British Council English Courses at the LUISS 9/5

British Council English Courses at the LUISS 
Wednesday 9th May 2012


10:30am
GPIV Group 3


Class
Avoiding "Legalese"
The Golden Rules of Good Legal English Writing.
http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/25080245/Legal%20Writing%20In%20Plain%20English
Error Correction - Letters of Advice.

2pm
GPII Group 11 Module B1.2
Class


Business Vocabulary (p. 58)
Negotiating an employment contract (role-play)
Ethical Dilemmas (p.60 reading, discussion, discourse markers)
Past Continuous and Past Perfect (p. 144 -145)

Home
Next week there will be a progress test based on the material from units 4, 5 and 6 in the book. The test will include reading, listening, grammar, vocabulary and a short speaking exercise. A good way to prepare would be to do the Review exercises on pages 68 - 69 as well as the extra practice tasks at the end of each language reference p. 141, 143 and 145. Remember any extra work and revision you do also counts towards your self study grade.

British Council English Courses at the LUISS 8/5

British Council English Courses at the LUISS
Tuesday 8th May 2012


11:30am
GPIV Group 1


Corporate Governance - reading and vocabulary
For more information on types of companies in different jurisdictions see: http://www.corporateinformation.com/
Letter of Advice
For more information on letters of advice and legal opinions see:
http://search.americanbar.org/search?q=opinion%20letter&client=default_frontend&proxystylesheet=default_frontend&site=default_collection&output=xml_no_dtd&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF-8&ud=1&ip=2.158.114.223&access=p&sort=date%3AD%3AL%3Ad1&entqr=3&entqrm=0&entsp=a

Writing Assessment - letter of advice.

4pm
GPI Group 10 Module B2+2


Class
Pronunciation "ed" endings and "ea"spelling
For more pronunciation worksheet go to http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/11442648/Pronunciation and click on the link.

Countable and Uncountable Nouns, Singular and Plural Forms, Definite and Indefinite Articles.
Common Errors: news, information, advice, research, notice, accommodation, evidence, proof, weather are all UNCOUNTABLE and therefore are never in the plural and never take an indefinite article. N.b. the difference between knowledge (u) and the fixed phrase a good knowledge of.


Error Correction and feedback on essays.

Presentations.

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Reflection on Presentation

If you gave your presentation today, write a short paragraph reflecting on how it went. 

If you were to give your presentation again, would you change anything?

Were you surprised by any of the feedback that your classmates gave you?

What areas do you need to improve (think about pronunciation, countable and uncountable nouns, articles, verb structure, false friends, presentation skills).

Write up your thoughts and either send it to me via the platform or keep it to give to me when you present your self study material in the last lesson on 22nd May.

Revision for Test
Next week is your progress test. It will be in 5 parts:
(1) Legal Principles
(2) Error Correction (tenses, countable/uncountable, verb structure, false friends, articles)
(3) Presentation Language (signposting phrases)
(4) Summarising Skills, Referencing and Citations see http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/38675201/Summarising%2C%20Paraphrasing%2C%20Quoting for some helpful notes.
(5) Grammar & Vocabulary from Unit 9.

British Council English Courses at the LUISS 7/5

British Council English Courses at the LUISS
Monday 7th May 2012


4pm
GPI Group 16 B2.2


Class

• Revision of narrative tenses, would/used to
• Listening for grammar - fast connected speech
• Negotiation - listening, bargaining language, role-play speaking assessment 
• Feedback and error correction on reports

Home

Next week there will be a progress test on units 4 - 6 from the book. The questions will cover, grammar, vocabulary, reading and listening. Afterwards there will be a short speaking test including one interactive task in pairs and one individual task where you have to speak on a topic for about a minute. 

To prepare for next week you can:

• Do the revision exercises in the book Review p. 68 -69 
• Look at all the speaking exercises we did in class and the questions I set on the blog. Revise the vocabulary, helpful phrases and functional language for these topics.
• If you have the workbook, do some exercises on problem areas.
• Look at the links suggested throughout the term on this blog.

REMEMBER THAT ALL THE REVISION WORK THAT YOU DO ALSO COUNTS TOWARDS YOUR SELF STUDY GRADE SO KEEP A NOTE OF WHAT YOU HAVE DONE. 

D'Amico Shipping Legal English Course

D'Amico Shipping Legal English Course
Term 2 Lesson 8
Friday 4th May 2012

11:30am

• Share holders' rights letter
• Formulas for letter writing.

British Council English Course at the LUISS 4/5

British Council English Courses at the LUISS
Friday 4th May 2012
2pm


GPIV Group 5
Case Study - Contract/Contractual Remedies
Role Play Negotiation (assessment) Negotiating an out of court settlement.

British Council English Courses at the LUISS 3/5

British Council English Courses at the LUISS
Thursday 3rd May 2012
11:30am


GPII Group 12 B1.2


Class

• Business Law (Commercial, Company, Employment Law, Banking and Finance) Vocabulary p. 58
• Role-play: negotiating an Employment Contract - Employers and Unions
• Business Ethics p. 60 - 61 Reading, Discussion and Using Pronouns as Discourse Markers 
• Past Continuous p. 144 -145 G1

Home

• Business Plan p. 59, Q.4, 5 Reading
• Past Continuous p. 61, Q.6

British Council English Courses at the LUISS 2/5

British Council English Courses at the LUISS
Wednesday 2nd May 2012
10:30am


GPIV Group 3


Corporate Governance - reading and vocabulary
For more information on types of companies in different jurisdictions see: http://www.corporateinformation.com/
Letter of Advice
For more information on letters of advice and legal opinions see:
http://search.americanbar.org/search?q=opinion%20letter&client=default_frontend&proxystylesheet=default_frontend&site=default_collection&output=xml_no_dtd&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF-8&ud=1&ip=2.158.114.223&access=p&sort=date%3AD%3AL%3Ad1&entqr=3&entqrm=0&entsp=a

Writing Assessment - letter of advice.

2pm
GPII Group 11 B1.2

Class
Legal English - Branches of Law
Presentations - listening, organisation and signposting language p. 55
Role Play Presenting a Law Firm to a potential client (Speaking Assessment - 25% of final grade)

For more notes on presentations go to:

http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/32233573/Presentations

http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/32914707/Presentations%3A%20Introductions%2C%20Conclusions%20and%20Visuals

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Dictionary Skills p. 56