ANIA 2018: C1 & C2 (Wednesday) Lesson 6

Lesson 6
12:30 pm C1
Class

1. Patterns after reporting verbs (Advanced Expert p. 141 - new edition, p. 140 old edition)
2. Verb pattern Quiz - 6 Minute Grammar https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0607m7m (N.b. If you want to keep this audio file, download it onto your computer from the website now as the podcast will only be available for another 3 weeks.)

Homework

1. Reading Elena Ferrante: ‘Yes, I’m Italian – but I’m not loud, I don’t gesticulate and I’m not good with pizza’ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/feb/24/elena-ferrante-on-italian-language-identity
2. Complete the exercises on patterns after reporting verbs - compare the exercises in the book (new edition) and on the photocopy (old edition).
3. Browse through your (spanking brand new) textbook, Advanced Expert, and decide which sections we should cover in class and which sections you would be happy to do on your own as self study. 

2:00 pm C2
Class

1. Room 101 - Radio 4 Listeners' pet language hates https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2018/03/13/radio-4-asked-people-phrases-theyd-like-confined-room-101/  For the origin of the expression Room 101 see: http://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/02/07/room-101-the-torture-chamber-in-george-orwells-1984-was-named-after-a-conference-room-at-the-bbc-where-orwell-would-have-to-sit-through-tortuously-boring-meetings/
2. The grammar of phrasal verbs - transitive/intransitive, separable/inseparable, two part/three part.

Homework

Insurance Contract Law Reform
Look at the material on New Zealand's Insurance Contract Review. Imagine that you would like to present your ideas during the public consultation process. What issues do you think should be considered in the law reform? What issues are the most important? It doesn't matter if you don't know anything about New Zealand law, think about how your European perspective could benefit the process. Next week you will have time to collaborate with your colleagues before presenting your ideas to the group.
Additional Material:
http://www.mondaq.com/NewZealand/x/681982/Insurance/Insurance+contract+law+for+review
Terms of reference: http://www.mbie.govt.nz/info-services/business/business-law/documents-image-library/terms-reference-insurance-contracts-law-review

Lombardi Segni & Associati Legal English Course - Lesson 19

12:00 pm Level B1
Class

• Request emails - stages and functional language 
• The grammar of phrasal verbs. 4 types: transitive/intransitive, separable/inseparable, 3 part multi-word verbs. Listening 6 Minute Grammar (BBC). Notes: http://www.studyandexam.com/types-of-phrasal-verb.html

Vocabulary
put up with (tolerate)
get over (recover)
get along (with) (have a good relationship with)
split up (separate)
pick up (catch)

Homework

Use your dictionary to find examples of the phrasal verbs from the email writing exercise (put forward, figure out, look into etc). Check their meaning/meanings and their structure - what type of phrasal verbs are they?

1:30pm Level C1/C2

Class

• Listening & Discussion - Visual Artists Rights Act 

How a group of graffiti artists won $6.75 million in damages after their art was destroyed

Law in Action http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0608m95

• Techniques for rewriting legalese
• Rewriting contractual clauses

Homework

1. Rewrite clause 5 using the stems provided in exercise 4
2. Rewrite clauses 2 & 6 using the techniques discussed today.

ANIA 2018: B2 & C1 (Monday Groups) Lesson 5

Lesson 5
B2
Class
Listening Skills: Analysing fast connected speech/Analysing context - Present Perfect Simple versus Present Perfect Continuous:

(a)   He’s worked at the Post Office since he was sixteen. (11 words)
(b)   Who’s eaten the last piece of chocolate cake? (9)
(c)   She’s written lots of postcards to send to her friends in England. (13)
(d)   We’ve been studying English for six months. (8)
(e)   She’s never been windsurfing before. (6)
(f)    He’s felt much healthier since he gave up smoking. (10)
(g)   I’ve been writing short stories since I left university. (10)
(h)   Have you ever met anyone from Transylvania? (7)
(i)   What has he done to your hair? (7)
(j)   I’ve been cooking since half past five. (8)

Which words were stressed?
What happened to the words that weren't stressed?

Homework
(1) Look at the examples above. What is a possible context for each sentence? Why are some simple and others continuous? What do these examples tell you about the simple and continuous aspect?
(2) Continue trying out the podcasts on the list. Make some notes and share you experience with your classmates at next week's lesson.

Vocabulary
indeterminate contract

C1

Above are the 100 most frequent words in English. They are pretty simple, but how many can be combined to make phrasal verbs and how many different meanings can those phrasal verbs have in any given context?

