2014 Summer 045 Program Level 4
Welcome to this advanced level Intensive English class! Together we will work on honing your English skills, extending your vocabulary (active and passive), and learning across cultures.
For Thursday, July 3: FINAL CONFERENCES IN EOP 214
9:00 Benjamin
9:10 Tom
9:20 Susana
9:30 Sooyeon
9:40 Manuel
10:00 Hui-Shan
10:10 Jane
10:20 Bayan
10:30 Khaled
10:50 Abdullah
11:00 Ahmed
For Wednesday, July 2nd:
1. We will correct the AWP Unit tests at the beginning of class and take the Unit 3 Posttest.
2. We will watch a film. (TBA)
HOMEWORK for TUESDAY, July 1st:
1. AWP: Finish ch. 15, do X-word puzzle and Unit Tests 1 & 2. We will have the Posttest on Wednesday.
2. Thyra Johnston handouts: Finish reading and analyzing for adjective clauses, reduced adjective clauses, and noun clauses. Note how artfully Thomas McG. uses language.
3. LEAP: Take thorough notes on Traditional Chinese Medicine — on a separate piece of paper to hand in. Finish the rest of reading 2, taking notes in the margins and summarizing in the boxes. Do you think the authors of the text treat the 4 equally? Would you entertain using all 4 types of alternative medicine? Be prepared to defend your answer with reasons.
HOMEWORK FOR MONDAY, June 30th:
1. AWP: Review ch 13 for the quiz AND write a story using the words. Also, finish ch. 14 exercises.
2. Complete the grammar handout: Appositives
3. LEAP: Gearing Up pg. 91 and Reading 1 & its vocabulary exercise, page 92
HOMEWORK for Friday, June 27;
As stated below, we will be doing evaluative activities over several days. Tomorrow there will be a listening quiz. (Not something you can study for; do not be late or absent.)
1. Grammar sheet: restrictive and nonrestrictive adjective clauses
2. AWP: Finish ch. 13 and review ch 12 for the quiz. Keep reviewing all the vocabulary.
HOMEWORK for THURSDAY, June 26:
1. Prepare for a reading exam on reading 3 of ch. 4, LEAP. [In view of the fact that Ramadan starts this weekend, and it will impact a significant portion of the class, I want to begin the evaluative activities that will form the basis of your final evaluations.]
2. Write an essay about our visit to the court(s). Include a description of what you saw and heard, including the people, the proceedings and the physical spaces. What did you think about what you saw? What surprised you? Was this similar to or different from what you expected? What should a legal system do: ensure that justice is done? Ensure that society is safe? Ensure that citizens’ rights are respected? If there is a conflict — as was presented in the motion hearing we visited — should the judge decide in favor of the police/prosecutor or in favor of the person accused through wrongfully acquired evidence? [There is no ‘right answer’ for this; you should make good arguments for your ideas.] Your essay should be 1-1/2 to 2 pages, double spaced.
FIELD TRIP TO CRIMINAL COURT ON WEDNESDAY 6/25 –preparation for it Tuesday, 6/24. The field trip is a class held in an alternative location. Attendance is required and there will be activities and assignments related to it.
Meet at Park Street Station (upstairs, outside, on the corner of Park Street and Tremont St.) BEFORE 9 a.m. We will start walking up to the Suffolk Superior Court, located at 3 Pemberton Square, behind the crescent-shaped office building that is across the street from the City Hall and Starbucks. We are going to the tall, modern court building on the right. We will first go to the 14th floor to the Clerk’s Office to get a list of the trials happening, then we will choose where we want to go. Hopefully, you will have the option of “sampling” different trials, or else staying in one trial. If you are late and we have already left, try to catch up.
Bring a small notebook and something to write with. Write down things you hear and see, impressions that you have, and questions that you might wonder about. I will be asking you to write about the experience.
Here are links to 2 really informative juror orientation films:
Minnesota: http://www.mncourts.gov/?page=1948 “All Rise” is short (12 minutes) and takes you through all the steps from the point of view of two jurors.
