C1.2 Week 6

Textbook. Unit 8.1. Pages 92 and 93.


I've got a few of your anecdotes via email already. Keep sending them! By the way, I haven't heard from Ruth, Lorena, Eli or Rafa for a long time. Guys, you were by far the most active students in the C1 A class before the lockdown. It'd be great if you guys could leave a comment and/or send me your anecdotes. I hope you're doing fine.

Week 2 C1.2

. Hey! Thanks a lot for your comments! Keep up the good work.

Textbook.
6.5 lookback page 78
7.1 Happy Ending? pages 80 and 81

Blog.

Work on an excerpt (20:20- 23:35) from an interview with economist Jeffrey Sachs. I’m posting the transcript to this section in the comments.

1. Listen to the excerpt while you read the transcript. Do it again and try listening and repeating simultaneously this time. Pretend you are Jeffrey Sachs.
2. Select C1 combos and jot them down.
3. Play the first question Mehdi Hasan asks and listen to Jeffrey Sachs answer. Stop the recording and improvise an answer using the lexical gold you dug.
4. Do the same with the rest of the questions.
5. Repeat 3 and 4 without resorting to the transcript.
https://theintercept.com/2020/03/12/capitalism-vs-the-coronavirus/

Work on an excerpt (7:22- 11:56) from an interview with economist congresswoman Alexandria Ocasión-Cortez and  professor Stephanie Keaton I’m posting the transcript to this section in the comments.

https://theintercept.com/2020/03/20/deconstructed-podcast-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-coronavirus-economy/

Same deal

Stay put!

Week 1 C1.2

Hi, there.

As you all know regular classes were suspended last weekend. I hope everyone is doing fine and feeling up to keeping their English on point, though. Here's what I propose for this week:

Textbook:

Continue working on unit 6

6.3 Pages 74 and 75 

6.4 page 76

Blog:

Watch this clip. Make a list of 20 adjectives and 20 lexical collocations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8sY29iN0-c

Watch this ted talk twice. Take notes. Sum up the talk orally.

https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story/transcript?language=en#t-38509

Autonomous Learning Resources

Miscellany

Crashcourses (15 min presentations with pretty accurate closed captions available)
https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse

Full semesters organized by subject (Higher learning. Verbatim closed captions available)
http://oyc.yale.edu/courses
https://www.youtube.com/user/YaleCourses/playlists

Long articles on a variety of issues available as downloadable audio files
https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/the-long-read

It may sound dreadfully pretentious but the purpose of this channel is to provide useful lessons for life. (CC's are pretty much verbatim) 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7IcJI8PUf5Z3zKxnZvTBog

Short, mostly animated clips with full transcripts and subtitles in quite a few languages.
https://ed.ted.com/lessons?content_type=animations&direction=desc&sort=publish-date&user_by_click=student

15-minute talks on a variety of subject matters including technology, education, design, business, science and global issues. (full transcripts and subtitles in several languages)

https://www.ted.com/talks

Short clips organized by topic. (clowny approach)
https://www.youtube.com/user/OUlearn

Talks, seminars and interviews about all sorts of stuff. If you're a culture vulture, there's probably something for you here.

https://www.youtube.com/@92NY/playlists

In-depth documentaries (full transcripts available)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/topics/

In-depths investigative reports (full transcripts available)
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/episodes/

Debate sites (Closed captions available)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBdfcR-8hEY
https://www.youtube.com/user/IntelligenceSquared

Animated interviews with 20th century personalities.
https://www.youtube.com/user/blankonblank


Podcasts

All in the mind

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/episodes

The Inquiry
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p029399x/episodes/downloads
Why do we do the things we do?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00xtky9/episodes/downloads
People fixing the world
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04grdbc/episodes/downloads
A closer look at some of the stuff in the news
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p029399x/episodes/downloads
The story behind the headlines
https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/todayinfocus
Longer n deeper
https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/the-audio-long-read

Music

https://www.youtube.com/@fantano

https://www.youtube.com/@SoundFieldPBS

https://www.youtube.com/@Polyphonic

https://www.youtube.com/@NahreSol

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008mj7p/episodes/downloads

Cinema

https://www.youtube.com/@YMS

https://www.youtube.com/@LessonsfromtheScreenplay

https://www.criterion.com/current/category/2-essays

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjFqcJQXGZ6T6sxyFB-5i6A

https://www.youtube.com/@TheCinemaCartography

https://www.youtube.com/@OutstandingScreenplays

Books & Authors

https://www.youtube.com/@VideoSparkNotes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldkLFvaHHNA&list=PL7qClh5XAo-1wmRMALZ5VW1l354uWrl24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe64p-QzhNE&list=PLkn2TP7UpiKydwu3SvaVh9PIDg2787-0_

