Advent calendar

For those who may be looking forward to Christmas.

Essays

Your writing assignment consists of writing a problem-solution essay. Some ideas to structure it as well as some relevant connectors can be found in this document and here, and if you need some inspiration to choose a topic, this site may provide you with some ideas on possible topics. Some mistakes and good examples out of your latest essays.

Places

Find the handout on cities we went over the other day here. If you are interested in this topic and want to listen to different extracts on cities, you can find some here.

Another issue to do with places is is where we work. How are offices designed?

Writing essays in A2

Here's the handout that contains another essay example.

The environment

Could a one-page plan possibly work to save the planet?

Verb patterns

Some examples on verbs which can take both gerund or infinitive here and piles of exercises here.

Listening, public speaking and body language

Further to your suggestions, we will listen to either Amy Cuddy, Julian Treasure over the weekend and summarise the extract we choose fir the rest of the class next week.