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

We were discussing dictionaries in our last session. Here s a free dictionary of collocations:
http://www.ozdic.com/collocation-dictionary/road

And a couple of excellent monolingual dictionaries with rather juicy extra features:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/you-can-bet-your-life?fallbackFrom=british-grammar&q=Bottom+dollar

https://www.merriam-webster.com/news-trend-watch/franks-resigns-amid-surrogacy-scandal-20171208

Videos (reviews and articles) for C1 organized by topic

3b book reviews, interviews and lectures 

Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8E7HLUaRF4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rv5VBF54mI
Drive by James Sallis
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/oct/21/james-sallis-crime-salt-river
High Fidelity  Nick Hornby
http://www.theguardian.com/books/1995/mar/28/fiction.reviews
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbqL2G_iQ-c&list=PL9156A37193921175&index=19


3b film reviews

Drive
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marshall-fine/movie-review-idrivei_b_959652.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxYjFNh_aIA
High Hidelity
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/jul/21/nickhornby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60woEQroy0g
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/jul/21/comment
The Human Stain
http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9505E4D81430F932A05753C1A9659C8B63
The Inside Job
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMQ804MKkWI

3c money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS0hj4kiqsA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMQ804MKkWI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fbvquHSPJU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niNYQtU8GkY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEiCN57XhiI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvAf2gOvaiY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsrtB5lp60s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T69NDIcHOl8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7m9wfFnH6o

TED speakers on language acquisition...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0yGdNEWdn0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WLHr1_EVtQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a6vVIdQBd0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNmf-G81Irs

and CUSP speakers on business and enterpreneurship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaZPBonUKBY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOpaIeKRo_w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp4Z5uusd_I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVvGJKzxzEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwxmdyC4F3U

 Confrontational film club???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qxpBxVVKNE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCmrOzhoUcs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3QrNpxTzm0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY0diaHlC2w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sFwzpUGTpg

Excellent  interviews/reviews packed with descriptive vocab and brilliant chunks of language.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_dH0w90lyc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKea_49v3I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R0WdUhVB84
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYG_BJNhT6U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaK0YBA8Lss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQkuMe2-X3Y


Two podcasts for those hankering after more thorough reviews:

The Economist
https://soundcloud.com/theeconomist/new-fiction-peter-careys-the?in=theeconomist/sets/the-economist-culture
https://soundcloud.com/theeconomist/new-american-fiction-tainted?in=theeconomist/sets/the-economist-culture
https://soundcloud.com/theeconomist/picassos-pivotal-year?in=theeconomist/sets/the-economist-culture
The New Yorker
https://soundcloud.com/newyorker/the-new-yorker-out-loud-131007-pierpont
https://soundcloud.com/newyorker/the-new-yorker-out-loud-1

They say nothing s for free these days...
http://www.youtube.com/user/duncaninchina
http://www.youtube.com/user/rachelsenglish
http://www.youtube.com/user/ENGLISHCLASS101
http://www.youtube.com/user/JamesESL
http://www.youtube.com/user/bbclearningenglish?feature=watch

Brilliant vocab videos! Try to repeat the definitions and examples along with the reader.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb3AsHQy0rw&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-19j66HoWJE&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KltDgdNf2sU&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuGUs6Z1oQQ&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eVOhw3FTFw&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y-DW3BzHW8&feature=relmfu


Same thing minus a proper voice plus helpful visual input and synonyms!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbNjrKaabFI&feature=related

What's on the menu today?

For starters, you can give your eyes and ears a bit of our exotic vocab salad. here's a brilliant couple of vids brimming with descriptive words.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY1oFuh_AeQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCC1YCgB9Jo&feature=edu&list=PL82CAF3F170641910


Our main course today is...




surprise surprise...











more marinated body idioms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJqCMZiZDn0&feature=edu&list=PL82CAF3F170641910
Alternatively you can revel on this vid which features all you need to know to describe charts,  trends and so on, to wit: juicy verb adverb collocations, exotic-tasting verbs, heavily spiced phrasal verbs, and a few alternative recipes and an over-enunciating teacher-chef!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1uAImH4GwA&feature=relmfu
To top it all up, here's a clip you can use to practise describing urban landscapes.
http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36314216#editor/target=post;postID=5409618596162573237

OOZY Juicy webs if you're after a good old list of examples for words, idioms, collocations, phrasal verbs, set phrases, etc.

blink/ in the blink of an eye
http://www.linguee.es/espanol-ingles/search?source=auto&query=blink
http://www.wordnik.com/words/blink
blush
http://www.linguee.es/espanol-ingles/search?source=auto&query=blush
http://www.wordnik.com/words/blush
 frown/ frown lines
http://www.linguee.es/espanol-ingles/search?source=auto&query=blush
grit one's teeth
 http://www.linguee.es/espanol-ingles/search?source=auto&query=grit+one%27s+teeth
 http://www.linguee.es/espanol-ingles/search?source=auto&query=grit+her+teeth
keep your ear to the ground
http://www.linguee.es/espanol-ingles/search?source=auto&query=+keep+your+ear+to+the+ground
lose face
http://www.linguee.es/espanol-ingles/search?source=auto&query=lose+face
http://www.wordnik.com/words/lose%20face