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
How old is he
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
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