ANIA B2 (Thursday) Lesson 11

Class
Error Correction - discussion & exercises
Identifying and assessing the seriousness of mistakes:  Does the error cause a misunderstanding? Does the error block communication?

• countable/uncountable nouns
• tenses
• verb structure
• false friends
• mistranslations

Homework
Look at the error correction exercises that we did today. Which mistakes are (a) the most serious, (b) ones that you typically make?

Lombardi Segni & Associati - Legal English Course - Lesson 23

Lesson 23
12:00 B1
Class 
Learning Skills - reflecting on error correction
Speaking Skills - extended discussion:

• legal training U.K. versus Italy
• language issues in law (e.g. vulnerable witnesses, conflicting grammatical concepts)

Vocabulary
to put something to (good) use

Homework
Listening - Driverless Cars & the Law
Law in Action Podcast 19/3/2018
Available to download or listen on line from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09v3fdt


1:30 C1/C2
Class
Autonomous Cars

• Jigsaw Reading & oral summaries - finding the legal issues
• Reviewing the regulatory framework - role-play

Corrections
covering coverage
pretending/claiming (false friend)
take catch fire

Vocabulary
to run over someone

Homework
Compare your ideas from today's role-play with the reports from the Department of Transport (U.K.)
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/driverless-cars-in-the-uk-a-regulatory-review

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/401565/pathway-driverless-cars-main.pdf

ANIA B2 & C1 (Monday) Lesson 9

Lesson 9
12:30 B1
Class

• Speaking Skills - ice breaker questions and maintaining a conversation
• Speaking Task - pre-meeting role-play 

Corrections
Pronunciation
anxiety
descended
Vocabulary
recipe
angry
upset
yesterday night last night
How old is he with precision exactly?
Confused words:
Chef/Cook
Choice/Choose
Signed/Written
All/Everything
Soon/Early

Useful Phrases
If I remember rightly.... you have three children
What's your hotel like?
I got to sleep in a little 
Sorry, I didn't catch that
What time did you/your plane get in this morning? (get in = arrive)

Homework
Learn the useful phrases and the corrections from today's feedback. Pay specially attention to new phrasal verbs like get in, sleep in, get up, wake up. 

2:00 C1
Class

• idiomatic expressions
• expressions for emphasis
• dependent prepositions

(Taken from Advanced Expert 1st Edition, p. 40)

Homework

• idiomatic expressions
• lexical precision
• easily confused expressions
• words for eating and drinking

(Handout, p. 74)

Vocabulary
cross = angry
forehead

Corrections
supposed to be versus looks/promises/expected to be
See: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/46808/supposed-versus-expected
Compare:
It was supposed to rain today but it didn't
It promises to be a very interesting conference. 

Notes
Between versus Among
It is often taught that “between” is used for 2 items and “among” for 3 or more.
But this is not completely accurate. The more accurate difference is this:
Between is used when naming distinct, individual items (can be 2, 3, or more)

Among is used when the items are part of a mass or a group, or are not specifically named (MUST be 3 or more). In today's exercise we were talking about the rivalry between the members of The Rolling Stones - a group but one with specifically named members (e.g. Mick Jagger & Charlie Watts who are named in the article).
See: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/between-or-among

ANIA 2018: C1 & C2 (Wednesday) Lesson 9

12:30 pm 
C1 Lesson 9
Class
Writing Skills - Correction: spelling, punctuation & grammar (p. 142)
Listening Skills - Exam practice (Part , p. 143, Brain Power)

Homework

1. Write an article - task 3a on p. 142. I suggest spending an hour or so brainstorming and planning your answer, maybe even revisiting some of the podcasts from 50 Things That Made The Modern Economy that we listened to last year for inspiration. Then a few days later, sit down and write your article, giving yourself a 45 minute time limit. You have plenty of time to do this spaced practice exercise as our next lesson is not until 2nd May.
2. now that you have the correct answers, re-listen to the exam exercise on p. 143. Listen out for where the answers are and try to analyse where and why you went wrong (if you did) in your first attempt in class. 