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAzKGkTIKpg&list=PLwxNMb28Xmpfv2COuuJaKzy6E2n8nSMdi

Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/@OverthinkPodcastPhilosophy

https://www.youtube.com/@ContraPoints
https://www.youtube.com/@carefreewandering

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/episodes

For those wanting to have a more in-depth insight into the (CEFR) Common European Framework of Reference  for Languages (CEFR).
http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/linguistic/Source/Framework_EN.pdf

CAE practice tests.

Listening
http://www.examenglish.com/CAE/cae_listening.html

Speaking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVRC3psIPU8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yde9HKd01k

 All skills
https://www.sprachzertifikate.info/pruefungsvorbereitung/pruefungsvorbereitung-cae.html

http://www.teachya.com/exams/cae/

http://www.englishspeaker.com/index%20-%20CAE.html

http://www.englishspeaker.com/index%20-%20CAE.html#anchor

http://hibernia-institute.cz/on_line_testy/cae/index.htm

http://www.english-online.org.uk/caefolder/caehome.php?name=Practice%20for%20the%20Cambridge%20Advanced%20English

http://www.ihbristol.com/free-english-exercises/esol

http://www.slideshare.net/larodry/cae-practice-tests-plus-2-22380462

http://www.slideshare.net/RaquelCanales/cambridge-cae-29770114

http://www.slideshare.net/larodry/cambridge-complete-cae

http://englishaula.com/en/cambridge-advanced-certificate-cae-use-of-english.php

https://www.teachers.cambridgeesol.org/ts/exams/academicandprofessional/cae

http://www.caeexam.com/Download.html

http://intranet.exeter.ac.uk/insess/CAEpractice.html

http://es.scribd.com/doc/37723398/CAE-Practice-Tests-Plus-2

http://todayschool.es/blog/advanced-cae-online-tests/

 Have you ever tried setting google on book search. Keep looking and you may stumble onto some very interesting stuff you won't have to pay for...
 
http://books.google.es/books?id=VgVMkT2T5ggC&printsec=frontcover&dq=speak+english+fluently&hl=es&sa=X&ei=AxwCU46hOOn40gXHw4HoBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=speak%20english%20fluently&f=false

http://books.google.es/books?id=mjdxKEvI_pkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=write+in+english&hl=es&sa=X&ei=fRwCU_i1MuOn0QX7vIC4Dw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=write%20in%20english&f=false

http://books.google.es/books?id=g5PeZC0JwFYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=sample+writing&hl=es&sa=X&ei=cBoCU8DnI6iT0QWdvIDACQ&ved=0CFQQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=sample%20writing&f=false

http://books.google.es/books?id=xeTd0I-XPYIC&pg=PA12&dq=sample+writing&hl=es&sa=X&ei=cBoCU8DnI6iT0QWdvIDACQ&ved=0CFwQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=sample%20writing&f=false

Psychometric verbal reasoning tests...brilliant for your English and good training if you re looking for a job.

http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/tests/verbaltest.htm

Some audiobooks to read out loud.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P72AD8ktEq4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSZ3wtqBpTE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbE4NXHoTLI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwHs2mPoVfQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHpriA3E5vg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INO1XRZLYh8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9WYQmbmLeQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_6aaH2gtIg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGpfu-KpuLw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wExK37zBmX8

I'm still tripping about stuff I found last weekend on the Guardian's web. Well, this new discovery certainly does not fall short of the others...In the wonderful section of interactives, there's this brilliant city guides series . They only cover a few cities, though. Take your pick and plan a dream trip!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/city-guides

Other interactives worth checking out:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/interactive/2012/feb/05/what-being-british-mean-interactive
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2012/jan/27/how-european-are-you-quiz
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/feb/05/chastleton-house-cotswolds-panoramic-architecture
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2012/jan/25/europe-migration-eu-interactive

Have you thought about teaching yourself English? If you're into taking a more active role in your learning experience here's a webpage you might go nuts about!
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/lesson-plans

The activities range from A2 to C1 and they are designed to work on different linguistic skills!

For hip hop lovers who struggle daily to unfathom the seemingly unfathomable! Make sense out of the sometimes marvelously creative twististry of rhymes.

http://rapgenius.com