Post CPE Lesson 22

Lesson 22
Video Lesson - Dance With A Stranger (1985)
http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/91790277/Dance%20With%20A%20Stranger

Language Notes: 

wishful thinking
boarding school
school uniform
sloshed = drunk

to knick/pinch
active = to steal, passive = to be arrested
He pinched a car
He was/got pinched for stealing a car
half inched = pinched = stolen (Cockney rhyming slang)

Money related: to cost a fortune, to be strapped for cash, to cough up, stingy

to chuck something in = to give it up
to get sacked/get the sack = lose your job
to treat someone like dirt
to beat the living daylights out of someone
"I shan't have any peace until we're married."
n.b. the use of shan't (shall not) instead of will not.

British Council at ANIA Lesson 4

Lesson 4

12:30 Group 5 C2
Class

• Introduction to phonemic chart http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/phonemic-chart
• Overview of tenses http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/11442655/The%20English%20Tense%20System

Homework

Analyse a pièce of written or spoken text. What are the tenses used? Why has the speaker/writer chosen these tenses? Could he/she have made other choices? 

Going Further

Reading - English grammar and thinking in English

2:00 Group 7 C1

Class

Introduction to phonemic chart http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/phonemic-chart

Listening Strategies http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/37875566/Listening%20Skills

Pronunciation & Grammar http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/11442648/Pronunciation

Homework

Analyse a spoken text - which tenses or verb structures can you identify? How are the auxiliary verbs pronounced? 

Both Groups - download the Sounds Right App or similar pronunciation app with audio. Make sure the chart is organised in the same order as the phonemic chart in the link above. 

Sounds Right iPad app
If you have an iPad, you can download and install a free copy of the British Council phonemic chart on it. Find out more on LearnEnglish.

Post CPE Lesson 21

Lesson 21

• Recycling media vocabulary - crossword task
• Dance With A Stranger - introduction, discussion, reading 

Going Further:

Ruth Ellis

For more on Ruth Ellis see: 

(1) http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/ruth.html

(2) SOLD: The Hampstead pub where Ruth Ellis shot her lover

(3) The Magdala and 9 other London pubs with a history: http://now-here-this.timeout.com/2012/10/28/10-london-pubs-with-a-story-to-tell/

Pauline Kael

"In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising."- Pauline Kael 

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/pauline_kael.html#Wcwe4YSMQmqPirMd.99

For more on Pauline Kael and her film reviews see: 

(1) Five Classic Reviews: http://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/five-classic-pauline-kael-reviews

(2) Biography http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0434461/bio

Foxcatcher

Currently screening in English at the Nuovo Olimpia is another film based on a real life crime and that rare thing - an American film about class. 

D'Amico Shipping B2 Lesson 30

Lesson 30

• Feedback on emails
• Jigsaw letter exercise - noticing features of formal, semi-formal and informal letters.
• Individual counselling and tutorials

Thank you for all your feedback and for the lovely lunch today - stay in touch!

British Council at ANIA - Lesson 3

Lesson 3 
Tuesday 17th March 
This week we looked at the link between pronunciation, listening and grammar. A copy of the lesson can be found here: http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/32174148/Conditionals%20and%20Pronunciation

Try working grammar through listening - e.g. with songs and videos.

Textbooks
Potential Books for Group 5 (C2,12:30pm)
Check out the links below and tell me what you think of these textbooks.
Objective CPE
Innovations Advanced

Group 7 (C1, 2pm)
Your copies of Language Leader Advanced should be available soon.

Post CPE Lesson 20

Lesson 20

Units 8.2 and 8.3 Language Leader Advanced

• Listening - Noticing Verb Structure
• New Media - Reading, Idioms With Keep, Prepositional Verbs   

Feedback On Covering Letters:

• Competence/competency
• Present perfect tenses for experience
• Conciseness and simplicity - don't overwrite

Vocabulary
naff
hokey/corny
flavour of the month

Going Further
(1) Think hydro ceramics engineer is bad? Check out these ridiculous job titles: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2489831/What-load-jobbledygook-The-ridiculous-job-titles-dreamed-recruitment-consultants-make-vacancies-sound-enticing.html
(2) Here's some more annoying corporate jargon: http://www.forbes.com/sites/groupthink/2012/01/26/the-most-annoying-pretentious-and-useless-business-jargon/
(3) "The Digested Read" by John Crace: http://www.theguardian.com/books/series/digestedread
Inferno by Dan Brown
Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James

D'Amico Shipping B2 Lesson 29

Class
Writing Assessment
Part 2 - BEC Vantage
Peer Editing

For More information of BEC Vantage (B2) and BEC Higher (C1) click on the links below:
http://www.cambridgeenglish.org/exams/business-certificates/business-vantage/
http://www.cambridgeenglish.org/exams/business-certificates/business-higher/