08 LAW AND ORDER Unit Overview

In this unit you learn how:

• To talk about crimes and what they involve
• To add comments and questions
• To describe different kinds of punishment
• To give opinions about prison life
• To talk about the use and abuse of power
• To use modals + present and past infinitives
• To use nouns and prepositions
• To express crimes
• To agree and disagree

REVISION UNIT 7

• Organize your REVISION OF UNIT 7 : to that end, there is a powerpoint presentation in the shared folder in BOX. Download the ppt onto your PC and fill in the slides with the vocabulary items and structures that you learnt to fulfil the different functions. 
• WHO is doing WHAT? 

1. Fernando
2. Mercedes
3. Fausto
4. Eva
5. Luisa
6. Andrés
7. Carmen

• Do all the exercises in the WORKBOOK for Unit 7.

• Do all the exercises in the Outcomes VOCABULARY BUILDER for Unit 7.

• Revise the VOCABULARY of the unit.

• Make sure you practise SPEAKING about the topics of the unit.

Vocabulary Unit 7 NATURE

Speaking about NATURE

BEFORE session 03/03/2015 WRITING A BLOG POST

ONLINE
1) Watch this video

2) Then do the exercises on page 49 of the WORKBOOK.
3) Then write a reply (150-190 words) to the opinion in exercise B in the section for comments below this entry. Choose to comment as "Anónimo" and then, before publishing, sign your comment with your initials and surname.
4) Include your overall opinion on CCTV, reasons for your opinions and examples from your own experience. You should write your comment BEFORE Tuesday (that's NOT on Tuesday as I need Tuesday morning to go through them).
5) Remember it's a good idea to revise the vocabulary of Crime & Punishment from last year. Mercedes Valverde has shared this worksheet with us.

OFFLINE
SB p.54 Exercise C

FEEDBACK AFTER session 24/02/2015

VOCABULARY

• This is the time to revise Crime & Punishment vocabulary from last year

• I give you access to last year's site: https://sites.google.com/site/year4pplaza/

• vivisection
• life-span
• arson
• rodents
• boundaries
• forage
• colony
• honeybees
• parasit attacks
• beekeepers
• hive
• nest
• environmental stress
• to breed animals
• predators
• molluscs
• wasps

Recommended reference book: Oxford Word Skills

PRONUNCIATION

• medicine
• ethical
• beings
• Jewish
• science
• pesticide

STRUCTURES

• Stranded prepositions

EXAMS MARCH 2015

March 5    LISTENING, WRITING

March 10  SPEAKING INTERACTION
Make your appointment for the interaction in the document below
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x4o71bKR2PP7zXY6ZYVHPjU3vCcsKC7ss2XytGANoPA/edit?usp=sharing

March 12  SPEAKING MONOLOGUES + IN THE COUNTRY OF LAST THINGS 1st part
Make your appointment for the monologue in the document below
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Wl6wgDgsDcyw76qeDweMOf3KgQCXu8heLVBwCaeDrJk/edit?usp=sharing

NEW DEADLINE Discussion on the first half of the book postponed

AUSTER's In the Country of Last Things

DEADLINE: Up to page 90 for March 12th

Here are some GUIDELINES for you to use WHILE you are reading

Also, you can download the free audiobook on Audible, which is always a good idea as you can practise reading and listening at the same time. Luke in Luke's English Podcast explains how to do it here.

Discussion topics

 Check this link!

http://www.tedpower.co.uk/discuss.html

FEEDBACK AFTER session 19/02/2015

VOCABULARY, PHRASES

• HERBS
• TREES
•  snow plough a large vehicle that pushes snow off the road
• in a row, non-stop
• a gust of wind, a burst of gunfire
• scared to death
• at the first attempt
• that reminds me of..
• freeze, froze, frozen (v)/ freezing (adj)/ frozen (adj)/ freezer (n)

PRONUNCIATION

• break/brake

BEFORE session 24/02/2015

HOMEWORK

• SB p.51 Read the texts:

• Bullfighting dying a slow death
• Animal charity's gain is doctor's loss

• SB p.158 Read the texts:

• Work on research lab halted
• Unlikely recipe for success 

• SB p.50 Do exercise A, E, F [under READING]
• THE NEWS. Fill in the gaps and reflect on the use of the -ing forms: Worksheet + Audio

• Contribute to the glossary of flowers on https://todaysmeet.com/FLOWERS

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EXTRA LISTENING PRACTICE ABOUT NATURE

• 8 speakers: Worksheet + Audio
• Bees: Worksheet + Audio + Script
• A talk about fishermen using cormorants and a woman talking about her work for a wild life organization. In the shared folder you can find both the worksheet and the two audios.[under 07 Nature]
• Video WOLVES IN YELLOWSTONE Watch the video below and do the exercises in the worksheet.

