How to create a good first impression in today's world
Who-What-Benefits - Wow, how, now (from minute 2.20')
Developing Great Presentation Skills : Have an impact on your audience /students and be the duck
Vocal power for your speech Seven hand gestures you should be using
Feel more powerful in two minutes Just before a presentation
Grammar- Modal verbs General revision Video Grammar revision Modal verbs and their meaning More about modal verbs Games
Writing - A personal profile for a blog or a job application- see photocopies given in class with writing guidelines and specific vocabulary
Vocabulary - Challenge, ambition, motivation, success and failure (p.11 + p.208) - Common expresions related to success and failure
Collocations - What are collocations? video Extra on line practice
Word formation - Video
Extra listening The 8 secrets of Success The key to success?
Extra reading - What if the secret to success is failure Grit
Extra speaking - Success and Failure Success and failure quotes from History
Extra Use of English - Open Cloze: Failure in basic school lessons haunts adult underclass for life
Extra listening- Videos - Dare to dream Why you don't succeed Watch them and share your ideas in class
HOMEWORK- Reading (pp.8-9) - Word formation (p.13) + End of the lesson review (pp.16-17)
Extra materials- If you have missed one or more lessons, please ask your teacher for the exercises done in class and the extra phococopies given for Unit 1.
Grammar - Narrative tenses Present Perfect or Past Simple Past Simple versus Past Perfect
Vocabulary - About Changes (definitions and excersises)
HOMEWORK Writing - Review Homework - Read a book and write a review for the end of January.
Extra listening - Time capsules (sentence completion) Barbie doll + Questions Ruth Handler (Inventor of Barbie)
Extra speaking - Conversation questions about Change Discussions on Change
HOMEWORK- Reading (pp.21-22-23) - Nouns in Formal English (p.23) + End of the lesson review (pp.28-29)
Extra materials- If you have missed one or more lessons, please ask your teacher for the exercises done in class and the extra phococopies given for Unit 2.
Extra topic: Fake news - How false news can spread Vocabulary Listening False information spreads The Truth about Fake News 10 Questions for Fake News detection
Extra reading - Reading Comprehension Reading Fake News word of the year in 2017 Quiz + reading Fake news challenge Game + Reading - Factitious - Game
More activities on Fake News Big Data
Extra listening- Multiple Matching -Communication in the digital world
Grammar
Wishes and regrets Exercises 1 If only and I wish Exercises 2 Wish and Regret
Conditionals Exercises More practice
Mixed Condionals - Grammar and examples Mixed conditionals Practice More online practice
HOMEWORK- Word Formation: Adjectives and Adverbs (p. 34), Reading Gapped text (p.38-39) + Vocabulary (p.39), En of the lesson review (p.p. 40+41) + Use of English (pp. 42-43-44-45)
Working from home Working from home versus working at an office Pros and cons of Working from home Example
Time management - Videos - Ted talk Inside the mind of a master procastinator Your life in jelly beans Jar of life
Grammar Verb-ing and verb-infinitive: Grammatical explanation Practice Exercises Exercises on line video game
Job interviews- How to prepare for a Job Interview: *How to Ace an Interview List of Dos and Don'ts
7 body language tips to impress at your next job interview What to do with your hands
*Job interview simulator - Questions to practice in class and at home
Examples of difficult interviews in films : *The Devil wears Prada *The Pursuit of Happiness
Interview simulation practice- *Mock interview
Extra listening if you are interested in preparing for Job Interviews in English:
HOMEWORK- Review p. 56-57 - Word Formation, Gerunds and infinitives and Key word transformation
Grammar: Revision of Relative Clauses Cleft sentences More on cleft sentences
The simple riddle that 50% Harvard students get wrong
Grammar - The passive Voice - Exercises
For students to find out more about the environment, global warming, climate change and recycling (the five R):
REUSE - REDUCE - RECYCLE - RESTORE - REPLENISH
Global Warming
Discussion - Global Warming - For and Against arguments
CLIMATE CHANGE
Video- Climate change explained
Listening: Climate change
How to talk to a climate skeptic
Natural Disasters
Natural disasters and global warming
Against Consumerism
E-waste The Story of the Stuff by Annie Leonard
The girl who silenced the world
Vocabulary:
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/words/environment.htm
http://www.saberingles.com.ar/lists/environment.html
http://www.autoenglish.org/vocab/v.environment.pdf
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Alternative energy- Tradicional and atternative energies- video Green energy Video Renewable energies Pros and cons
Alternative Energy Sources Pros and Cons.doc More on pros and cons
Quotes:
The Quote Garden http://www.quotegarden.com/environment.html
The Brainy Quote http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/environment.html
Grinning Planet http://www.grinningplanet.com/6001/environmental-quotes.htm
Further Resources: Activities, Games and Discussions:
http://www.eslflow.com/environmentlessonplans.html
http://www.michellehenry.fr/enviro.htm
http://wilderdom.com/games/EnvironmentalActivities.html
http://www.esldiscussions.com/e/environment.html
http://www.esldiscussions.com/e/earth
http://blog.shockwave.com/?s=planet&x=55&y=8
Link to Environment (Proyect Work)
Ideas - Recycle to get free wifi
Tips for Writing - Planning and paragraphing
Step by step guide to writing an essay
Online help Grammarly
Essay writing - Model answers
Exercise 3 -
Teens going veggie - MULTI MATCHING - You will only listen to it once
Social Media - MULTI MATCHING - You will only listen to it once
Videos - Listening exercises with videos instead of audios
1. Gareth Gates - questions and video
2. Dental Calculus - questions and video
3. Bruce Willis - questions and video
QUESTIONS in pages 8-9-10 for videos 1-2-3 and KEY for Videos 1-2-3
4. Laughter Yoga - questions and video
Listening Exam Practice
Mock 1
Mock 2