Dear students,
For December 02 and 04 ou have to prepare the report from BBC Ouch.
Try from another computer (if you can) or email me if this link does not work so that I can send you the MP3 file.
This report will not be included in the first in-class exam (Dec 09 and 11)
As usual:
- highlight the main ideas
- prepare 10 questions and their answers (we will use them for class discussion).
- check the vocabulary and start learning it
- revise the idiomatic expressions and the previous vocabulary
Do not spend too much time browsing the dictionaries, use good online dictionaries (wordreference or CD Rom Robert et Collins) . Spend more time to learn and know them.
I might collect a sample of this preparation work. If you are absent for unjustified reasons, if this homework is forgotten or not done, you will automatically get a zero. In case you are absent for valid reasons, do not forget to bring the justification/certificate the following week.
I might collect a sample of this preparation work. If you are absent for unjustified reasons, if this homework is forgotten or not done, you will automatically get a zero. In case you are absent for valid reasons, do not forget to bring the justification/certificate the following week.
Reminder:
The Tuesday group will have their final exam on January 06 and the Thursday group on January 08. It will last 60 minutes (from 8:30 am to 9:30 am) and will be based on everything done during the semester (listening comprehension, audio reports, vocabulary, idiomatic expressions, phrasal verbs). There will also be an unknown report and specific questions will be asked on this report (listening comprehension work).
If you miss this exam or if you are late for any reason (even if it is justified), there will be no catch-up exam whatsoever!
There will also be an in-class exam on December 9 (Tuesday group) and December 11 (Thursday group). It will last 50 minutes (from 8:30 am to 9:20 am) and will be based on everything done during the semester (listening comprehension, audio reports, vocabulary, idiomatic expressions, phrasal verbs). The report from BBC Ouch is not included!
In order to be fair with the Thursday group, students from the Tuesday group will not be allowed in any case to take the exam on Thursday in case some of them miss the exam on Tuesday for whatever reason (even if it is justified).
Do not wait the until the last week to start learning the vocabulary, the idiomatic expressions, the phrasal verbs.
In order to improve your listening comprehension do regularly listen the audio reports we have studied/discussed so far and use your homework/preparation work. to avoid making the mistakes I mentioned in your papers. Do also listen to any English TV and/or radio channels and/or audio reports from the internet sites indicated earlier (PBS, BBC, ABC, etc.) on a very regulary basis.
Best regards,
Mounir Nassor
(mounirnassor@yahoo.co.in)
