Glohima 2019-2020 C1 Lesson Platform - Week 5: October 28th-November 3rd

Glohima 2019-2020 C1 Lesson Platform

Week 5: October 28th-November 3rd

LESSON PROCEDURE

Debate time
- Extra activities
  - Tabboo
  - Proverbs
Riddle
Correct upgradings (see below)
Writing basics: An Essay
Adverbs
- Vocabulary Collocations Adj-Adv (right link) (review)
- commenting adverbs (right link)
Describing graphs
- New York
  - Listening CAE (Complete)
  - Hw (cloze/word formation) (Complete)
  - Population Trends (Gold)
    - Listening
    - Cloze
- Video: Megacities (Tokyo)
- (Writing section below) p. 151)
Urban Renewal
- Texts pp 185; 185; 197 (Mediation)
- Vocabulary: Recovery and change p. 11
Urban Myths
- Listening (student book)p. 13
- Binomials p. 13
Quizlet - describing trends
HW (see below)
Extra Practice)

DEBATE TIME

Patients to stand up in GP surgery during trialsThe aim is to shorten consultations and see GPs act as healthier role models.

What's the point of putting this measure into practice?
What pros and cons can you find in it?
What is there in our NHS that needs improving?
Is our medical system a good one?
Private versus Public Health System
Are doctors properly qualified?

BBC World News - HARDtalk, John Letts and Sally LaneStephen Sackur speaks to the parents of suspected Islamic State militant Jack Letts.

BBC World Service - HARDtalk - DownloadsPodcast downloads for HARDtalk

Either watch the video or download the audio and listen to it.

What's the programme about?
Why have they been accused of funding a terror cause?
Why do they insist that it's not true? What was the money for?
Why do people like Jack Letts feel attracted towards organisations such as IS?
Was it right to revoke his British Passport?
Why do these terror groups appear?
What can be done to erradicate them?

IS leader dead after US raid in Syria, Trump saysAbu Bakr al-Baghdadi led jihadists who carried out atrocities that resulted in thousands of deaths.

From Andy Warhol parties to living on the streets: How Barcelona’s homeless supermodel fell from graceNastasia Urbano tells EL PAÍS how she went from dancing with Melanie Griffith to sleeping in bank foyers in the Catalan capital

Can you summarise Natasia's case?
Is her children's inactive attitude the one that might be expected?
What are the main reasons why people might have to face eviction?
Is there enough public assisstance for those who are evicted from their homes?
Are homeless people stigmatized by their precarious situation?
What chances do they have to be so lucky as to be saved from such a way of life?

Upgrade (using the same metaphor as in the video: 5:23)

When the bosses see how low the statistics are they will have to start doing something about it.

Can you report what has happened?
What reasons might drive people into taking such big risks?
What should be done with those immigrants who manage to reach their destination?
Should immigration laws be applied strictly?
What can be done to avoid situations like these?
What is modern slavery?
What's the difference between smuggling and trafficking?

Facebook faces legal fight over facial recognitionA US court decision means Facebook could face a big damages claim over its use of facial recognition data.

What crime is Facebook liable for?
Are there any cases where facial recognition might be convenient for the general good?
Is, generally speaking, consumers' privacy adequately protected?

RIDDLE

What should arrogant self-righteous people eat for luncheon when they are proven wrong?

UPGRADINGS (below)

WRITING

THE PROCESS OF WRITING

Brainstorming (write down your ideas)
Group them together on the basis of what they refer to
Put those topics in the order in which you would like them to appear in the sentence
Summarise the topic in the so-called TOPIC SENTENCE and use your ideas as ARGUMENTS
- TOPIC SENTENCE (summary, category)
- argument 1 (1st idea)
- argument 2 (2nd idea)
- argument 3 (3rd idea)
Write out the paragraph, linking the ideas with CONNECTORS (addition, contrast, etc.)
Link the different paragraphs with CONNECTORS
Make an engaging introduction advancing how you are going to deal with the subject (it useful to use pre-learned introductory phormulas) (look below)
Write a conclusion with the general summary and a nice finishing sentence.

POSSIBLE INTRODUCTORY PHORMULAS:

It cannot be denied that....
It is undeniable that.....
It is widely known that.....
According to the general belief....
(Adj) as it may seem, it is....
If there is one thing that.... it is the way (fact)

COHERENCE AND COHESION

ADVERBS

VIEWPOINT AND COMMENTING ADVERBS

Adv-adj-collocations.pdf

DESCRIBING TRENDS, GRAPHS AND VISUAL DATA

Useful Vocabulary Describing Trends: UPSWING

MODERATE GROWTH
A SUDDEN RISE
AN UPSWING
TO BOOST
TO BOOM
TO SURGE / A SURGE
REACH A PEACK
GROW SUBSTANTIALLY
TO SKYROCKET
TO SOAR

Useful Vocabulary Describing Trends: CONTRAST

TO OVERTAKE
TO OUTWEIGH
TO OUT-

Useful Vocabulary Describing Trends: DOWNTURN

A BRIEF DIP
A DOWNTURN
A STEEP FALL
A SHARP DECLINE
TO DECREASE
TO DROP
TO PLUMMET

Useful Vocabulary Describing Trends: STABILITY

STAGNATION
TO REMAIN RELATIVELY STABLE
TO STAGNATE
Quizlet - describing trends
Exercises pp 150-151

Writing Tast:

Describing visual data (Student's book p. 151)

HOMEWORK

Reading:
- Read texts pp. 185, 186, 197
- Reading (Paragraph) for next week
Writing :
- Describing visual data Exercises pp 150-151
Upgrading
- Upgrading 5

EXTRA PRACTICE

What does the child's murder have to do with the present one?
Why did the victim visit the child's mother frequently?
Why was the stolen laptop important?
Why is the child's mother's boyfriend murdered?
What was the murderer's motive?
What's the relationship between the victim and the murderer?

URBAN MYTHS

Listening (student book)
Binomials

UPGRADINGS

Number 4

6

Rich people pay important people and they get important positions
We need big changes in this complany if we want to survive
We have a few colleagues here that are always complaining
The Prime Minister left because she had pressure from those on the right and those on the left
We divorced because we were always arguing then we made it up then arguing again....
Workers have to live on very little money
When the bosses see how low the statistics are they will have to start doing something about it. (video Lorry Deaths)

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