ANIA 2018: B2 (Thursday) Lesson 16

Lesson 16
2:00 pm B2

(1) Presentation - Stefano - 6 Minute English - Women in NASA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac67KPcSqsM

Vocabulary
recruit
selected
a realistic possibility 
unfortunate
aspects
strengths
math (U.S.)/maths (U.K.)/mathematics

(2) Extended Discussion

• Save the date
• Infrastructure Development - Expanding the airport, a new runway for Fiumicino? https://centreforaviation.com/analysis/reports/global-airport-construction-review-2q2018-usd803-billion-costs-412850
• ANIA Foundation - health roadshow (Street Health Tour)

Corrections

Collocation: We did held a press conference

False Friends: Manifestation or Demonstration 

Pronunciation - Vowel Sounds: woman /wʊmən/ women /wɪmɪn/

ANIA 2018: C1 & C2 (Wednesday) Lesson 14

Lesson 14
12:30 C1
Exam Skills - Speaking Part 2
Useful Language (p, 97)

• contrast
• possibility
• certainty
• emphasis
• surprise
• speculating

Practice Test, Speaking Part 2 (p. 205)

2:00 C2
Speaking Skills - Discussion

• Political Discourse https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/5/15/15585176/motivated-ignorance-politics-debate
• Approaches to error correction
• Approaches to vocabulary - phrasal verbs

Lombardi Segni Legal English Course - Lesson 27

Lesson 27
12:00 B1
Class
Speaking Skills - Discussion

• Approaches to national and global challenges (economic, political, health, environmental)
• The Gapminder Test
• Factfulness

Homework
Hans Rosling- Video Listening
The TED talk should also have the audio script available.

1:30pm C1/C2
Class
Language Skills - Error Correction
Classifying errors: It is important to consider the effect of mistakes and where they come from. Errors that block communication are often caused by false friends or errors in collocation, whereas grammar errors often cause misunderstandings (e.g. modal use, present perfect instead of past simple).

Discussion:

1. What mistakes are you most worried about/feel most self conscious about:
   mispronunciation?
   using the wrong word?
   using the wrong tense?
   sounding too simplistic or unsophisticated?
2. Are you more self conscious about your writing or your speaking? Why?
3. Are you equally worried about slips and mistakes? http://www.errordiary.org/?page_id=7339 
4. What mistakes are you happy to let slide?
5. How far do you agree or disagree with the following statements:

“Americans have ruined the English language.”
“Technology means everyone will have to speak the same English.”
“If Shakespeare were alive today, he’d sound like an American.”
“English accents are the sexiest.”

Homework:
Listening
You are going to listen to an extract from the episode, Across the Pond from The Allusionist podcast from 6th April 2018.
To listen: https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/across-the-pond 
For the transcript go to: https://www.theallusionist.org/transcripts/

1. What does the expression across the pond mean?
2. What is hyper-correction? What examples do they give? (16:40)
3. According to Lynne Murphy why do we want to learn grammar? (20:00)
4. What does she say about English in the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries?
5. Complete the quotation from the interview:

English deserves our ______________, not our _______________.

Going Further
Lynne Murphy, The Prodigal Tongue

https://theprodigaltongue.com

ANIA 2018: B2 & C1 (Monday) Lesson 14

Lesson 14
12:30pm B2
Class

Phrasal Verbs
meaning & structure (4 types)

Homework
1. Write your own examples for the 6 phrasal verbs that you learnt today.
2. 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.

Phrasal Verbs - A Spotify Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/user/11142496185/playlist/5IN815vqsJHESck8r070SH?si=Fm4vyOteRnWhziPNZa9LaQ

2:00pm C1
Class
Talking Points: 

• The Italian Political Crisis (1) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/26/charlatan-miracle-cure-italy-populist-new-government-five-star-movement-league   (2) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/28/italy-president-sergio-mattarella-names-interim-prime-minister-carlo-cottarelli
• The effect of the GDPR (1) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/21/what-is-gdpr-and-how-will-it-affect-you   (2) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/25/facebook-google-gdpr-complaints-eu-consumer-rights

Corrections
scaring scary
it's been ready since for two years
ask to you

Homework

1. Follow up reading on today's talking points (see links above)
2. Complete the exercises on the photocopy about verb/noun/adjective + preposition constructions

ANIA 2018: B2 (Thursday) Lesson 15

Lesson 15

2:00 pm B2

Class

Speaking and listening skills:

Supporting the speaker/active listening.

