D'Amico Shipping Legal English Course

D'Amico Shipping Legal English Course
Friday 27th April 2012
11:30am
Term 2 Lesson 7


Language Focus - Company Law Vocabulary
(synonyms, antonyms, collocations, pronunciation - changing stress from verbs to nouns)

Informal -  Formal transformation - passive, reported speech, subjunctive, legal English terminology.

British Council English Courses at the LUISS 27/4

British Council English Courses at the LUISS
Friday 27th April 2012
2pm


GPIV Group 5


Class
Listening - Non Competition ClauseRole play - Negotiating a Contract for Sale - Assessment

Home

• Write up your contract including all the terms you agreed on. Bring it in next week for your partner to sign. Remember only sign it if the contract includes what you agreed. Remember Merger Clauses!
• Follow up our work on the International Criminal Court - have a look at the following articles and commentary http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2012/apr/26/charles-taylor-trial-verdict-live  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/30/imperialism-didnt-end-international-law  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/poll/2012/may/01/should-saif-gaddafi-be-tried-in-libya

British Council English Courses at the LUISS 26/4

British Council English Courses at the LUISS
Thursday 26th April 2012
11:30am


GPII Group 12 Module B1.2


Class
Legal English - Branches of Law
Presentations - listening, organisation and signposting language p. 55
Role Play Presenting a Law Firm to a potential client (Speaking Assessment - 25% of final grade)

For more notes on presentations go to:
Sean's English Classroom / Presentations
Sean's English Classroom / Presentations: Introductions, Conclusions and Visuals

Home
Dictionary Skills p. 56

British Council English Courses at the LUISS 24/4

British Council English Courses at the LUISS
Tuesday 24th April 2012


11:30am
GPIV Group 1


Case Study - Contract
Role Play Negotiation (assessment)

4:00pm

GPI Group 10 Module B2+2

Class

Presentations (Speaking Assessment)

Home

Write a short paragraph reflecting on your presentation today:

If you were to give your presentation again, would you change anything?

Were you surprised by any of the feedback that your classmates gave you?

What areas do you need to improve (think about pronunciation, countable and uncountable nouns, articles, verb structure, false friends, presentation skills).

Write up your thoughts and either send it to me via the platform or keep it to give to me when you present your self study material in the last lesson on 22nd May.

At Note About Presentations

The presentations today were generally well done, so congratulations to all of you. It was good to see so many of you using cue cards and signposting language. Remember, that even if you are not very confident, you can all improve your presentation skills with practice. 

In the next lesson (8th May) we will hear the final presentations from Corrado, Marco, Matteo, Flavio, Mariagiovanna, Luigi, Giulia and Silvia. It will also be your last chance to work on problem areas such as articles, countable and uncountable nouns and pronunciation before the progress on 15th May. 

British Council English Courses at the LUISS 23/4

British Council English Courses at the LUISS
Monday 23rd April 2012
4pm
GPI Group 16 Module B2.2


Lesson 8
Class


Literature: How reading novels can help you with your English.
Narrative Tenses: Past Simple & Continuous, Past Perfect Simple & Continuous.
Used to (+ infinitive) for past habits and repeated actions and states in the past.
Would (+ infinitive) for past repeated actions in the past.

Course-book:
Reading p. 60
Grammar - Narrative Tenses p. 61, p.144 - 5
Reading p. 62
Grammar - Would/Used To p. 63, p. 144 - 5

Homework

1. Grammar p. 145 G1, Q.2 (narrative tenses), P. 63 Q.8 (would/used to)
2. Noticing - do some extra reading or listening for your self study. Note the use of narrative tenses and would/used to for habitual actions in the past. 
3. Today we talked about how "evil" has been portrayed in literature and film. Look at the trailers for the films below. How are these characters "evil"? How are they different to classic "evil" figures from literature such as Bram Stoker's Dracula or Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? Do you think people are born "evil"or do they become evil through their actions and the choices they make?

We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011)

The Reader (2008)

D'Amico Shipping Legal English Course

D'Amico Shipping Legal English Course
Friday 20th April 2012
11:30 am
Term 2 Lesson 6

1. Verb Patterns Review
2. Prepositional Verbs
3. Minutes - making language more formal and sophisticated (passive with dummy subject, subjunctive, indirect/reported speech)

British Council English Courses at the LUISS 20/4

British Council English Courses at the LUISS


Friday 20th April 2012
2pm
GPIV Group 5


Arbitration - Unfair dismissal role play. For more information go to the ACAS website http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1797
Introduction to Negotiation Skills and Language
http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/37881077/Negotiations

British Council English Courses at the LUISS - Self Study for ALL Groups

The European Court of Human Rights


Read the following article and write a paragraph commenting on the issues raised in it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/apr/19/european-court-of-human-rights-human-rights?newsfeed=true

