ANIA 2018: C1 & C2 (Wednesday) Lesson 14

Lesson 14
12:30 C1
Exam Skills - Speaking Part 2
Useful Language (p, 97)

• contrast
• possibility
• certainty
• emphasis
• surprise
• speculating

Practice Test, Speaking Part 2 (p. 205)

2:00 C2
Speaking Skills - Discussion

• Political Discourse https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/5/15/15585176/motivated-ignorance-politics-debate
• Approaches to error correction
• Approaches to vocabulary - phrasal verbs

Lombardi Segni Legal English Course - Lesson 27

Lesson 27
12:00 B1
Class
Speaking Skills - Discussion

• Approaches to national and global challenges (economic, political, health, environmental)
• The Gapminder Test
• Factfulness

Homework
Hans Rosling- Video Listening
The TED talk should also have the audio script available.

1:30pm C1/C2
Class
Language Skills - Error Correction
Classifying errors: 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).

Discussion:

1. What mistakes are you most worried about/feel most self conscious about:
   mispronunciation?
   using the wrong word?
   using the wrong tense?
   sounding too simplistic or unsophisticated?
2. Are you more self conscious about your writing or your speaking? Why?
3. Are you equally worried about slips and mistakes? http://www.errordiary.org/?page_id=7339 
4. What mistakes are you happy to let slide?
5. How far do you agree or disagree with the following statements:

“Americans have ruined the English language.”
“Technology means everyone will have to speak the same English.”
“If Shakespeare were alive today, he’d sound like an American.”
“English accents are the sexiest.”

Homework:
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

ANIA 2018: B2 & C1 (Monday) Lesson 14

Lesson 14
12:30pm B2
Class

Phrasal Verbs
meaning & structure (4 types)

Homework
1. Write your own examples for the 6 phrasal verbs that you learnt today.
2. You can see the importance of phrasal verbs when you look at the list of the 100 most frequent verbs in English and realise how many are verbs and prepositions.

Phrasal Verbs - A Spotify Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/user/11142496185/playlist/5IN815vqsJHESck8r070SH?si=Fm4vyOteRnWhziPNZa9LaQ

2:00pm C1
Class
Talking Points: 

• The Italian Political Crisis (1) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/26/charlatan-miracle-cure-italy-populist-new-government-five-star-movement-league   (2) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/28/italy-president-sergio-mattarella-names-interim-prime-minister-carlo-cottarelli
• The effect of the GDPR (1) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/21/what-is-gdpr-and-how-will-it-affect-you   (2) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/25/facebook-google-gdpr-complaints-eu-consumer-rights

Corrections
scaring scary
it's been ready since for two years
ask to you

Homework

1. Follow up reading on today's talking points (see links above)
2. Complete the exercises on the photocopy about verb/noun/adjective + preposition constructions

ANIA 2018: B2 (Thursday) Lesson 15

Lesson 15

2:00 pm B2

Class

Speaking and listening skills:

Supporting the speaker/active listening.

Introducing yourself on the phone. 

Source: Business Advantage p. 124

Vocabulary

To involve someone (in a discussion/conversation)

Teleprompter

Homework

Prepare a short talk based on an article you have read, video,film or tv show you've seen or podcast or interview you've listened to. This can then be the starting point for our in class discussion. 

ANIA 2018: C1 & C2 (Wednesday) Lesson 13

12:30pm C1
Class

1. General listening & discussion Credit Card Roulette (Listening starts at 18:25 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09r82r3)
2. Unit 6B - Vocabulary p. 96 words and phrases expressing anger and happiness
3. Exam Practice, Speaking Part 2 = linking description to deduction (pp. 96 - 97)

New Vocabulary
to be tight/mean (with money)
to mull (something) over
to brood over something/someone

Homework
Analysing the speaking task - listening p. 97 questions 3(b)(c) and 4(a)(b)

2:00pm C2
Class

1. The Royal Wedding: The Economic Effects? (Listening) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p067kzbn The Social Effects?(Reading) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/20/spirit-britain-royal-wedding-brexit
2. Behavioural Economics General listening & discussion Credit Card Roulette (Listening starts at 18:25 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09r82r3)

 Vocabulary
to shout someone something
to part with money
to split the bill

Going Further
http://danariely.com

Lombardi Segni & Associati Legal English Course Lesson 26

Lesson 26
1:30pm C1/C2 
Class

1. GDPR - follow up discussion - comparing the new regulation with the current directive.
2. Approaches To Error Correction  

• errors or slips?
• cause and effect
• categorising errors - blocks information/doesn't block information/causes confusion
• hyper-correction

Corrections
There are is information
Sensible/sensitive
on in March

How would you categorise these mistakes? What caused them? Are they errors or slips?

Homework
The Allusionist Across The Pond
Listen here: https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/across-the-pond
Audio script available here: https://www.theallusionist.org/transcripts/across-the-pond

ANIA 2018: B2 & C1 (Monday) Lesson 13

Lesson 13
12:30pm B2
Class

• Bringing up children: Children and education - combatting bullying, teaching tolerance
• Perception: Laurel/Yanny and the Blue/Gold Dress. Reading:                                                                                                     (1)https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/05/16/three-years-of-research-into-thedress-digested-a-lesson-in-humility-for-perceptual-science/                                                                                  (2) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/16/yanny-or-laurel-sound-illusion-sets-off-ear-splitting-arguments
• Supporting the speaker in Italian - follow up to last week's skills work

Vocabulary & Corrections
bully - check the pronunciation here: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/bully
to throw in the towel = to give up
more easy easier
go to home
actually = in reality
at present
tidy

Homework
This week listen out for and look out for phrasal verbs when you are reading and listening to English. Make a note of what phrasal verbs you hear, their meaning and their structure. Look at all the phrasal verbs (underlined) there are in this blog post alone.

2:00pm C1

Class
Talking Points:

• The Royal Wedding: Follow up reading & viewing: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/20/bishop-michael-curry-sermon-history-harry-meghan-wedding
• The Cannes Film Festival https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/may/19/cannes-2018-japanese-film-shoplifters-wins-palme-dor

Language Development: 

Verb/Noun/Adjective + preposition combinations

Vocabulary & Corrections

screening (of a film)

feasibility (noun), feasible (adjective)

to watch something live/a live broadcast

nervous versus irritable

Homework
Complete questions 4 & 5 on the handout - preposition + ing constructions and confusing pairs.
What's the difference between:

• hear of & hear about?
• shout to & shout at?
• anxious for & anxious about?
• care for & care about?
• laugh at, laugh with & laugh about