 

• Video THE EDEN PROJECT [in Box]Watch the video below and do the exercises in the worksheet.

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Interested in EXTRA READING PRACTICE ABOUT NATURE to broaden your vocabulary and in preparation for your Writing and Speaking papers? Here are some interesting articles:

• Text 1: Animals & Research 
• Text 2. Against using animals for research
• Text 3. Bees in danger
• Invasive species

David (T1), Eva (T2) & Fausto (T3) only:
Read the texts, look up recurring words, prepare an oral summary, and end it up with a related controversial question for your classmates.

FEEDBACK AFTER session 17/02/2015

VOCABULARY

•  station wagon=estate car
• camper
• famine
• overflows
• thaw
• slight + breeze
• mould
• muggy
• humidity
• blizzard
• stormy
• scorching
• boiling
• soaking wet

PRONUNCIATION

• An estate car vs a state-run school [linking]
• volcano versus volcanic
• drought
• famine
• river

TRANSPORT AND TRAVEL VOCABULARY

BEFORE session 19/02/2015

OFFLINE

• SB p.145 Grammar Reference

ONLINE

• Watch video for Unit 7 and do the exercises you can find in the worsheets menu. Underline any phrases or expressions that might come in handy when doing conversation practice about EXTREME WEATHER. 

REVISION
Revise Last Year's:

• File 4A for life-or-death situations
• File 3B for weather
• Make sure you watch the weather forecast in English at least a couple of times this week

Fausto's glogster on Personal Language Learning Environment

FEEDBACK AFTER session 12/02/2015

STRUCTURES/ PHRASES

• It really annoys me when...
• It is really infuriating when...
• What makes me...
• The thing that...
• It drives me mad/crazy/up the walls...
• It gets on my nerves
• I can't bear/stand/put up with
• I wish you wouldn't...
• It bothers me that/when
• I can't be bothered

NOTE This is the time to revise last year's file on Annoying Habits
VOCABULARY

• destination versus destiny
• Remember FLAT is an adjective, not a verb: a flatted tyre a flat tyre
• bald
• change lanes
• without indicating
• make of a car
• hearse
• tow truck/towed away
• clamps
• motorway/highway (AmEng)
• warning triangles
• hybrid
• solid/broken line
• roof rack
• trailer
• in neutral/keep it in gear/reverse
• run over/knock over
• crash/bump nto
• car-pool (both verb and noun)
• roundabout
• high-vi vest

DOUBTS

• ON/IN the lane  You say in the lane, definitely not on the lane. When talking about motorways you have several lanes and you drive within one, moving to another to overtake or leave at a junction. You can say in the road or on the road. There are regional preferences - Brits use in more than Americans - and there are also differences in meaning and preferred collocations in some contexts. 
  He is on the road now. (He is travelling)
  He is in the road now. (He is physically in the road)
  There is a fork in the road. (There is a junction or turning)
  There is a fork on the road. (Someone has dropped cutlery here)
• Dent ON/IN???  both are ok  but there is an expression that uses "in" -  "to make a dent in something" (to make significant progress on a project or task) so this is a stronger collocation. 

 

BEFORE session 17/02/2015

• The News Feb 11: Identify the function of the ING forms
• Today's meet CARS: Correct the sentences you wrote in class
• Revision of Unit 11

VIDEOS

OUTCOMES UPPER INTERMEDIATE

VIDEOS

 

The following link will give you access to the videos and video materials in each lesson in the Student’s Book.

