GPII Group 1 B2+2 Lesson 9

Lesson 9
The Law Making Process
http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/70148984/The%20Law%20Making%20Process
Amending a Law
Speaking Assessment. Unit 9.4

Error Correction
Lifes, this people, in a lot of case, one of the celebrity Singular/Plural
relate with someone, discuss about something Verb structure
well know
as, such, such as

Progress Test:
Taken from Units 3 & 7 and from the Legal English we covered in class. It will include questions on:

• international relations vocabulary
• subordinate conjunctions and clauses
• modal perfect - error correction exercise
• conditionals - error correction exercise
• linking phrases for giving an opinion
• reading skills - match missing phrases from a text, true/false answers
• listening skills - ordering statements, identifying opinions
• legal principles - paragraph writing
• false friends in Legal English
• phrase completion - 2nd conditional, mixed conditional

The best way to prepare is to do something (e.g. listening to the CD Rom, the extra practice on pages 139 & 147) rather than just reading over your notes.

Self Study:
(1) Write up your draft law.
(2) Keep a record of all the exercises/revision you do in preparation for next week's test - this will also count towards your self study.

GPIII Group 7 B2+2 Lesson 8

Lesson 8

Feedback on Essays

• Content: The question was generally well answered. Some candidates didn't talk about the future development of social media as a news source or spoke too generally about social media and therefore got a lower grade for content. 
• Organisation: Good range of linking devices used.
• Vocabulary: Good range of expressions for giving an opinion.

Corrections:

1. Common people has not the experience.
2. A good journalism is always reliable and doesn't give wrong informations.
3. The news are an important part of our daily life.
4. The different is going to be the way of its diffusion.
5. In this essay I will discuss about the effect of social media on journalism.
6. The age of ^ newspaper is not over.
7. Social media make us get news in a little time.
8. The internet is gaining always more and more space in our lives. 

Class:

(1) Seminar on Press Regulation - Speaking Assessment
(2) Speaking Skills - Speculating & Fillers
http://www.ieltsspeaking.co.uk/speculating-and-expressing-possibility/
http://www.ieltsspeaking.co.uk/using-fillers/
(3) Overview of Test

Homework:
Prepare for next week's progress test which is based on the grammar, vocabulary, fixed phrases and key language from Units 3 (International Relations) & 8 (Journalism & Media). There will also be skills task to test your reading and listening.

The best way to prepare is to do something (e.g. listening to the CD Rom, the extra practice on pages 139 & 149) rather than just reading over your notes.
 

SPIII Group 7 B2+2 Lesson 9

Lesson 9
Modals - Error CorrectionIf you still have doubts about modals, take a look at the exercises and examples on the following link: http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/11442644/Modals

Speaking Assessment - Seminar
Inequality & Neoliberalism - deciding on policy proposals for the Treasury Minister.
Feedback & Error Correction
http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/70510428/Mind%20The%20Gap%20-%20Seminar%20Preparation

The Spirit Level Research
Inequality & Trust
The Remedies
Policy from the One Society campaign.

Error Correction
Pronunciation – vowels and word stress
Crisis, Subsidise, Privatise, Decade, Prioritise, Proportionate, Encourage, Financial, Obsolete,
Necessary, Anxiety
Vocabulary & Collocation
In the long/short term
Housing  market  - state housing, Freelancer/Freelance professional,

Hold a referendum, Standard of living, (high) cost of living, To defraud, Juvenile crime,Tax rate
Grammar
Singular/plural   people are, everyone has
Suffixes – apply (not applicate)
Comparatives – higher not (more high)

Homework
(1) Review your notes on the Mind The Gap documentary as this will be the topic of your writing assessment next week.
http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/70326019/Mind%20The%20Gap%20-%20Note%20Taking%20Outline
(2) For some background on Opinion/Thesis led essays, have a look at Unit 7.5 page 79.

Self Study
Write a paragraph reflecting on your experience today. What have you learned from the documentary and the research you have done? Have your opinions changed or been challenged by the research? Do you think you would like to work in policy development either for a political party or a government minister?

