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  • Week 7: Environmental issues

    • Reading Soubor
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      Please read the text and write 5 words/phrases to our googledoc. Prepare for class discussion on environmental issues.

    • Listening practice tests URL
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      Try doing these regularly, not all at once. At best one test per day every day;)

    • Grammar: indirect questions and tag questions, and Vocabulary practice Soubor
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      Please do the activities and check with the key

    • Key to activities Soubor
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    • Writing Úkol
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    • Extensive listening: The Climate Question: BBC Podcast Soubor
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      Please listen to the podcast. Proceed as usual - take notes of the vocabulary and content. Consider the issues. Prepare to discuss these.

  • Academic Reading: practice for the exam

  • Week 10.5-15.5 Presentations and Conditionals

  • Writing

  • Reading: Exam practice

  • Reported Speech

  • Week 4-5: How not to be stupid

    • How Not to Be Stupid Soubor
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      Read the text, work with the vocabulary, proceed as usual. Prepare for discussion. 

    • Spotting Fake News Soubor
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      Listen to the first 11 min 50 sec of the  podcast, which concerns spotting fake news. Take notes, proceed as usual.

    • Grammar: Articles and Nouns Soubor
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      Please read up on the theory, do the activities and check with the key. Ask any questions you might have during our interactive session. There is also a unit on vocabulary - on the Media, so connected with our topic this week. Please do these, too.

    • Grammar: Key to activities Soubor
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    • Writing Úkol
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  • Week 6: Human relationships

  • Mental Health

    • Ted Talk on Mental Health URL
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      Task:

      listen to the ted talk and take-notes. Even if you think you have a good memory, it's good to take notes: remember, you're not only listening to have an idea of the content but in order to work on your language skills. Thus, please do the following:

      1) Listen more than once if necessary. DO NOT USE  THE SUBTITLES at first.

      2) If you have problems understanding, go back and listen again to a probelamtic part (with no subtitles). If you really don't understand, listen again with the subtitles on. Then turn them off and listen to it again.

      3) While listening take notes of ideas and vocabulary. Write down not only the expressions you haven't been acquainted with, but those that are not part of your active vocabulary, even if you have no difficulty understanding.

      4) Write 5 vocabulary items into our googledoc.

      5) Prepare for the in-class discussion.

    • Vocabulary activities: People and Society Soubor
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  • Education

    • Peter Hutton Ted talk: What if students controlled their own learning? URL
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      Task:

      listen to the ted talk and take-notes. Even if you think you have a good memory, it's good to take notes: remember, you're not only listening to have an idea of the content but in order to work on your language skills. Thus, please do the following:

      1) Listen more than once if necessary. DO NOT USE  THE SUBTITLES at first.

      2) If you have problems understanding, go back and listen again to a probelamtic part (with no subtitles). If you really don't understand, listen again with the subtitles on. Then turn them off and listen to it again.

      3) While listening take notes of ideas and vocabulary. Write down not only the expressions you haven't been acquainted with, but those that are not part of your active vocabulary, even if you have no difficulty understanding.

      4) Write 5 vocabular items into our googledoc.

      5) Prepare for the inclass discussion. What is it about? What is your reaction to the video? Do you think it would be possible to reform schools in this direction? What would the challenges be? Etc. 

    • Education Vocabulary Soubor
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    • Key: Vocabulary Activities Soubor
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    • Writing Úkol
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      Write an essay related to the topic of education. If you have no ideas of your own, use any of the topics suggested below. If you choose your own topic, remember to formulate it. Do not write more than 250 words. Please see features of the academic style (a topic in this moodle course), before you write.

      Topics:

      1) Students would benefit more from home education, since they could focus on their individual needs. Discuss.

      2) Despite good innovative ideas on education. it is impossible to introduce these on a mass scale for a number of reasons. Present your opinion.

      3) The role of the school is not to convey knowledge, but to raise good citizens. Discuss.

  • Week 3-4 Gender issues

    • MIchael Kimmel on gender equality: Men's Studies perspective URL
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      1) Listen to the ted talk without subtitles. Take notes. Remember: the goal is not only to remember the content, but also to work on your language, so I recommend making detailed notes, even if you think you'll remember everything. 

      2) If you have difficulty understanding anything - listen again to the problematic part (NO SUBTITLES), if you really don't understand after a few times, turn the subtitles on and check. Then listen again without the subtitles to see if it's clear this time.

      3) Write down 7-10 phrases - new to you, or not in your active vocabulary (which means, you understand the phrase, but you never use it yourself)

      4) Take notes of terminology relating to gender issues.

      4) Practice speaking aloud before class - to yourself, your cat/dog (pets are wonderful listeners! While speaking aloud make sure you use the phrases you have noted down.

    • Academic Reading test Soubor
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      1) Do the activities and check your answers with the key. - Spend 10 min per task approximately. (Max 15 min). 

      2) See your mistakes, find out why. If there are any words/phrases you don't understand - translate with a dictionary (but NOT GOOGLE TRANSLATOR). A good one is Google dictionary, but it's not the same as google translator. 

      3) If you still have difficulty, ask in class. 

    • Grammar: tenses Úkol
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      Please continue with the tenses: - activities from this moodle course.

  • Week 8 (9.4-15.4)

  • Week: 19.4-23.4

    • The Science of Happiness URL
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      Listen, take notes, write 5 new/interesting words/phrases into our googledoc. proceed as usual. 

      Prepare for the discussion in class. 

    • Passive Voice Theory and Activities Soubor
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    • Destination B2: Passive + Vocabulary: Food and Drinks Soubor
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    • Key: Destination B2 Soubor
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    • Key: Grammarway Soubor
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    • Writing: Essay Úkol
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    • IELTS: Reading practice URL
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      PLease use the website regularly to practice reading.

      While doing the activity:

      Make sure you find the part of the text relating to the particular test question. Do not base on your speculations/external knowledge - concentrate on what is in the text. Don't take more than 15 min per text.

  • Week 26.4 - 30.04: Presentations

    • Writing: article summary Úkol
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      Please write a summary of the academic text that you have chosen for your presentation. 

      Length: one page (A4), Time New Roman, 12.

      The task is especially recommended to those of you who hold a certificate, which can replace the writing section of the B2 exam for Charles Students.

      Make sure it meets the criteria of the academic style. 

      Before writing study the tips concerning how to write a good summary.

    • How to write an article summary URL
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      Study the tips. You might find these useful. 

    • How to write an article summary - Video URL
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      A short video with clear step-by-step advice on how to write your summary. 

    • Reported Speech: Theory and Practice Soubor
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    • Reported Speech explained by your teacher;) URL
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    • Reported Speech: Affirmative Statements URL
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    • Key to activities: Grammarway Soubor
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  • Test

    • Progress test
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      When correcting the sentences or doing transformations, please write the whole sentence. 

      Good luck.