NIC - Listening: Houses

Click on the links for some extra listening practice:

- Homes of the future

- Renting a place of your own

- Apartments

- Apartment problems

- Renting an apartment

- Dream house

NIC - Thursday 25 May 2017

Summary of the class:

- Reading: Living without clocks

- Speaking: Monologues


- Reading: Living at home

- Listening: Dream house

- Speaking: Dream house

- Listening: Review


Homework:

- Do the activities in the handout

- Read the handout on complaining

Language Snippets - Inside the House

NIC - Vocabulary: Parts of the house

Watch the following video to practise the vocabulary on parts of the house:




The following video is about furniture:

Language Snippets - Cover Letter

NIC - Tuesday 23 May 2017

Summary of the class:

- Speaking: Work-life balance

- Reading: Time Management

- Speaking: Good and Bad Time Management

- Vocabulary: Rooms and furniture

- Vocabulary: Housing


- Speaking: Housing


Homework:

- Complete the reading from the worksheet

- Prepare a monologue from the worksheet

Language Snippets - Describing a film or a book

NIC - Thursday 18 May 2017

Summary of the class:

- Reading: e-books

- Grammar: Passive voice


- Speaking: Suggestions

- Vocabulary: Time Management. Click here to see the handout.

- Speaking: Time Management

- Listening: Review


Homework:

Complete the two reading activities from the handout.

NIC - Grammar: Passive Voice

Click on the links below for some extra practice on passive voice:

- Activity 1

- Activity 2

- Activity 3

- Activity 4

NIC - Tuesday 16 May 2017

Summary of the class:

- Speaking: Newspapers

- Vocabulary: newspapers sections

- Listening: sections in the newspaper

- Writing: Book and Film Reviews

- Speaking: Film recommendations

- Grammar: Passive Voice


Homework:

Complete the activities on passive voice on page 142

Write a film and book review

Language Snippets: During, For, and While

NIC - Thursday 11 May 2017

Summary of the class:

- Reading: Television

- Vocabulary: books

- Speaking: Media and books

- Speaking: Printed word versus electronic media

- Reading: ebooks

- Grammar: although/(even though) and in spite of / despite

- Listening: Books and films

- Listening: Review

Homework:

Prepare monologue about ebooks

Complete the reading activity in the handout

NIC. Listening: Cinema and Television

Click on the following links to do some extra practice:

- Movie Show Times

- Movies

- Avatar

- Tickets and Concessions

- Best Movie Ever

- Horror Movies

- Movie Fan

- Favourite Movie

- TV shows

NIC - Tuesday 9 May 2017

Summary of the class:

- Speaking: The Cinema

- Listening: Steven Spielberg

- Vocabulary: Films and television programmes


- Listening: Entertainment

- Listening: Review

Homework:


Complete the text from the handout.

Language Snippets - Collocations with get and take

NIC - Thursday 4 May 2017

Summary of the class:

- Writing: Transactional letters

- Vocabulary: Films


- Speaking: The cinema

- Listening: Review

Homework:
Write a transactional email, using the suggestions from the handout.

NIC - Thursday 27 April 2017

Summary of the class:

- Vocabulary: Natural disasters

- Reading: Recycling

- Listening: Recycling

- Speaking: Recycling

- Listening: Pets

- Speaking: Pets


- Listening: Review

Homework:


Read the worksheet on transactional letters

Write a text about the advantages and disadvantages of owning a pet

Language Snippets - Dates

NIC- Tuesday 25 April 2017

Summary of the class:

- Reading: Success

- Listening: The Beatles and Bill Gates

- Vocabulary: The environment. Click here to see the document.

- Listening: How to protect the environment. Click here to see the activities.

- Speaking: The environment

- Listening: Review. Click here to see the worksheet.

Homework:

Read the text in the worksheet about the environment and complete the activities

NIC - Thursday 20 April 2017

Summary of the class:

- Conditional sentences - type III

- Speaking: What would you do...?

- Reading and listening: The ticket inspector

- Reading and speaking: stories

- Vocabulary and speaking: superstitions and luck

- Listening: Review


Homework:

Write a story about a time when you helped someone or someone helped you

Read the text on page 87 and do the activities in section b