HW for 5/29 - QUIZ tomorrow

Hi there!

Please study for the quiz of tomorrow covering chapter 3B in your student book.

To that end, please study everything in the chapter including the future perfect, the future continuous, the vocabulary about weather and global climate change as well as the vowel sounds we reviewed.

I will also ask you to do a little writing (1-2 paragraphs) explaining what you are doing to help reduce carbon outputs.  Carbon outputs result from burning fossil fuels, remember this language?

See you tomorrow ~

HW for Wednesday, 5/28/14

Hi everyone!

Please read page 43 in the student book, Chapter 3B:
What can YOU do to help?
Make sure you understand the language and try to be more GREEN!  =)

Here are two websites for you to check out!  They're cool!

www.greenpeace.org

http://www.foei.org/

Please also complete page 29 in the student book, also do the LISTENING.  The CD is in the back pocket of your workbook.

See you tomorrow.

HW for 5/27

NO SCHOOL ON MONDAY, it is Memorial Day!

Thank you for being such a great class and for giving a good impression to Brenda of ACCET.

Here is your homework for Tuesday, 5/27/14

Chapter 3b, Stormy Weather, pp. 27 and 28, except Ex. 4/Grammar.  Also look at More Words to Learn on page 29.

Please make sure you write 1-3 paragraphs about Climate Change and how it is affecting life globally.

See you Tuesday!  Have a great weekend!

HW for 5/21/14

Hi everyone!

Remember that 5/21/ and 5/22 we have the government people coming by to check out our school, so PLEASE make sure you are on time and that you leave on time!

We will have class from 9 a.m. till 1:15 on these two days.  These are the official school hours.

HW for tomorrow:

1- Write 1-3 paragraphs about climate change.  Please write about what you told the class today about how the weather has changed in your country.

Below are some questions to help you write, you don't have to answer these questions, they are suggestions to guide you:

What is climate change?  (If you don't know, please google it!)
How has it affected you?  Your country?  Your country's crops?  The animals and migration patterns?


2- Do the reading on page 25, Sid the Shoplifter, please do exercise 3, a, b and c.  Also complete the grammar questions, exercise 4 a, b and c.

See you tomorrow!

HW for 5/20/14

Hi guys!

HW for tomorrow:  do the reading on page 39 and answer the questions.

Review the passive form in chapter 3A.

Ex:

ACTIVE
The politicians made mistakes.    (made is in the simple past and agency is clear: the politicians)

PASSIVE
Mistakes were made.                  

(were is in the simple past and is followed by the main verb in the past participle made, agency is not clear,  politicians are not mentioned.)

*  *  *

Today we learned some more impersonal ways of stating information.

It is said that mistakes were made.

We use these expressions when we don't know who the agent is.

*   *   *

Today we also looked at:

I think they should be made to ...... (suffer? work hard? go to prison?)

We were looking at how some people should be punished for crimes or offenses.

We will continue to review this tomorrow.

In the example above I briefly shared some information about causative verbs utilizing the verb MAKE.

My father made me wash the car.

Thank you for the LOVE ~ and... here's some HW for 5/19 =)

Hi everyone,

Thank you so much for the elegant cake and the little party you prepared for me to honor my achievement with my master's in Linguistics!!! I am beyond happy and your party made me even happier!

Here is some homework... we need to get ahead with the book!

Please look at chapter 3A and on p. 38,  complete exercises a, b, c, d and e.

Also, go to page 149, the vocabulary bank for crime/criminals and complete exercise 2.

Have a wonderful weekend, and thanks again for the LOVE!  I love you guys!

HW for 5/12 - MIDTERM!

STUDY FOR THE MIDTERM - Units 1 and 2 of the Student book

Complete the two work sheets I gave you for review.  Look over all the work sheets we did together in class.

Monday - beginning of MIDTERM

Writing - you will write a 140-180 word essay. You will not be able to use your dictionaries or your first draft, so make sure you reviewed your edits very well!

Pronunciation and stress

Listening - maybe - depends on whether Tracy sends me the file.

Tuesday - review with a sub

Wednesday - THE MAIN PART OF THE MIDTERM

Grammar
Vocabulary
Reading
Listening

Have a great weekend, see you on Monday

HW for 5/8

Hi everyone,

Your homework for tomorrow is to study for the weekly test.  The test is for Chapter 2C - adverbs and adverbial clauses.  Review the RULES on p. 134 and look over the chapter.

Also, in preparation for the MIDTERM EXAM, continue reviewing vocabulary for

PERSONALITY:  p. 146
ILLNESS AND TREATMENT: p. 147
CLOTHES AND FASHION: P. 148

Review the sounds we looked at today and the IPA symbols!

Also review your essay and try to understand your mistakes.  Bring questions to class!

After you take the test tomorrow, we will review for the MIDTERM exam.  Focus will be on differentiating when to use the past tenses including:

THE SIMPLE PAST
THE PAST CONTINUOUS
THE PRESENT PERFECT
THE PAST PERFECT
THE PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS
THE PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS

We will also review when we use 'the one' or the 'the ones' to replace nouns in a sentence, for ex.

A:  Could you pass me the books?
B:  The ones on the table?

A:  I like my friend's poodle.
B:  The black one?

'the one' or 'the ones' refers to a noun that has been mentioned previously.

See you tomorrow 

HW for 5/7 and MIDTERM EXAM 5/12 and 5/14!!!

Hi everyone,

HW for tomorrow:

1-page 33 - b (fill in the blanks) and d.
2- write your 140 word essay: how fashion changed you or someone you know.  For the writing:  please write an essay that is 140 words long for tomorrow.  Write about how fashion can change a person's life (yours or somebody else's).  Use the advice from page 33 to help you write your essay.  You can also google some information about clothing and fashion if you would like to.

Remember that you will be taking part 1 of the midterm exam on Monday 5/12

The Monday exam will include:

1- The writing piece

2-The listening

3- the pronunciation

TO REVIEW:

The midterm will occur:

Monday, 5/12 - writing, pronunciation and listening

Wednesday 5/14 -  reading, grammar, vocabulary, speaking

Tuesday 5/13, I will be absent because I will be at the university defending my papers, so you will have a substitute teacher and you will review.

See you tomorrow, have a wonderful afternoon!

HW for 5/6

Hi everyone,

Please sign up for the American Corpus.  Your homework is to register and to look up an adverb of your choice, please look at a verb in the COLLOCATES list.  Then either copy and paste 10 sample sentences, or write them out if you don't have access to a computer.

By checking the usage of words in corpus, you should be able to understand better HOW words are used by native speakers!

Complete the HW pp. 21 and 22.

Start thinking about what you will write about in terms of the person whose life changes due to his/her choice of clothes.

See you tomorrow!