ENGLISH LANGUAGE EXCHANGE

Dear students, 

I´ve been thinking in a language exchange among you.

You´ve already sent your schedule preferences, so apart from the speaking sessions that I´m organising, you´ll have the option of practising your speaking with a classmate. You can either choose your own tandem  or get the one I propose you according to your schedule preferences and also your personal interests. I think I know most of your  preferences, taking into account  your class seat and working atmosphere when you were together.

👉Please, send me an e-mail this weekend if possible with your decision/ classmate if you agree among you or ask me to arrange a tandem for you.

 You´d start working together next week. You´ll decide the way of communicating together (eg. zoom, whatsapp, teams or other apps). In case I´m in charge of doing the tandem, I´d provide you with your classmate´s e-mail and you´d arrange the details of the meeting. 

Remember that I already know which are your schedule preferences so this will help you when organising your talks. Ideally, the time to prepare the speaking would be at least 1 hour, twice a week, but you can meet as many times as you can. That´s up to you and your tandem.

Every week, I´ll be giving you the topics to talk about, including mediation tasks and dialogues. This way we´ll be preparing the oral exam revising the topics we´ve dealt with all through the year.

Sometimes, I´ll ask you to record part of your speaking sessions and you´ll get feedback when it´s necessary.

                                          

6C First and Foremost. How to organise a presentation

Dear students,                                                           

This week we´re learning how to organise a presentation and, in two weeks time, you´ll be giving one  about a topic of your speciality or interest. You can start thinking about the topic you want to share with your classmates and teacher and I´ll tell you soon how you´re recording your presentations.

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👉 Think about these questions and send a short  comment answering one or two of them.

• Who are the most famous people in the world today? What are they famous for?
• In what ways can you measure a person´s fame?
• How is fame today different from...? - 10 years ago,  -50 years ago,  - 100 years ago

 Open PAGE 74 (STUDENT´S BOOK)

👉 1. LISTENING ( do part b, c and d and check below).

 Track 3.11 (for B and C).

Key: 

b. sales of nearly half a million cf copies of Max´s novel /    8: number of languages his novels have been translated into   /  300.000  Max´s Twitter followers.

C. 1b, 2c, 3b, 4c

D a: having potential rewards that make something worth trying, even if it´s not likely to succeed.

    b:an expression that means you shouldn´t worry about a possible future problem but deal with it if it happens.

👉 2. USEFUL LANGUAGE

b. Complete these expressions from PART 1.

3.13

Key: Read the script on page 183, 3.11 part 1 and check your answers.

👉 5. SPEAKING

Read the exercise and prepare a presentation about one of the topics of the exercise. Think about a catchy opening expression and use expressions from 2.b.

Write the script of the presentation and record yourself reading it loud. Make sure you use the expressions.

Send your recorded presentations to my e-mail.

Something curious about English