British Council English Courses at the LUISS - Speaking Practice

Speaking Practice


During your tutorials many of you told me that you wanted to improve your speaking. Some of you think that the only way to do this is by going to a country where English is spoken. However it isn't always possible to do this so you need to think of ways of creating opportunities to speak in English while you are at home, here in Italy.  A good way to do this is to make use of social networks  (Facebook) and technology such as Skype to talk to your classmates in English out of class. You can also use websites such as Soundcloud or  Vocaroo http://vocaroo.com/ where you can record your speaking, play it back to yourself and/or send it to a friend via email.

Try it.
Good Luck and Keep Talking!

British Council English Courses at the LUISS - Tutorials and Beyond

Tutorials and Beyond


This week is the last week of lessons in which you will have your tutorial and get a chance to talk to your teacher about your progress.

Remember though it is important to maintain your level so try to do a little bit of English often.
Remember too that if you want to improve your speaking, you need to do more listening practise and to pay attention to things like strong forms and weak forms which occur in fast connected speech.

In many of the groups we read and discussed several controversial legal issues such as the Death Penalty so follow this up with more reading and listening on the internet. For example there was an article about the Death Penalty in the Guardian today see: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/may/21/america-death-penalty-murders-innocents

The Guardian also has a great Facebook page for students go to: https://www.facebook.com/GuardianStudent

If you want more examples, notes and exercises on grammar, vocabulary skills, academic and legal English you can go to my website http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/11442631/FrontPage

D'Amico Shipping Legal English Course

D'Amico Shipping Legal English Course
18th May 2012
Semester 2 Lesson 10

Cohesive Devises and Discourse Markers
Patents and Business Methods

Going Further:
Multiple Intelligences
http://www.literacyworks.org/mi/assessment/findyourstrengths.html
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/multiple_int/index.htm
Conditional Forms
Exercises
http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/conditionalintro.html
Reading/Noticing
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/mar/18/what-if-star-wars-never-existed

British Council English Courses at the LUISS 18/5

British Council English Courses at the LUISS
Friday 18th May 2012


2pm
GPIV Group 5


Home
Criminal Justice Discussion
Sentencing Case Studies
http://www.georgeboyle.com/judge.html

Go further:
You Be The Judge Video
http://ybtj.justice.gov.uk/
Sentencing - Worksheet and Podcast Listening
http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/31299679/Sentencing

Presentation Skills
http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/32233573/Presentations


Home
Next week is your last lesson and final assessment. Please come along prepared to give a short (5 minute) presentation on a legal topic of your choice.

British Council English Courses at the LUISS 17/5

British Council English Courses at the LUISS
Thursday 17th May 2012
11:30am

GPII Group 12 B1.2
Class
Progress Test Units 4 - 6
Reading, Listening, Grammar & Vocabulary, Speaking.

Home
Next week the last lesson will take the form of a tutorial. Come along at 2pm as usual and book a 10 minute slot to see me. Come prepared with all your self study material. I will give you your results and we can discuss your progress. if you have attended less than 70% of the course, next week's tutorial is compulsory. 


Suggestions for self study:

• All your homework
• New vocabulary – including word lists, mind maps, example sentences & pronunciation
• Links to useful websites
• Extra activities for problem areas
• Error correction of written work
• Articles from English magazines or websites that you find interesting
• Questions & comments about the course for your teacher or other students
• Reflection on your own progress
• Your responses to the tasks set every week on http://seansstudypage.blogspot.com 

• Full participation in class activities (e.g. debate, questionnaire writing, interviewing, seminar)
• Full participation in open class discussions
• All group and pair work conducted in English 

British Council English Courses at the LUISS 16/5

British Council English Courses at the LUISS
Wednesday 16th May 2012


10:30am 
GPIV Group 3


Class
Criminal Justice Discussion
Sentencing Case Studies
http://www.georgeboyle.com/judge.html
Go further:
You Be The Judge Video
http://ybtj.justice.gov.uk/
Sentencing - Worksheet and Podcast Listening
http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/31299679/Sentencing

Presentation Skills
http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/32233573/Presentations


Home
Next week is your last lesson and final assessment. Please come along prepared to give a short (5 minute) presentation on a legal topic of your choice.

2pm:
GPII Group 11 B1.2


Class
Progress Test Units 4 - 6
Reading, Listening, Grammar & Vocabulary, Speaking.

Home
Next week the last lesson will take the form of a tutorial. Come along at 2pm as usual and book a 10 minute slot to see me. Come prepared with all your self study material. I will give you your results and we can discuss your progress.

British Council English Courses at the LUISS 15/4

British Council English Courses at the LUISS


Tuesday 15th May 2012


11:30am
GPIV Group 1
Class
Presentation Skills
Listening, Signposting Language, Introductions and Conclusions, Using Notes
http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/32233573/Presentations


Home
For your final assessment please prepare a 5 minute presentation on a legal subject of your choice.
Next week's lesson will take the form of a 10 minute individual interview with me in which you will deliver your presentation and then we can then talk together about your progress during the course.

4pm
GPI Group 10 B2+2
Class


Progress Test


Home
Prepare for next week's tutorial. Please bring along all evidence of your self study work this term for grading. Self study is worth 25% of your final grade, so if you feel you have done badly in the test, you can still pass the course if your self study grade is good.

In grading your self study I will take into account the following:

• Exercises and discussion threads on the digital platform (your deadline for completing the work set on the platform is midnight Sunday 20 May)

and/or

• Any other homework
• New vocabulary – including word lists, mind maps, example sentences & pronunciation
• Links to useful websites
• Extra activities for problem areas e.g. tenses, countable/uncountable nouns
• Error correction of written work (e.g. correcting/rewriting your essay)
• Articles from English magazines or websites that you find interesting
• Questions & comments about the course for your teacher or other students either on the platform, the blog or in your tutorial
• Reflection on your own progress
• Your responses to the tasks set every week on http://seansstudypage.blogspot.com 

• Your participation in class speaking activities (e.g. legal systems debate 13/3/12, law reform scenario p. 96 - 97 20/3/12)
• Your participation in open class discussions
• Whether you spoke Italian or only English in class