Agendas

12/1/11 HW
 * 1) Go over vocabulary p. 124-125
 * 2) Check Listening One, Main Ideas, Details, Inferences p. 127-129
 * 3) Listening Two p. 130
 * 4) Work on presentation p. 138 powerpoint
 * 1) Prepare and practice for your presentation.

11/29/11 > Pronunciation Practice > ice hotel ice hotel pictures HW
 * 1) Expand p. 114 verbs and prepositions fill in chart
 * 2) Describe the pictures p. 115 using the verbs + preposition
 * 3) Review Good Vs. Soon p.120 Ex. 4 and 5
 * 1) Making Suggestions p. 120-121-solicit advice about food and mood
 * 2) Begin Unit 8 p. 123 An Ice Place to Stay questions
 * 1) p. 125 Share Information in groups
 * 2) Vocabulary p. 124-125
 * 1) Vocabulary- Northstar
 * 2) Read link about ice hotel, find three things to share
 * 3) Listening One p. 127-129 Main Ideas, Details, and Inferences
 * 4) Read p. 138-139 Presentation Choose your vacation destination to tell us about rubric:[[file:ESL 181 L.doc]]

count non-count practice 11/22/11 HW 11/17/11 HW
 * 1) Review survey results food and mood socrative
 * 2) Review Count non-count and practice online count non-count practice practice more practice
 * 3) Count and non-count nouns online link and p. 116
 * 4) Tic Tac Toe p. 117 with a partner
 * 5) Shopping list p. 118
 * 6) Expand p. 114 verbs and prepositions fill in chart
 * 7) Describe the pictures p. 115 using the verbs + preposition
 * 8) If time.....Pronunciation p. 118-120
 * 1) Finish food journal
 * 2) Northstar Lab Academic Skill B, Focused Listening
 * 3) Pronunciation Practice
 * 1) Express opinions in pairs p. 111. Share what your partner said.
 * 2) Listening 2 charts p. 112 check
 * 3) Voc. p. 113, write sentences using verb and voc word on board under each verb.
 * 4) Count and non-count nouns online link and p. 116
 * 5) Tic Tac Toe p. 117 with a partner
 * 6) Expand p. 114 verbs and prepositions fill in chart
 * 7) Describe the pictures p. 115 using the verbs + preposition
 * 1) Keep a food journal for 5 days, Food, How I feel after 30 minutes, After 2 hours
 * 2) Survey- Do you think mood is affected by the food you eat? Give an example. What foods do you eat to make you feel better? 5 people two native English speakers.
 * 3) NS Lab Notetaking, Academic, and Grammar A

11/15/11 HW 11/9/11 HW
 * 1) Check collocations and sentences.
 * 2) Listening One-Model notetaking as note-taking pairs take notes. Did you hear any ideas that were similar to what we heard in the two previous videos?
 * 3) Check answers for Main Ideas and Details p. 110
 * 4) Check answers for Make Inferences p.111
 * 5) Express opinions in pairs. Share what your partner said.
 * 6) Listening 2 charts p. 112
 * 7) Voc. p. 113, With a partner make sentences using the verbs and and vocabulary.
 * 8) Expand p. 114 verbs and prepositions
 * 1) p. 114 Create- make sentences using the verbs + prepositions + adjectives p. 115 to describe the pictures. Practice to share with the class.
 * 2) Online practice count and non-count nouns
 * 3) Read Count and Non-count nouns p. 116
 * 4) Northstar Lab notetaking A, Academic Skill A
 * 1) Fill in Cloze. Listen to How Food Impacts Our Mood. Write on board what was heard in each video. Compare similarities and differences.
 * 2) Vocabulary p. 108-109, collocations, parts of speech on groups
 * 3) Listening One p. 109, Main Ideas Take notes
 * 4) Add information from Listening 1 to chart on baord. What is the same or different from the other 2 videos?
 * 5) Listen for Details with a partner p. 110
 * 6) Inferences p. 111
 * 7) Listening 2 p. 112
 * 8) Voc. p. 113 Model what to do
 * 1) p. 112 C Integrate Listenings One and Two
 * 2) Voc. p. 113
 * 3) Expand p. 114-115
 * 4) Notetaking and Academic Skills A Lab