SPIII Group 3 C1.1 Lesson 9

Lesson 9 

Procedure for Seminar

2:15pm - 3:15pm
Group Yunus
Francesca, Clementina, Maria-Chiara, Amanda, Antonio, Vittorio & Giulia 

In the Seminar you need to:

• set the agenda
• give individual presentations
• debate and form a consensus
• draft a policy statement and legislative measures for the minister

Group Shiller
(Caterina, Cristina, Augusto, Marzia, Giovanni, Patrizia & Irene) will give their presentation 5/12 at 3pm. 

Feedback Group Yunus

• well researched and professionally handled
• an initial discussion on the seriousness of the problem of inequality would have given the seminar a clearer focus
• some of the presentations (especially those with a lot of information) would have been improved by outlining the structure more clearly through the use of signposting language.

Pronunciation – vowels and word stress

Subsidise

Privatise

Encourage

Public

Funded

This/these

Necessary

Vocabulary & Collocation

In the long/short term

Housing  market  - state housing

Hold a referendum

Standard of living

Tax haven

Tax loophole

Employment law/contracts/policy – workers’ rights

To go on strike

Both Groups need to submit their literature review next week (21/11).

GPII Group 19 B2+1 Lesson 8

Lesson 8
Juvenile Crime
Age of Criminal Responsibility: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_of_infancy#Ages_of_criminal_responsibility_by_country
Sentencing & Criminal Justice
Agravating & Mitigating factors in Sentencing
Video - Teen Crime - You Be The Judge
http://ybtj.justice.gov.uk/
Unit 9.2 p. 92 - 93
Adverbs of Degree

New Vocab - Fairness

Homework
Adverbs of Degree: Read the notes (G1 p. 150) and do the exercise (G1 p. 151)
Self Study
(1) Read about the recent case of a teenage bank robber http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/22/boy-barclays-bank-robbery-15-year-old Do you think he was given the right sentence?
(2)Take a look at some of the other sentencing hearings on the You Be The Judge website. What agravating and mitigating factors did you have to consider? Compare your sentence with the punishment in the actual case.

ECII Group 15 B2+2 Lesson 9

Lesson 9

Modals - Error Correction
If you still have doubts about modals, take a look at the exercises and examples on the following link: http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/11442644/Modals

Speaking Assessment - Seminar
Inequality & Neoliberalism - deciding on policy proposals for the Treasury Minister.
Feedback & Error Correction
http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/70510428/Mind%20The%20Gap%20-%20Seminar%20Preparation

n.b. state/public housing, in the short/long term, the missing link.

The Spirit Level Research
Inequality & Trust
The Remedies
Policy from the One Society campaign.

Homework
(1) Review your notes on the Mind The Gap documentary as this will be the topic of your writing assessment next week.
http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/70326019/Mind%20The%20Gap%20-%20Note%20Taking%20Outline
(2) For some background on Opinion/Thesis led essays, have a look at Unit 7.5 page 79.

Self Study
Write a paragraph reflecting on your experience today. What have you learned from the documentary and the research you have done? Have your opinions changed or been challenged by the research? Do you think you would like to work in policy development either for a political party or a government minister?

GPII Group 5 B2+1 Lesson 8

Lesson 8
Juvenile Crime
Age of Criminal Responsibility http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_of_infancy#Ages_of_criminal_responsibility_by_country
Sentencing & Criminal Justice
Agravating & Mitigating factors in Sentencing
Video - Teen Crime - You Be The Judge
http://ybtj.justice.gov.uk/
Unit 9.2 p. 92 - 93
Adverbs of Degree

Self Study
(1) Read about the recent case of a teenage bank robber http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/22/boy-barclays-bank-robbery-15-year-old Do you think he was given the right sentence?
(2)Take a look at some of the other sentencing hearings on the You Be The Judge website. What agravating and mitigating factors did you have to consider? Compare your sentence with the punishment in the actual case.