Post CPE Group Lesson 1

Lesson Content

• Goal setting
• Approaches to language learning
• Language and thinking

http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/84924628/Things%20To%20Think%20About%20When%20Starting%20A%20New%20Course

Error Correction

According to me - in my opinion (over translation)

The mistakes I do - the mistakes I make (collocation) 

Word stress: sucCESSful, amBIGuous (but note change in the noun ambiGUity)

Pronunciation of suffixes e.g. researchers (countable plural - the people) research ( uncountable therefore always singular - the work)

Homework

(1) Go to the Birmingham Grid website and take the test to find out what intelligence you are. How could you use this to help your language learning?http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/multiple_int/questions/choose_lang.cfm

(2) New vocabulary - set yourself the goal of learning 8 new words (or fixed expressions, idioms or collocations) this week - remember the 8x8 rule. Have a look at the following link and think about what techniques work best for you. Also consider why collocation is so important when it comes to learning and remembering new vocabulary. 

http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/41184334/Vocabulary

(3) Have a look at the proposed course outline for this term and let me know what you think.
http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/86820556/Post%20CPE

Next week we will continue our discussion on the relationship between language and thinking, this time focussing on how the tenses are organised in English. I will post the links for this lesson closer to the date. Have a good week.