AMEX in-company lessons
REPORTS – APRIL
Monday, April 29, 2013
Tuesday, April 09, 2013
Laura's English Corner
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia is a 2006 memoir by American author Elizabeth Gilbert. The memoir chronicles the author's trip around the world after her divorce and what she discovered during her travels. The book remained on The New York Times Best Seller list for 187 weeks. The movie rights for the memoir were purchased by Columbia Pictures. The film version, which stars actress Julia Roberts, and actor Javier Bardem was released in theaters on August 13, 2010.
Gilbert followed up this book with the sequel Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage, released through Viking in January 2010. It covers her life after Eat, Pray, Love ends.
New discoveries on the formation of speech
Commentary
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22067192
Scientists have found that the gelada, a species that is closely related to the baboon, makes a gurgling noise that shares features with human language.
They believe the monkey's call could be similar to the primitive noises that the evolutionary ancestors of humans once made.
Saturday, April 06, 2013
Mariana's English Corner
Blackberry shares dive! (June 29th). Read:
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| Practise! This week in the stock market, share prices…… |
some materials from your book the great Around The World In Eighty Days – can you guess which scene? The pictures are out of sequence,
Friday, April 05, 2013
Professional Development | Baufest In-Company Lessons
- What happened according to plan? I used a test-teach-test pattern for diagnosing the previous lesson's TL before practising. I clarified MPF. We practised the TL using slips of paper, working as a group. Ss listened to the tape 'describing people' and checked off adjectives. We discussed expressions for personalities.
- What didn’t happen according to plan? I wrote up a 'word list' again on the board to help elicit and clarify key vocabulary. I started a guess-the-word game using the vocabulary the Ss had reviewed for homework, and then a discussion (5 min) about the final activity, as a way to buy time until our std. arrived. When the std. arrived we took the opportunity to practise the paper-slip task again and he completed the gap-fill (the teach only part of the test-teach-test stage), I then marked it and gave feedback.
- What happened that I didn’t
expect? Std arrived late but left message in advance
- What would I do differently next time, and why? I hadn't anticipated/ planned CCQs for some key vocabulary that otherwise would have run more smoothly = always plan for any key language of the lesson.
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1 I achieved what I was aiming to
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2 I managed the class effectively.
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3 I Involved the learners.
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4 I used the time effectively.
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5 I used the materials / aids
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