Oral Project form. Return by Mon 13.4.15

Hello, everyone. Here's the Oral Project form I handed out in class today. I think it's pretty self-explanatory, but to summarise, you should form groups, agree on a project, and decide how you want to organise it. Each group should fill out a copy of the form for me by Monday 13th, and each member of the group should have the same information on their own form. 

Enjoy your break.

Naomi Klein environmental video.

Naomi Klein spoke to a packed house in Bellas Artes last night, to present her latest book, on the topic of climate change, This changes everything.
Here's an interesting, if challenging, video she's made on climate change which I hope you will enjoy. Most of the participants speak slowly and clearly. 

Some terms you may not be familiar with are:

Tar sands = sand from which Canada is extracting oil.
First nation = Native canadian indians.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/video/2015/mar/06/this-changes-everything-naomi-klein-oil-video

Happy viewing.
Tom.

Class 24.03.2015

Today in class:

We started with the QUICK REVIEW exercise in SB pg  99 (Subject/Verb agreement).

After that, we did a listening activity, SB, page 98, exercise 7. 

Then, we talked about potatos and salt and completed, by groups:
            - SB, page 107, exercise 9
            - SB, page 110, exercise 9

Homework for thursday: WB, page 50, exercises 5+6

Homework for Easter holiday: Writing (150 words) ''The history of...''

BBC Women in Erdogan's Turkey.

Having read so many interesting essays in your progress test on the subject of women's rights, (and not only from the women in class), I think you'll be interested in this. 
The women interviewed are turkish, bilingual,and academics, so they speak better and clearer English than most english, (or irish), people. 
I think you'll enjoy it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02kq0hm

See you in class.
Tom.

Class 17.03.2015

In this class we studied SB pg. 96-97

We read the text and corrected the exercises of these pages.

Grammar:  accord subject-verb : ex: The police were blamed for....// The police force was recognised

Speaking: How have animals been helpful to mankind?


Homework: WB Pg 49. + 50. :ex. 4

Progress test review: Extra practice 8 & 9.

As promised, here are Extra practice 8 & 9.

DVD Rom Upload file

Hello, everyone. 
Today, we're going to talk about the DVD Rom, so for those of you who haven't been able to access it yet, one of my students in B1.3 has offered a little help.

Here is the link for you guys Face2Face_DVD . It´s a big file... (~1GB!). I hope you can download and install easily (unzip and click CambridgeApplicationInstaller, the olny application file which you´ll see when you open the folder). 

A big thanks to Juan-Mi.