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: