NA1 - Tuesday 7 June 2016

Summary of the class:

- Listening: review

- Speaking: Monologues

- Listening: review

Language Snippets: Meanings of 'Like'

NA1. B2. Clauses of Contrast and Purpose

Click on the following links to do some more practice on this grammar point:

- Clauses of contrast 

- Clauses of contrast and purpose

- Clauses of contrast 2

- Clauses of contrast 3

- Clauses of purpose

- Clauses of purpose 2

NA1 - Tuesday 31 May 2016

Summary of the class:

- Grammar and speaking: Clauses of contrast and purpose

- Reading: Bagels

- Listening: How honest are people?

- Listening: Influence of advertising

- Speaking: Advertising

Homework:

Watch the videos on pages 92 and 93 (Part I, II, and III) and complete the activities

Complete the activities on clauses of contrast and purpose on page 148

NA1 - Thursday 26 May 2016

Summary of the class:

- Reading: Misleading advertisements

- Listening: Advertising techniques

- Speaking: Advertising

- Speaking: Monologues

- Grammar/speaking: Contrast and purpose

Language Snippets - Body Idioms

Listening and Reading: Misleading Commercials

Watch the following video to practise your listening and reading skills (the video is subtitled) and the vocabulary on advertising:

NA1 - Tuesday 24 May 2016

Summary of the class:

- Listening: Acting

- Listening: In the street

- Publicity: Vocabulary

- Advertising: Old advertisements. What is wrong with them?

- Speaking: Advertising

- Reading: Misleading Advertisements

- Listening: Jingles


Homework.

- Complete the comprehension activities on page 84

Language Snippets. Phrasal Verbs: Walk Away

Language Snippets - Some prepositions of time

Writing. iDiots

Watch the following short film. Then write a text, e.g. an essay, in which you can express your opinion about what you see on the video and what the creator of the film tries to teach us. You can hand your text in after you have written it.

Language Snippets. Idioms: Parts of the Body

NA1 - Thursday 19 May 2016

Summary of the class:

- Reading activities: pages 70 and 71

- Vocabulary: Describing a picture/photo/painting

- Speaking: Describing pictures/photos/paintings

- Vocabulary: theatre and acting


- Speaking: acting


Homework:

- Watch the videos on page 72 and 73 (parts I, II, and III) and complete the activities

- Describe a picture in writing or orally

- Monologue about acting, theatre, films in writing or orally.

Language Snippets. Silent Letters

Language Snippets. Idiom: Keen an eye on

B2. Grammar: As and Like

Click on the links below to do some more practice on as and like:

- Activity 1

- Activity 2

- Activity 3

- Activity 4

- As

- As, like and how

Language Snippets - Idiom: Stand on your own two feet

NA1. B2. Listening: How to spot a liar

Watch the following video. 

Select from the list the signs a liar might show:

• Looking up to the right
• Looking up to the left
• Looking downwards
• Shifty eyes
• Sitting comfortably in a chair
• Rubbing your neck
• Shrugging your shoulders
• Tapping your fingers
• Snapping your fingers
• Looking at your watch
• Closing your eyes
• Leaning back in your chair
• Sitting to the side
• Fidgeting in your chair
• Keeping your arms crossed
• Keeping your arms tightly folded and on their lap

Watch the video again and answer the following questions:

If Jason display a clear sign he is lying, why is he then actually telling the truth?

And what does it mean when people change the conversation?

Click here to check your answers.

NA1. B2. Listening: Body Language

Watch the video and answer the questions:

1. What does it mean when you have your feet pointed sideways?
2. What does the four figure position mean?
3. How does a woman show she is interested in a particular man?
4. When a couple are holding hands, why does the man’s hand usually come on top?
5. What elements say something about you according to the woman?

Click here to check your answers

NA1 - Tuesday 17 May 2016

Summary of the class:

- Grammar: Verbs of the senses

- Vocabulary: the body

- Grammar: As and Like


- Reading: What Every Body is Saying

- Speaking and listening: Body language

- Listening: review


Homework:


- Complete activity on page 69 (Minigrammar)

- Complete the reading comprehension questions (page 70)