New York State: http://media.courts.state.ny.us/video/jury/YTweb.wmv “YOUR TURN” Juror Orientation Film Includes an interesting history of justice in Europe and traces its evolution to our system in America. Opens with ‘trial by ordeal’. This is a glitzy production, with famous people, and is both informative and entertaining.
HOMEWORK for Tuesday, June 24:
1. AWP: Finish ch. 12, prepare for ch. 11 quiz; work on learning any words you had difficulty with on the Posttest
2. LEAP ch 4: pp. 74-77 Do the Vocabulary Build exercisesj, and read Rdg 2, “Branding Strategy”, taking notes as you go along.
Here is a fun PPT about famous marketing blunders; it was made by a student in a graduate business program .
*****Please send your restaurant recommendations! *********
Here are links to a page about photographing auras (from Mohammad Biyari)
http://www.finerminds.com/health-fitness/chakra-healing-aura/
http://www.valsecrets.com/2014/05/soul-session-and-ob.html
Oral Presentation 1 Schedule:
Monday 6/2: Benjamin, Mohammed Biyari
Tuesday 6/3: Manuel, Sooyeon, Susanna
Wednesday 6/4: Hui-Shan, Abdullah, Tom
Thursday 6/5: Dr. K, Khaled,
Friday 6/6: Nouf, Jane, Sooyeon,
Monday 6/9: Ahmed, Bayan,
Monday 6/16: Assel, Mohammad Al-Mutery
Listening Link from Friday: http://www.npr.org/2014/06/06/319380418/otb-parlors-criticize-hike-in-horse-racing-simulcast-rates
——————————From Marketplace: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/numbers/how-much-california-chrome-worth
Here is a link to ‘the top 50 most valuable Latin American brands”: http://www.millwardbrown.com/brandz/2013/LATAM/Documents/2013_BrandZ_LATAM_Top50_Chart.pdf
Here is a list ranking the top 100 global brands:
http://www.rankingthebrands.com/The-Brand-Rankings.aspx?rankingID=30
A Business Week ranking of top US brands from 2000-2013:
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-01/the-most-valuable-brands-in-america-2000-to-2013
HOMEWORK FOR FRIDAY, June 20th:
1. Review for AWP unit 2 Posttest
2. Prepare presentation for marketing group project.
HOMEWORK FOR THURSDAY, June 19:
1. AWP: prepare for the quiz for ch 10 and finish unit tests 1-2-3 (pp. 57-66)
2. Think about your marketing group project — your product and marketing strategies. Bring your ideas to the group.
3. LEAP Thinking Questions sheet: read and evaluate the level of difficulty of the questions submitted by your classmates. Would you be able to answer these? If you were the teacher, which ones would you choose as good essay questions.
4. Ongoing: reread the Dean Foster paper and complete your notes as thoroughly as possible. We will be analyzing different situations and applying the information.
Homework for WEDNESDAY, June 18:
1. Dean Foster Culture reading: finish taking excellent notes on the 9 orientation categories; we will be working with this material
2. AWP: finish ch. 10 and the X-word puzzle. Prepare for ch. 9 quiz.
3. LEAP: ch. 3 finish writing the 4 definitions at the end of the chapter.
HOMEWORK FOR TUESDAY, June 17:
1. LEAP, pp. 65-68. Read reading 3, annotating in the margins and taking notes on a separate piece of paper (which I will collect.) Answer the questions in part D (pg. 65)
2. LEAP, pg. 183-185: read and analyze the model for a process essay.
3. AWP: Finish ch. 9 exercises, review ch. 8 words for the quiz.
4. AWP: Review all the words that you have had difficulty with. Use them actively in your speaking and writing.
HOMEWORK FOR MONDAY, June 16:
1. LEAP, rdg 2, 9pp. 57-61): Writ 5 good thinking questions about the material. [=questions that require thought, analysis, evaluation, and/or that ask you to apply the material.)
