ANIA 2018: B2 (Thursday) Lesson 8

As no one was able to attend today, we will continue the skills work on email writing and language work on phrasal verbs when classes resume after Easter on 12th April.

ANIA 2018: C1 & C2 (Wednesday) Lesson 7

Lesson 7
12:30 Level C1
Class
Key Word Transformations (photocopy taken from Advanced Expert old edition, p. 141)
Identifying question types - verb structure, phrasal verbs, fixed expressions.

New Vocabulary
to be/get under someone's feet https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/under-your-feet
to come across = (1) to seem, (2) to find by chance https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/come-across

Homework
Do the listening exercise on p. 140 of the new edition of your textbook. You will find the audio on CD4. Before you listen though, spend some time predicting the answers with reference to the context, then listen to the audio file twice. We will check your answers in class when we come back after Easter and discuss any difficulties.

Going Further
The Allusionist - Take A Swear Pill
Podcast: https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/swear-pill
Audioscript: https://www.theallusionist.org/transcripts/

6 Minute Grammar 
Although episodes are only available for 4 weeks on the website or Apple podcast feed, you can access all the material via the BBC Learning English Youtube Channel

2:00pm Level C2

As no one was able to attend today, the insurance contract law reform role-play will be postponed until when we resume lessons after Easter (11th April). 

Lombardi Segni & Associati - Legal English Course - Lesson 20

Lesson 20

12:00 B1

Class

• Correcting phrasal verb examples
• Using corpora and search engines to undersatnd the collocation and context of phrasal verbs 
• Dependent prepositons
• Preposition of place

Homework

Lady Hale Interview - https://www.theguardian.com/law/2018/feb/15/baroness-hale-studying-law-supreme-court-lawyers

When you have finished reading the interview, make a note of verb patterns and phrasal verb types.

1:30 pm C1/C2

Speaking Skills 

Comparing education systems and professional training

Key Vocabulary

Social mobility

Means test

Bursary, Scholarship

Commonly confused words

Taxes/fees (university fees)

Matters/subjects (school subjects)

Loan/mortgage (student loans)

Corrections

Knowledgement knowledge

Do a choice make a choice

Make researches do research (collocation do + uncountable noun)

I made the legal practice I did the legal practice

Homework

Lady Hale Interview - https://www.theguardian.com/law/2018/feb/15/baroness-hale-studying-law-supreme-court-lawyers

Read twice, the first time for comprehension, the second for language features (e.g. Collocations, fixed expressions, idiomatic expressions).

ANIA 2018: B2 & C1 (Monday) Lesson 6

Lesson 6

12:30 pm B2

Class
1. The difference between present perfect simple and present perfect continuous.

For many learners this is a very difficult distinction to make. Ask yourself the following questions:
Permanent or temporary?
Finished or in progress?
Result or duration?
Completion or duration?
Result or side effect?
How often or How long? 
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/prepersim-preperpro

2. Contrastive stress - intonation directions exercise

Homework

Download the Sounds Right phonemic chart (for iPad or desktop) from: https://www.britishcouncil.org/english/academics/apps/sounds-right

Other phonemic charts are available for smartphones from your app store (for free) but make sure they have the same layout as Sounds Right (see below).

Start listening to the various sounds. How are they different/similar to Italian sounds? How are the sounds made (think about use of teeth, tongue, jaw)? Which sounds do you find easy/difficult to hear/make?

2:00 pm C1

Class

Discussion - social media, the news and responsibility.

Reading - Cambridge Analytica Files: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/18/cambridge-analytica-and-facebook-accused-of-misleading-mps-over-data-breach

Listening - Debunking
Source: World Service - More or Less: Debunking guide - on a postcard.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05yfqph
1. Introduction (00:00 - 1:10)
What is the effect of the holiday metaphor? How is it sustained throughout the introduction?
Why is it important to challenge the things we read or see in the media?
2. Now listen to the rest of the programme making notes on each of the 6 steps that Tim mentions.

