Tuesday, 11 March 2014

GPII Group 1 B2+1 Lesson 4

Class
Unit 1.3 Perfect Aspect
Unit 1.4 Preparation for meeting - language for stating requirements p. 12
Homework
(1) Unit 1.3, p. 10 questions 1 - 4
(2) What are the differences between CVs in English and Italian?
(3) Go to one of the following websites and choose an internship position that interests you and that you could realistically apply for now. Print off the details and bring them with you to class next week, you will need this for your writing assessment. You could look at websites that specialise in interships with law firms in the U.S. or U.K. e.g. http://www.summerinternships.com/internships/legal/, http://www.internship-uk.com/program_placement.asp, Corporations e.g. http://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/why-goldman-sachs/our-divisions/legal/positions/interns.html or an International organisation (e.g. the WHO offers both an internship http://www.who.int/employment/internship/en/ and junior professional programme http://www.who.int/employment/jpo/en/
Self Study
Grammar noticing. Choose a text (written or spoken) and highlight all the tenses. Ask yourself why the speaker or writer has chosen this tense. Why is it simple or continuous? Perfect or non perfect?

Class Notes

Present perfect simple & continuous

Past perfect simple & continuous

Future perfect

Perfect infinitive

Perfect –ing

To lay off = to make redundant = when people lose their job because there is not enough work

To found (founded) a company, organisation

To generate income

I had been looking for a particular book on the internet recently and found it on Amazon, and I started to wonder how the online bookshop had become the giant that it is today.

It's absolutely essential that...
That's a prerequisite
Are expected to have/do

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