Thursday, 5 May 2016

ANIA C2 Lesson 15

Class
Plastics!
Listening Skills - note taking
Reading Skills - opinion/attitude/register
Vocabulary Skills - informal phrases
Language Skills - cohesion: substitution and ellipsis

Below: Emma Watson at the Met Ball on Monday in a dress made of recycled plastic bottles. See: http://edition.cnn.com/videos/style/2016/05/03/emma-watson-met-ball-dress-orig.cnn


Taken from Language Leader Advanced (2010, Pearson/Longman pp. 124 - 125)

Homework
Question 10  - rewrite the sentences using the 5 different substitution techniques we looked at today.


Vocabulary
Cruel chance
Disparaging (words, remark etc) - speech that's intended to belittle or reproach
Demeaning (behaviour etc) - something that debases, degrades or lowers in dignity.
To decompose
To get caught up in
Teeming with
Untold numbers of
Rant (verb and noun)
To spout 
To wheel out
To bother to do something (cf. To bother someone)
To be bothered

Going further
Language Practice
Language reference notes and extra practice 

Reading 
Stan Carey: There's nowt wrong with dialects, nothing broke ass about slang.
Listening/Viewing
"Lauren" The Catherine Tate Show
Am I bovvered? 
Note the non-standard pronunciation of 

ð



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D'Amico Shipping B1 Lesson 21

Class
Work placements/internships
Reading Skills - inferring opinion
Listening skills - note taking
Language skills - noticing present perfect simple and present perfect continuous forms

New Language Leader pp. 30 - 31.

Vocabulary
To open doors 
On the other hand
To exploit
Without question
To send off = to send

Homework
P. 30 question 7

Going further


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Wednesday, 4 May 2016

Legal English at Bennett Languages Civitavecchia. Lesson 24 (last)

Class
Contract law - language exercises
Contractual Remedies
Case Study  Gainsborough Construction v. Deep Blue Pools

Vocabulary 
unwarranted = unjustified
waiver = not taking up a right or claim
Adjective - Noun
deep - depth
wide - width
long - length
high - height
Antonyms
enforceable - unenforceable
implied - express
binding - non-binding
valid - invalid
Abstract Nouns
renewal, draft, inclusion, omission, termination, encryption, adoption, negotiation, proposal, transaction. 
For more on -ion nouns see: http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/59805858/Love%20Profusion%20-%20Madonna

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ANIA B2.3 Lesson 15

Class
Listening Skills:
1. Weak forms and assimilation recap.
2. High numbers.
Podcast More or Less 22/04/2016
Listen or download here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03s4577

An artist's impression of the planned nuclear power plant. 

What is the most expensive “object” ever built? There are plans in the UK to build a brand new nuclear power station called Hinckley Point. The environmental charity Greenpeace have claimed it is set to be the most expensive object on Earth. But could it really cost more to build than the Great Pyramid of Giza? We take a look at some of the most costly building projects on the planet.

Notes:
Billion 1,000,000,000 (short scale used in the U.S., U.K. since 1974 and most of Europe, Australia, New Zealand).
1,000,000,000,000 (long scale used in the U.K. until 1974, still used in some countries e.g. in South Amercia).
Pronunciation of large numbers:
£324,345,923.00 
Three hundred and twenty four million, three hundred and forty-five thousand, nine hundred and twenty-three pounds.
Note also the use of commas and full stops in English.

Vocabulary
Piffling - trival/of little value e.g. A piffling number/amount = an insignificant number or amount. 
To splash out on (something) = to spend a lot of money on
A bargain = something of good quality obtained at a low price
Quids = pounds
Caveat = caution, warning

Homework
Finish listening to the rest of the podcast. If the accents are difficult at first, they will get easier the more you listen. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03s4577
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D' Amico Shipping B2 Lesson 21

Class

  • Vocabulary recycling - advertising 
  • Grammar recycling - future forms
N.b. The use of the future continuous wiil+ be -ing and the future perfect will + have + past participle.
This time next week I will be flying to London.
By the end of the course I will have written 6 research papers and a thesis.


  • Listening Skills - high numbers
Podcast More or Less 22/04/2016
Listen or download here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03s4577
An artist's impression of the planned nuclear power plant. 
What is the most expensive “object” ever built? There are plans in the UK to build a brand new nuclear power station called Hinckley Point. The environmental charity Greenpeace have claimed it is set to be the most expensive object on Earth. But could it really cost more to build than the Great Pyramid of Giza? We take a look at some of the most costly building projects on the planet.

Notes:
Billion 1,000,000,000 (short scale used in the U.S., U.K. since 1974 and most of Europe, Australia, New Zealand).
1,000,000,000,000 (long scale used in the U.K. until 1974, still used in some countries e.g. in South Amercia).
Pronunciation of large numbers:
£324,345,923.00 
Three hundred and twenty four million, three hundred and forty-five thousand, nine hundred and twenty-three pounds.
Note also the use of commas and full stops in English.

Vocabulary
Piffling - trival/of little value e.g. A piffling number/amount = an insignificant number or amount. 
To splash out on (something) = to spend a lot of money on
A bargain = something of good quality obtained at a low price
Quids = pounds
Caveat = caution, warning

Homework

  1. Finish listening to the rest of the podcast. If the accents are difficult at first, they will get easier the more you listen. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03s4577
  2. Learning tips - collocations with image, market & advertise. See today's photocopy question 5. 
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Sunday, 1 May 2016

Song of the week: King of May - Natalie Merchant

For May Day I am posting this song from Natalie Merchant's 1998 album Ophelia. The song is a tribute to Beat poet Allen Ginsberg.

 [Verse 1:]
Farewell today
Travel on now
Be on your way
Go safely there
Never worry
Never care
Beyond this day
Farewell tonight
To all joy and to all delight
Go well and go peacefully
We can't keep your majesty
Be on your way

[Chorus:]
Make ready for the last king of may
Make a cardboard crown for him
Make your voices one
Praise a crazy mother's son
Who loved his life[x2]

[Verse 2:]
Farewell today
Travel on now
Be on your way
Can't bear the very thought
That we could keep your majesty
Be on your way

[Chorus][x2]
Make ready for the last king of may
Make a hole in the crowd for him
Raise your voices up
Lift your loving cups
To his long life[x2]
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Post CPE Lesson 22

Lesson 22 
(Saturday 30th April 2pm)
Class
Discussion & Reading

  • Semantic mapping of the brain
  • The advantages of working in your second (or third) language
  • Referenda, Brexit & voting by proxy

Vocabulary:
(to be) in/of two minds undecided; wavering
default setting/position/language
to bulldoze
to get a word in (edgeways) contribute to a conversation with difficulty because the other speaker talks incessantly.
a boon something extremely useful, helpful, or beneficial; a blessing or benefit   ⇒ the car was a boon to him
dim/bright 
stumbling block
disingenuous not sincere; lacking candour
verbiage the excessive and often meaningless use of words; verbosity
verbage (informal) verb + garbage = (1) a made up word used to impress, (2) a synonym for copy or text, (3) a variation on verbiage derogatory term for redundant official text.  See http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=verbage for more usages.

 Sources: 
1. Neuroscientists create ‘atlas’ showing how words are organised in the brain

2. Of Two Minds The Economist
Going Further
Listening: Hug a Brit Inside Europe podcast (DW)http://www.dw.com/en/inside-europe-inside-europe-2016-04-24/e-19149786
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