Introducing yourself on the phone. 

Source: Business Advantage p. 124

Vocabulary

To involve someone (in a discussion/conversation)

Teleprompter

Homework

Prepare a short talk based on an article you have read, video,film or tv show you've seen or podcast or interview you've listened to. This can then be the starting point for our in class discussion. 

ANIA 2018: C1 & C2 (Wednesday) Lesson 13

12:30pm C1
Class

1. General listening & discussion Credit Card Roulette (Listening starts at 18:25 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09r82r3)
2. Unit 6B - Vocabulary p. 96 words and phrases expressing anger and happiness
3. Exam Practice, Speaking Part 2 = linking description to deduction (pp. 96 - 97)

New Vocabulary
to be tight/mean (with money)
to mull (something) over
to brood over something/someone

Homework
Analysing the speaking task - listening p. 97 questions 3(b)(c) and 4(a)(b)

2:00pm C2
Class

1. The Royal Wedding: The Economic Effects? (Listening) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p067kzbn The Social Effects?(Reading) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/20/spirit-britain-royal-wedding-brexit
2. Behavioural Economics General listening & discussion Credit Card Roulette (Listening starts at 18:25 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09r82r3)

 Vocabulary
to shout someone something
to part with money
to split the bill

Going Further
http://danariely.com

Lombardi Segni & Associati Legal English Course Lesson 26

Lesson 26
1:30pm C1/C2 
Class

1. GDPR - follow up discussion - comparing the new regulation with the current directive.
2. Approaches To Error Correction  

• errors or slips?
• cause and effect
• categorising errors - blocks information/doesn't block information/causes confusion
• hyper-correction

Corrections
There are is information
Sensible/sensitive
on in March

How would you categorise these mistakes? What caused them? Are they errors or slips?

Homework
The Allusionist Across The Pond
Listen here: https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/across-the-pond
Audio script available here: https://www.theallusionist.org/transcripts/across-the-pond

ANIA 2018: B2 & C1 (Monday) Lesson 13

Lesson 13
12:30pm B2
Class

• Bringing up children: Children and education - combatting bullying, teaching tolerance
• Perception: Laurel/Yanny and the Blue/Gold Dress. Reading:                                                                                                     (1)https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/05/16/three-years-of-research-into-thedress-digested-a-lesson-in-humility-for-perceptual-science/                                                                                  (2) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/16/yanny-or-laurel-sound-illusion-sets-off-ear-splitting-arguments
• Supporting the speaker in Italian - follow up to last week's skills work

Vocabulary & Corrections
bully - check the pronunciation here: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/bully
to throw in the towel = to give up
more easy easier
go to home
actually = in reality
at present
tidy

Homework
This week listen out for and look out for phrasal verbs when you are reading and listening to English. Make a note of what phrasal verbs you hear, their meaning and their structure. Look at all the phrasal verbs (underlined) there are in this blog post alone.

