EAP: Argumentation

You can download the powerpoint presentation from today's class here, but if you can't be bothered, the questions for the paragraphs I asked you to write are as follows:

Is it OK to hit children?
Is love more important than money?
Is it possible to learn a language from a book?
Is it ever right to tell lies?
Is it better to be beautiful or intelligent?
Is it best to get married before or after the age of 30?
Should entry to museums be free?
Was the Beijing Olympics worth the money that the Chinese government invested in it?

EBS: Venture Capital and Entrepreneurs

The powerpoint presentation from today's class is available to download here. In class we listened to these two audio files - 1C and 1D - and I've uploaded a third for you here.

If you follow this link you can watch the whole of the episode of Dragon's Den that we looked at in class. From this page you can also view every episode of the current series.

Finally, if you want to think ahead to the pitches you're going to hear on Friday, you can view pictures of your innovative products here and download the preparation worksheet here.

EAP Class Materials

In class we looked at this article from the Economist. The Economist website is a wonderful free resource for any students interested in reading more and developing their vocabulary, so please bookmark it and visit when you can. The powerpoint presentation from today's class is available to download here.

Project 2 Class 1

The powerpoint presentation from today's class is available to download here.

Englightenment Lecture MP3

As promised, an mp3 file of of the lecture on the Englightenment is available here, along with the Powerpoint Presentation from today's class. If you're interested in looking at some bad use of English, this website has some amusing real-life examples.

International Trade

You can download the powerpoint presentation from today's class here, along with audio files of the listening task which can be found at the end of unit 27 (parts one and two).

A selection of articles on International Trade can be found here on the Financial Times website.

Buckingham Palace

Not really my cup of tea, to be honest, but if the trip to Buckingham Palace inspired you to find out more about the British monarchy, you can visit their website. You could also benefit from some listening practice by exploring their broadcasts, like this lecture by Prince Charles (the one with the big ears):

Newspapers

As a follow-up to today's class, it might be a good idea to bookmark this very useful website which basically provides links to online versions of lots of national and local newspapers from the UK. Many of these websites contain much more than what you would find in the daily publication of the paper, and contain searchable archives of articles.

EAP Classes : Week 3 Round-up

A selection of materials for you from week 3 EAP classes.

EAP 10 : Trends and Migration powerpoint file.

EAP 11: The Passive Voice

EAP 12: Cause and effect part one and two

EAP 13: Describing a Process

EAP 14: Linkers - as a powerpoint file along with the word file featuring language we looked at from your writing, with corrections

Extra reading and listening

As a follow-up to this afternoon's lecture, I thought I'd post links to the online versions of the publications that were mentioned -The Financial Times and The Economist. I know most of you already know how to listen to Radio 4 online, but at this stage of your language learning, it may be better for you to download podcasts than to try to listen live. Podcasts are portable and allow you to listen to short segments of radio over and over, thus giving you more chance to understand what you here. Click here to visit a page full of links to Radio 4 podcasts. You may be particularly intrested in Newspod, Peter Day's World of Business, and the Weekly Political Review.

Project Class 5

So that Tim doesn't need to get his photos developed, there's a link to the powerpoint presentation on assessment criteria here. The exercises we did on reporting verbs are also available - just click here.

English for Business Studies

A couple of powerpoint files for you from the last two EBS classes:
EBS 5 on Production and EBS 4 on Recruitment