Lombardi Segni Legal English Course Lesson 24

Lesson 24

12:00 B1

Class
1. Speaking Skills - extended group discussion - autonomous cars and the law
Key Vocabulary & Corrections
road code
stick shift
manual/automatic 
crash against into someone/something

2. Language input - Expressing habit:
will, would, used to do, to be used to doing.

Homework

1. Jigsaw Reading - Autonomous Cars - read the article you have been given and be prepared to give a short summary on it next lesson.
2. Go through your mistakes from today's gap fill exercise. Why was your answer wrong?

1:30pm C1/C2
Class
Listening & Discussion
A new regulatory framework for autonomous cars

Source: Driverless Cars & the Law
Law in Action Podcast 19/3/2018
Available to download or listen on line from:https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09v3fdt

Vocabulary
tumbleweed
Act of Parliament versus a Parliamentary Bill
to write off (a car)
to tinker around (with something)
to hold off (doing something)
Advanced Driver Assistance System 
Event Data Recorder (EDA)
to pick up (the bill, the cost)
to hand over

Homework

Listen to the podcast again, this time focussing on the language. In particular, make a note of the phrasal verbs that you hear (e.g. write off, hold off, drive off, go through, turn on, take out, carve out) and think about what they mean in this context and which of the 4 phrasal verb types they are.  

ANIA 2018: B2 & C1 (Monday) Lesson 11

Lesson 11

12:30 pm B2

1. Approaching error correction (type of error/effect/cause). It is important to consider the effect of mistakes and where they come from. Errors that block communication are often caused by false friends or errors in collocation, whereas grammar errors often cause misunderstandings (e.g. Modal use, present perfect instead of past simple).
2. Speaking skills - Telephone role-play
3. Introduction to supporting the speaker (Business Advantage p. 124)

Corrections

Two weeks after.     Two weeks later

We are four.       There are four of us

Present yourself.    Introduce yourself

Do a mistake.    Make a mistake

You can wrong.   You can be wrong/You can make a mistake

Uncorrect.    Incorrect

2:00 pm C1

1. The importance of context and meaning over translation and grammar rules: Among/Between
2. Prioritising errors and the dangers of hyper-correction
3. The Singalong Sound of Music phenomena http://www.singalonga.net/sound-of-music/

Homework

1) Language training: complete the multiple choice cloze exercise following the strategy discussed in class. (Advanced Expert old edition, p. )

2) Listening: Across the Pond from The Allusionist.

Listen to the podcast here: https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/across-the-pond

Check your understanding with the audioscript here: https://www.theallusionist.org/transcripts/across-the-pond

ANIA B2 (Thursday) Lesson 12

Lesson 12
2:00pm B2
Speaking Skills - Extending discourse, travel account -
The UAE https://www.lonelyplanet.com/united-arab-emirates

Learner Training - Error Correction Follow Up

• The importance of false friends
• Commonly mistaken words: say/tell (structure), line/lane (meaning and pronunciation) 

Notes - False Friends

Some of the most persistent errors come from over-translation and False Friends. For example, "according to me" is an Italian expression which doesn't exist in English - IN MY OPINION is used instead.

Two common false friends between Italian and English are STAGE and ACTUAL.

When you say you want to do a "STAGE" you really mean an internship, a work experience placement or appreticeship.

When you talk about "actual" events you want to emphasise that they are current, contemporary or happening now.

In English a "stage" is a place for performing and actual is a synonym for real. Always check your false friends!

Look at the list below - What do they really mean in English?

Impeach

Assit

important

Concourse

In fact

Lecture

Eventual

Library

Morbid

Sympathetic

ANIA 2018: C1 & C2 (Wednesday) Lesson 10

Lesson 10
12:30pm C1
Class
Vocabulary - The Mind, Memory & Forgetting
to jog your memory
too clever by half
to be all at sea/at a loss
bright/dim

N.B. the expression by half  = by an excessive amount or to an excessive degree
e.g. He's too arrogant by half

Speaking Skills - Collaborative Task
I'd like to pick up on what you said about...
If I could just jump in there...
How do you see it?
Would you agree with me on that?

Advanced Expert (pp. 144 145)
Homework 
Complete the writing task (article) on p. 142 if you haven't already done so.

2:00pm C2
Class
Correction & Hyper-Correction
Slips and Mistakes http://www.errordiary.org/?page_id=7339 
What mistakes are you happy to let slide?