2:00pm C1

Class
Talking Points:

• The Royal Wedding: Follow up reading & viewing: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/20/bishop-michael-curry-sermon-history-harry-meghan-wedding
• The Cannes Film Festival https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/may/19/cannes-2018-japanese-film-shoplifters-wins-palme-dor

Language Development: 

Verb/Noun/Adjective + preposition combinations

Vocabulary & Corrections

screening (of a film)

feasibility (noun), feasible (adjective)

to watch something live/a live broadcast

nervous versus irritable

Homework
Complete questions 4 & 5 on the handout - preposition + ing constructions and confusing pairs.
What's the difference between:

• hear of & hear about?
• shout to & shout at?
• anxious for & anxious about?
• care for & care about?
• laugh at, laugh with & laugh about

ANIA 2018: B2 (Thursday) Lesson 14

Lesson 14
2:00pm B2
Class
Speaking Skills - Discussion: GDPR, privacy & social media

Homework
Listening: The GDPR Source: Law in Action 19/03/2018 (item starts at 17:00)

Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09v3fdt 

ANIA 2018: C1 & C2 (Wednesday) Lesson 12

Lesson 12
12:30pm  C1
Class

1. The Factfulness Quiz http://forms.gapminder.org/s3/test-2018
2. Intuition - discussion (p. 95)
3. Exam Listening Practice (p. 95)

Homework

1. Check the vocabulary in the Expert Word Check on p. 95 (draw on, mull over, snap decision etc)
2. Listen to the practice test again, noting where the answers are and analysing where you went wrong and/or try doing the test again using a different strategy

Going Further
Hans Rosling, Ignorance & the Chimpanzee Test https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen
Gapminder https://www.gapminder.org

2:00pm C2

Talking Points:

• Factfulness
• Yanny/Laurel 
• Ruth Ellis and capital punishment

Class

The  GDPR

Vocabulary
What do think the following expressions mean?
A catch all
A dry read
A client walking through the door
A mammoth task
A cottage industry

Listening

Source: Law in Action 19/03/2018 (item starts at 17:00)
Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09v3fdt 
Listen to the podcast and answer the following questions:

Part One - The Lawyer

1. How will breaches of the regulation be punished?
2. How does Phillip Giles define the GDPR?
3. What is included in the definition of personal data?
4. Will all businesses be covered by the regulation?
5. What has Phillip Giles done in his own law firm to comply with the regulation?
6. What categories of client does he outline?
7. What is the major drawback he sees in getting a consultant to organise a company's GDPR compliance?
8. Will the GDPR apply to the U.K. after Brexit?
9. Who will enforce the regulation in the U.K.?

Part Two - The Information Commissioner

1. According to the Deputy Information Commissioner what will the GDPR do?
2. How will consent for data usage change?
3. What's the difference between the right to withdraw consent and the right to be forgotten?
4. Is data erasure an absolute right?
5. What will be the role of the Information Commission?
6. What fines can the Commission impose?
7. How will the regulation expand the Commission's powers?
8. Will the new regulation be able to stop breaches by hackers?

Homework

1. Take the gapminder test from the opening chapter of Factfulness - http://forms.gapminder.org/s3/test-2018
2. Read your follow up article on the GDPR

Going Further

Dance With A Stranger

Lombardi Segni & Associati Legal English Course Lesson 25

Lesson 25
12:00pm B1
Class

1. Speaking Skills - discussion based on homework reading.
2. Language input - present & past habits & characteristics.
3. The different usage of would and used to when talking about past habit.

Vocabulary
to catch fire  (past tense: caught fire)

Homework
Adjectives for characteristics: easy-going, clumsy, mean, absent-minded, argumentative, sensitive, sensible, stubborn. 

1:30pm  C1/C2
Class
The  GDPR

Vocabulary
What do think the following expressions mean?
A catch all
A dry read
A client walking through the door
A mammoth task
A cottage industry

Reading & Discussion
Read your respective articles and then together answer the following questions:

1. What is the GDPR?
2. When does it come into force?
3. Will it only affect European companies?
4. What should law firms do for themselves in order to comply with the regulation?
5. What should law firms advise their clients to do in order to comply?

Listening
Source: Law in Action 19/03/2018 (item starts at 17:00)
Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09v3fdt 
Listen to the podcast and answer the following questions:

Part One - The Lawyer

1. How will breaches of the regulation be punished?
2. How does Phillip Giles define the GDPR?
3. What is included in the definition of personal data?
4. Will all businesses be covered by the regulation?
5. What has Phillip Giles done in his own law firm to comply with the regulation?
6. What categories of client does he outline?
7. What is the major drawback he sees in getting a consultant to organise a company's GDPR compliance?
8. Will the GDPR apply to the U.K. after Brexit?
9. Who will enforce the regulation in the U.K.?

