered in class on Thursday, February 22: Activity on Amazon's corporate ambitions: student A, student B

Homework for Tuesday, February 27: Press review + start learning the vocabulary in question

Week beginning Monday, February 12

ICAI:

C2.1:

What we covered in class on Monday, Feb 12: Press review + Listening test + wordcloud on unconscious bias + this video (until 24:00) and course book p32

Homework for Friday, February 16: Start learning all the vocabulary we've covered so far in module II

What we covered in class on Friday, February

Homework for Monday, February : Press review

ICADE:

4º E4

What we covered in class on Tuesday, February 13: Press review + error-correction exercise + debate

Homework for Thursday, February February 15: no homework

What we covered in class on Thursday, February 15: Vocab revision+ Listening test + course book p22-24

Homework for Tuesday, February 20: 3-min-speech assignment in the book + look up all the additional words you don't understand in the article "ticking all the right boxes" p22-23.

3º E4 : Next class: Monday, February 19

Prepare your personal interview for the position you are applying for. 

Monday, February 5:
Tristan: 10:30
Tanja: 10:45
Andrea: 11:00
Alejandro: 11:15
Jan-Niklas: 11:30
Noémie: 11:45
Laura: 12:00

Friday February 9:
Duygu: 10:30
Philippine: 10:45
Agathe: 11:00
Lukas: 11:15
Mircea: 11:30
Alexandre Pouy.: 11:45
Laisa: 12:00

Monday, February 12:
Iker: 10:30
Sofía: 10:45
Elisa: 11:00
Alexandre Pass.: 11:15
Diego Ruiz: 11:30
Diego Artaza: 11:45
Philipp Voit: 12:00

Friday, February 16:
Ana Leyún: 10:30
Beatriz Pérez-Solero: 10:45
Claudia Cousteau: 11:00
Victoria Oeller: 11:15
Marta Camiña: 11:30


2ºE2 / E4 

What we covered in class on Tuesday, February 13: 3-stage activity based on an article by The Economist.

Homework for Thursday, February 15: Read the article again and start learning the vocabulary from the above-mentioned activity 

What we covered in class on Thursday, February 15: Course book p31-39
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Homework for Tuesday, February 20: Exercise p41 + Press review + LEARN the vocab related to the activity above AND all the concepts related to mergers and acquisitions p34-39

Week beginning Monday, February 5

ICAI:

C2.1:

What we covered in class on Monday, Feb 5: Press review + error-correction activity based on the mistakes you made in your reports+ course book p28-30 (here is the correction of the vocab-searching part)

Homework for Friday, February 9: Exercises 1 and 2 p30

What we covered in class on Friday, February 9: Course book p30-31 + we watched thisTed Talk and covered the corresponding vocabulary

Homework for Monday, February 12: Press review

ICADE:

4º E4

What we covered in class on Tuesday, February 6: Press review + course book p 20-21
Graph description for Cécile :)

Homework for Thursday, February February 8: Finish your essay! 

What we covered in class on Thursday, February 8: we finished the activity on Riz Ahmed's speech p20-22.

Homework for Tuesday, February 13: Press review

3º E4 

Prepare your personal interview for the position you are applying for. 

Monday, February 5:
Tristan: 10:30
Tanja: 10:45
Andrea: 11:00
Alejandro: 11:15
Jan-Niklas: 11:30
Noémie: 11:45
Laura: 12:00

Friday February 9:
Duygu: 10:30
Philippine: 10:45
Agathe: 11:00
Lukas: 11:15
Mircea: 11:30
Alexandre Pouy.: 11:45
Laisa: 12:00

Monday, February 12:
Iker: 10:30
Sofía: 10:45
Elisa: 11:00
Alexandre Pass.: 11:15
Diego Ruiz: 11:30
Diego Artaza: 11:45
Philipp Voit: 12:00

Friday, February 16:
Ana Leyún: 10:30
Beatriz Pérez-Solero: 10:45
Claudia Cousteau: 11:00
Victoria Oeller: 11:15
Marta Camiña: 11:30


2ºE2 / E4 

What we covered in class on Tuesday, February 6: Press review, homework correction & the following activity on Snapchat:
Group A reads and views this
Group B reads and views this
Group C reads and views this
Each group summarizes in writing the main ideas contained in their documents.
We viewed a documentary on online privacy by The Guardian (we stopped at 20:43).

Searx versus Qwant?

Homework for Thursday, February 8: Watch the rest of the above-mentioned documentary and read this article  & think of a possible debate topic around online footprint and privacy.

What we covered in class on Thursday, February 8: We debated on the importance of privacy in IOT and AI and its implications.
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Homework for Tuesday, February 13: Press review

More on the issue from a more philosophical standpoint if you're interested.