Week beginning Monday, February 18

ICAI C2.1: 

What we covered in class on Monday, February 18: Press review + debate on anonymous cvs + course book p33-34 including this video

Homework for Friday, February 15: No homework

What we covered in class on Friday: Course book p33-35. Assignment 3 p35 is due on Friday, March 8

Here is Riz Ahmed's wonderful rendition of Edmund's monologue (King Lear, Shakespeare) (it's only 2 minutes ;)

Homework for Monday, March 4: Press review 

ICADE 3º E4: 

The job interviews are over, classes will resume on Monday, February 25!

ICADE BECS 2ºE2/E4: 

What we did in class on Tuesday, February 19: Press review + we finished the activity on Foxconn (Heartless Apple) and worked on the assignment mentioned at the end of the activity in question. 
Those are the companies that have been chosen so far:
ECOALF (Luengo & Co.)
REPREVE (Clavería & Friends)
VEJA (ELVIRA Corp.)
PATAGONIA (Alomía Ltd.)
NATURAL WORLD (Ingeborg World)

Homework for Thursday, February 21: Start learning the "Heartless Apple" vocab (There'll be a quiz next Thursday!)

What we did in class on Thursday: We worked on the presentations. Due date: March 5

Homework for Tuesday, February 26: Press review 

Week beginning Monday, February 11

ICAI C2.1: 

What we covered in class on Monday, February 11: Press review + course book p 29-30 including this video plus introduction to the concept of unconscious bias. 

Homework for Friday, February 15: Review this parallel structure tutorial

What we covered in class on Friday: Course book p31-32 including this video (viewed until min33.)
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Homework for Monday, February 18: Press review + Question 3 p32 (in writing).

ICADE 3º E4: 

Interview schedule for the next 2 weeks:

Monday, February 11:
10:30 Alex
11:15 Clémence
11:30 Pol-Even
11:45 Martáco
12:00 Carlota

Friday, February 15:
10:30 Marta Y
10:45 Pauline 
11:00 Benoît
11:15 Ana Sofía 
11:30 César
11:45 Albane*

Monday, February 18:
10:30 Léna
10:45 Édouard 
11:00 Mía
11:15 Pilou
11:30 Carmen
11:45 Thomas
12:00 Alexis C

Friday, February 22:
10:30 Astrid 
10:45 Andréa
11:00 Luis
11:15 Alexis B
11:30 Jorge
11:45 Jaime
12:00 Cristina

ICADE BECS 2ºE2/E4: 

What we did in class on Tuesday, February 12: Quiz + course book p41-43

Homework for Thursday, February 14: all exercises p44 + think of a possible merger/acquisition (Spanish companies) for the upcoming presentations.

What we did in class on Thursday: Course book p44 + Press review + first stages of an activity based on an article by The Observer. Here is the vocab in question.

Homework for Tuesday, February 19: Read the rest of the report here and TAKE NOTES (ASSESSED). Start learning the above-mentioned vocabulary.

Week beginning Monday, February 4

ICAI C2.1: 

What we covered in class on Monday, February 4: Press review + report writing

Homework for Friday, February 8: Learn all the vocabulary related to meat + report writing + review the subjunctive!!

What we covered in class on Friday: Vocab quiz + Error-correction activity + course book p27-29

Homework for Monday, February 11: Press review + Exercise B (1 & 2) p29

ICADE 3º E4: 

What we did in class on Monday, February 4: Press review + course book p16-25

Homework for Friday, February 8: Read p26 (new book p71) and do exercise p27 (72)

What we did in class on Friday, February 8: Homework correction + course book p28-35 including this interview

Interview schedule for the next 2 weeks:

Monday, February 11:
10:30 Alex
10:45 Albane
11:15 Clémence
11:30 Pol-Even
11:45 Martáco
12:00 Carlota

Friday, February 15:
10:30 Marta Y
10:45 Pauline 
11:00 Benoît
11:15 Ana Sofía 
11:30 César

Monday, February 18:
10:30 Léna
10:45 Édouard 
11:00 Mía
11:15 Pilou
11:30 Carmen
11:45 Thomas
12:00 Alexis C

Friday, February 22:
10:30 Astrid 
10:45 Andréa
11:00 Luis
11:15 Alexis B
11:30 Jorge
11:45 Jaime

