Work in pairs and choose two of the texts; identify 2 main points per text; make notes from which to write an essay about tecnology.
Extra materials: railplane invention; listening and then word formation.
Discussion about inventions that have been successful and those that have failed.
Write the essay about techonology using the notes you made in class.
10th March
Introduction to Emerald
Science & Technology
Look at these pictures
Matching activity: old technologies to their equivalents.
Group work on same text: identify main points and form own opinion on what the journalist says.
Regroup in pairs and tell new partner about the tetxt you read. Decide on you opinions on each text.
Listen again to the first part of Saoirse's interview to find out how to pronounce Colm Tóibín.
Through p36 nos 10 & 11.
13th January
Through homework.
Reading p34-5 questions and text analysis.
Grammar 8 & 9 p36.
Paranormal stories from Speaking and Reading Advanced: 3 groups read different stories and answer questions about unusual happenings and
decide how plausible they are. Vocab activities.
Writing p38-9 exs 1-3.
Write a review. Use the question on p39 or choose your own work of art to review.
and describe them. What ideas do they convey to you?
p32 Burne-Jones painting: talk about it, then listen to an art student talking about it, then look at the two pictures linked here and describe as much as you can.
p33 find words that collocate with the adjectives in 3.
Complete reading p34-5; vocab & grammar p36-7
How the Queen's accent has changed: the 2017 Christmas message contains a brief extract of the first televised speech.
You can hear similar differences to those highlighted in The Archers extracts.
Reports
These are available on the Portal or from me. I can print these for next class, or if you email me I will send them to you.
9th December
Unit 3 Language & Culture
p31 exs 1-4
Current slang words: match with definition.
Listening about how accents have changed over a relatively short time.
for details of the set literature texts for the next two years of CPE.
This course now becomes Peridot above this line
2nd December
Humour
Reading from Objective Proficiency A sense of humour from Bill Bryson's book; comprehension &
idiomatic expressions.
Uses of have, get & go. Phrasal verbs, transformations.
Correcting mistakes.
Brendan Grace Mother-in-law.
Writing folder 10: Articles and letters.
Write one of the articles and letters questions.
25th November
Progress test: vocabuary sections done as a class activity, then listening, use of English and reading individually.
Brendan Grace, the American in Ireland; listening.
Send me the article if you have not already done so.
18th November
Article writing p69-70 exs 1-4.
Speaking activities: Conversation halves; find the other half of your conversation and continue it with partner; record.
Pairs speak about a topic with some words which they must not use; rest of class guesses what those words are.
Groups of 3 or 4: each person has some discourse marker words and a topic to talk about for 2 minutes (part 3 of speaking exam). Also record these for me to give feedback.
Answers to handout activities from last lesson's homework.
Listening p67.
Answers to p66 Vocabulary.
p70 5 & 6.
Write an article. See pp69-70.
11th November
Grammar p65-6 relative pronouns and reduced relative clauses.
Write sentences and look at others’ to see if you can shorten or correct them;
.
Do the vocab activities from the handout (4 and 5).
There will be a short test in week 9 (24th Nov) in the form of exam type materials based on the themes covered in this module.
This is not a pass/fail test, but simply to give you an idea of how well you cope with the material at this stage.
28th October & 4th November
Unit 6 p61. Listening; individuals look up expressions in ex5. Ex6, using some of the expressions.
Reading p62-3.
P64 Lead in images in part 2 type speaking activity.
"Thank you for smoking" trailer from the film. Gap fill.
Material from Objective Proficiency: Reading part 7 and listening
for the starter activity, which was matching the first word to the last in the pair, and deciding which preposition links them. Make sentences using the pairs.
Given out: Unusual vocabulary and alternative ways of saying phrases; notes about writing. (Ask me for a copy next lesson if you were absent).
14th October
Think of dangerous situations, write down a short description on a piece of paper, then pass to person next to you.
Write your advice to someone in that situation. After 2 or 3 of these, regroup and share ideas about what you think.
Choose one of the topics from the writing activity during the lesson. Summarize and evaluate both texts and give your own opinion. Write 240-280 words.
7th October
Dangerous Jobs: lead in activity talking about pictures of dangerous jobs.
p51 Ranking activities in order of how much they shorten life.
Listening, vocab ex.
p52 Reading MC. Use of thesaurus to extend vocabulary.
p53 Vocabulary & grammar nº4.
p55 Listening part 3.
p58 Speaking part 3.
Research words that mean different kinds of look, eg glance, glimpse.
Write 250-300 words about the subject of the nanny state. Use the three articles that we read in class, and summarize what they say.
Give your own opinion too.
(any edition)
You may study the film directed by Derek Cianfrance (2016) as well as, or instead of, the novel.
Please let me know if you are interested in either or both of these books. I will cover these in class if there is sufficient interest, and or organize short meetings for you to come and discuss these books.
Why do this?
It gives you another part 2 question to answer in the Writing paper. As CPE students you need to be reading as much as you can, and these books deal
with ideas that you can talk about in small groups, improving your range of vocabulary as well as enjoying the intellectual challenge.
The discussion does not presuppose an extensive knowledge of literary criticism, but expects a similar calibre of writing
as if you were answering one of the other part 2 writing questions.
This is a collection of material not directly connected with the course, but which you may find interesting. Please let me know if you find further material that I might add.
This is a collection of material not directly connected with the course, but which you may find interesting. Please let me know if you find further material that I might add.
