25 May 2020

Online session, May 25th / 26th


LESSON PLANS
LEVEL: C1.2
GROUPS: A, B, C
DATE:    May 25th, 26th     

CHECKING ACTIVITIES FROM PREVIOUS CLASS:

CONVERSATION (oral coproduction)

Remember the oral production task that I told you to do last week. In pairs, you should record a conversation, choosing your topic among one of these: Click here to download the oral coproduction cards June 2019
You must hold a conversation for 4 minutes-4:30 minutes. Set your alarm for 4 minutes and don't keep talking for much longer. There are 10 topics, so each one should be used only once. Specify your names and topics on your Padlet post. You can record an audio or video, up to you. Do it preferably in MP3 or MP4 to avoid problems reading the format of the file. When you finish, you will upload it or share the link (if you have it on Google drive or dropbox) in our padlet board.
Deadline: May 28th, 12 noon.

LISTENING:

Answer key to the TED talk activity "5 dangerous things you should let your kids do".



1.      Gever warns parents that if they send their kids to Tinkering School, they’ll come back bruised, scraped and bloody.
2.      The speaker said that as the boundaries of what we determine as the safety zone grow ever smaller, we cut off our children from valuable opportunities to learn how to interact with the world around them.
3.      Learning the control of one of the most elemental forces in nature is a pivotal moment in any child’s personal history.
4.      The three working elements for a good controlled fire that he mentions are intake, combustion and exhaust.
5.      Grever said that a penknife is at the same time a spatula, a pry bar, a screwdriver and a blade and that’s why it’s a powerful and empowering tool.
6.      Our brains are wired for throwing things. If you don’t exercise, they atrophy.
7.      Even if they don’t know what the parts of an appliance are, puzzling out what they might be for is a good practice for the kids.
8.       Driving a car with your child happens about the same time as they get latched onto things like dinosaurs. A car is a similar object. They can get in a car and drive it.

SIOBHAN: 

These are the moments that our language assistant has available for conversation practice with C1.2 students. Write her an email in advance if you are interested:
Mondays from 1 pm to 2 pm
Mondays from 7 pm to 8 pm
Wednesday from 5 pm to 6 pm



VOCABULARY:

Page 146, activity 2. This activity presents six words that are synonyms, but they are used in different collocations. In each sentence, you have to choose the right word in the collocation.

LISTENING:

Page 146, activity 7 /page 147, activity 9. Track 57.
You will listen to a phone-in programme in which the risks of using the Internet are mentioned. After listening, answer 8 open questions (activity 7) and then, fill in the gaps in sentences in activity 9.

READING:

Read the article and do activities 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9.











That’s all for now.

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