Writing a review

Today we worked on reading and past tenses (p.34-35) and reviewed food idioms (p.36-37) mmm...!

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We also watched a short film about factory farming and a parody of this film. The lesson came from a great site called Film English The film we watched was called The Scarecrow

Your homework is to write a restaurant review. Use the guidelines on p.38-39 and visit Delusionary Culinary (the blog we used in class) to help you with this. The vocabulary you found in the restaurant blog is below - great teamwork!

Remember there is no class on June 14. See you on June 21!

Letter of complaint, Reading

Today we read an article from The Guardian newspaper about fish farms in Germany. 

You can find more Guardian articles to read here: 
classroom materials - look for the ones which say 'advanced'.

We also complained! Here are the answers to the letter error correction exercise:

Cpe 31.05.14 from murpheemurphy

These are some of the problems you have had with goods and services:

Your homework is to:

• Decide on your complaint
• Add a comment below saying what your complaint is
• Write a formal letter of complaint. State what the problem is and what action you want the company to take. 300-350 words.

You can use last week's letter for ideas. Also review p.26 & 27 for language to include. This example from Flo Joe can also help: flo-joe complaint letter 

Listening and Writing Skills

Hello everyone and I hope you are having a wonderful Wednesday! 

Do you remember the listening tips we came up with in class? Here they are (I think 'pillow talk' was a joke!)

Your homework is to put these tips into practice and work on your listening and writing skills at the same time.

1. Go to BBC Six Minute English and pick one podcast you find interesting (there is lots of choice!)

2. Listen to your podcast and make notes on interesting points about the topic (use the transcript and pre listening questions to help you).

3. Write an essay-style text on the podcast (use Writing Folder p.22 & 23 and your previous essay to help you with this). You should outline the topic, give two points of view (if possible) and inlcude some of your own ideas in 240-280 words.

The deadline is Saturday 31 June - if you send it before that there is no problem though.

Here is the PPT from our last class.

Cpe 17.05.14 from murpheemurphy

Please leave a comment below with your chosen podcast so that everyone listens to something different. It will be interesting to see what you all pick! If you have a question please add it below too :)

Have fun!

Welcome to the blog!

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This is a space for us to:

• access class materials
• share tips
• ask questions
• review and practise

This is what we covered on 10.05.14...

Cpe 10.05.14 from murpheemurphy

We also used these resources...
Linguee
Macmillan Dictionary
Flo-Joe

Leave a comment below. 

• Say which of the online resources you have tried. 
• Which was most useful? 
• What did you learn?