11/8/11 HW
 * 1) Finish Part 3 Test, others study vocabulary
 * 2) Introduce Unit 7 p. 107
 * 3) Share Information p. 108, Discuss
 * 4) Survey
 * 5) Vocabulary p. 108-109, collocations, parts of speech on groups
 * 6) News Mood Food Video, listen 2 times, discuss with partner, listen and fill in cloze with partner, Discuss
 * 7) Listening One p. 109, Main Ideas
 * 1) Listening One- Details and Inferences p. 110-111, Take notes
 * 2) Northstar Lab
 * 3) How Food Impacts Our Mood Watch and take notes. What is the same as what we have heard? What is different? T chart

10/27/11 HW
 * 1) Complaining politely p. 86-87 Act out situations with a partner.
 * 2) Discussion quote # 1 p. 88
 * 3) Games in ELLLO LG 57 Dating Were any dating manners discussed?
 * 4) Manners Presentation assignment on manners from your culture in pairs. Choose from categories of table manners, greeting manners, dating manners, school manners, work manners, visit manners Discuss the requirements
 * 5) How to do a basic powerpoint.
 * 6) Work on presentations in pairs and practice. Brainstorm useful expressions for presentation such as: We have custom of...., The manner I want to describe is....., In my country, we have special table manners. One example is......., We do this because......
 * 1) Prepare for presentation.
 * 2) Northstar Lab Vocabulary Review
 * 3) Begin reviewing Unit 5 for test next week.

10/25/11
 * 1) Share manners survey results use Socrative. How did you feel doing the survey? 1-5, How easily were you understood? 1-5, How easily could you understand? 1-5teacher socrative
 * 2) Complaining politely p. 86-87 Act out situations with a partner.
 * 3) Discussion quote # 1 p. 88
 * 4) Games in ELLLO LG 57 Dating Were any dating manners discussed?
 * 5) Manners Presentation assignment on manners from your culture in pairs. Choose from categories of table manners, greeting manners, dating manners, school manners, work manners, visit manners Discuss the requirements
 * 6) How to do a basic powerpoint.

Ex. HW 1. Work on your presentation and practice for Wendesday

10/20/11 HW
 * 1) Intonation: Attention Getters and Polite questions p. 84
 * 2) Practice # 2, 3, 4 p. 85
 * 3) Role-play p. 86 making a conversation
 * 4) Make a manners survey in groups-write 4 questions to ask. Practice how to conduct survey.
 * 5) Complaining politely p. 86-87
 * 6) Games in ELLLO LG 57 Dating
 * 7) Elllo- Share several topics that students listened to, what does the class think?
 * 1) Complete Manners Survey
 * 2) Choose a game in Elllo to play
 * 3) Choose a polite way to behave from your country that you would like to explain to the class. Fill out the questionnaire.

10/18/11 HW
 * 1) Collocations review
 * 2) Check vocabulary p. 80-81
 * 3) Introduce could, would in polite questions. p. 82
 * 4) Could/Would p. 82 Partner work p. 83, 186
 * 5) Intonation: Attention Getters and Polite questions p. 84
 * 6) Practice # 2, 3, 4 p. 85
 * 7) Role-play p. 86 making a conversation
 * 8) Make a manners survey in groups-write 4 questions to ask. Practice how to conduct survey.
 * 9) Games in ELLLO LG 57 Dating
 * 10) Elllo- Share several topics that students listened to, what does the class think?
 * 1) Complete manners survey
 * 2) NS Grammar
 * 3) Choose a game in ELLLO to play.

10/13/11 HW 1. NS- Voc., Grammar 2. English Central 3. ELLLO View to share
 * 1) Tell classmates what you heard them say
 * 2) Step 2 Synthesize p. 79 partners, role-play
 * 3) Vocabulary p. 80-81
 * 4) Create p. 81 in pairs
 * 5) Could/Would p. 82 Partner work p. 83, 186
 * 6) Check ELLLO compare native and non-native speakers' opinions about learning English.
 * 7) English Central

10/11/11 HW
 * 1) Review students' one collocation for each word
 * 2) Check Notetaking A
 * 3) Check Details and Inferences with a partner, then group
 * 4) Listening 2 p. 78
 * 5) Integrate Listenings 1 and 2 p. 78-79, in groups-where did you hear each one listening 1 or 2?
 * 6) Voc. p. 80 and conversation p. 81
 * 7) Group work-groups of 4 using voc. in box debate each action as polite or impolite
 * 8) Introduce-ELLLO Mixer 100 What is the best way to learn English?
 * 1) Northstar Lab-Academic Skill B
 * 2) ELLLO Mixer 120 Native Speakers What is the best way to learn English? Compare to what the non-native speakers said. Complete exercises

