For C1: Promised items

Hi -

Last post to you.

1. Great Presentations yesterday!

2. Marta, Elena and Laura A's presentation, as it was really clever and a lot of you missed it.

CLICK HERE

3. GOOD JOKE ABOUT PASSWORDS! I love it and it goes with Gloria and Raul's Presentation. Great "punchline"

Resetting The Password

  "Sorry, your password has been in use for 30 days and has expired - you must register a new one."

  roses

   "Sorry, too few characters."

   pretty roses

    "Sorry, you must use at least one numerical character."

   1 pretty rose

    "Sorry, you cannot use blank spaces."

    1prettyrose

    "Sorry, you must use at least 10 different characters."

    1fuckingprettyrose

    "Sorry, you must use at least one upper case character."

    1FUCKINGprettyrose

    "Sorry, you cannot use more than one upper case character consecutively."

    1FuckingPrettyRose

    "Sorry, you must use no fewer than 20 total characters."

 1FuckingPrettyRoseShovedUpYourAssIfYouDon'tGiveMeAccessRightFuckingNow!!!!!

  "Sorry, you cannot use punctuation."

 1FuckingPrettyRoseShovedUpYourAssIfYouDontGiveMeAccessRightFuckingNow

    "Sorry, that password is already in use."

4.. As I promised Gloria, here's the link to the explanation document about Prepositions in English.

FOR ALL CSIM STUDENTS: SCHEDULE AND LIST FOR CLASSES 2ND "CUATRI"

PARA OFERTA DE CLASES, HORARIOS, NIVEL EXIGIDO, FECHAS DE PRUEBAS DE NIVEL Y DE MATRICULA, ETC.

CLICK HERE

¡ANIMAROS!

Conversation B1

Excellent jobs on the Presentations. I knew I said I would Post something for you but didn't remember what. Today I realized it was the Tricky Questions for Jobs Interviews so CLICK HERE

Conversation B2 and Conversation C1: DON'T BRING MACS for Presentations

 An important note for those who are doing presentations tomorrow or Monday.

IF YOU ARE DOING YOUR PRESENTATION WITH SLIDES OR ANOTHER TOOL YOU NEED THE PROJECTOR FOR AND ARE PLANNING TO BRING A LAPTOP, THE PROJECTORS AT THE CSIM CAN'T CONNECT TO MACS ( APPLE) SO BRING ANOTHER TYPE.!!

I also want to remind you that for a better grade, you need to bring some vocabulary : at least 4 or 5 word webs with new vocabulary you learned connected with different themes - education, Halloween or "spooky" stories, money and finance, protest songs, social networks, anagrams, etc.

For all levels : 2 aids for presentation

First, one about norms for stres and intonation in English- very important for good pronunciation!

CLICK HERE

Second, for a grammar point -when to use the infintive and when to use the gerund:

CLICK HERE  FOR PAGE 1 and CLICK HERE  FOR PAGE 2.

Job Interviews Con C1 Wed. and Con B2 Tuesday

I am going to publish 2 short and useful documents for job interviews:

 CLICK HERE  for list of personal skills

and     CLICK HERE for Tricky Questions for Job Interviews.

The current trend is to combine the 2 lists for more specific questions according to what you say your skills  and the needs of the post you are applying for are. For example, if you say, you are good at negotiating, the interviewer will ask you about the last time you had to negotiate, the details the problems you encountered and how you solved them. If the post you are applying for involves people or financail skills, they will ask how you handled a difficult person or client or how you solved a budgetary problem and /or convinced your boss to adopt it, etc. So try to think so ways you can combine the 2 lists for more difficult, detailed and specific questions!!


In addition, I have just found an incredibly detailed source online for those of you who would like to go into more detail.

Click here

The relevant pages are pp. 105 through 162, so scroll back. (The first pages to appear are the end!)

THIS IS PROBABLY THE LAST POST FOR FOR GROUP UTIL THE GRADES AT THE END OF THE MONTH!!