2:00 pm
C2 Lesson 9
Class

Listening & Discussion
A new regulatory framework for autonomous cars

Source: Driverless Cars & the Law
Law in Action Podcast 19/3/2018
Available to download or listen on line from:https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09v3fdt

Vocabulary
tumbleweed
Act of Parliament versus a Parliamentary Bill
to write off (a car)
to tinker around (with something)to hold off (doing something)
Advanced Driver Assistance Systemevent data recorder (EDA) https://www.nhtsa.gov/research-data/event-data-recorder

Homework
Listen to the podcast again, this time focussing on the language. In particular, make a note of the phrasal verbs that you hear (e.g. write off, hold off, drive off, go through, turn on, take out, carve out) and think about what they mean in this context and which of the 4 phrasal verb types they are.  

Lombardi Segni & Associati Legal English Course Lesson 22

12:00 pm B1
Class
Error Correction - discussion & exercises
Identifying and assessing the seriousness of mistakes:  Does the error cause a misunderstanding? Does the error block communication?

Homework

1. Correct your email
2. Look at the error correction exercises that we did today. Which mistakes are (a) the most serious, (b) ones that you typically make?

1:30 pm C1/C2
Class

• U.K. Court Structure recap
• Discussion: The role of the judiciary - U.K. versus Italy 
• Listening:  The crisis in judicial recruitment - Law in Action 14/3/2017 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08hnly2 (from 7:20)

Vocabulary
to plead guilty or not guilty
to be short of something
to pack something in 

Homework 
Listen to the final interview with Lord Justice Burnett (22:00 to the end of the podcast) and answer the following questions:

1. How serious is the problem of finding suitable High Court Judges?
2. How many High Court Judges does he need to recruit?
3. What percentage of the High Court Bench does this represent? 
4. How many applicants have they had? Is this number increasing or reducing? 
5. How many judges do they need to find for the Circuit Bench? 
6. How many judges do they need for the Civil (County) Courts?
7. What are the three main consequences of this problem?
8. Why is morale so important? 

Going Further:

http://www.barcouncil.org.uk/media-centre/news-and-press-releases/2017/january/are-judges-enemies-of-the-people/

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-judges/branded-enemies-of-the-people-over-brexit-case-senior-uk-judges-hit-back-idUSKBN1701BA

ANIA B2 & C1 (Monday) Lesson 8

12:30 pm B2 
Lesson 8

Class
Pronunciation Workshop:
Problem areas
(1) Vowel sounds - ea spelling exercise
(2) Voicing - ed endings exercise

Homework
Check the pronunciation of the past tense regular verbs in the text. Are they pronounced /d/, /t/ to /Id/?  Remember the rules you discovered today. When you are sure of the pronunciation, practise reading the text aloud and then record yourself.


2 pm C1
Lesson 8

Class
Listening & Discussion
Driverless Cars & the Law
Law in Action Podcast 19/3/2018

Available to download or listen on line from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09v3fdt

Homework

Listen to the podcast again, this time focussing on the language. In particular, make a note of the phrasal verbs that you hear (e.g. write off, hold off, drive off, go through, turn on, take out, carve out) and think about what they mean in this context and which of the 4 phrasal verb structures they take. 

Corrections
scaring scary

Vocabulary
tunnel
to write off (a car)
to hold off (doing something)
emergency services
event data recorder (EDA) https://www.nhtsa.gov/research-data/event-data-recorder

ANIA 2018: B2 (Thursday) Lesson 9

Lesson 9
Class

• Discussion - Hackathon
• Phrasal verbs (pass on, put forward, figure out etc) p. 135
• The 4 Types of Phrasal verbs (listening)

Vocabulary
stock exchange
to enrol (for a course, competition etc.)

What is the difference between:
out of the country and out in the country?
company and industry?
wallet and portfolio?

Corrections
the middle average age was 22.
I told to my colleagues
7 of millions

You can see the importance of phrasal verbs when you look at the list of the 100 most frequent verbs in English and realise how many are verbs and prepositions.

ANIA 2018: C1 & C2 Wednesday) Lesson 8

Lesson 8
12:30pm C1
Class 

1. Strategies for grammar exercises - are you learning or testing?
2. Using a dictionary for classroom activities and self study
3. Listening strategies for exam tasks (paper 3, Part 2) - prediction
4. Exam practice - listening p. 140

Vocabulary
What's the difference between...
salty and savoury
parents and relatives
convenient and good value?
Check your answers using a monolingual dictionary.

