Break a leg!

ON Immigration

Why are white people expats when the rest of us are immigrants?

ON Bullfighting

Could bullfighting be returning to Catalonia?

ON Business

China's wealthiest - in 90 seconds

ON advantages & disadvantages

Vocabulary: How to talk about ADVANTAGES and DISADVANTAGES

ON Discussion

Discussing

ON storytelling

Tell a story or personal anecdote

Tell a story or personal anecdote

Tell a story or personal anecdote

Tell a story or personal anecdote

Tell a story or personal anecdote

Tell a story or personal anecdote

Tell a story or personal anecdote

ON Work & Careers

Ideas for E.L.L.s | Teaching and Learning About Work and Careers

On SPEAKING

Your Top 10 Language Exchange Websites to Speak English Fluently

ON Food

28 Fruits And Vegetables That You Had No Idea Grew Like That

The News

World Service - Hourly Bulletin

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-17434527

Read, Listen & Watch: RELIGION

• Are you there, God? TED Playlist on the topic of religion

http://www.ted.com/playlists/14/are_you_there_god

• Also, I've included a folder in BOX called Extra Beliefs where you can find more to read, listen and watch on the topic of religion

Read, Listen and Watch: ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

A collection of TED Talks (and more!) on the topic of the environment /ɪnˈvaɪrənmənt/

http://www.ted.com/topics/environment

BEFORE session 21/05/2015

• Have a look in detail at the list of monologues PUC and relate them to the topics dealt with in AV1 & AV2
• Pick one of the monologues and do the planning

BEFORE session 26/05/2015

• SB pp. 106-107 
• READING Con-fusion food
• VOCABULARY Prefixes
• SB p.109
• GRAMMAR Reporting verbs
• SB o.154
• GRAMMAR Reference: Reporting verbs 
• Have a look in detail at the list of INTERACTIONS PUC and relate them to the topics dealt with in AV1 & AV2. Pick one of the roles in one of the interactions and do the planning.

EXAMS JUNE 2015

• Avanzado 2 Oficial 

  Aulas 8, 10 y 12. 

  Lunes 8 junio @1600

• NA2P Orales 

  Aula 2 

  Martes 16 junio @1600

Make your appointment here

ONLINE

• Watch the video of Unit 15

OFFLINE

• Prepare to tell us how to make your favourite recipe

SPEAKING ABOUT MEDICAL TOURISM

• Would you ever go abroad for treatment? Why?/Why not?
• Do you know any one who has been? How did it go?
• Have you heard any stories about operations going wrong? What happened?
• Have you heard of any scams? How do they work?

REVISION UNIT 13

• Do all the exercises in the WORKBOOK for Unit 13.

• Do all the exercises in the Outcomes VOCABULARY BUILDER for Unit 13.

• Revise the VOCABULARY of the unit.

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

FEEDBACK AFTER 12/05/2015

VOCABULARY

• from dusk till dawn
  

• tomb/grave/coffin
• bridesmaid
• engagements and weddings vocabulary
• funerals and burials vocabulary
• to mourn
• bloom/blossom/boom
• first time mother
• wine cellar
• support
• burden
• veto 
• an ostentatious wedding reception  /ˌɒstenˈteɪʃəs/ 

 
PRONUNCIATION

• ceremony /ˈserəməni/
• amniocentesis /ˌæmniəʊsenˈtiːsɪs/
• tomb /tuːm/
• funeral /ˈfjuːn(ə)rəl/

RECOMMENDED

• The Loved one
  

KEY to GRAMMAR REFERENCE UNIT 13

More Speaking Practice now in BOX

• On Making Mistakes
• Monologues on different topics

BEFORE 12/05/2015

ONLINE

• Watch the following clip and make note/be ready to talk/write about the life events contained in it:

I also recommend watching [in English, of course]:

• The film FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL
• The TV series SIX FEET UNDER

OFFLINE
We'll be writing an anecdote in class. Check the following models texts in the workbook:

• Unit 3, pp.20-21
• Unit 13, pp.80-81
• Unit 15, pp.92-93

SB p.96 VOCABULARY Birth, Marriage and Death A-E

FEEDBACK AFTER 05/05/2015

• Today in class we analysed the means of achieving COHERENCE & COHESION in a narrative text:
• Here's the text
• Here's the brainstorm of ideas on the blackboard

 

BEFORE 07/05/2015

OFFLINE

• Do the grammar reference on page 152, the column on be always-ing/wish and would
• SB pp. 94-95 READING (A to E)
• REVISE:
• File 7A New English File Upper-Intermediate Structures after WISH
• FILE 4B New English File Upper-Intermediate Text on how to train your husband

 ONLINE 

• The video on How to stop a row from last year [now in Box]

REVISION UNIT 8

REVISION UNIT 8

•  Do all the exercises in the WORKBOOK for Unit 8.

• Do all the exercises in the Outcomes VOCABULARY BUILDER for Unit 8.

• Revise the VOCABULARY of the unit.

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

REVISION UNIT 9

• Do all the exercises in the WORKBOOK for Unit 9.

• Do all the exercises in the Outcomes VOCABULARY BUILDER for Unit 9.

• Revise the VOCABULARY of the unit.

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