Listening
You are going to listen to an extract from the episode, Across the Pond from The Allusionist podcast from 6th April 2018.
To listen: https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/across-the-pond 
For the transcript go to: https://www.theallusionist.org/transcripts/

1. What does the expression across the pond mean?
2. What is hyper-correction? What examples do they give? (16:40)
3. According to Lynne Murphy why do we want to learn grammar? (20:00)
4. What does she say about English in the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries?
5. Complete the quotation from the interview:

English deserves our ______________, not our _______________.


Going Further
Lynne Murphy, The Prodigal Tongue
https://theprodigaltongue.com

Homework
Ruth Ellis - Letter Analysis
How does this relate to today's lesson on Hyper-correction?
Analyse her letter focussing on
(A) Content:

• What information does the letter give you? 
• What is the situation? 
• Who is writing and why? 
• Who is it to? 
• What is it about? 

(B) Style:

• What mistakes or non-standard features of her English can you identify? Think about spelling, punctuation, register, appropriacy and vocabulary choice.What does this tell you about Ruth Ellis and her situation? 

ANIA B2 (Thursday) Lesson 11

Class
Error Correction - discussion & exercises
Identifying and assessing the seriousness of mistakes:  Does the error cause a misunderstanding? Does the error block communication?

• countable/uncountable nouns
• tenses
• verb structure
• false friends
• mistranslations

Homework
Look at the error correction exercises that we did today. Which mistakes are (a) the most serious, (b) ones that you typically make?

Lombardi Segni & Associati - Legal English Course - Lesson 23

Lesson 23
12:00 B1
Class 
Learning Skills - reflecting on error correction
Speaking Skills - extended discussion:

• legal training U.K. versus Italy
• language issues in law (e.g. vulnerable witnesses, conflicting grammatical concepts)

Vocabulary
to put something to (good) use

Homework
Listening - Driverless Cars & the Law
Law in Action Podcast 19/3/2018
Available to download or listen on line from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09v3fdt


1:30 C1/C2
Class
Autonomous Cars

• Jigsaw Reading & oral summaries - finding the legal issues
• Reviewing the regulatory framework - role-play

Corrections
covering coverage
pretending/claiming (false friend)
take catch fire

Vocabulary
to run over someone

Homework
Compare your ideas from today's role-play with the reports from the Department of Transport (U.K.)
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/driverless-cars-in-the-uk-a-regulatory-review

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/401565/pathway-driverless-cars-main.pdf

ANIA B2 & C1 (Monday) Lesson 9

Lesson 9
12:30 B1
Class

• Speaking Skills - ice breaker questions and maintaining a conversation
• Speaking Task - pre-meeting role-play 

Corrections
Pronunciation
anxiety
descended
Vocabulary
recipe
angry
upset
yesterday night last night
How old is he with precision exactly?
Confused words:
Chef/Cook
Choice/Choose
Signed/Written
All/Everything
Soon/Early

Useful Phrases
If I remember rightly.... you have three children
What's your hotel like?
I got to sleep in a little 
Sorry, I didn't catch that
What time did you/your plane get in this morning? (get in = arrive)

Homework
Learn the useful phrases and the corrections from today's feedback. Pay specially attention to new phrasal verbs like get in, sleep in, get up, wake up. 

2:00 C1
Class

• idiomatic expressions
• expressions for emphasis
• dependent prepositions

(Taken from Advanced Expert 1st Edition, p. 40)

Homework

• idiomatic expressions
• lexical precision
• easily confused expressions
• words for eating and drinking

(Handout, p. 74)

Vocabulary
cross = angry
forehead

Corrections
supposed to be versus looks/promises/expected to be
See: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/46808/supposed-versus-expected
Compare:
It was supposed to rain today but it didn't
It promises to be a very interesting conference. 

Notes
Between versus Among
It is often taught that “between” is used for 2 items and “among” for 3 or more.
But this is not completely accurate. The more accurate difference is this:
Between is used when naming distinct, individual items (can be 2, 3, or more)

Among is used when the items are part of a mass or a group, or are not specifically named (MUST be 3 or more). In today's exercise we were talking about the rivalry between the members of The Rolling Stones - a group but one with specifically named members (e.g. Mick Jagger & Charlie Watts who are named in the article).
See: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/between-or-among