Friday, February 19, 2016

Final Speaking Exam Reminder

Just a reminder about this afternoon's schedule.   The exams will be in room 115.

Group 1:   Alisa,   Zach,  Ikuya   1:30-2:15

Group 2:  Shirley,  Maryam,  Rocky   2:30-3:15

Group 3:  Hussain,  Mark,   Kid       3:30-4:15



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Thursday, February 18, 2016

Last class

Coaching Perspective
                          RWSLGPVT/S

(Reading Writing Speaking Listening Grammar Pronunciation Vocabulary Thinking/Strategies)

Monday, February 15, 2016

Week 6

This being our last week of classes,   it is important that you be organized and strategic.  Your goal ought to be to continue to learn,  but also to ready yourself for your final exams.



Think about   RWSLGPVT/S    and   KPAME


What we will be doing this week (Monday to Thursday)


  • Listening-Speaking Text -- Finish Unit 3 and start and (maybe) finish Unit 4
  • Listening -- More practice from various sources;  Test 2 on Monday
  • Speaking -- Final Presentations on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
  • Grammar -- Start and (maybe) finish Ch.20;  possible quiz on Ch. 16 & 20
  • Vocabulary & Pronunciation -- review
On Friday afternoon you will have your final speaking exam.

Study smart and hard.

Thursday, February 11, 2016

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Week 5 Plan

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This is a short week,  but it will be a very busy week.  We only have 8 classes left before your final exams begin next Friday.


The plan for this week is

Big stuff ...

Grammar Test 2  (rescheduled from last week)  on Tuesday

Vocabulary Test 1 on Wednesday

Smoking Essay -- draft 1 will be returned on Wednesday and you will have time to work on draft 2 in class on Wednesday;  draft 2 is due on Friday (don't be late!)


Regular stuff ...


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  • Grammar  -- we will do and finish chapter 16 (a short and easy chapter) this week ;  you will have a grammar quiz on Friday (there will be a combined ch. 16 and ch. 20 test next week)
  • Speaking & Listening  *  we will finish Unit 3 and start Unit 4 in Unlock                                                                          *  we will practice discussion and debating skills in preparation for your                                           final speaking exam                                                                                                                    *   we will do another bottom up listening activity
      
Finally,  you will have a listening test next Monday.  Study hard and study smart.   Remember that 

product + performance =  effort + ability + process


Tuesday, February 2, 2016

For today's speaking assignment


You will note from this that you will also be required to ask and to answer two questions during the activity today.



You can watch the videos of your presentations here.   When you watch the video,  please try to do a self evaluation of your own speaking performance.







For your listening

Try to listen to the news for 30 minutes every day to build your listening and knowledge of the world.

CBC's The World This Hour  is a good program.   You can listen to it here


Monday, February 1, 2016

APA Citing and Referencing

You can look at the slides from this presentation I have previously given

here

and for our essay