Upper English Intermediate - eleventh meeting

Today was our last meeting this spring and we learnt something about Arctic expeditions and polar bears. Thank you for your comments about the course. It has been nice teaching and learning with you. This course will continue again in September. Hope to see many of you then again!

Enrolling for language courses starts again on 20 August :)

Have a nice summer!

Upper English Intermediate - tenth meeting

Today we discussed challenges and listened to some people telling about their challenges. Homework: read the text on page 37 about a polar explorer and do exercise 2 and 3 on page 36.

Upper English Intermediate - ninth meeting

One of our topics today among other things was the most treasured possessions. We discussed and listened to three people telling about their most treasured possessions. We also learned some useful phrases about money like splash out and push the boat out.

Homework: read the text on page 30 What price a life? and do exercise 2 on page 31.

Upper English Intermediate - eighth meeting

Our topic today was Gold Fever and we learnt quite a lot about that period in American history. We also looked at verb-noun collocations like make sense. Homework:  Do exercise 3 on page 25 and exercise 6 on page 35.

Upper English Intermediate - seventh meeting

We had different topics today. Among other things we discussed money and money related issues. We also learnt some money related expressions. Homework: Read the text on page 24 and do exercise 1 and 2.

Upper English Intermediate - sixth meeting

Today we discussed English accents and learnt about RP (received pronunciation), one of the most widely known English accents and listened to young Neil Young. Homework: do the handout on prepositions.

No class next week, as it is the winter break week. See you on 25 February :)

Upper English Intermediate - fifth meeting

Today we discussed what is the best way to learn languages and listened to three language teachers discussing it too. It seems that listening and speaking are the most important things in language learning and of course the vocabulary. When it comes to grammar, stick to the basics. Homework: do exercise 3 on page 18 and exercise 1 and 2 on page 19.

Upper English Intermediate - fourth meeting

Our new topic today was Generations (unit 2) and we discussed what events are important for people at different stages of life. We also learnt about idioms on clothing and revised indirect questions. Homework: read the text on page 15 and do exercises 2, 3 and 4 on page 14.

Upper English Intermediate - third meeting

One of our topics today was images. We listened to an interview with Madonna and read a text about this pop icon, who is brilliant at selling her image. We also did an exercise on mixed tenses. Homework: do exercise 1 on page 5.

Upper English intermediate - second meeting

We continued discussing impressions. We talked about the most memorable images we have had and the first impressions when you meet someone for the first time. We also did a grammar exercise on tenses. Homework: Read the text about Madonna on page 9 and do the exercises 2, 3 and 4 on page 7 (handout).

Upper English Intermediate - first meeting

Today was our first meeting in 2013. We discussed our highlights in 2012 and our plans for 2013. We also started our new topic Impressions with some famous events in our recent history. Homework: do the handout about tenses. If you don't have the handout, please email me.

Our new book is New Inside Out upper intermediate student's book, (Macmillan)

You can order your course book: www.adlibris.com  (delivery time 3-5 working days)