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Funding for museums and galleries Paqui Garcia Mercè Girbau 20/01/2010 Funding of £750,000 of capital investment is being made to support the Scottish museums and galleries which house nationally and internationally significant collections. Across Scotland, 36 collections – held in museums and galleries run by local authorities, universities…[Read more]

Don’t miss it! Advice and help with your portfolio.

I’ll show you an example
You can show me what you’ve done so far
We’ll work on one part in class
Ask any questions you want

See you then!

Prepare your presentation (instructions here)
P125 – Presentation vocabulary – learn it to use in your presentation and also for next week’s vocabulary test.
P43 Reading – Top tips for presenters – answers in class next week.
Watch this advice for presenters.

In the portfolio, you have to explain what you have done to meet the 90-hours self-study requirement of the course. I suggest you organise the portfolio by activity, i.e. “Studying grammar”, “Watching TV”, “Writing”, etc. Write an index page, which also shows the total number of hours, for example, Watching TV(20hrs) Listening to music (7hrs) …

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Before the end of the course, you will give two oral presentations. For homework, you should start to prepare the first of these presentations. 17th February is provisional - please contact me if you have any problems with that date. Your presentation can be about any subject (does not have to be tourism-related), so please try to recycle a previous [...]

DEADLINE: 10 Feb 2010 1. Do the Writing bank exercises on p58. Correct them yourself – the answers are on p59. 2. Read this blog post that I wrote for 4th year (including the BBC article that I link to). 2. Write your CV. Just to make it a little easier for you to put together a decent [...]

DEADLINE: 10 Feb 2010 1. Do the Writing bank exercises on p58. Correct them yourself – the answers are on p59. 2. Read this blog post that I wrote for 4th year (including the BBC article that I link to). 2. Write your CV. Just to make it a little easier for you to put together a decent [...]

Before the end of the course, you will give two oral presentations. For homework, you should start to prepare the first of these presentations. 17th February is provisional - please contact me if you have any problems with that date. Your presentation can be about any subject (does not have to be tourism-related), so please try to recycle a previous [...]

In the portfolio, you have to explain what you have done to meet the 90-hours self-study requirement of the course. I suggest you organise the portfolio by activity, i.e. “Studying grammar”, “Watching TV”, “Writing”, etc. Write an index page, which also shows the total number of hours, for example, Watching TV(20hrs) Listening to music (7hrs) …

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The names of towns don’t go inside quotations, i.e. “Sort” Sort There’s too much unnecessary padding in your writing, i.e We must first say that there is a big church. Keep it simple. Comparatives/superlatives: It’s the bigger biggest town in the region. Reccomend > recommend Accomodation > accommodation. And it’s uncountable, so no plural…

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1. Here’s the list for words which will be added to next week’s test. !– BODY,DIV,TABLE,THEAD,TBODY,TFOOT,TR,TH,TD,P { font-family:”Arial”; font-size:x-small } — calm sea mar en calma well-known architect arquitecto conocido busy city-center centro de la ciudad ocupado spectacular scenery un paisaje espectacular polluted…

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1. Watch the following fake video, release before today’s announcement from Apple. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL–sXOFS84&NR=1 2. It’s an obvious fake because the video contains two errors: one is the name of the the product; the other is contained in the grammar of the sentence at the end of the video. Correct both. Clue: we discussed the…

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Here are some great sites to practise your grammar.

http://delicious.com/markcbain/grammar+intermediate

Some students who missed the original writing and listening tests have informed me that, due to other committments (such as a 3rd year French exam), they are unable to make it to the alternative writing and listening tests, which will take place on 27 January. It’s not possible to have a test at a time [...]

This post is for those of you who didn’t attend the recent writing and/or listening tests which together account for 10% of your final mark for this course.

I have decided to offer a second opportunity to do these tests next week, on Wednesday 27 January.

10:30 – 11.15 approx – Listening test
11.15 – 12 noon approx [...]

1. Read the following webpages about the future tense.

http://esl.about.com/od/grammarstructures/a/future_forms.htm
http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/blgrquiz_futureforms.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1611_gramchallenge29/

2. Write the following composition.
“You have been asked to write an article for…

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