Week 14: January 25th, 2023- Centenarians, regrets and a resignation

- We reviewed the course together and explained how you found it so that our new classmate could form an idea.

- We discussed the questions I had set for homework, the ones related to the video on centenarian people. 

- We practised the most usual grammar structure for regrets, should have, in a speaking exercise.

- We did a listening exercise about New Zealand's prime minister Lucinda Arden.

Homework:

For homework I'd like you to do some more research about some striking scientific discoveries that are hitting the headlines these days. 

As usual, the way I suggest you prepare for this is to read extensively about the topic while taking notes from which you'd be able to tell the rest of the class about it. It's always very interesting and useful for improvement that you pick up structures or vocabulary you are familiar with but you never use and try to use it when you tell us. Avoid reading from your notes, you only check them.

The topics and people are the following:

• Nacho, Alba B and Gema: Earth's core appears to have reversed its spin and could have consequences.
• Sarai, Jaqueline and Toñi: Humans seem to be able to understand apes better than thought.
• Sonia, Rosa and Alba H: Newly found asteroid, 2023BU, is passing very close to the Earth
• Mario, Fernando and Azucena: Doomsday clock is at 90 seconds to midnight.
• Roberto, María Luisa and Tomás: What is Chat GPT and the controversy about it.

For your reading, you can check these sites or any other you rely on: The Guardian science,  New York Times