27/9

Today. we worked with a translation exercise. Also, you prepared speaking "tests". A lot more exciting than it sounds... Your presentations are to be given next Thursday - be prepared. Have a nice weekend!

21/9

More Ricky Gervais today... We read the rest of the text together and looked at each part of the text in turn. What language chunks are there? What is the author trying to say? What strategies does he use? and so on.

AFter that, we worked with a translation exercise.

Also, we talked about British politeness!

13-14/9

CAE info, translation exercise, song lyrics and conversation phrase exercise. Not to mention our first CAE text: an article. A lot of work in only two classes!

My plan is to fill your minds with ways to find idiomatic English expressions everywhere you go, and to give you ideas on how to incorporate them in your own vocabulary.

Your articles should be shared with me in Google Docs today.

6/9

Today we looked at your results on the CAE test. We decided to work a lot on your spelling this year...

After that, we looked at the criteria for the course and tried to decide on assignments that will help you fulfill criteria.