Final Grades

Our last session and final grades review will be on

Tuesday, Dec. 8 at 12.30 pm

in EGE-018.

Best Graphic Organizers

The best five GOs (out of 19) are published at http://rhetorical111.blogspot.com/

Congratulations to the following groups:

• Americans_18
• Canadians_18
• Italians_18
• Australians_22
• Jamaicans_26

Thumbs up for **Section 18** for producing the best GOs!!

Departmental Exam 2

DEPARTMENTAL EXAM 2
Friday, Dec. 4
AUL 013 / 11.30 - 1.30

Blog Assignment (2%) - GOs

• Group work
• Readings will be assigned in class
• Prepare a Graphic Organizer (GO) in one PPT slide
• Send it to aprendoingles@gmail.com
• Due date: Thursday, Dec. 3
• Best GO will be published at http://rhetorical111.blogspot.com/

Week 11

• Prepare all your readings and exercises for this week (Check your class calendar for contents).
• Examples and explanations pp 89-91
• Comparison and Contrast pp 122-125
• Reading Selections: Brain Donors pp 47-49
• How Male and Female Brain Differ pp 50-52
• Waterproof Coats pp 54-56

Reading Quiz 3 (5%)

Week 10

• Prepare all your readings and exercises for this week (Check your class calendar for contents).
• Focus on guessing meaning from context: Using morphological clues pp 88-89
• Reading Selections: Coffee & Tea p 38 & Electric Fish pp 43-44

Vocabulary Quiz 3 (6%)

Feedback GO Vitamins

Please print this out and take it to class.

Week 9

• Prepare all your readings and exercises for this week (Check your class calendar for contents).
• Focus on graphic organizers pp 100-103
• Focus on signal words pp 94-99
• Focus on guessing meaning from context: synonyms and antonyms pp 86-88
• Reading Selections: The Branches of Mathematics pp 35-37
• Poison Birds pp 39-42
• Feedback GO Vitamins

Reading Quiz 2 (6%)

Grades 26

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Grades 18

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Departmental Exam

DEPARTMENTAL EXAM

Friday, Oct. 30

AUL 013 / 11.30 - 1.30

Notice

We won't have class tomorrow Tuesday Oct 28.

Please check updates of this blog for activities for Week 6.

Quiz 1

Quiz 1 / Thursday, Oct. 22

• Part I: Vocabulary List 1 (6%)
• Part II: Reading (6%)

Week 5

• Prepare readings and exercises (Check your class calendar for contents).
• Focus on reference words pp 32-36
• Words and their meanings pp 56-59
• Focus on guessing meaning from context: context clues pp 81-85
• Reading Selections: Caught on tape p 20 / What is a predator? pp 21-22
  

Quiz 1

• Appendix: ¡No entiendo lo que leo en inglés!
• Leitner’s manual computer.
• Guidelines Assignment 2 (Group)
• Topic, main idea & details. Exercises pp 24-27
• Description pp 116-117Parts of speech. pp 51-56
• Readings Week 4 (Learning pp 1-5, People and Color pp 14-15)

Bonus Activity Best Slides

The best bonus activity slides are showcased in the Rhetorical Patterns blog
http://rhetorical111.blogspot.com/

Bonus for Assignment 1

If you missed Assignment 1, you can do this bonus activity:

• Prepare a PPT slide with the Graphic Organizer of p 14 (Section 18)
• Prepare a PPT slide with the most important info on Types of definitions. p 108 (Section 26)
• Prepare a PPT slide of Indicators of definitions. p 114 (Section 22)



• Send it to aprendoingles@gmail.com
• Label your slide FullName_section#_BA1
• Be creative !! The best works will be published in the Rhetorical Patterns blog

Deadline: Wednesday, Oct. 14, 6:00 pm / Value: 1 pt.

Notice

All documents for Assignment 1 need to be sent before 6:00 pm (Oct. 12), so that I can grade them before our next class.

Leitner's Manual Computer Tutorial

Visit this link to watch a tutorial on Leitner's Manual Computer.

http://www.id.usb.ve/manualcomputer.html

Week 4

• Review of contents of Week 3.
• Appendix: ¡No entiendo lo que leo en inglés!
• Leitner’s manual computer.
• Form groups.
• Guidelines Assignment 2 (Group).
• Prepare readings and exercises (Check your class calendar for contents).
• Skimming & Scanning.
• Topic, main idea & details.
• Read Focus on rhetorical patterns: Description pp 116-117
• The alphabet. Using the dictionary. Parts of speech. pp 45-53
• Definition of Learning pp 1-5
• People and Color pp 14-15

Assignment 1 - Blog - Sec. 26

From the reading Focus on rhetorical patterns: Definition pp 107-108

• Complete the exercises on pp 109-115
• Send a Word doc. with your answers to aprendoingles@gmail.com
• Follow this sequence:
• ID cards 0910852 to 0910873, exercise 44 (Items 1 to 8)
• ID cards 0910874 to 0911097, exercise 45 (Items 1 & 2)
• ID cards 0911125 to 0911245, exercise 46 (Items 1 to 5)
• DO NOT type the question, ONLY the answer.
• Identify your Word doc. Full_Name_26_A1
  

Deadline: Monday, October 12 / Value: 2.5 pts.

Assignment 1 - Blog - Sec. 22

From the reading Sounds & Acoustics pp 10-11 (Reading Selections):

• Complete the exercises on pp 11-13
• Send a Word doc. to aprendoingles@gmail.com with your answers to the sections:
• Vocabulary: questions 1, 2, 3, 4 (only the letters of your choice, NOT the full sentence).
• After reading: questions 1, 2, 3, 4 (only the letters of your choice, NOT the full sentence).
• Identify your Word doc. Full_Name_22_A1
  

Deadline: Monday, October 12 / Value: 2.5 pts.

Assignment 1 - Blog - Sec. 18

From the reading Focus on reading strategies pp 8-10

• Choose the three reading strategies that you consider more useful.
• Indicate one strategy that you use the most and explain why.
• Post your comment here in this section.
• Identify your comment like this Full_Name_18

Dead line: Monday, October 12 / Value: 2.5 pts.

Week 3

• Read Focus on reading strategies pp 8-10
• Complete the Strategy survey pp 11
• Fill out graphic organizer p 14
• Read Focus on rhetorical patterns: Definition pp 107-108
• Complete exercises 43-47 pp 109-115
• Read Sounds & Acoustics and do exercises pp 10-13 (Reading Selections)

Vocabulary Forum

• Post here any questions you may have about vocabulary.


• Identify your post with Fullname_section.