10/5/11 HW
 * 1) Review vocabulary collocations in groups each group takes care of one word on huddleboards
 * 2) Listening One p. 76
 * 3) Main Ideas p. 76- What did you hear that gave you that answer? Details/Inferences p.76-77
 * 4) Go over Well and Badly Behaved Children
 * 5) Introduce Listening 2 for HW B, C p. 78-79
 * 6) Manners Questions Choose 2 questions to discuss in your group- Each person shares
 * 7) Choose one question to answer in a voicethread- my manners question is........ Here's what I think begin in class.
 * 1) Listening 2 p. 78-79 B and C
 * 2) Practice and record manners question
 * 3) Vocabulary p. 80
 * 4) Northstar-Notetaking A

10/4/11 HW 1. Badly behaved children listening 2. Choose one manners question to answer. Write out your answer and practice. 3. NS- Notetaking A
 * 1) Go over Test. A few students need to finish.
 * 2) Discuss picture p. 73
 * 3) Share information p. 74 first alone, and then with group.
 * 4) Voc. p. 75 In groups- assign two words- part of speech, collocation, sentence (all except raised) Use raised by
 * 5) Listening One p. 76
 * 6) Main Ideas p. 76- What did you hear that gave you that answer? Details/Inferences p.76-77
 * 7) Badly behaved children- Transcript[[file:Josephine manners.doc]]
 * 8) Manners Questions Choose 2 questions to discuss in your group- Each person shares.HW

9/22/11 HW
 * 1) Remind about Lab all assignments due by Friday 9/30 11:59 PM.
 * 2) p. 12-13 Pronunciation :Stress Syllables, compound nouns, adjectives + noun
 * 3) # 3 p. 14 with a partner
 * 4) Small Talk p. 14-15, ask and answer small talk questions with a partner
 * 5) Offbeat Jobs research- p. 188 Offbeat Jobs > backdoor jobs unusual jobs  List of unusual jobs more unusual jobs title, workplace, has to be, has to like why the job is interesting.
 * 6) Make a presentation explaining about your offbeat job. Discuss rubric. Write out what you want to say, practice with a group. Presentations next Monday.
 * 7) Test next Wednesday
 * 1) Practice presentation
 * 2) Study for Test
 * 3) My Northstar Lab-Vocabulary

9/20/11 HW
 * 1) Voc. p. 8-10 do as a class with answers in socrative.
 * 2) Partners p. 9 boss/ interviewee Use voc. to ask and answer questions.
 * 3) p. 12-13 Pronunciation :Stress Syllables, compound nouns, adjectives + noun
 * 4) # 3 p. 14 with a partner
 * 5) Small Talk p. 14-15, ask and answer small talk questions with a partner
 * 6) Offbeat Jobs research- p. 188 Offbeat Jobs >
 * 7) backdoor jobs unusual jobs  List of unusual jobs more unusual jobs title, workplace, has to be, has to like why the job is interesting.
 * 8) Make a voicethread explaining about your offbeat job.
 * 1) My Northstarlab, Notetaking A, Focused Listening
 * 2) Offbeat Job Report

9/15/11 HW
 * 1) Review of adjectives using pictures. Write sentences on board.
 * 2) Listen and repeat adjectives
 * 3) Check answers p. 6 with a partner. Discuss what you heard that gave you that answer.
 * 4) Chart p. 7 questions about jobs. What did you hear that gave you that answer?
 * 5) Voc. p. 8-10 do as a class with answers in socrative.
 * 6) Partners p. 10 boss/ interviewee Use voc. to ask and answer questions.
 * 7) Voicethread accounts, comment on one slide, two more for hw.
 * 8) Northstar HW Notetaking A
 * 1) Practice Listen and Repeat Adjectives
 * 2) Voicethread 2 more comments.
 * 3) Northstar Notetaking A, Focused Listening and Voc.

