Priscila Verzegnassi

(Upper intermediate)

Books:
- English G. in Use 2nd Edition
- 1001 Q.

April 19, 2016

Flashcards - things at home
Video - song with household objects.

April 26, 2016

1001 Q. - p. 21, questions 1 to 8.
English Listening - English at work - Introduction

May 3, 2016
Music: Photograph, Ed Sheeran.
English G. in Use - Unit 26, p. 63 - Can, could and (be) able to.
H.W. p. 53 and 275.

June 7, 2016
1001 Q. - p. 22 & 23, questions 9 to 21;
English G. in Use - Unit 15, p. 41
H.W. p. 31.

June 14, 2016

1001 Q. - p. 23, questions 22 to 26.
English G. in Use - Unit 16, p. 43
Listening - Camping under the stars
H.W. p. 33.

June 21, 2016

English G. in Use - Unit 38 & 39, p. 89
1001 Q. - p. 23, question 27.
Video - 10 things I wish I'd known before having a baby

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H.W. p. 79.

June 28, 2016

Video - Romeo and Juliet trailer.
English G. in Use - Unit 41 & 42, p. 93 e 95.
1001 Q. - p. 24, questions 28 to 36.

July 5, 2016
Video - 10 things TV shows predicted;
- Wall-e - human dystopia
English G. in Use - Unit 43, p. 97.
1001 Q. - p. 25, questions 37 to 42.
H.W. p. 85, 87.

July 12, 2016

Silvio Santos - 85
English G. in Use - Unit 44, p. 99.
1001 Q. - p. 25, questions 43 to 46.
H.W. p. 89.

July 20, 2016

Vocabulary:

• erode - to gradually reduce something such as someone's power or confidence:

I. Our personal freedom is being gradually eroded away.
• Sales figures - The overall sum of expenditures made by consumers of a product or
set of products within some time frame and/or economic region.
• Fund - An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be
drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence.
• Paid leave - when an employee needs to solve health or personal problems so he
gets a break but the company will be paying him yet

Video: - Learn English 78 - Sales Figures.

Human Resources - p. 10.
1001 Q. - p. 26 to 27, questions 47 to 52.

July 26, 2016

English g. in Use - Unit 45, p. 102.

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Video: - Have something done. Learn English with simple videos.
1001 Q. - p. 27, q. 53 to 58.

August 2, 2016
Video: - 7 habits of efficient people - proactive
Human Resources - p. 12 a 13.
Vocabulary:
• foreman - boss.
• slack - a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality; "the team went into a
slump"; "a gradual slack in output"; "a drop-off in attendance"; "a falloff in quality".
• enterprising - marked by imagination, initiative, and readiness to undertake new
projects; "an enterprising foreign policy". Having the ability to think of new activities or
ideas and make them work:
• con‧sul‧ta‧tive [usually before noun]: providing advice and suggesting solutions to
problems: A consultative document
• stag‧gered [not before noun] extremely surprised [= amazed]
• stead‧y - continuous continuing or developing gradually or without stopping, and not
likely to change: Paul is making steady progress.
H.W. p. 9.

August 9, 2016
Human resources - p. 14 to 16 ;
Vocabulary:
• appraisal - a meeting between a manager and a worker to discuss the quality of the
worker's work and how well they do their job.
• personnel - the department responsible for hiring and training and placing employees
and for setting policies for personnel management;
• accountancy - the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing
financial reports for a business
H.W. p. 10 & 11.

August 16, 2016

1001 Q. p. 28, questions 67 to 75.
Human Resources Book - p. 17 & 18.
Vocab:
• be‧half
on behalf of somebody also in behalf of somebody American English
a) instead of someone, or as their representative:
- She asked the doctor to speak to her parents on her behalf.
• Assess = judge
• clerk [countable] someone who keeps records or accounts in an office:

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- Clerk in a commercial firm.
tan‧gi‧ble - clear enough or definite enough to be easily seen or noticed [≠ intangible]:
- The scheme must have tangible benefits for the unemployed.

August 23, 2016

Video: - 3 Easy Pranks to Pull on Teenage girls
Human resources book: p. 19 & 20.
Vocab:
branch - a division of some larger or more complex organization; "a branch of
Congress"; "botany is a branch of biology"; "the Germanic branch of Indo-European
languages"
Video - The Chemical Mind - Crash Psychology course #3.
1001 Q. p. 30, questions 76