Presentation - Valerio
Peer feedback - Stefano
Tutorial - Stefano
Reading Skills
Finding the right people pp. 56 - 57
Gapped text & sentences
Going further: Why the modern world is bad for your brain.
Following on from Valerio's thought provoking presentation about the pros and cons of digital technology you might be interested in this article from The Observer https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/18/modern-world-bad-for-brain-daniel-j-levitin-organized-mind-information-overload
The article is quite long, so you could break it up into sections. Also, there is a lot of difficult vocabulary so you might want to do the vocabulary exercises below (using a monolingual dictionary e.g. Collins online) before you read.
VOCABULARY SKILLS
PHRASAL VERBS
To keep up, catch up on
WORD COMPLEMENTATION
To stay on task
COLLOCATION
Match an item from A with an item from B to make a collocation:
A: Answer, Send,Twitter, Check, Look up something, Facebook
B: Feed, update, the phone, an sms, your email, on the internet
FIXED PHRASES:
Stay in touch, take a break, some sort of
IDIOMS
Scramble your brain, take its toll, wreck havoc
LEXICAL PRECISION
dollop, glob, bit, mass, piece, portion.
How are each of these different?
PHRASAL VERBS
To keep up, catch up on
WORD COMPLEMENTATION
To stay on task
COLLOCATION
Match an item from A with an item from B to make a collocation:
A: Answer, Send,Twitter, Check, Look up something, Facebook
B: Feed, update, the phone, an sms, your email, on the internet
FIXED PHRASES:
Stay in touch, take a break, some sort of
IDIOMS
Scramble your brain, take its toll, wreck havoc
LEXICAL PRECISION
dollop, glob, bit, mass, piece, portion.
How are each of these different?
