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=Academic year 2016-17=

November 8th
This is the link to the video I would like you to watch: []

I forgot to remind you about the poster session on December 7th. You should have filled out your names and poster title in my dropbox. Have a look at the 'scientific poster' page which you will find in the index on the left. = = =Academic year 2015-16=

May 25th
Class tomorrow will start at 8am for all in group 3, we will be in G109. Everyone from Group 2 will come to G109 ready to start the PCE presentations at 8:30am.

Group 1 will begin the writing section of the CAE paper from last week and group 3 will do the writing after their presentations.

Everyone will come to G109 at 9:15 when we will do the correction of the test you WILL HAVE FINISHED!

Culture presentation by Hugo B and Nicolas
Today we started and some of you finished your covering letters. Just a couple of things: CPE's title is : CPE Lyon, Graduate School of Chemistry, Physics and Electronics. This covering letter must be finished before June 1st. We will spend a little more time on it on May 25th.

Other information I gave you today was:

GSK
May 4th is GSK poster day so this is the list of groups and timings: Alexandre and Arthur will therefore do their presentation at the end of the class.

PCE presentations
These will take place during class on May 11th. I will add the groups on the wiki before the class.

Executive summary
As there are no classes for the next two weeks you should write your executive summary and put it in your dropbox before the class on Wednesday May 11th. Here is some information to help you write your executive summary: media type="youtube" key="R9zRapFoHV0" width="420" height="315" This article is interesting too and may give you a little more guidance: http://articles.bplans.com/writing-an-executive-summary/

April 6th 2016
Today there will be a presentation by :
 * Jordan et Antoine **
 * then we shall be looking at and you will be writing your cover letter.**

Here are some links to help you: http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/cv/goodbadcovlet.htm

Why you need a covering letter http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/cv/coveringletters.htm

Examples of CVs and covering letters http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/cv/cvexamples.htm

An example covering letter with tips http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/cv/standardcovlet.htm

Here is a standard covering letter for a lab job:

March 30th 2016
Today we had a look at the CAE writing and specifically at how to write a review. You can find information here on how to write a review and some of the language you might use: []

To help you write your review you might like to have a look here: link words and phrases

We also watched 10 mins from the film: The Night Listener, an extract of which you read for today. Here is a link to the film: []

March 23rd 2016
Here are the links I talked about in class today. Talk about covering letters []

An interesting site dealing with looking for a job/intership []

As for the reading: 'The Night listener' by Armistead Maupin, take the time to read and enjoy!

Noone is the character writing the story. Make sure that you do a little research if you don't understand.

February 1st 2016
For those of you studying Japanese, you may find these sites interesting:

February 2016
You will find the program as well as the obligatory assignments **for S6** below:


 * Mandatory course content for A3 semester 6**

Cultural differences Developing understanding and taking notes from lectures (e.g.Ted talks) Company creation project Reading scientific articles Scientific posters for chemists (GSK) Work towards the Cambridge exams Finding an internship, CV, cover letter, interview
 * Modules**


 * Assignments** (you must do all of these to pass)
 * Write a CV and covering letter
 * Present cultural differences between your home country and another country or describe an experience of culture shock, the presentation must be interactive
 * Listen to at least three Ted talks and comment on them in Dropbox
 * Summarise a scientific article
 * Write an executive summary of the business plan for your company creation project (220 - 260 words)
 * Present your business plan at a formal meeting
 * Create and present a scientific poster (only for chemists, for GSK competition)
 * Take an FCE, CAE or Proficiency mock exam (in June)
 * All your assignments should be recorded in your Dropbox**

12 January 2016
Here is the program **for S5** with the obligatory assignments.

Learning to learn: language learning approaches and strategies Industrial and scientific systems and processes Reading scientific articles Keeping up with the news, including scientific news, from English-language news sources and giving presentations of the news in class Development of listening skills Introduction to Cambridge writing tasks
 * Modules**


 * Assignments**
 * Cambridge writing task 1, report: write a short report on the first three English classes
 * Explain a scientific process using PowerPoint poster and present your poster at the school poster gala (December)
 * Read and present at least three news stories (including at least one scientific news story) from English language sources
 * Cambridge writing task 2: write an essay
 * All assignments should be recorded in your Dropbox**

17 December This is interesting for those of you who would like to study some grammar: http://video.newyorker.com/series/comma-queen

18th November Following today's class this is just to remind you that the POSTER PRESENTATION event will be on 2nd December. If you want me to print your posters in colour, sent them to me before or on Monday 30th November at the latest.

4 November Here are the links I spoke about in class today concerning prefixes and suffixes:

Use of English: Question 3: word families: 1) slide show about word families [] need to share this with the class

2)-more prefixes and suffixes withplaces to practice at the bottom of the page: [] [] [] Pre and suffixes [] Word family exercises for the FCE: [] []

7 October, I'll be using the wikispace a little less as we are now using dropboxes to share work and information but I thought this might interest you.

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Semestre 5

 * 9 December**
 * Remember that tomorrow you will be presenting your video ads!**


 * 8 December**
 * A [|pronouncing dictionary].**

http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/wordlist/english/oxford3000/

The main themes of the class this morning were about Scientific posters and AIDS. Scientific posters These need to be ready for next Wednesday morning for the poster session. You will be sent more information about this during the week. Should you wish your poster to be printed in colour you should bring it to me between now and Tuesday afternoon. If you are going to leave your poster in black and white, Sam, in the library, will help you print it on A3.
 * 19 November 2014**

World AIDS day You need to finish the worksheets from this morning which we shall look at next Wednesday.

This morning we watched some videos on the commemorative ceremonies, here are the links I spoke about on the poems that I have asked you to prepare for next Wednesday (19 November).
 * 12 November 2014**

Dulce et decorum est A lecture about the poem: media type="youtube" key="jfyXGcByLxc" width="560" height="315"

This is the poem being read by Kenneth Branagh media type="youtube" key="ghUFB2WZD6A" width="560" height="315"

Here is the lecture on The Soldier media type="youtube" key="DB6nUtRSPxg" width="560" height="315"

This is the poem being read media type="youtube" key="BcDQZTJU_aA" width="420" height="315"

During this morning's class I spoke about some projects and thought I would just add the instructions here.
 * 5-11-14**


 * 1) Advertisement video should be ready and in your dropbox by December 10th when we will watch them.
 * 2) Media project: From today November 5th till December 17th (6 weeks) you should find an interesting article. You will post the URL of the article as well as some work you have done on the article (vocabulary, sturctures, pronunciation, writing, etc..) I will check your dropboxes every weekend. This project MUST be carried out every week to validate.
 * 3) I spoke to you about a competition about waste, here are the details:



Qu’est-ce que la SERD ? La **S**emaine **E**uropéenne de **R**éduction des **D**échets (qui se déroule du 22 au 30 Novembre2014).

Dans ce cadre, CPE LYON a mis en place un concours interne sur la réduction des déchets (voir diapo ci-jointe).

Tout le monde peut participer, envoyer vos idées par mail à concours.serd@cpe.fr (jusqu‘au 15 Novembre 2014)

Les trois meilleurs idées seront récompensées…