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Monday, June 26, 2017

Xu Xu Dumplings






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Tuesday, June 20, 2017

(Intermediate) Listening and reading test practice




Here's a good place to do some practice before the Progress Test.

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PET Listening practice





And here's a place to practice reading:

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Reading test practice
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Sunday, June 18, 2017

(Intermediate) Social Networking in Real Life



Quite possibly the most irritating woman on You Tube. But she makes her point.

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Social Experiment
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Listening

  • Krishna Meets Fiona Patten, Leader of The Sex Party
  • Blind spots
  • Wabi-sabi
  • Industries of the future
  • The Paradox of value
  • Changing Education Paradigms
  • The Internet of Things
  • The UK's Strictest Teacher
  • How the Fine Art Market is a Scam
  • A Hole in the Wall
  • The teacher who couldn't read
  • Why We Hate Cheap Things
  • The Perfectionist Trap
  • Why videos go viral
  • Polynesian navigation
  • The State of Lebanon
  • Incarnations
  • The Most Entertaining History of Japan Ever
  • London - by William Blake
  • Steven Spielberg on virtual reality and cinema
  • Niccolo Machiavelli
  • The ethical dilemma of self-driving cars
  • Bread - a turning point in world history
  • Growing crops in deserts
  • Fertile Ground
  • I can't taste!

Reading / Use of English

  • Name change a game changer
  • Literally and figuratively
  • The Gift of Death
  • Arthur Tress - The Dream Collector
  • Weistein's Hitlist
  • Another Actress Steps Forward Accusing Tom Hanks of Being Nice
  • Internal voice recognition
  • Meat & Dairy Consumption and Climate Change
  • Big Data Meets Big Brother
  • Bill Bryson
  • Australia is Committing Climate Suicide
  • The four criteria for getting a job at Google
  • A Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God
  • What Sign Language Can Do That Spoken Language Can't

Grammar

  • Advanced prepositions
  • Advanced complex and compound sentences
  • Advanced narrative tenses
  • Advanced uses of "just"
  • Intermediate question formation
  • Advanced modals and their functions
  • Advanced cleft sentences
  • Intermediate modal verbs in context
  • Advanced emphatic forms
  • Advanced passive
  • Advanced tenses, aspect, modality
  • Intermediate prepositions
  • Advanced reporting verbs
  • Advanced articles and determiners
  • The Four Futures

Vocabulary

  • Advanced adjective noun collocations
  • Advanced using adjectives well
  • Advanced verbs connected with facial expression
  • Advanced emotions and personality
  • Advanced verb + adjective collocations + more
  • Phrasal verbs and idioms - the elements
  • World of the senses - sound
  • Advanced vivid verbs
  • Intermediate adjectives
  • Advanced Game of Thrones personality adjectives
  • Review of facial expressions
  • 87 phrasal verbs

Pronunciation

  • Pronouncing names
  • Intrusion
  • Reading aloud - The Cold Equations
  • Dictate it to your phone
  • Words that lose a syllable
  • Varieties of English
  • Eunoia - pronouncing vowels
  • The "th" sound
  • Schwa - weak vowel
  • Public speaking
  • Consonant blends
  • Rhythmic patterns in languages
  • "L" and "R"
  • One woman, 17 British accents
  • Silent letters
  • Lost Generation (prosody, word stress)
  • Phonetic Punctuation
  • Advanced word stress
  • Phonemic chart
  • Vowels - close sounds

Speaking

  • Erik Johansson
  • Henri Cartier-Bresson - the decisive moment
  • Robert Frank - The Americans
  • The Last Supper (food)
  • Career skills: Interpersonal, Results, Initiative
  • Career skills: Media roles
  • Travel
  • Advertising
  • Superbowl ads
  • Epic split feat
  • Talk about films
  • How to ask a favour
  • Festivals
  • Then and now (comparison)
  • Intermediate adjectives
  • Quick draw
  • Driving
  • Shades of emotion
  • Same place different time
  • Speaking wheel - F
  • Past, present, future
  • Pecha Kucha

Writing

  • Jumping into a new bowl
  • On sentence length
  • The Five Paragraph Essay
  • Writing project - Diary
  • What writers really do when they write
  • How to write a news item

Songs

  • Werd Krimes
  • Weather With You
  • Rehab
  • Split Enz
  • Fixture Picture
  • Out Of The Box - women of NZ Pop
  • Men With Feelings
  • The Sonnets
  • Hurt Feelings
  • Don't Dream It's Over
  • We can work it out

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