Details from today’s (Tue. 29 Jan. 2013) COC IEP 200 Class at the College of Chicago. You can compare what happened below with the lesson plan, heading into class. For context, please see this page with more past lesson plans for this class and all the class recaps.
NEWS & CURRENT EVENTS
Read “U.S. allows women to fight in wars“ from Breaking News English. Again, having the students read the article before class led to a livelier in-class chat!
FAST LISTENING
We completed the following 2 listening activities from Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab:
- Names: Meeting New People Short URL http://is.gd/CYRJuO (Caps sensitive)
- Shopping and Prices Short URL http://is.gd/2ikWOO
SURVEY PROJECT
Students turned in their articles with summaries and then I taught them how to write survey questions, which they’ll do tonight for homework.
COMIC BOOK
Started our next “Fantom of the Fair” story from Amazing Mystery Funnies Vol. 3 #1 this one is set in a coal mine.
Reviwed and discussed Unit 4 pages 76 to 80.
FICTION
Worked through pages 7 to 10 of ‘Two Worlds’ from Antoinette Moses’ Frozen Pizza and Other Slices of Life. Some vocabulary that arose:
- voice-over, n. a film, documentary, and/or TV show where pictures are narrated by an off-camera actor or actress
- close to home, adv. (idiomatic expression) affecting people close to, or within, one’s family circle.
On page 10 she describes walking the Tate Modern and the Globe Theatre, both of which you can see in this photo:
“Tate Modern et Millenium Bridge” by Bernard Gagnon (Own work) [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0], via Wikimedia Commons.
and below is a photo from inside the Tate Modern’s past exhibition “The Unilever Series: Olafur Eliasson: The Weather Project.”
“Tatemodernpowerstation“ by Wikipedia User:Bjoss [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0-2.5], via Wikipedia.
HOMEWORK
- Grammar in Context: Do pages 38 to 39, aside from exercise 3 on page 38
- NorthStar 4: Do pages 81 to 83
- News: Read “Fashion brand makes perfume for babies” Breaking News article and answer True/False and Synonym Match Questions
- Study for Quiz 2 on Thursday: Vocab Words from last week and Grammar pages 31 to 33
- Survey Project: Write your first 3 survey questions
- Read/review pages 9 to 10 of “Frozen Pizza …”
COPYRIGHT NOTES
Definition Sources [CC BY-SA 3.0 Licensed]:
voice-over. (2012, December 14). Wiktionary, The Free Dictionary. Retrieved 22:14, January 29, 2013 from http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=voice-over&oldid=19008078.
close to home. (2012, May 9). Wiktionary, The Free Dictionary. Retrieved 22:14, January 29, 2013 from http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=close_to_home&oldid=16790599.
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