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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Week beginning Monday, December 3

ICAI C2.2: 

What we covered in class on Monday, December 3: Final exam

ICAI Communication Skills C1: 

What we covered in class on Monday, December 3: Last pitches + exam revision

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Final Exam

ICADE 3º E4: 

What we did in class on Monday, December 3: Final Exam

ICADE BECS 2ºE2/E4: 

What we did in class on Tuesday: Exam revision.

Please see comments to access links to the Quizlets we created

Week beginning Monday, November 26

ICAI C2.2: 

What we covered in class on Monday, November 26: Course book and special-tone creative writing assignment 4 p34-35

Homework for Friday, November 30: Finish Shoe Dog and complete one of the book club forms at the end of the book

What we covered in class on Friday: Book club + exam revision

Homework for Monday, December 3: review everything we've done this semester.

ICAI Communication Skills C1: 

What we covered in class on Monday, November 26: Teamwork

Homework for Tuesday: No homework

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Teamwork

Homework for Thursday, November 29: Finish your paper presentation pitch and upload your academic paper to Moodle (Communication skills C1 / Jeanphi's group)

IMPORTANT: THE DEADLINE FOR THE ACADEMIC PAPER HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO TUESDAY DECEMBER 4 

What we covered in class on Thursday: Academic paper pitches.

Homework for Monday, December 3: Start reviewing everything we've covered.

ICADE 3º E4: 

What we did in class on Monday: Press review + 3-stage activity based on an article by The Economist.

Homework for Friday November 30: review all our supplementary activities:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 + recruitment vocab + the course book. 

What we did in class on Friday, November 30: Listening test + exam revision

Homework for Monday, December 3: Final exam

ICADE BECS 2ºE2/E4: Scroll down to the previous entry

What we did in class on Tuesday: Last press review + teamwork

Homework for Thursday November 29: No homework. NEW Due date for the final project: TUESDAY DECEMBER 4

What we did in class on Thursday: Teamwork

Homework for Tuesday, December 4: Review everything we've done so far (course book + supplementary activities).

Week beginning Monday, November 19

ICAI C2.2: 

What we covered in class on Monday, November 19: Creative writing assignment part II + Course book p27 (module 2)

Homework for Friday, November 23: Start reviewing all the vocabulary we've covered so far. Important: the final exam will take place on Monday, December 3. 

What we covered in class on Friday: 

Homework for Monday, November 

ICAI Communication Skills C1: 

What we covered in class on Monday, November 19: Teamwork

Homework for Tuesday: No homework

What we covered in class on Tuesday: Teamwork

Homework for Thursday, November 22: No homework

What we covered in class on Thursday: Teamwork

Homework for Monday, November 26: Press review

ICADE 3º E4: 

What we did in class on Monday: Press review + course book p92-98

Homework for Friday November 23: read and do all exercises p98-106 (assessed!!)

What we did in class on Friday, November 23: Homework correction + linkedin examples of C.V. one-liners + took the "16personalities" test + started devising "scannable" resumes

Homework for Monday, November: Press review + Write your CV in English using the one liners we covered (assessed).

ICADE BECS 2ºE2/E4:

What we did in class on Tuesday: Activity based on the first episode of Mad Men (season 1).

Homework for Thursday November 22: remember you need to send me the Tim Horton proposal if you haven't done it yet (see previous entry). Parts 6 & 7 + B (jot down a few ideas) of the above-mentioned activity.

What we did in class on Thursday: We finished the Mad Men activity + worked on the final project. This is what I expect from you. Due date November 30. Around 1400 words.

Homework for Tuesday, November 27: Press review