Please note that there will be no lesson next week as we can’t stay in the building after 1700. The next and final lesson will take place on Thursday 27th April.
If you would like meet up together, there is now a WhatsApp group and perhaps you could meet for fika next week for example, between 1600 and 1700 when the lesson should have taken place.
Homework from Lesson 7 (30/3)
Watch One-minute World News from the BBC and report back to your partner. Depending on which day you choose, you’ll obviously have different updates.
Topic: British food and food in space (a project before next lesson)
Who is Tim Peake and why is he so well-known?
When you think of British food, what comes to mind? What British food have you tried?
What do you think astronauts eat in space and what kind of problems need to be overcome? Watch this video to find out more: Tasty space food What competition did Tim Peake announce?
Before you find out who won the competition, and how the winners were chosen, what food would you have chosen if you had entered this competition?
What were the winning entries and why? Winners: The Great British Space Dinner Which menu would you be interested in trying?
Talk about new food items and dishes that you first heard about in this video. What, for example, is “Toad-in-the-hole”?
Find out more about the space food development story here: The First Bacon Sarnie in Space
Come prepared to talk about your favourite meal and tell us how you cook it.
Lesson 6 (23/3)
We didn’t look through the questions on “Time” yesterday, so we can look at those next week. Link in Lesson 5.
Lesson 5 (2/3)
Next lesson we can look at the questions and explore useful expressions related to social situations in English (both for work and privately). I’ll email these to you.
Please select something from Six-Minute English to read and listen to and present these in pairs/small groups in the lesson next time.
Here are some questions on the topic of “time” that we can discuss next lesson: Discussing time
Lesson 4 (23/2)
Please read this article about the rewriting of Roald Dahl’s books Rewriting Roald Dahl’s work: What, why, how and the story behind it
Please also think about an author you enjoyed reading as a child and tell your partner about it in the next lesson. What authors is your country famous for (both children’s and adult authors)?
This is the comment piece about Nicola Bulley and the role of social media in the police investigation. It’s not a happy article, be warned! However, it says a lot about human nature: The carnival of hysteria over Nicola Bulley shows us the very worst of modern human nature
The vocabulary is pretty advanced, but really good and I recommend checking the meaning, context and pronunciation of new words in the Cambridge Dictionary, like these:
Lesson 3 (16/2)
Please look at questions on YouTube (below) that we didn’t look at in the last lesson, plus watch the TED talk from Lesson 2 below.
If you have time , please take a look at this before Thursday: How can I help the environment? EPISODE 190829 / 29 AUG 2019
Lesson 2 (9/2)
Idioms with parts of the body We can look at any new ones in class next week.
Look through the questions about the internet and communications (emailed)
Look through these questions about YouTube. You can click on the words in the glossary to get to the meaning in the Cambridge Dictionary.
This TED talk is now a few years old, but is it still relevant? You can watch this (with subtitles in English enabled if you choose) and let us know next week what you think: The nightmare videos of children’s YouTube — and what’s wrong with the internet today
Lesson 1 (2/2)
- Read through the questions for next week (emailed)
- Choose an article to read and listen to from either BBC Learning English – Six minute Englishor something from CNN’s The Good Stuff and you can talk about it in small groups next week. What was the article about and why did you choose this? Present a new piece of vocabulary that you’ve learned and feel you could use again.
- Read through the vocabulary we looked at in the lesson yesterday: Vocabulary from Lesson One