Teacher Rick's Weblog

The ring system of Saturn… but here!

henrick — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:43:18 +0000

What would Earth look like if it had a ring system like Saturn?

CAE – November 20

henrick — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:58:37 +0000

Hello there,

Today we corrected all the homework that had been assigned, and we also had a listening mock test. There’s no homework today, but I’ll leave you with a couple of recommendations:

1. Pay a visit to Flo-Joe and do some of the exercises they bring there.

2. Make sure you try to listen to a couple of episodes from Newspod.

3. Visit the Guardian Unlimited online and try to read at least two articles this week. You can pick and choose the articles – choose a topic that interests you.

Cheers!!

FCE – November 18

henrick — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:02:01 +0000

Dear students,

We spent the class today correcting our Use of English mock test. I think it was fruitful, what about you?

This means that, for our next class, apart from doing what had been assigned as homework for today, you’ll also have to do:

- Exam Maximiser: pages 54, 55, 56 (the exercise ends on page 57).

Cheers!

FCE – November 16

henrick — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:18:10 +0000

Dear students,

In case you haven’t done EXAM FOCUS on page 83, do it. We’re correcting it on Wednesday.

In addition to that, do the READING exercise on pages 84/85

Cheers!

CAE – November 13

henrick — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:26:00 +0000

Howdy,

How did you like your class on a Friday the 13th? Spooky? Or just a problem with the mock test?

Anyway, here goes the homework:

- Coursebook: page 124 (Phrasal verbs and compound nouns)

- Coursebook: pages 127 – 129 (Units 6-10 progress test)

- Handout: Units 6-10 progress test

Cheers!

FCE – September 4

henrick — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:58:25 +0000

Hi there,

First of all, don’t forget you have classes this Friday, November 6.

Homework:
- CD-ROM Unit 6 (do units 1 – 5 is you haven’t done it yet)
- Handout – Unit 6 test

Impressive

henrick — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:58:29 +0000

Hello there,

What do you think of this boy? Amazing? Ordinary? Nothing special at all?

Flo-joe: Online activities

henrick — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:36:57 +0000

Hi there,

CAE students – click here and here

FCE students – click here and here

Would you like to receive more exercises like these? Follow myenglishexam on twitter. If you want to learn what else you can do to follow flo-joe, click here.

To tweet or not to tweet?

henrick — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:24:26 +0000

Check out this nice article from The Guardian. This is how it starts:

The power of tweets
What have Jan Moir, AA Gill and Jimmy Carr got in common? They have all provoked storms of protest on microblogging website Twitter. But is this a new age of democracy, or a danger to free speech?

You may click here to go to the full article.

What is your answer to the question above? Is Twitter a symbol for democracy, or is it a way to diss someone you don’t like and/or do not agree with?

CAE – October 30

henrick — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:24:37 +0000

Hi there,

So, what happened to all those people who missed the class today? We did a whole bunch of things today.

Homework:
- Coursebook: page 118 & 119
- Coursebook: page 121
- Coursebook: page 122 & 123 (Grammar 2 – Introductory IT)

Enjoy the holiday!