Unit 1: ✔
Unit 2: ✔
Unit 3: test scheduled for Monday, 19 March 2012
Unit 4: test scheduled for Monday, 21 May 2012
Unit 5:

Check out theses sites for online exercises:

• BBC Learning English
• Learning English - English Grammar, Vocabulary, Exercises, Exams - information for learners of English as a foreign language
• English grammar online for you

Frank McCourt: Angela's Ashes

relevant aspects:

• Ireland (past and present);
• basic literary terms (e.g., author, title, genre, setting, characters, plot);
• characterisation (Frankie's mother; Frankie's father; Frankie himself);
• Frankie and the role of (a) religion/church, (b) education/school, © adults, including his family members

Online material:
"Angela's Ashes" on sparknotes.com

• Topic vocabulary: Statistics Skills page: Statistics and charts
• Topic vocabulary: Film analysis Skills page: Film analysis

1st assessment: 22-Sep-2010
2nd assessment: 24-Nov-2010

Context 21

1. Topic vocabulary "Individual and society"
2. Declaration of Human Rights

1st assessment: end of Feb-2011
2nd assessment: 08-Apr-2011

Task for Wed, 26-Jan-2011:
Context 21, p 74, A3 'Benjamin Zephaniah on Britain' » Please, work on all tasks as follows: 1a/b in keynotes (at least); 2a in writing; 2b reading/keynotes (using SF31); 3a/b in keynotes (at least).

Homework for Tue 22-Feb-2011:
Analyse the diagram in writing. Use the vocabulary from the skills file (Context 21).

Diagram based on data from LFS and ippr calculations
(Published in: Britain’s Immigrants. An economic profile. A report for Class Films and Channel 4 Dispatches. London: Institute for Public Policy Research, September 2007.)

1st assessment: 21-Sep-2011 = mock exam
2nd assessment: 10-Nov-2011

Globalisation Blues: Vocab sheet
The Three Eras of Globalisation: Vocab sheet
Spot on facts: Vocab sheet and Spot on facts: Text

• Stylistic devices: Tony Blair's speech "The challenge of change": Text
• Global economy + outsourcing: The flight to India: Text
• Global economy + outsourcing: + Sourcing global talent in software: Vocab sheet + Sourcing global talent in software: Tasks + Cartoon © Klett (NEW!)

'Organic jeans take a new route — sustainability' (NYTimes, 5 Jan 2011)

assessment: t.b.a.
written A-levels in English: 20-Apr-2012
written A-levels in English (second date): 23-May-2012
oral A-levels in English: t.b.a.

t.b.a.

relevant semester topics: Exam topics English A-levels 2011 (foundation and higher level)

1. mandatory topic: 4th semester (Mass media)
2. optional topic: 1st semester (Personal relations in their social context) or 2nd semester (Ethnic diversity) or 3rd semester (The challenge of globalisation)

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