Conversation B1 Class For Monday

1. First hour, "Surprise" presentation by Belén, Javier and Helena.


2. We are going to work on Jobs and Job Interviews.

I prefer for you to make a list of questions that YOU think are typical for a job interview,

Conversation C1 : class for Monday with update for Wednesday

1. Do Sherlock Holmes mystery. You need to read the short text of the letter you were given - A, B or  C.

2. Listening practice pre exam.

3. Debate on tourism in Spain time permitting.
BTW, Patricia we all enjoyed your performance! Good trip!

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Conversation B2: Talking about Men and Women PLEASE POST SONGS

GOOD CLASS DESPITE THE COLD!!

I found Maika's song but please send the others.

This is a short and easily printable exercise for talking about Boys and Girls  and Stereotypes
CLICK HERE

This is an exercise for an enertaining  12-minute video clip about the differences between men and women's brains. He is comedian who is also a psychologist! 


CLICK HERE  Print and try to answer questions. There is a link to the video clip inside the article but the subtitles are so-so. But I just found another one with perfect subtitles, So for video clip with subtitles clicking on cc  PLEASE  CLICK HERE to watch and read! I hope you enjoy it!!

CONVERSATION C1 WED. Finish talking about short interviews from Columbine and another activity.

1. Patricia will do her presentation, which I am sure you will all really like!!

2. Then, we will finish talking about the South Park creator and Marilyn Manson interviews. links on  January 9  BUT I just found a link with part of the Marilyn Manson interview with subtitles in English CLICK HERE  and with Matt Stone, creator of South Park with subtitles in Spanish:CLICK HERE They are VERY SHORT, profound and interesting, so watch on you smart phones or tablets!!!

3.Then we will do another interesting speaking intensive activity, which you don't need to copy.

Finally, time permitting, we will move on to a debate on Tourism  .CLICK HERE

Conversation B1- Wed. Finish Listening on Stereotypes and talk about traveling

Hi

VERY GOOD CLASS!

I JUST PUBLISHED 3 MORE RECIPES ON THE RECIPE POST WITH DATE DEC. 22 2014.

ON WEDNESDAY WE WILL DO THE LISTENING ON STEREOPTYOES ( WITH THE PICTURES) THAT WE DIN'T HAVETIME TO DO TODAY AND TALK ABOUT TRAVELING AND TRIPS.

YOU DON'T NEED TO PRINT THE MAIN EXERCISE, BUT CLICK HERE for related vocabulary.

Conversation B2 For Tuesday: Climate Change

1.We had a lovely class on Thursday the 8th, but only 6 came. IT'S VERY NECESSARY FOR EVERYONE WHO PLANS TO CONTINUE TO COME TO CLASS ON TUESDAY TO BE ABLE TO PLAN THE TIMETABLE FOR PRESENTATIONS. SO PLEASE COME: SARA, LAURA, ROBERTO AND ALL OTHERS LIKE MIGUEL, JUAN, JORGE, PILAR, MOHAMMED who have not missed many classes and have talked about doing a project with a mate!!

2., I've realized that only Mohammed published his protest song, so please send me the lyrics and /or  great exercises and link to your song so that I can publish it on the blog so you get full credit and share with your classmates!! You can publish as a Comment on the blog or send to my email.

3. For Tuesday, we are going to discuss climate change.

This is a short videoclip by Leonardo Di Caprio with vocab and questions. CLICK HERE


4. I have another OPTIONAL video clip which is older but it deals with the same problem and the questions are good. She speaks slowly because she is a child and the subtitles are in Portuguese.

PLEASE PRINT THE 1ST PAGE, WHICH IS ABOUT GENERAL QUESTIONS AND VOCABULARY . TRY TO SEE THE VIDEO CLIP TOO. IT'S SHORT!!  CLICK HERE

and with English subtitles thanks to Jorge:  CLICK HERE .YOU HAVE TO PRESS ON "CC". Everything okay except the names of her companions.
5. Finally a short and very impressive public message by mother nature that I talked about in class. The voice is Julia Roberts. CLICK HERE

Conversation C1 for Monday- updated with Columbine interviews VOS

Welcome back

I hope you all had a great vacation and have come to good decisions regarding the Presentations.

