ID de réservation
17838234
Quand ?
22nd August 2025
Horaire ?
15:00pm - 16:00pm
Notes
BUSINESS SITUATIONS: General English and Business English
SUBJECT OR TOPIC: News review, Our friends visit of York archaeological sites, story extract of the rich farm owner and the employee, article: Texas hit by deadly flood; deadly heatwave hit Europe
LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS:
• Summarising key events
• Expressing opinions about current affairs
• Comparing sources or perspectives
• Making predictions based on news
• Describing past experiences
• Giving information about places
• Expressing interest or curiosity
• Narrating events
• Describing characters and setting
• Inferring motives or feelings
UNITS:
-Discussion from PPT slide 14 - 21 “Members only, Subscription models”
VOCABULARY: Connected to topics :
These words help us talk about serious issues like unfair treatment (censorship, mockery), big changes (new reality), extreme situations (take the brunt of, sweltering), and how people respond to others’ ideas (to ridicule, make a mockery of).
GRAMMAR:
discuss verbs followed by gerunds, v-ing, and infinitives, to + verb, as well as chat about too and very.
OTHER: target pronunciations to memorize
CLASS FEEDBACK: You engaged well with real-world topics and used new vocabulary like censorship and sweltering meaningfully. Great progress in expressing complex ideas with clarity—keep it up!
PRONUNCIATION: Continued practice with targeted exercises will help enhance clarity and listener comprehension. ‘How long; lyrics, subscription, website, loyalty, uninterrupted, allows, product, product, lost”. “licence, floods
HOMEWORK:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/upper-intermediate/unit-1/session-2
News review – work on it’s vocabulary reference AND GRAMMAR REFERENCE
READING
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading/b2-reading/plastic-ocean-film-review
VIDEOZONE:
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/general-english/video-series/word-street/sport
(all five videos)
PODCAST:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/learning-english-from-the-news_2025/250820