Part Two - The Information Commissioner

1. According to the Deputy Information Commissioner what will the GDPR do?
2. How will consent for data usage change?
3. What's the difference between the right to withdraw consent and the right to be forgotten?
4. Is data erasure an absolute right?
5. What will be the role of the Information Commission?
6. What fines can the Commission impose?
7. How will the regulation expand the Commission's powers?
8. Will the new regulation be able to stop breaches by hackers?

Homework

Listen to the podcast again noting the new vocabulary introduced at the start of the class.

ANIA 2018: B2 & C1 (Monday) Lesson 12

Lesson 12
12:30pm B2
Class - Listening & Speaking Skills

• Supporting the speaker and Active Listening
• good point, absolutely, uh-huh, mmm-hmm

• Framing Criticism as Opinion
• to me, I suppose

• Softening disagreement or negative news
• I'm not totally happy with it, I'm afraid

Source: Business Objective Upper Intermediate pp. 124 - 125 

Vocabulary
sort out = resolve/organise
to get down on paper = record in writing/finalise
to play around with = experiment
Cheers = thanks/goodbye

Homework

1. Critical Analysis p. 125
2. Intercultural Analysis p. 125. In your first language, what sounds and words do people use to show they are listening? Are they the same as the English ones we looked at today in terms of sound and level and support? Do some of the words and sounds convey a different meaning? Monitor yourself and your colleagues this week and report back to the class with your findings. 

Lesson 12
2:0pm C1
Class
Language focus - high numbers
Listening Skills - the wealth of Mr D'Arcy https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09r82r3 (The item starts at 5:10)
Methodology: adjusting for inflation, percentage of national income
Speaking - How class and money are depicted in film and literature

Homework
The Films of Kelly Reichardt
"My films are about people who don't have a safety net."

Wendy & Lucy

Certain Women

ANIA 2018: C1 & C2 (Wednesday) Lesson 11

Lesson 11
12:30pm C1
Class - Learner Training

1. Analysing errors - cause and effect
2. Noun/adjective/verb + preposition combinations (p. 146)

Homework

1. Cross Text Multiple Matching (p.147). Be sure to read the task strategy (p. 168) before attempting the question.
2. Follow up reading - Researchers identify ideal ages for language learning https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/356492/researchers-identify-ideal-ages-for-language-learning

2:00pm C2
Class - Speaking Skills

This is America
The Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOjWnS4cMY
The Symbolism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESKmRiLjNpg
The Choreography: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/this-is-america-childish-gambino-donald-glover-kinesthetic-empathy-dance/559928/?utm_source=fbb

Going Further
"Money Talks - What language Does it Speak?"
Julie Tetel Andresen https://julietetelandresen.com
The Key - The Allusionist https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/survival-key
The Rosetta Disk https://rosettaproject.org/disk/wearable/

Lombardi Segni Legal English Course Lesson 24

Lesson 24

12:00 B1

Class
1. Speaking Skills - extended group discussion - autonomous cars and the law
Key Vocabulary & Corrections
road code
stick shift
manual/automatic 
crash against into someone/something

2. Language input - Expressing habit:
will, would, used to do, to be used to doing.

Homework

1. Jigsaw Reading - Autonomous Cars - read the article you have been given and be prepared to give a short summary on it next lesson.
2. Go through your mistakes from today's gap fill exercise. Why was your answer wrong?

1:30pm C1/C2
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 System 
Event Data Recorder (EDA)
to pick up (the bill, the cost)
to hand over

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.  