British Council English Courses at the LUISS 18/4 & 19/4

British Council English Courses at the LUISS


Wednesday 18th April 2012


10:30am
GPIV Group 3


Class


Case Study - Contract
Role Play Negotiation (assessment)

2pm
GPII Group 11 B1.2


Class

• Discussion: How does the law regulate advertising? Do you think lawyers should be able to advertise like other businesses? Why/Why not?
• Ways of Advertising - Reading, Vocabulary & Listening p 50 - 51
• 2nd Conditional p51, p 142 - 143
• Strong forms and Weak forms in fast connected speech
• Advertising & Children p. 52 -53 
• Word Combinations (adjective/noun, noun/noun)

Notes:

Look at the statement below and answer the questions:

I am Irish, my name is Sean but if I were Italian, my name would be Giovanni.

1. What is my real nationality?
2. What is my real name?
3. Is the statement about the past or the present?
4. Which part of the statement is a conditional sentence?
5. What tenses are used and why?

Homework

1. Practise your listening skills with a DVD - Method: Watch a 5 minute scene 3 times first without subtitles, second with, third time without. Notice if your problems are due to vocabulary or fast connected speech. 
2. Review all your vocabulary on advertising in preparation for in class preparations next lesson. 
3. Comparison: Do the exercises on p. 53 (q 6a, 6b, 7) and p. 143 (G2 q 3, 4) on comparative and superlative adjectives. 

Thursday 19th April 2012

11:30am

GPII Group 12 B1.2

Class

• Strong forms and Weak forms in fast connected speech - 2nd Conditional revision
• Advertising & Children p. 52 -53 
• Word Combinations (adjective/noun, noun/noun)
• Comparison: p. 53 (q 6a, 6b, 7) and p. 143 (G2 q 3, 4) comparative and superlative adjectives. 

Homework

1. Practise your listening skills with a DVD - Method: Watch a 5 minute scene 3 times first without subtitles, second with, third time without. Notice if your problems are due to vocabulary or fast connected speech. 
2. Review all your vocabulary on advertising in preparation for in class preparations next lesson. 
3. Comparison: Do the exercises on p. 53 (q 6a, 6b, 7) and p. 143 (G2 q 3, 4) on comparative and superlative adjectives. 

British Council English Courses at the LUISS 17/4

British Council English Courses at the LUISS
Tuesday 17th April 2012


11:30am
GPIV Group 1


Class


Negotiation - language diplomacy & persuasiveness
Listening - Non Competition Clause
Role play - Negotiating a Contract for Sale - Assessment

Home


Write up your contract including all the terms you agreed on. Bring it in next week for your partner to sign. Remember only sign it if the contract includes what you agreed.

4pm
GPI Group 10 Module B2+2


Class
Presentations: Preparation & Delivery, Signposting Language, Introductions and Conclusions
http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/32233573/Presentations
Business Presentations P.120

Home


Prepare a 5 minute presentation on your essay topic for next week. This is your speaking assessment and will be worth 25% of your final grade.
You do not have to prepare visual information but I would like you to try to use cue cards. Think about your aim and audience also make sure that your presentation is well organised and uses lots of signposting language (have a look at http://www.englishclub.com/speaking/presentations-lang.htm for more examples of signposting language). Take some time to practise your presentation and get a friend to listen to it and time how long it is.

British Council English Courses at the LUISS 16/4

British Council English Courses at the LUISS
GPI Group 16  Module B2.2


Monday 16th April 2012
4pm
Class


Surveys - collecting and collating (line graph, bar chart, pie chart, table)
Describing tables and charts p. 56 -57
Report writing p. 172 and timed written assessment (this is worth 25% of your final grade) 

• For more information and practice about the graph description question in the IELTS exam, go to:
  http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/32702969/Academic%20Writing%20Paper%20One
• Language Note:
  Excuse me, would you mind answering my survey?
  No, that's fine. 
  
  Would you mind + ing = Is it a problem for you? 
  So if you want to answer the survey you say: No I don't mind. 

British Council English Courses at the LUISS - All Groups

Self Study - Error Correction

Listen to this comedy sketch. What are the different problems that the students have with English? Can you correct the mistakes that they make?

British Council English Courses at the LUISS - All Groups

Self Study:



The European Court of Human Rights 

 Do you think the Court is too political? How much leeway should member states have when interpreting the Court's decisions? This will be one of the issues discussed at the Council of Europe Conference in Brighton this week. Also this week the Guardian newspaper is asking its readers to comment on The European Court of Human Rights. It would like you to talk about decisions which have changed the law and created an important precedent.  To read the article go to the following link http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/apr/12/what-strasbourg-really-does?cat=law&type=article

Choose a decision and write about it. Why is it important? If you want to you can also comment directly on the web page before Thursday.