 

http://elt.heinle.com/cgi-telt/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20bI&discipline_number=301&subject_code=&product_isbn_issn=1111034044&chapter_number=0&resource_id=770&altname=Upper+Intermediate+Video%2C+Worksheets+and+Teacher+Notes&from_series_id=1000002182

REVISION UNIT 11

REVISION UNIT 11

• Organize your REVISION OF UNIT11 : to that end, there is a powerpoint presentation in my Drive. Follow the link and fill in the slides with the vocabulary items and structures that you learnt to fulfil the different functions. 
• WHO is doing WHAT?

1. To describe the features of different kinds of vehicles MERCEDES V.
2. To rent a car MAR
3. To talk about problems with vehicles ANDRES
4. To talk about good/bad drivers FAUSTO
5. To use uncountable nouns MARINA
6. To use emphatic structures MARIBEL
7. To express driving EVA

• Do all the exercises in the WORKBOOK for Unit 11.

• Do all the exercises in the Outcomes VOCABULARY BUILDER for Unit 11.

• Revise the VOCABULARY of the unit.

• Make sure you practise SPEAKING about the topics of the unit.

Today's meet CARS

Below you can find a link to the transcript of the session in Today's meet about CARS.
Make sure you go through the sentences again correcting the mistakes:
CARS

Travel & Tourism Vocabulary

Reminder

AUSTER's In the Country of Last Things

DEADLINE: Up to page 90 for February the 26th

Here are some GUIDELINES for you to use WHILE you are reading

Also, you can download the free audiobook on Audible, which is always a good idea as you can practise reading and listening at the same time. Luke in Luke's English Podcast explains how to do it here.

Speaking about Transport & Travel

FEEDBACK AFTER session 05/02/2015

VOCABULARY

• peer versus peep
• the hiss of a snake
• tipped to win!
• tailback (thank you, Mª Jesús!) a long line of traffic that is moving very slowly or not moving at all
• hazard lights
• indicators
• rear-view mirror
• swerve
• drive AT 120 km/h
• parking ticket
• speeding ticket
• jump a light/ shoot through red lights
• take your life in your hands
• got cut up
• got beeped at
• road rage
• tow versus crane
• tow truck (haul is a synonym, thank you Pura!)
• reckless driving/drive recklessly
• abide by the law/law-abiding

STRUCTURES

• 'Just as well', she sighed.
• CAREFUL
•  (not) to + infinitive
• + wh-clause
• + -ing

PRONUNCIATION

• wonder /ˈwʌndə(r)/
• wander/ˈwɒndə(r)/

BEFORE session 10/02/2015

PERSONAL LANGUAGE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

https://app.box.com/s/1z8bzlcog4bsje4ezcgtt9802cgn7g0k

Think about all the situations in which YOU practise English on your own. How actively do you engage in practising English outside your classes?

Start creating a map. Jot down some ideas before Tuesday's class. You will have to share them with us in a one-minute monologue.

FEEDBACK AFTER session 03/02/2015

VOCABULARY

• Fausto created this set of flashcards to help us revise the vocabulary of the unit: http://www.cram.com/flashcards/cars-5463392 Thank you ever so much!
• Mar taught us the AmEng spelling of tyre: tIre!
• Other words and phrases we learnt today:
• windshield for windscreen
• AmEng word is hood - BrEng word is bonnet
• gear lever for gearshift
•  a puncture
• map app
• I'd imagine
• not quite
• to run a special offer
• to do some driving
• extra (n./adj.)
• STRUCTURES
• I'd rather not say
• I'd rather you didn't say
•  
• PRONUNCIATION
• /ɪnˈʃʊərəns/
•  /ˈviːɪk(ə)l/ 

BEFORE session 03/02/2015

• SPEAKING Interaction - Role-play SB p.77 Conversation practice #C
• WRITING
•  Prepare to write a narrative-story using Units 7 & 11 of the Workbook, pp.45 & 75. The best stories will be published in the school's magazine. We'll be writing them in class on Thursday @18.00 (30') https://app.box.com/s/eqlczuwqjd1nww9owi63jafqzoccawir
• Do the last exercise on the worksheet handed out in class (the one on the synonyms of say/look/run/walk/smile/laugh)
• Learn the vocabulary from THE NEWS today. The audio will be in the folder for you to listen to it again.