2. Advanced Word Power: 1) finish ch. 8 2) study ch. 7 3) write a short unified story (one paragraphs or so) with the first 5 words from the ch. 6 quiz in order to learn them.
HOMEWORK FOR THURSDAY June 12:
1. AWP: Finish chapter 6
2. Noun Clauses: review the handouts and complete the last handout with exercises. Everyone should do page 2 (with sequence of tenses), and then choose EITHER to do page 1 OR to write a long conversation between a nosy [or nosey — both spellings exist] person and someone who does not want to answer any of those questions. Make it entertaining and be sure to repeat the questions as noun clauses.
3. Remember to come early to class tomorrow!
HOMEWORK FOR JUNE 11, Wednesday!
Review all the synonyms for AWP Unit 1 Posttest.
LINK to Alice’s Restaurant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjKF7aQthcQ&feature=kp
Link to song with both older and younger Arlo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8DtpdXZi0M
HOMEWORK FOR TUESDAY, JUNE 10:
1. LEAP ch. 1 READING TEST: review vocabulary including prepositions that go with vocabulary items and the readings.
2. LEAP part 2: You will be doing an IN-CLASS WRITING in which you will need to synthesize (apply and connect content) of the Sports Wearables reading and the content of the LEAP chapter. Be prepared!!
3. Bring the Sports Wearables worksheet. Finish it if you haven’t already done so. You will [hopefully] have some time to go over the answers.
4. Finish AWP Unit tests 2 & 3 (in preparation for the real Unit Test on Wednesday.)
HOMEWORK FOR MONDAY, June 9:
1. AWP: Finish ch. 5, and do both the crossword puzzle and Unit tests We will be having the Unit 1 Post test shortly
2. Read the Wearable Sports Gear article I gave you from the Boston Globe. How does this relate to the readings in LEAP ch. 1? Be prepared to discuss this.
3. Review the content of LEAP ch. 1. The competitive vocabulary activity that we deferred will take place Monday. The reading test will be on Tuesday. On the inside front cover of the LEAP book you have a covered access code that allows you to access the online exercises to reinforce the material from the book.
HOMEWORK FOR FRIDAY, June 6th:
1. LEAP: Finish the reading exercises (reading 3: The Development Model of Sport Participation), which we started in class (pg. 19), and which will also bring you back to reading 1. ALSO, review the vocabulary from all the chapter 1 readings. We will have some kind of competitive activity tomorrow based on the vocabulary.
2. LEAP: Go to pp.178-179, in the Models Chapter and read through the examples for writing short essay questions.
3. AWP: Study for the ch. 4 quiz tomorrow.
Homework for THURSDAY, June 5th:
1. Read and critique the “Ways of Reasoning” (Ch. 3 from American Ways, A Guide for Foreigners in the U.S.) In writing (to hand in) summarize the important points of each section and give your opinion. Compare what he says to your own language/culture.
2. Advanced Word Power: ch 4: Do “10 Words in Context”, Matching Words & Definitions, and Sentence Check 1.
–Also, review any of the words you haven’t quite learned yet from ch 1 through 3; practice active learning.
HOMEWORK for Wednesday, June 4:
1. Read and critique the “Ways of Reasoning” (Ch. 3 from American Ways, A Guide for Foreigners in the U.S.) Be able to paraphrase each section and give your opinion. Compare what he says to your own language/culture.
2. LEAP: Do the exercise on pp. 15-16, Using Citations and References
3. GR–TOEFL handout, Practice with Word Forms: Finish the exercises (through S43)
4. Advanced Word Power: Work actively with the words from ch. 3 to prepare for the quiz tomorrow. Look at the chapter questions on pg. 182; try to answer them.
HOMEWORK for Tuesday 6/3:
1. Advanced Word Power (AWP): Finish ch. 3 and review ch. 2 words for quiz
2. TOEFL Handout: “Practice with Word Forms” — read through. 169-171, then do exercises S38-S41
3. Writing: Write up a summary and reaction to the two oral presentations we heard today. (approximately one page, double-spaced)
4. LEAP: finish part C (pg. 9)