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Today’s lesson

Introductions - instructor, course, students

Checking English levels

Debating

Course principles

• Personal attention : no student left behind

• Teamwork

• End of ‘banking model’ of education

• Flipped classroom

• Environment

Julie Méraud

University of Sheffield UK EdD (2017)

University of Hong Kong Bachelor’s and Master’s

Lived in UK, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, Philippines, France

Business experience - Unilever, Exxon, marketing, corporate training

Legal experience - 5 years - Supreme Court HK, court reporter

20 years’ teaching/training experience; Diploma in TESOL

interests: human rights, the environment and animal rights, language learning, jazz, Canadian literature and music

The M1 course aims

By the end of this course you:

will be able to write a well-structured English essay without plagiarising

will have made a clear and interesting presentation with a small group

will have a model CV and application letter to use to get a job or internship

will have practised a job interview in English

will have identified any individual pronunciation or grammar difficulties and

have a strategy for improving

will have boosted your legal and work English vocabulary by at least 50

new expressions

will have learned three new strategies to improve your listening skills and

five new expressions for agreeing, disagreeing and negotiating

Course plan

Lesson 1 Introductions

Lesson 2 The limits of freedom of expression (Charlie Hebdo) / student presentation

Lesson 3 Personal branding (securing an internship or job) / student presentation

Lesson 4 Sports and the law (Oscar Pistorius) / student presentation

Lesson 5 Modern-day slavery and human trafficking / student presentation

Course plan

Lesson 6 The beginnings of democracy – 800 years of the Magna Carta / student presentation

Lesson 7 Canada’s dirty secret (the Alberta oil sands) / student presentation

Lesson 8 The sharing economy / student presentation

Lesson 9 In-class essay exam

Lesson 10 Feedback on exam and course summary

Assessment

20% Listening test

20% Essay test

20% Presentation

20% Homework essay

20% Collective role play

ONE absence without justification is permitted

TWO absences without justification - minus 10%

Level check

Listen to Richard Bailey talking about his experience as a clerk (intern) in different law firms.

List the ADVANTAGES and DISADVANTAGES of doing a clerkship (internship), according to Richard, in LARGE and SMALL firms.

No need to write in complete sentences

You will hear the recording TWICE

Then write 200 words (complete sentences) about your own experience of doing an internship. If you haven’t done one, explain whether you would prefer to get work experience in a large or a small firm or somewhere else.

Getting to know you

Find three things you have in common with the people in your small group

Discuss any questions you have about the course and designate a secretary to note your ideas

Discuss if there is anything in particular you would like us to do/NOT to do on this course

Agree on a current topic (law, education, life) that would make for a good debate, eg, ‘freedom of speech should not be limited’