Just wanted to welcome you all to the new course we're starting this afternoon, September 16th.
I hope this year will be as productive and fulfilling as last year, and hope we all can achieve the goals to be set out this afternoon in our first meeting session.
Just like last course, this blog alongside the school's website should work as a means of communication among students and the teacher, as well as a place to find useful information which you can use further on in the classroom.
Some assignments will also be set out so as to be fulfilled here. It is advisable to visit this blog once a week at least for that matter, especially if you won't be attending the classes for some time.
Looking forward to meeting you in class in a few hours! Until then, maybe you can start listening to some spoken English in this hilarious episode from Monty Python's Flying Circus
American music historian and performer David Holt interviews L.W. Lambert about the Earl Scruggs style or "Bluegrass" banjo.
Transcript:
"In the 1940s the young banjo player from the montains of North Carolina, Earl Scruggs, revolutionized banjo playing with a hard-driving syncopated three-finger banjo style. Now, when Earl Scruggs joined Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys the music we call Bluegrass was born ..."
"Judge Mike Cicconetti has been Judge of the Painesville Municipal Court since January, 1994, and is currently in his third six-year term of office. Judge Cicconetti is a summa cum laude graduate of St. Leo College, Florida, and received his law degree from Cleveland State University in 1980.
Innovative and creative sentencing has brought Judge Cicconetti national and international attention. His sentencing practices have been the subject of articles in national and international news media publications and articles in nearly every major newspaper worldwide, all local and national news programs including the Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS Morning Show, Fox News, Dr. Phil, Paula Zahn and Court TV.
Judge Cicconetti is the proud father of five children and resides in Concord Township. "
Then we started the speaking exercise on page 39 (Exercise 5). First we thought of an appropriate punishment for each of the crimes suggested in 5a; then we read the text on page 39 (Judge Cicconetti's creative justice) aloud and checked if the punishments agreed matched those by Cicconnetti. We asked and answered a few comprehension questions and in small groups we discussed what 'creative punishments' to apply on a number of offences suggested in 6a.
Homework --> page 38, exercise 4a and workbook, page 24.
Body of Evidence, a TV Programme devoted to crime and punishment ...
"This riveting series gets inside the mind, life and career of one of the country's leading forensic profilers. In each episode, Dayle Hinman guides you through some of her most puzzling cases and explains how they were solved. These are baffling mysteries -- often with no eyewitnesses, little evidence and no apparent motive."
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