D'Amico Shipping Legal English Course

D'Amico Shipping Legal English Course
Term 2 Lesson 5
13th April 2012 11:30am

• Company Law Vocabulary - c.f. merger, consolidation, acquisition of controlling shares, sale of assets, voluntary or compulsory liquidation, acquirer, target.
• The Minutes of a Meeting
• Verb Structure for reporting verbs  
• Subjunctive form (after that) versus should plus infinitive in colloquial English

If you are having difficulty with verb structure, take a look at 

http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/25080022/Verb%20Structure

British Council English Courses at the LUISS 13-4

British Council English Courses at the LUISS
13th April 2012
2pm


GPIV Group 5
Legal Writing In Plain English
http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/25080245/Legal%20Writing%20In%20Plain%20English
Error Correction of Case Briefs.

British Council English Courses at the LUISS 12/4

British Council English Courses at the LUISS


Thursday 12th April 2012


11:30am
GPII GROUP 12 MODULE B1.2


Class

• Discussion: How does the law regulate advertising? Do you think lawyers should be able to advertise like other businesses? Why/Why not?
• Ways of Advertising - Reading, Vocabulary & Listening p 50 - 51
• 2nd Conditional p51, p 142 - 143

Notes:

Look at the statement below and answer the questions:

I am Irish, my name is Sean. If I were Italian, my name would be Giovanni.

1. What is my real nationality?
2. What is my real name?
3. Is the statement about the past or the present?
4. Which part of the statement is a conditional sentence?
5. What tenses are used and why?

Homework:

Today we talked about advertising and how it changed during the 1960's. Watch this clip from the TV series Mad Men which is about an advertising agency in New York in the 1960's. What do you find out about advertising in general and tobacco advertising in particular? Do you think it would be different today? 

British Council English Courses at the LUISS 11/4

British Council English Courses at the LUISS


Wednesday 24th April 2012


10:30 am
GPIV Group 3


Class
Negotiations

• Non Competition Clause - language and listening
• Commercial Contract Role-play Negotiation

Home

Write up your agreement from today to exchange contracts with your negotiation partner in the next lesson. Remember - only sign it if it states exactly what you agreed! 

2pm

GPII Group 11 Module B1.2 

Class

• Advertising - reading, listening, vocabulary p. 48 - 50
• FCE style collaborative speaking task. 
• Error correction reports (check: specially/especially, articles, capital letters, singular and plural verbs) 

Home

Today we talked about advertising and how it changed during the 1960's. Watch this clip from the TV series Mad Men which is about an advertising agency in New York in the 1960's. What do you find out about advertising in general and tobacco advertising in particular? Do you think it would be different today? 

British Council English Courses at the LUISS - Self Study

British Council English Courses at the LUISS

Self Study - For All Groups

Have a look at the following article
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/mar/16/change-your-life-present-future-self

What do you think?
Do you think our thoughts and attitudes about the future are affected by the tenses we use?
What does Italian grammar say about Italian attitudes and personalities?
Do you think you are a different person when you speak/think in English?

Write a paragraph and put it with your self study.

British Council English Course at the LUISS 3/4

British Council English Courses at the LUISS


Tuesday 3rd April 2012 


11:30
GPIV Group 1


Arbitration - Unfair dismissal role play. For more information go to the ACAS website http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1797
Introduction to Negotiation Skills 
http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/37881077/Negotiations


4pm
GPI Group10 B2+2


Academic Essay - in class writing assessment.
For more notes on process writing and structuring an academic essay, go to:
http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/25560180/Process%20Writing%20For%20Academic%20Essays

Today's essay is part of your course assessment and worth 25% of your final grade. If you did not attend today you must do your essay over Easter and bring it to our next lesson on 17th April.

Your topic is:

Discuss a law which you think needs to be changed. What are the main problems (legal and/or social and/or political) and how could the law resolve them?

Your essay must include citations in the text and a bibliography at the end. WIKIPEDIA is a good starting point but SHOULD NOT BE YOUR MAIN REFERENCE. 

British Council English Courses at the LUISS 2/4

British Council English Courses at the LUISS
Monday 2nd April 2012
4pm


GPI Group 16 Module B2.2

Class
Thinking about modals - uses. To get a copy of today's notes including a chart for all the uses, go to
http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/11442644/Modals and click on Modals Chart.doc.

Future ability/possibility/obligation p. 51, p. 143
Past ability/possibility/obligation p. 52 - 53, p. 143

Home
Do some self study work over Easter e.g. while reading or listening notice the use of the different modals and semi modals (e.g. have to, ought to) and think about how they are being used.

The next lesson will be on Monday 16th April and there will be a writing assessment worth 25% of your final grade.