Follow the link below to find an article by Diana Lea, editor of the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English on what it really means to know a word.
Lesson 16 Group 5 C2 12:30pm Discussion
The purpose of modern museum
Writing
CPE Part One
Writing Folder 1 p. 22 - 23
Going Further Clicktivism http://www.clicktivist.org/what-is-clicktivism/What is your view of clicktivism? Do you see it as a modern and effective form of activism or a lazy way of assuaging our guilt about modern problems?
American poet Dorothy Parker once proclaimed, "If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy." George Orwell on writing: http://www.theatozreview.com/2013/09/28/george-orwells-20-quotes-on-writing/
Similes (as fresh as a daisy, water off a duck's back, like chalk and cheese)
Homework
Writing: 180 words on the following topic using a range of appropriate future forms: What changes do you expect to see in your industry in the next 30 years?
Vocabulary: p. 19 Prepositional phrases, Have no.
Corrections The next near future A travel very common A very common trip/journey Going Further Empathy (putting yourself in someone else's shoes) versus Sympathy (feeling compassion, sorrow or pity for the hardships of another) http://www.vocabulary.com/articles/chooseyourwords/empathy-sympathy/
The great film Roger Ebert from the documentary Life Itself.
Group 7 Level C1 (2:00pm) Class Articles continued (p. 137, G1) Remember a + consonant sound eg. /j/ (a university) but an + vowel sound (e.g. /^/ an uncle) Tourism & Conservation unit 2.3 reading & discussion (p. 20 - 21) Homework Revise modal verbs see p. 20 question 8 Corrections Pronunciation - word stress knowledgeable, invigorated, consortium Modifiers
Too much + noun
Too + adjective Too much expensive Going Further:
Read about the he Malibu beach access controversy http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/12/malibu-celebrity-homeowners-beach-battle-public-access
Class
Unit 2 Expectation p. 16 - 17
Speaking Skills - Discussing photos
Reading Skills - Multiple Matching
Vocabulary Skills - collocations with traveller Homework
(1) Exam Folder 4 - p. 64 - 65
Reading - Multiple Matching
Have a go at today's exercise in your own time and see how you do. Are there any particularly tricks or traps you should think about? Vocabulary & Collocation to rough it live up to/meet expectation(s) Going Further Recreational Reading Only the Animals byCeridwyn Dovey http://www.ceridwendovey.com/only-the-animals
Film Roughing it Wild is an excellent film about getting back to nature/roughing it on a shoestring budget.
The Inspiration For Moby Dick
Ron Howard's new film, In the Heart of the Sea, an adaptation of Nathaniel Philbrick's National Book Award-winning novel, recounts the sinking of the whale ship, Essex, one of the inspirations for Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
Although winning the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and being nominated for 3 Academy Awards, Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation was somewhat overshadowed by the director's other release that year - The Godfather Part II. However, The Conversation has endured as a bona fide classic and one of the best American films ever made. What's more, Coppola's slow burning thriller about a surveillance expert (Gene Hackman, giving one of his finest performances) who realises that his recordings may have murderous consequences, is even more relevant today as CCTV surveillance and internet privacy are once again causing considerable concern the world over. For students of English the film of particular interest as it highlights the importance of intonation. The film's mystery hinges on one line of recorded dialogue - and where the stress falls in the sentence. He'd kill us if he got the chance turns out to be very different from He'd kill usif he got the chance as the lead character finds out too late.
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