Vocabulary
Check you know the meaning of the following key terms, phrasal verbs and fixed expressions:
confirmation bias, thought experiment, backstory, accepted wisdom, world view
to have something to hand
to tear apart
to pass something on - 2 meanings 
to take something on board
to dress to impress
to cut loose
to pin something down
to overarch

Phrasal verbs

To leave out

To bring up 

To spur on

To buy up

Phrasal verbs from the listening

To tear apart

To pass on

To fall for

To pin down

ANIA 2018: B2 (Thursday) Lesson 7

Lesson 7
Class

• First contact emails
• Getting the tone right
• Old English words versus Latin/French derivations

Source: Business Advantage pp. 134 - 135

Corrections
False friends: society company
Prefixes: unpersonal impersonal

Vocabulary
complain (verb) complain about someone/someone/something/a situation, to complain of an illness
complaint (noun)
trainee

ANIA 2018: C1 & C2 (Wednesday) Lesson 6

Lesson 6
12:30 pm C1
Class

1. Patterns after reporting verbs (Advanced Expert p. 141 - new edition, p. 140 old edition)
2. Verb pattern Quiz - 6 Minute Grammar https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0607m7m (N.b. If you want to keep this audio file, download it onto your computer from the website now as the podcast will only be available for another 3 weeks.)

Homework

1. Reading Elena Ferrante: ‘Yes, I’m Italian – but I’m not loud, I don’t gesticulate and I’m not good with pizza’ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/feb/24/elena-ferrante-on-italian-language-identity
2. Complete the exercises on patterns after reporting verbs - compare the exercises in the book (new edition) and on the photocopy (old edition).
3. Browse through your (spanking brand new) textbook, Advanced Expert, and decide which sections we should cover in class and which sections you would be happy to do on your own as self study. 

2:00 pm C2
Class

1. Room 101 - Radio 4 Listeners' pet language hates https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2018/03/13/radio-4-asked-people-phrases-theyd-like-confined-room-101/  For the origin of the expression Room 101 see: http://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/02/07/room-101-the-torture-chamber-in-george-orwells-1984-was-named-after-a-conference-room-at-the-bbc-where-orwell-would-have-to-sit-through-tortuously-boring-meetings/
2. The grammar of phrasal verbs - transitive/intransitive, separable/inseparable, two part/three part.

Homework

Insurance Contract Law Reform
Look at the material on New Zealand's Insurance Contract Review. Imagine that you would like to present your ideas during the public consultation process. What issues do you think should be considered in the law reform? What issues are the most important? It doesn't matter if you don't know anything about New Zealand law, think about how your European perspective could benefit the process. Next week you will have time to collaborate with your colleagues before presenting your ideas to the group.
Additional Material:
http://www.mondaq.com/NewZealand/x/681982/Insurance/Insurance+contract+law+for+review
Terms of reference: http://www.mbie.govt.nz/info-services/business/business-law/documents-image-library/terms-reference-insurance-contracts-law-review

Lombardi Segni & Associati Legal English Course - Lesson 19

12:00 pm Level B1
Class

• Request emails - stages and functional language 
• The grammar of phrasal verbs. 4 types: transitive/intransitive, separable/inseparable, 3 part multi-word verbs. Listening 6 Minute Grammar (BBC). Notes: http://www.studyandexam.com/types-of-phrasal-verb.html

Vocabulary
put up with (tolerate)
get over (recover)
get along (with) (have a good relationship with)
split up (separate)
pick up (catch)

Homework

Use your dictionary to find examples of the phrasal verbs from the email writing exercise (put forward, figure out, look into etc). Check their meaning/meanings and their structure - what type of phrasal verbs are they?

1:30pm Level C1/C2

Class

• Listening & Discussion - Visual Artists Rights Act 

How a group of graffiti artists won $6.75 million in damages after their art was destroyed

Law in Action http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0608m95

• Techniques for rewriting legalese
• Rewriting contractual clauses

Homework

1. Rewrite clause 5 using the stems provided in exercise 4
2. Rewrite clauses 2 & 6 using the techniques discussed today.