9/13/11 HW
 * 1) Check Lab assignments-video
 * 2) Check collocations-Back to Board, Write down your best one to turn in.
 * 3) Check Listening for Details write sentences that gave the answers Socrative. teacher socrative
 * 4) Make Inferences p. 5
 * 5) Listening 2 p. 5 Fill in chart with a partner p. 6 HW Integrate Listenings 1 and 2
 * 6) Descriptive Adjective sentences worksheet. Divide into 6 groups, each group takes 2 words and writes two sentences
 * 7) Explain -ing thing -ed feel adjectives -ing and -ed adjectives
 * 8) # 2 p. 12 HW, Northstar Lab Grammar A
 * 9) Vocabulary p. 8 Expand p. 9-10 HW
 * 10) Voicethread Accounts Record on Success
 * 1) Integrate Listenings 1 and 2 p. 7
 * 2) Vocbulary p. 9-10
 * 3) Northstar Grammar A
 * 4) Comment on Voicethread 2 slides

9/8/11 HW 1. Memorize one collocation for each vocabulary word 2. Listening 1 Details and Inferences p. 4-5 why did you chose each answer. 3. Voicethread Activity- record responses to two more slides on success. 4. Complete- Descriptive adjectives worksheet 5. Lab assignments adjectives
 * 1) Check Lab assignments-video
 * 2) Go over collocations homework in groups. Each group writes their collocations for the assigned word on the whiteboard to share with the large group. Share sentences.
 * 3) Each group says two collocations and the class writes the collocations down. Memorize 1 collocation for each vocabulary word for HW.
 * 4) Listening 1 p. 3 Listen to the beginning and answer questions p. 3-4. What did you hear that gave you that answer?
 * 5) Listening 1 again for main ideas p. 4.
 * 6) Share answers in groups and write the sentence you heard that gave you the answer. HW Listen for Details p. 4 Inferences p. 5 write why you chose each answer
 * 7) Voicethead accounts and activity record example from your life on one slide.
 * 8) Descriptive Adjectives p. 11 Ask ques. p. 11 out loud while students write the answers to hold up.
 * 9) Discuss chart p. 11 Group Activity with adjective worksheet. http://www.eslflow.com/Adjectives_to_describe_everyday_situations.pdf Write sentences describing the pictures. Make one sentence with be and one with the adjective describing the noun. ex. the woman is attractive. The attractive woman bought a black hat. HW- p. 12 # 2

9/6 HW
 * 1) Check in with English Central. Anyone need help stay after a few minutes.
 * 2) Large group-answer questions p. 1 Offbeat jobs
 * 3) p. 2 B rank things important to you in a job
 * 4) p. 2 discuss in small groups, tell why each item is important or not
 * 5) Register for My Northstar Lab
 * 6) Vocabulary exercise in lab, book p.2-3
 * 7) Introduce collocations- words that often go together, ex. factory large factory, modern, car, clothing, open a factory, set up a factory, factory makes something. Example sheet.
 * 8) Voicethread Accounts
 * 9) Respond to the first slide on the 8 secrets-Passion
 * 1) Practice vocabulary in Lab
 * 2) Write two collocations for each voc. word and a sentence
 * 3) Respond to two different slides on the 8 secrets of success

9/1 HW 1. Watch English Central video on Mark Zukerberg-Facebook and complete recordings 2. Respond to two different slides on the 8 secrets of success
 * 1) Check with access to wiki, roster
 * 2) Brief get to know you-via socrative http://m.socrative.com/lecturer/#lecturerLogin What is your name? How many years have you studied English? What is your educational goal? What is your goal for this class? What does success mean to you? What do you need to do to be successful?
 * 3) Watch the 8 Secrets of Success Video
 * 4) Introduce English Central and register for ESL 181LS using link in wiki Class
 * 5) Voicethread Accounts
 * 6) Respond to the first slide on the 8 secrets-Passion
 * 7) Register for My Northstar Lab

8/30 > What is your name? How many years have you studied English? What is your educational goal? What is your goal for this class? What does success mean to you? What do you need to do to be successful? HW 1. Books 2. Watch English Central video on Mark Zukerberg-Facebook 2. Respond to two different slides on the 8 secrets of success 3. Sign into Wiki and explore
 * 1) Class Wiki- member accounts
 * 2) Wiki Tour
 * 3) Syllabus, books, online lab code
 * 4) My Northstar Lab Tour
 * 5) Brief get to know you-via socrative http://m.socrative.com/lecturer/#lecturerLogin
 * 1) Watch the 8 Secrets of Success Video
 * 2) Introduce English Central and register for ESL 181Ls using link in wiki Class topics
 * 3) Voicethread Accounts
 * 4) Respond to the first slide on the 8 secrets-Passion

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