M2 Group ONLY

Dear students, 

There will a short test on November 10: 

 Vocabulary: 

• Dog Serial Killer
  
• Eastwood's movies
• Blood Diamonds
  
• 34 Meet the Press and 35 Prime Time (only the translated parts)
  

Phrasal Verbs: pages 1, 2 and 3

Should you be absent that day, to avoid getting a zero, do provide me with a valid and sincere justification.

Best regards,

Mounir Nassor

(mounirnassor@yahoo.co.in)

For Oct 30: M1 groups only

There will be a short test next week (Oct 30): 

• Phrasal verbs (pages 1 and 2 ie chapters "4" and "13")
• Vocabulary 

• Government and Politics: the first page (ie pages 294-295)
•  Eastwood's Movies and Dog Serial Killer

Homework for next week (Oct 30): 

- TOEIC Questions: 1 to 20 (find the correct answer and justify your answer)

- Phrasal verbs (page 3 ie "21")

Revisions:

- Learn and revise the grammar exercise and how these sentences could be translated in both languages (Test 1)
- Listen again to the TOEIC Pictures (find the correct answer and justify your answer)

M1 groups ONLY

Dear students,

Last Friday, there were only 5 students in the second group (from 6:30 pm to 8 pm) while there were 27 students in the first group (5 pm to 6:30 pm).

Would it be possible for at least 10 students from the first group to join the second group and come at 6:30 pm?

In case this remains unchanged next week, I will have no other option than to impose arbitrarily who is going come to which group (alphabetically for example).

I hope I will not have to resort to this kind of measure.

Best regards,

Mounir Nassor

(mounirnassor@yahoo.co.in)

M2 group ONLY: new room on Tuesdays (7 pm-8:30 pm)

From next week onwards, we will have class on Tuesdays (7 pm - 8:30 pm) in room F368 instead of amphi Champollion.

M2 students ONLY - Homework for next Tuesday (Oct 13)

• Listen again to the report "Dog Serial Killer"
  
• Listen to the report "Eastwood's Movies" and highlight the main ideas
  
• Listen to the report "Blood Diamonds", highlight the main ideas and check the vocabulary
• Do the Test 1 (grammar exercise) 
• Do the first page of the phrasal verbs ("page 4'')
• Start learning the vocabulary from the handout given before the holidays (only the translated parts have to be known)

You will find these audio reports and transcripts and the phrasal verbs from this link: 

[in case this link does not work, switch to Mozilla/Firefox or to Internet Explorer or email me, I will send the documents and audio reports by email]

http://9giga.sfr.fr/n/50-17/share/LNK33284ac8af2b9c708/

Mounir Nassor
(mounirnassor@yahoo.co.in) 

Hours and Class sessions / Attendance rules

Dear M1 and M2 HCEAI students,

Here are the hours and rules for the English class:

M1 students: class sessions on Fridays:

• group 1: 5 pm to 6:30 pm in room F368 (Sorbonne)
• group 2: 6:30 pm to 8 pm in room F368 (Sorbonne)

M2 students: class sessions on Tuesdays:

• 7 pm to 8:30 pm in amphi Champollion (16 rue de la Sorbonne - Institut d'études grecques). The amphi is on 2nd floor in the basement.

Attendance is compulsory for those who are in "contrôle continu": if you are absent 3 times (ie 2+1) for unjustified reasons, if you cannot provide me with a valid and sincere justification, you will be automatically registered in "contrôle final".

Those of you who would like to be in "contrôle final", I recommend that you come and talk to me about this at the end or at the beginning of a class or send me an email about this as soon as possible.

In "contrôle continu", in case you fail to be present at one of the two main exam sessions, you will be automatically registered in "contrôle final" even if you have a valid and sincere justification.

In "contrôle continu", if you have no valid and sincere justification for your possible absence for the short tests and quizzes that will also take place during the semester, you will get a zero.

There will be no catch-up session whatsoever, even if you have a valid and sincere justification.

Class will start from October 05 and unlike last year, instead of 13 class sessions, there will only be 12 class sessions for the first semester and 13 sessions for the second semester.

All my students are required to check this website on a regular basis (at least 3 times per week) and before coming to class. All the homework and assignments and exam dates will be repeated on this website.

Best regards,

Mounir Nassor
(mounirnassor@yahoo.co.in)

USEFUL TOOLS AND SITES

Online dictionaries:

• English/French - French/English dictionary

Wordreference:

http://www.wordreference.com/enfr/

• English/English dictionaries

Longman: http://www.ldoceonline.com/

Merriam-Webster:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/

PBS (USA) Newshour 

•  http://www.pbs.org/newshour/

ABC (Australia) The World Today

• http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/

BBC (UK) World Service

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/
  

Phrasal Verbs:

• http://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/phrasaldictionary.html

• http://www.eslcafe.com/pv/
  

• http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/phrasal-verbs/
  

BBC Learning English

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/
  

BBC Idioms

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/theteacher/
  

Anglais Facile.com

• http://www.anglaisfacile.com/

Permanent link to the documents and audio reports

Here is the link HCEAI students (M1 and M2 groups) will have to use to find the documents (audio reports, phrasal verbs, vocabulary, etc.) used and discussed during the class sessions:

[in case this link does not work, switch to Mozilla/Firefox or to Internet Explorer or email me, I will send the documents and audio reports by email]

http://9giga.sfr.fr/n/50-17/share/LNK33284ac8af2b9c708/