ICADE BECS 2ºE2/E4: 

What we did in class on Tuesday, February 5: Press review + Homework correction (course book p28-30) + 3-stage activity based on an article by The Economist on shareholder activism

Homework for Thursday: Start learning the vocabulary from the activity above and finish answering (in writing) the reading comprehension questions at the end of said activity

What we did in class on Thursday: We finished the activity above (here is an interesting video on poison pills if you're interested) + course book p31-40

Homework for Tuesday, February 12: Press review + exercise p41 + LEARN all the vocabulary from Shareholder Activism + All company structures and Mergers and Acquisitions concepts. There'll be a test (offline). 

Week beginning Monday January 28

ICAI C2.1: 

What we covered in class on Monday, January 28: Survey writing techniques + course book p19-21 including Assignment 1 p21

Homework for Friday January: Make sure you send me your survey per email (don't forget to name all participants).

What we covered in class on Friday: Course book p22-26 including a tutorial on the subjunctive. Here is a quick recap.

Homework for Monday, February 4: Press review + carry out the survey on meat consumption so that we can analyse its results on Monday!

ICADE 3º E4: 

What we did in class on Monday, January 28: Press review + error-correction activity on cover letters.

Homework for Friday: Review the error-correction activity above. If you didn't take the vocab test the other day, make sure you review the Introverts vs Extroverts vocab!

What we did in class on Friday: Second semester course book p7-15 including this Harvard Extension School video and this Denis Sasal video on the dreaded "tell me about yourself" interview question.

Homework for Monday, February 4: Press review + pick and watch another 3 videos by Denis sasal (as indicated p15) and take notes. 

ICADE BECS 2ºE2/E4:

What we did in class on Tuesday, January 29: Course book p12-16. We watched the following video. Here is some more information on company structures.
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Homework for Thursday: Exercises p17-20

What we did in class on Thursday: Homework correction + Course book p20-27 including this video on IPOs

Homework for Tuesday, February 5: Press review + exercises p28-30 + start reviewing company structures...

Week beginning Monday, January 21

ICAI C2.1: 

What we covered in class on Monday, January 21: Press review + booklet p16-18 (including this video)

Homework for Friday January 25: LEARN all the vocabulary from p10-16

What we covered in class on Friday: 

Homework for Monday, January 

ICADE 3º E4: 

What we did in class on Monday, January 21: Press review + Quiz + course book p107-112

Homework for Friday: All exercises p113-116

What we did in class on Friday: We finished the cover letter section of the course book. Writing: each student handed in a cover letter for an internship position they were interested in.

Homework for Monday, January 28: Press review + buy the second semester book 

ICADE BECS 2ºE2/E4:

What we did in class on Tuesday: Quiz + course book p1-3 (new semester 2 course book)

Homework for Thursday: No homework 

What we did in class on Thursday: Course book p4-11

Homework for Tuesday, January 28: Press review + exercises p12-13

Week beginning Monday, January 14, 2018

ICAI C2.1: 

What we covered in class on Monday, January 14: Press review + course book p10-11 + this follow-up article (we answered the following questions)

Homework for Friday January 18: Start learning the vocab we covered on Monday.

What we covered in class on Friday: Course book p12-16

Homework for Monday, January 21: Press review + start learning all the vocab we've covered so far... There'll be a quiz next Friday.

ICADE 3º E4: 

What we did in class on Monday: 3-stage activity based on an article by The Economist on introverts and extroverts.

Homework for Friday: Start learning the vocab of the above-mentioned activity

What we did in class on Friday: We did the speaking part of the activity above and watched this video. Here is some interesting vocab from said video. We also did a creative writing task using a lot of the words and phrases in question.

Homework for Monday, January 21: Press review + LEARN all the vocabulary we covered in both activities (article + video) 


ICADE BECS 2ºE2/E4: 

What we did in class on Tuesday: 3-stage activity based on an article and a video by The Economist. Here is the video.

Homework for Thursday: Start learning the vocab contained in the activity above

What we did in class on Thursday: 3-stage activity based on a dossier by The Economist on the "electric invasion" in cities 

Homework for Tuesday, January 22: Press review + Learn the vocab from the two activities above 

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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