ANIA 2018: B2 & C1 (Monday) Lesson 11

Lesson 11

12:30 pm B2

1. Approaching error correction (type of error/effect/cause). It is important to consider the effect of mistakes and where they come from. Errors that block communication are often caused by false friends or errors in collocation, whereas grammar errors often cause misunderstandings (e.g. Modal use, present perfect instead of past simple).
2. Speaking skills - Telephone role-play
3. Introduction to supporting the speaker (Business Advantage p. 124)

Corrections

Two weeks after.     Two weeks later

We are four.       There are four of us

Present yourself.    Introduce yourself

Do a mistake.    Make a mistake

You can wrong.   You can be wrong/You can make a mistake

Uncorrect.    Incorrect

2:00 pm C1

1. The importance of context and meaning over translation and grammar rules: Among/Between
2. Prioritising errors and the dangers of hyper-correction
3. The Singalong Sound of Music phenomena http://www.singalonga.net/sound-of-music/

Homework

1) Language training: complete the multiple choice cloze exercise following the strategy discussed in class. (Advanced Expert old edition, p. )

2) Listening: Across the Pond from The Allusionist.

Listen to the podcast here: https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/across-the-pond

Check your understanding with the audioscript here: https://www.theallusionist.org/transcripts/across-the-pond

ANIA B2 (Thursday) Lesson 12

Lesson 12
2:00pm B2
Speaking Skills - Extending discourse, travel account -
The UAE https://www.lonelyplanet.com/united-arab-emirates

Learner Training - Error Correction Follow Up

• The importance of false friends
• Commonly mistaken words: say/tell (structure), line/lane (meaning and pronunciation) 

Notes - False Friends

Some of the most persistent errors come from over-translation and False Friends. For example, "according to me" is an Italian expression which doesn't exist in English - IN MY OPINION is used instead.

Two common false friends between Italian and English are STAGE and ACTUAL.

When you say you want to do a "STAGE" you really mean an internship, a work experience placement or appreticeship.

When you talk about "actual" events you want to emphasise that they are current, contemporary or happening now.

In English a "stage" is a place for performing and actual is a synonym for real. Always check your false friends!

Look at the list below - What do they really mean in English?

Impeach

Assit

important

Concourse

In fact

Lecture

Eventual

Library

Morbid

Sympathetic

ANIA 2018: C1 & C2 (Wednesday) Lesson 10

Lesson 10
12:30pm C1
Class
Vocabulary - The Mind, Memory & Forgetting
to jog your memory
too clever by half
to be all at sea/at a loss
bright/dim

N.B. the expression by half  = by an excessive amount or to an excessive degree
e.g. He's too arrogant by half

Speaking Skills - Collaborative Task
I'd like to pick up on what you said about...
If I could just jump in there...
How do you see it?
Would you agree with me on that?

Advanced Expert (pp. 144 145)
Homework 
Complete the writing task (article) on p. 142 if you haven't already done so.

2:00pm C2
Class
Correction & Hyper-Correction
Slips and Mistakes http://www.errordiary.org/?page_id=7339 
What mistakes are you happy to let slide?

Listening
You are going to listen to an extract from the episode, Across the Pond from The Allusionist podcast from 6th April 2018.
To listen: https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/across-the-pond 
For the transcript go to: https://www.theallusionist.org/transcripts/

1. What does the expression across the pond mean?
2. What is hyper-correction? What examples do they give? (16:40)
3. According to Lynne Murphy why do we want to learn grammar? (20:00)
4. What does she say about English in the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries?
5. Complete the quotation from the interview:

English deserves our ______________, not our _______________.


Going Further
Lynne Murphy, The Prodigal Tongue
https://theprodigaltongue.com

Homework
Ruth Ellis - Letter Analysis
How does this relate to today's lesson on Hyper-correction?
Analyse her letter focussing on
(A) Content:

• What information does the letter give you? 
• What is the situation? 
• Who is writing and why? 
• Who is it to? 
• What is it about? 

(B) Style:

• What mistakes or non-standard features of her English can you identify? Think about spelling, punctuation, register, appropriacy and vocabulary choice.What does this tell you about Ruth Ellis and her situation?