Homework
Think about your answers for the 5 business meeting ice breakers we discussed today. How could you develop them?
Corrections Verb Structure to make someone do something - e.g. It made me feel good. to tell someone something to say something to someone Vocabulary plastic surgery to light a cigarette to puff on a cigarette to throw something away I lit a cigarette, took two puffs and then threw it away.
Lesson 24 12:30pm C1 (CAE preparation) Class
Discussion & Error Correction of Paper 1.
Formative Assessment - Paper 2, Writing Part Two (BC Advanced West Test)
Homework
Read the strategy for the Cross Text Multiple Matching exercise and apply it to part 6 in Paper 1. Work backwards from the answer.
2:00pm C2 Class
1. Speaking - the week in popular culture: Sense 8
Vanity Fair
2. Off the beaten trackor off the beaten path? Most dictionaries will list both. See: https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/off-the-beaten-track-path and https://www.dictionary.com/browse/off--the--beaten--trackOff the beaten track was first recorded as a phrase in 1638 so is most probably the oldest version which might account for why Proficiency have it as the correct option and not path. However, if we look at usage, we get a different picture. The English Ten Ten Corpus which contains over 19 billion words taken from texts on the internet shows that beaten path is the more common collocation (see below)
The British National Corpus (BNC) though, only lists the collocation beaten track. The BNC is a 100-million-word collection of samples of a written and spoken language of British English from the later part of the 20th century. The BNC consists of the bigger written part (90 %, e.g. newspapers, academic books, letters, essays, etc.) and the smaller spoken part (remaining 10 %, e.g. informal conversations, radio shows, etc.).
In conclusion beaten track seems to be the older, more traditional term which has now been surpassed by beaten path.
Learning Skills - the principles of adult learning
Listening Skills - The Grameen Bank - Business Advantage p. 112
Homework
Read the audio-script and check any new words with your dictionary (e.g. to sue someone)
Watch the video on The Grameen Bank (above)
2:00pm C1 Class
Vocabulary Skills - The multiple choice cloze exercise does not just test meaning but also structure (e.g. word complementation) and usage (collocation). When working on this exercise, use a monolingual dictionary and a search engine to discover the most typical or natural usage.
Homework
Work on the next page of exercises including:
open cloze (grammar & structure)
word formation
key word transformations (structure & fixed phrases)
Lesson 23 12:30pm C1 Class
Formative Assessment - Reading & Use of English (Source: British Council Advanced West Exam) Homework
Correct your answers and then assess what data you have collected from today's exercise (e.g. timing, strengths, weaknesses, key vocabulary) Vocabulary to nail your colours to the mast to take something in your stride Going Further The Architecture of Happiness
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