Week beginning Monday, April 9

ICAI:

C2.1:

What we did on Monday, April 9: Presentations + Booklet p49-50

Homework for Friday, April 13: start learning the vocabulary in question

What we did on Friday, April 13: Booklet p51-55 (including Assessment 5...)

Homework for Monday, April 16: Press review + for those of you who didn't attend our class, make sure you hand in assessment 5 on Monday. Read the paraphrasing techniques before you start writing... 80% of the words need to be changed.

ICADE: 

4º E4

What we covered in class on Tuesday, April 10: Presentations

Homework for Thursday, April 12: Press review (we'll finish the booklet) + Follow-up activity on AI based on an article by Nature. Here is the key to the vocab-fishing part.

What we covered in class on Thursday, April 12:

Homework for Tuesday, April 16: Press review

3º E4 :

What we covered in class on Monday, April 9: Follow-up activity on diversity in politics based on an article by The Guardian including a grammar lesson on possessives + gerunds. Here is a quizlet with the vocabulary of both Riz Ahmed's speech and the above-mentioned activity. Here is our white board.

Homework for Friday, April 13: start learning the above-mentioned vocab.

What we covered in class on Friday, April 13: Video by The Economist Films on the "start-up jungle" + Quizizz on the five supplementary activities (Introverts vs Extroverts, Corporate Ambitions: Amazon, Apple-Foxconn, Diversity speech and Ticking all the right boxes) whose vocab you need to review for the exam (on top of the booklet's + graph description and cause-effect)

Homework for Monday, April 16:

2ºE2 / E4 

What we covered in class on Tuesday, April 10: Mini book-club activity + presentations + revision

Homework for Thursday, April 12: No homework

What we covered in class on Thursday, April 12: Presentations + Video by The Economist Films on the "start-up jungle". We then compared the hurdles facing young entrepreneurs today with those facing Phil Knight and his fellow countrymen in the 1960's.

Homework for Tuesday, April 17: Read another 50 pages of the book.

Week beginning Monday April 2

ICAI:

C2.1:

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

What we did on Friday, April 6: Presentations + Quizlet activity 

Homework for Monday, April 9: Press review

ICADE: 

4º E4

What we covered in class on Tuesday, April 3: We reviewed paraphrasing techniques and mentioned the final exam's contents: Vocab from the booklet and all supplementary activities + Inversions + Gerunds and possessives + Gradable / ungradable adjectives + Error-correction + Reading comp. Here are a few of the activities in question: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Bear in mind that there are still 3 weeks to go before the exam and therefore more vocab will come your way... ;)

Homework for Thursday, April 5: Add the finishing touches to your company presentations :)

What we covered in class on Thursday, April 5: Presentations + Activity based on an article published in Nature on Artificial Intelligence (I'll post it later). Here is the quizlet we did in class with the vocab.

Homework for Tuesday, April 9: Press review

3º E4 :

What we covered in class on Monday,

Homework for Friday, 

What we covered in class on Friday, April 6: Presentations + Quiz

Homework for Monday, April 9: Start reviewing everything we've done so far... (the final exam will take place on our last day of class i.e. the 27th of April)

2ºE2 / E4 

What we covered in class on Tuesday, April 3: Book Club

Homework for Thursday, April 5: Add the finishing touches to your company presentations :)

What we covered in class on Thursday, April 5: Follow-up activity on diversity in politics based on an article by The Guardian including a grammar lesson on possessives + gerunds. Here is a quizlet with the vocabulary of both Riz Ahmed's speech and the above-mentioned activity.

Homework for Tuesday, April 10: Read another 50 pages of the book. Finish your presentations. Start learning the vocabulary above and review the grammar lesson in question.

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