GPIII Group 7 B2.2 Lesson 7 5/11/12

Lesson 7
5/11/12

Class:
1. Overview of modals:
http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/11442644/Modals
2. Literature: Unit 6.1 Reading/Vocabulary/listening & Discussion p. 58 - 59
3. Feedback on Writing Assessment

Content and Organisation

Write a brief introduction saying what the table is about and where the information comes from

Clear paragraphs

Suggested outline:

(1)    Top 3 airports keep their ranking though no. of passengers fell

(2)    Biggest increase Beijing 18.3% increase, rising 6 places, Suvarnabhumi 9.8% increase, 3 place rise

(3)    Paris CDG fell one place despite 5.6% increase. (n.b. do you count Heathrow as European?)

Errors:

Check the data!

Passenger traffic not cargo or freight

The number of passengers passengers’s number

Noun + noun collocation: passenger traffic, passenger numbers

Articles: the  third position, the 2005

Grow vs. grow up

Had an increase (using the wrong subject – the numbers increase not the airport -  or use a verb instead)

O’Hare Airport had an increase

Passenger traffic decreased at O’Hare

There was a decrease at O’Hare Airport

Homework:

1. Read either the extract from The Speckled Band p. 60 or To Kill A Mockingbird p. 163 and answer question 4 on p. 60
2. Grammar: question 7(a) (b) p. 61
3. Self Study: Read through your written assessment and correct the errors that I have pointed out to you.
4. Self Study: Write a list of books (in English) that you have read or that you would like to read which could be helpful for your English.

ECII Group 6 B2+2 Lesson 6 31/10/12

Lesson 6
31/10/12

1. Discussion: Youth Unemployment p. 98 see also the discussion on NEETS: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/oct/22/not-in-education-employment-training-europe-neet

2. Synthesising Information: Unit 9.5 p.98 - 99
3. Avoiding Plagiarism: References and Citations, Summarising, Paraphrasing and Quoting. http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/38675201/Summarising%2C%20Paraphrasing%2C%20Quoting For more examples on how to cite a source in an essay and write a set of references at the end go to: http://www.uefap.com/writing/writfram.htm and https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/563/01/

4. Opinion Led Essay Unit 7.5 p. 79

5. Income Inequality - Listening Listening: Armstrong, A. (Producer). (2012, 10 April) The Public Philosopher (Series 1, Episode 2) Should a banker be paid more than a nurse? Podcast retrieved from http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nmlh2

Homework:
In your next lesson you will be writing an opinion led essay in class time. This will be your written assessment for this term and is worth 25% of your final grade. You may use dictionaries and ask questions during the lesson but please come prepared with paper and stationery. Your topic is income inequality but I will give you your specific essay question in class. Please do some research by listening to the rest of the BBC Radio 4 podcast Should a banker be paid more than a nurse? and making some notes. You can find other resources if you like but you must listen to the podcast as this will help you the most.

You might also find the following articles useful and interesting:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/23/10-countries-with-worst-income-inequality_n_865869.html#s282588&title=5_Israel
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/abde55a4-bbeb-11e1-9aff-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2APcZX73A

GPI Group 17 B1.1 Lesson 4 31/10/12

Lesson 4
31/10/12

Class

• Introduction to tenses:

Find and correct the mistakes in the following emails:

1. Dear Sean, today I don't come to the lesson because I go home for the holiday.
2. Dear Sir, I write about the summer Law course. I look on the website but I don't find the information.

What is the difference in meaning between the following pairs of sentences? What does it tell you about the present simple and the present continuous? (n.b. both sentences are correct but they convy different information)

1. What do you do?  What are you doing?
2. You are very nice. You are being very nice.
3. He always comes to class late. He is always coming to class late.
4. The train leaves in 5 minutes. The train is leaving in 5 minutes!

For more information about tenses and the importance of ASPECT see: http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/11442655/The%20English%20Tense%20System

• Present Simple and Present Continuous Tenses p. 11, p. 134 - 135
• Travel Unit 2.1 Listening & Vocabulary p. 16 (n.b. the difference between travel/trip/journey and the expressions: to get away from it all, to broaden your horizons, to find yourself)
• Unit 2.2 p. 18 - 19 Reading, Phrasal Verbs, Past Simple p.136 - 137. Regular or Irregular/ Spelling/Use

Homework:

1. Study Aid Unit 1.5 p. 14, questions 1, 2a, 2b, 3a
2. Travel Vocabulary Unit 2.1 p. 16 question 3a, p. 17 question 7.
3. Self Study: Pronunciation of regular past tense endings. When do we use /d/, /t/ and /id/?
4. Self Study: See yesterday's post (30/10) for all GP groups on the length of trials in Italian courts.

GPII Group 4 B2.4 Lesson 6 30/10/12

Lesson 6
30/10/12

Class
1. Speaking Skills - Getting from B2 - C1 (n.b. modals of assumption, deduction and possibility, 2nd and 3rd conditionals) http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/41721142/Suggested%20Answers%20-%20Speaking
2. Legal Systems - Vocabulary and Speaking.
3. Individual Speaking Assessment
4. Individual Writing Tutorial - Essay Feedback and Error Correction

Home

• p. 154 read the notes in the  Language Reference (Grammar/Key Language/Vocabulary) and then complete all the exercises on p. 155.
• Self Study See the article and questions about the length of trials in Italy in the previous post for all GP students.

Self Study Exercise For All GP Groups

All GP groups, please do the following exercise as part of your self study:

Read the following report about the length of trials in Italy.
http://www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/19402/Up-to-four-million-legal-cases-pending-in-Italy.html
Now write one or two paragraphs stating your opinion, why you think the system is so slow and how the problem could be resolved.

GPIII Group 7 B2.2 Lesson 6 29/10/12

Lesson 6
29/10/12

Class
Describing graphs and tables Unit 5.5 p. 56 - 57
IELTS Academic Writing Part One http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/32702969/Academic%20Writing%20Paper%20One
Writing Assessment - Describing a table

B2 Skills tested in this assessment:

• can write a brief report to a standard format
• can link a series of discrete items into a connected linear sequence of points.

For more information on the IELTS exam, example questions and model answers see: http://www.ielts-exam.net/

IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR ABSENTEES

If you were not here for today's lesson you MUST complete p. 57 Exercise 7 for homework.  The information you need for your report can be found on p. 172. Spend only 20 minutes on the task and do not translate. Instead use the language we looked at on p. 57 and in the link on IELTS part one. THIS IS WORTH 25% OF YOUR FINAL GRADE

Homework
Past Modals P.53 Q. 6a, 6b, 6c, 7, P.142 G2 notes, p. 143 G2 q.2, 3

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