Class
The grammar of phrasal verbs. 4 types: transitive/intransitive, separable/inseparable, 3 part multi-word verbs.
Listening 6 Minute Grammar
Notes: http://www.studyandexam.com/types-of-phrasal-verb.html

Vocabulary
put up with (tolerate)
get over (recover)
get along (with) (have a good relationship with)
split up (separate)
pick up (catch)

Homework
In your personal reading and listening practice this week, listen out for the 5 phrasal verbs above. Do they have the same meaning (e.g. pick up can also mean collect or learn)? Check your dictionary if you are not sure. Does the phrasal verb follow the same structure if it has a different meaning?

ANIA 2018: B2 (Thursday) Lesson 6

Lesson 6
Class
Email writing continued

• abbreviations
• intercultural analysis - starting and finishing emails
• functions and functional phrases

Source: Business Advantage pp. 116 - 117

Homework
Write the email to the client as requested. Try to adapt the functional phrases from the example emails rather than translating from Italian.

ANIA 2018: C1 & C2 (Wednesday) Lesson 5

Lesson 5
12:30 pm C1
Class
New Vocabulary
to frown
to showboat
a kickabout - an informal game of soccer.
(football) pitch

Sentence Transformation Corrections
Phrasal Verbs
The Structure of Phrasal Verbs - 4 Types
to turn up
to go down (well/badly)
to pick up
to get over
to split up
to get along/get along with 
to put up with

Homework
Worksheet - Patterns of Reporting Verbs/Sentence Transformations

2:00 pm C2
Class
Vocabulary - Words of the week: 
(1) To Swear off
to promise to abstain from (something)
to swear off drink

(2) Inclusion Rider 

https://quartzy.qz.com/1221481/2018-oscars-inclusion-rider-meaning-the-contractual-demand-could-boost-hollywood-diversity/

https://www.ted.com/talks/stacy_smith_the_data_behind_hollywood_s_sexism

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/mar/05/what-is-an-inclusion-rider-frances-mcdormand-oscars-2018

Speaking Skills Part One Task - Talking about your language learning experience
Vocabulary
to put someone through their paces 
on the back of someone/something
to build up
to hit a wall
to bluff your way through
to get by
to give something a bash
to take the Mickey out of someone For the origin of this phrase see: https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/344000.html

Listening Skills: How To Learn A Language (More or Less 19/01/18) Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05vgzm0 The item starts at 19:20.

Homework
(1) Listening: Look at the phrases from today's vocabulary list - listen to the podcast again and tick them off as you hear them.


(2) Vocabulary: Find out what the 800 most useful English words are. Start off by reading about the Oxford English Corpus here: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/what-can-corpus-tell-us-about-language

Lombardi Segni & Associati - Legal English Course Lesson 18

Lesson 18

12:00 B1

Class

• Analysis and discussion - first contact emails
• Covergent versus divergent language https://www.global-lingo.com/linguistic-convergence-and-divergence/
• Old English versus Latin

Source: Business Advantage p. 134

Homework

Finish the exercises on the photocopy (p.135)

Question 5 - Phrasal Verbs

Question 6 - Email Stages

Question 7 - Functional Language

1:30pm C1/C2

Discussion - Inclusion Rider

https://www.ted.com/talks/stacy_smith_the_data_behind_hollywood_s_sexism

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/mar/05/what-is-an-inclusion-rider-frances-mcdormand-oscars-2018

Introduction to contract
Elements: Offer + acceptance + consideration = contract
Essential terms e.g. price, subject matter
Defences to contract formation e.g. duress, lack of legal capacity
Third party rights (delegate, assignee)
Form - written or oral

Text Analysis - Understanding contracts - examples of clauses

ANIA 2018: B2 & C1 (Monday) Lesson 4

Lesson 4
12:30 pm Level B2
Class
The link between grammar & pronunciation




Utterance Stress

• English is stress timed - stressed syllables are spaced evenly in time and unstressed ones are rushed through (c.f. Italian which is syllable timed).
• Potential maximum of utterance stresses is equivalent to the number of lexical words but in reality there will be about 2 or 3 utterance stresses in each sentence. 
• English clauses have an information structure that places new i.e. the most important information at the end of a clause. Neutral utterance stress follows this pattern. 
• When utterance stress is moved it is called Contrastive stress and implies something is being rejected 

Homework
Choose one of the podcasts on the list to listen to. Report back to the group next week about its usefulness and difficulty.

2:00 pm Level C1
Class
Speaking Skills - Collaborative Task - producing a podcast on a historical figure.
Listening Skills - These Words Forever from The Memory Palace 

Listen to Nate DiMeo’s podcast about Guglielmo Marconi here: http://thememorypalace.us/2009/06/episode-12-these-words-forever/

Corrections
talk for you speak for yourself
think to something think about/of something

Vocabulary
visionary
forward thinking

Homework
Reading:
“The Memory Palace”: History in Escapist Vignettes
Sarah Larson January 25, 2018
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/podcast-dept/the-memory-palace-history-in-escapist-vignettes