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Daniel Rooke

Roberto was 10 minutes late to class. We discussed the Superbowl performance by Bad Bunny and the game and then completed the daily Wordle and finished the last part of the grammar test. Roberto scored 26 of 30.

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Hazel Pelling

Today we read about a new movie EKO. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20zzn77w82o Describing weather in the UK vs USA. "8 degrees below" -American "it is minus 8" -British "the latest scapegoat" "I haven't read the news" "dodgy" and Toxic "collection" " they trafficked people" "vulnerable position" "underage trafficking" "her body language" "The Andrew formerly known as Prince" "crumbs" vs "crumbling" "hidden" - past of to hide something. My true feelings were hidden "I hid my feelings" "fictitious" pronunciation "Stand out" and "stood out" "smuggled" for example "the movie was smuggled out of the country" "screenplay writer" "low budget" and "frugal" "accolades" = achievements, awards and recognition

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Lauren Faulk

We began his new worksheet on Emerging markets around the world

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Lauren Faulk

Class was cancelled the evening before - late cancellation

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Lauren Faulk

We finished our worksheet on Whistler and we discussed his recent trip to ski near Washington D.C.

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Daniel Rooke

Roberto was 15 minutes late to class. We continued working through the grammar benchmark test. He is currently sitting on 23/27, with 3 questions left to complete (we ran out of time).

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Hazel Pelling

Today we read this article https://www.sciencealert.com/think-the-world-is-getting-worse-science-has-some-surprising-good-news and discussed a ski resort in Pennsylvania "warm up" "thaw out" synonym of defrost "have you thawed out yet?" "brazen" = a behavior that is not hidden "shoplifting" = stealing from a shop - brazen shoplifting "bleak" = without hope - "the future is bleak" "rudeness" = impolite "decency"= morality and respectability "polarization means that people's different points of view are not being shared" You 16:41 inaccurate = incorrect You 16:47 bystander= a person who is present at an event or incident but does not intervene or take part "innocent bystander" "fair bit" = a lot of You 16:52 Ely there was a commotion which distracted us it was on the overhead rack no strings attached = no conditions

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Daniel Rooke

Roberto was 10 minutes late to class. He completed the article on 'ingenuity' and then we began working through a grammar benchmark test. He only got about 20% of the way through the test as we ran out of time.

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Daniel Rooke

Roberto asked for the class to be moved by 1 hour (notice within 24 hours).

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Daniel Rooke

Roberto was 15 minutes late to class. We continued the reading on from the Metropolis article and finshed (14/14) and then completed 7 of the 13 questions for the next article on 'Ingenuity.'

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Daniel Rooke

Roberto was 15 minutes late to class. We complete the Happiness article (13/13) and then moved into another reading comprehension article entitled 'Metropolis.' We completed about 60% of the article.

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Daniel Rooke

Roberto was 10 minutes late to class. He had some internet issues in this lesson. We began working through his reading benchmark test on 'How to be Happy." We almost finished and will complete it in the next lesson.

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Daniel Rooke

Roberto completed the daily Wordle and then we continued working through the Lingua House topic on 'Bad Meetings', completing the listening tests (x 2) and a vocabulary activity.