Day 14, June 8th , 2007

Friday:

Structure:
a. Verb tense forms
b. Time markers
c. Passive and active voice

Speaking:
a. Present perfect and past simple tenses

Listening:
a. Check the topics
b. Check the language functions
c. Predicting topics
d. First lines of each passage

Reading:
a. Check purpose and organizational patterns

Homework:
a. Summary of radio or TV program
b. Structure, pages 165 - top of 175
c. Reading, pages 279 - 289 (No dictionary)
d. Make a 20 question IELTS test from the Jakarta Post

Day 13, June 7th , 2007

Thursday:

Structure:
a. Articles
b. Pronouns
c. Adjectives and nouns

Writing:
a. Task 1
b. Task 2
c. Self-editing
i. Nouns
ii. Subject agreement with promouns and verbs
iii. Modal verbs

Speaking:
a. Expressing and justifying opinions

Listening:
a. Conditions, wishes, causes, and results
b. Who does what
c. Situations

Reading:
a. Vocabulary in context

Homework:
a. Summary of radio or TV program
b. Speaking in pairs or groups, 20 minutes
c. Structure, pages 155 - 164
d. Listening, pages 88 - 90
e. Reading, pages 269 - 278 (No dictionary)

Day 12, June 6th, 2007

Wednesday:

Structure:
a. Noun structures
b. Subjects/Verbs
c. Expressions of quantity

Writing:
a. Task 2, complete essay
b. One paragraph elaboration

Speaking:
a. Expressing and justifying opinions

Listening:
a. Negatives
b. Checking time

Reading:
a. Skim for general information
b. Scan for details

Homework:
a. Summary of radio or TV program
b. Speaking in pairs or groups, 20 minutes
c. Structure, pages 146 - 153
d. Listening, pages 77 - 88
e. Reading, pages 252 - 258

Days 10 & 11. June 4th & 5th, 2007

Monday:

We took a complete practice test.

Homework:
a. Summary of radio or TV program.
b. Review past lessons and test taking tips/skillsc.
c. Prepare 500-word report about hometown to be turned in tomorrow. Proper sourcing muct be used.

Tuesday:

Writing:
a. Task 2
i. Organizing
ii. Linking
b. Writing accurately with a good range of vocabulary

Speaking:
a. Answer questions fully
b. Long turn
c. Linking
d. Expressing and justifying opinions

Homework:
a. Summary of radio or TV program.
b. Speaking in pairs or groups, 20 minutes
c. Structure, pages 134 - 145
d. Listening pages 67 & 68, 72 & 73

Day 8 and Day 9: May 30 & 31, 2007

These days were full of activities. Tomorrow, Friday, is a holiday.

We covered:

Writing:
a. Two 250-word essays in 50 minutes
b. Paragraph Completions

Reading:
a. Review yesterday's reading test
b. Two complete general IELTS tests

Listening:
a. Two complete general IELTS tests

Homework:
a. Summary of radio or TV program.
b. Review past lessons and test taking tips/skillsc.
c. Prepare 500-word report about hometown to be turned in TUESDAY. Proper sourcing muct be used.
d. Rewrite a previous essay

Web Sources

Following this list are sample entries for some common kinds of Web sources.

1. Name of the author, editor, compiler, or translator of the source (if given), reversed for alphabetizing and, if appropriate, followed by an abbreviation, such as ed.
2. Title of an article, poem, short story, or similar short work in the Internet site (enclosed in quotation marks). Or title of a posting to a discussion list or forum (taken from the subject line and put in quotation marks), followed by the description Online posting
3. Title of a book (underlined)
4. Name of the editor, compiler, or translator of the text (if relevant and if not cited earlier), preceded by the appropriate abbreviation, such as Ed.
5. Publication information for any print version of the source
6. Title of the Internet site (e.g., scholarly project, database, online periodical, or professional or personal site (underlined) or, for a professional or personal site with no title, a description such as Home page
7. Name of the editor of the site (if given)
8. Version number of the source (if not part of the title) or, for a journal, the volume number, issue number, or other identifying number
9. Date of electronic publication, of the latest update, or of posting
10. For a work from a subscription service, the name of the service and--if a library or a consortium of libraries is the subscriber--the name and geographic location (e.g., city, state abbreviation) of the subscriber
11. For a posting to a discussion list or forum, the name of the list or forum
12. The number range or total number of pages, paragraphs, or other sections, if they are numbered
13. Name of any institution or organization sponsoring the site (if not cited earlier)
14. Date when the researcher accessed the source
15. URL of the source or, if the URL is impractically long and complicated, the URL of the site's search page. Or, for a document from a subscription service, the URL of the service's home page, if known; or the keyword assigned by the service, preceded by Keyword; or the sequence of links followed, preceded by Path.

Scholarly Project

Victorian Women Writers Project.
Ed. Perry Willett.  May 2000.
Indiana U. 26 June 2002 .

Information Database

Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet.
19 June 2001.
Lib. of Congress, Washington. 18 May 2002 .

Personal Site

Lancashire, Ian. Home page. 28 Mar. 2002.
15 May 2002.

Book

Nesbit, E[dith]. 
Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism. 
London, 1908. Victorian Women Writers Project.
Ed. Perry Willett. May 2000. Indiana U. 26 June 2002 .

Poem

Nesbit, E[dith]. "Marching Song." 
Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism. 
London, 1908. Victorian Women Writers Project.
Ed. Perry Willett. May 2000.  Indiana U. 26 June 2002 .

Article in a Journal

Sohmer, Steve.
"12 June 1599: Opening Day at Shakespeare's Globe." 
Early Modern Literary Studies
3.1 (1997): 46 pars. 26 June 2002 .

Article in a Magazine

Levy, Steven. "Great Minds, Great Ideas."
Newsweek 27 May 2002. 20 May 2002.

Work from a Library Subscription Service

Youakim, Sami. "Work-Related Asthma." 
American Family Physician 64 (2001): 1839-52. 
Health Reference Center.
Gale. Bergen County Cooperative Lib.
System, NJ. 12 Jan. 2002 .

Work from a Personal Subscription Service

"Table Tennis." Compton's Encyclopedia Online.
Vers. 2.0. 1997. America Online. 4 July 1998.
Keyword: Compton's.

Posting to a Discussion List

Merrian, Joanne. "Spinoff: Monsterpiece Theatre."
Online posting. 30 Apr. 1994.
Shaksper: The Global Electronic Shakespeare Conf.
23 Sept. 2002. 

Day 7, May 29, 2007

Today was a busy day. The students seem to be able to work without tiring. It is a joy to instruct such a group.

We covered:

Writing:
a. Complete 250-word essay in 60 minutes.

Reading:
a. Review yesterday's reading test.

Listening:
a. Test number 3. This will be corrected tomorrow.

Homework:
a. Summary of radio or TV program.
b. Review past lessons and test taking tips/skills
c. Prepare 500-word report about hometown to be turned in Monday. Proper sourcing muct be used.