Homework 

1. Listen to the listening exercise again this time noting down the vocabulary from the Expert Word Check on the bottom of p. 140 and phrasal verbs e.g. take off. What do these words and phrases mean in this context?
2. Try some of the online practice exercises at http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/advanced.php 

Lesson 8
2:00pm C2
Class 
1. Changing attitudes to social media, The Zuckerberg Testimony.

2. Regulating Autonomous Cars - Jigsaw Reading & Discussion

'Uber should be shut down': friends of self-driving car crash victim seek justice. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/20/uber-self-driving-car-crash-death-arizona-elaine-herzberg

Tesla defends Autopilot after fatal Model X crash. Source: https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/28/17172178/tesla-model-x-crash-autopilot-fire-investigation

Who's driving? Autonomous cars may be entering the most dangerous phase. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/24/self-driving-cars-dangerous-period-false-security

Homework 
Think about what regulations need to be adapted or introduced for the testing, production and marketing of autonomous cars. Next week we will listen to what legal measures are being introduced in the U.K.

Vocabulary
to catch fire

Corrections
on the way or in the way?
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/in-the-way-or-on-the-way

Going Further
The Florida Project & Instagram
Reading: https://www.wired.com/story/florida-project-breakout-star-instagram/
Trailer: 

Lombardi Segni & Associati Legal English Course Lesson 21

Lesson 21
B1 12:00 pm

Class
Email Writing - conciseness
Timed Writing Assessment BEC Part One - Peer Editing & Feedback
(Source: BEC Vantage Masterclass p. 29)

Going Further 
Listening - Across the Pond - Differences between American and British English
Listen here:
https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/across-the-pond
Transcripts also available.

C1/2 1:30pm
Class
Common Law Vocabulary
e.g. Tort: nuisance, trespass, negligence, defamation
Commercial Law & Intellectual property: passing off, trademark, patent, copyright

Court Structure
Trail/First Instance Courts - Appellate Courts
Civil- Criminal Courts

Your Questions Answered:
How do you become a judge in the U.K. ?
https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/about-the-judiciary/judges-career-paths/becoming-a-judge/
http://www.chambersstudent.co.uk/where-to-start/newsletter/becoming-a-judge
How much do U.K. Judges earn?
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/629667/moj-judicial-salaries-from-1-april-2017.pdf
How much does it cost to take someone to court in the U.K.?
https://www.gov.uk/court-fees-what-they-are
What are the alternatives to courts for small claims in the U.K.?
https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/law-and-courts/legal-system/taking-legal-action/small-claims/going-to-court/before-you-take-someone-to-court/

Homework 
Compare and contrast the U.K. and Italian court systems. What do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of each? How has the Italian system been influenced by historical, cultural, political, economic and social factors?

Going Further:
Background:
http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/64428921/Court%20Structure
Listening: Why is the U.K. short of Judges?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08hnly2

ANIA 2018: B2 & C1 (Monday) Lesson 7

B2 12:30 pm 

Lesson 7

Class

Pronunciation workshop

• Using the phonemic chart
• Hidden Names Exercise
• Assimilation, Elison and Insertion

Homework

1. Practice using the chart - which sounds do you find hard to make/distinguish? Why do you think that is?

2. Listening practice - try to find some examples of asimilation, elision and insertion in your practice this week.

Going further

This chart compares Standard English (RP) and Italian vowels. What does it tell you about the difference in pronunciation?

2 pm C1
Class

Regulating Autonomous Cars
Jigsaw Reading & Discussion

• 'Uber should be shut down': friends of self-driving car crash victim seek justice. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/20/uber-self-driving-car-crash-death-arizona-elaine-herzberg
• Tesla defends Autopilot after fatal Model X crash. Source: https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/28/17172178/tesla-model-x-crash-autopilot-fire-investigation
• Who's driving? Autonomous cars may be entering the most dangerous phase. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/24/self-driving-cars-dangerous-period-false-security

Vocabulary
to run over  The cyclist was run over by a car.
to catch fire The engine caught fire.

Corrections
put pay attention
They took the argument dispute to court.

Homework
Check any new words from today's reading, using a monolingual dictionary.