Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Day 3, May 23, 2007

Wednesday was our first full day. We had one more student join us. All of the participants maintained their focus throughout the day. We got a lot of work done today.

The following was covered in today’s class:

Writing:
a. Organizing
b. Grouping
c. Topic Sentences
d. Irrelevancies
e. Supporting Sentences

Listening:
a. Predicting Topics
b. Idioms
c. Words with Many meanings
d. Minimal Pairs and Sound Alikes
e. Listening for:
a. Specific information
b. For main ideas and supporting information
c. Understanding speaker’s opinion
Reading:
f. Skimming and Scanning
g. Main Ideas
h. Reading for Detail
i. Understanding opinion

Homework:
a. Blog set up
b. Prepare for next week’s hometown presentations
c. 20 minutes speaking practice with partners
d. Writing one paragraph from “On your own” from page 15.
a. Simple topic sentence
b. Is everything relevant
c. Does each sentence have a subject and a verb

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