1. I THINK I have posted all the songs in the post December 15 ( 2014), CLICK HERE but I want to be sure I have clear who did what song, so I'd like to go over that.

2. On January 3 CLICK HERE, I posted a curious article and wrote that I plan to do Bowling for Columbine.  it went well in the Conversation B2 and we never did it. AND we can connect it with recent events - a sort of "terrorist attack"  by alienated youth -as well as with the article

3. I've decided to include 2 other short scenes that we did in the other class - a short interview with the authors of South Park. CLICK HERE BUT START WATCHING AT MINUTE 3
And another interview with Marilyn Manson CLICK HERE
AND HERE FOR VOCABULARY AND QUESTIONS CLICK HERE

These 2 interviews together are only a little over 6 minutes. PLEASE WATCH WITHOUT SUBTITLES - you are C1 and the vocabulary will help!! I have the video with subtitles in Spanish but would prefer not to use it!!

4. I just remembered that Gloria and Raul have practiced a love song. I hope we have time, but if we don't, it can wait for Wednesday

5. Finally, I've decided to finish the course on Jan. 28th. We missed one class because I was ill, and we have lost so uch time because of bad technology that I honestly feel I owe you a second class!

Conversation B1 Welcome back after vacation

I hope you have all eaten well, rested well, seen family,etc.

First, I want to say that not all of you have posted you recipes, so PLEASE do it!!

About the class, we will start will a little post Chistmas survey, asking each other questions.

PLEASE CLICK HERE

Then because you are a VERY SMART class with different nationalities and also because of recent events, I thought we could talk about prejudices and stereotypes. I have been wanting to talking about more "abstract" and deeper themes with you but in B1, I save this more fOR towards the end!!

So please CLICK HERE   and CLICK HERE.

As usual, I will bring in 3 or 4 copies of each, but if you can PLEASE  print a copy (or bring a tablet, bigger mobile or ipad!)

Finally, we will make a schedule for the presentations.

See you all on Monday!  :)

Conversation B2 : for thurs. Jan 8- Tourism and Travel

Travel and Tourism

Happy 2015. Remember class in 2 days!

I don't know if you've stayed in Madrid or taken advantage of the holidays to take a little trip ,but I thought it would be a good timeto talk about traveling and have a debate about tourism in Spain.

For material, please click below and as usual, try to print!

Click here for Vocabulary


Click here for debate questions

Con C1: For Monday January 12th

I actually found this article  CLICK HERE quite strange and am curious to know what you think of it.

SO PLEASE READ FOR MONDAY, DOING THE VOCABULARY AND ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS TO DISCUSS IN CLASS.

 I was going to forget about the scenes from Bowling for Columbine ( reluctantly) but I think they can be connected with this article. For video link and questions: CLICK HERE

Conversation B2 and C1: Some "soft" science

1. A video clip on the subject of medical marijuana-- FROM A RESEARCHER AT THE UCM!!  An opportunity to listen to a researcher who is working right here, getting world-wide recognition and speaking excellent English!  Good for those who want more science listenings and also for Con B2 because it's related to the roleplay we did!.There is also a text to read below.
http://www.trueactivist.com/molecular-biologist-explains-how-thc-kills-cancer-cells/

2. Now a few video clips about ecology, climate change, etc.


a.  short video by a Hopi Indian chief about the philosophy of his people and why the USA (led not by the Hopis but by the "Americans from Europe" probably will not survive.His voice is very slow, clear and relaxing.  2 interesting statistics: before the white man arrived, there were 60 million Hopi Indians in North America but now there are 800,000 or .2% of the population.

click here

b. All the useful vocabulary about climate change, pollution and protests. Very correct subtitles in English clicking onto rectangle that looks like en envelope. ( only mistakes smelting = melting       (derritiendo) Nunavit = none of it and L'Agence ¨delegates (??!)

And DiCaprio speaks very clearly and it doesn't hurt that he's very nice to look at!

CLICK HERE

Conversation B1: Easier humor

In case the video clips were a litle difficult, some simple jokes, puns ( juegos de palabra) and tongue twisters.

Tongue twisters