What we Did in our COC IEP 200 Class on Tuesday, May 7th

In Class

1. News Hour: Read the “For Some, the Air Will Soon Be Thick With Cicadas” News for You article and completed the corresponding Teacher’s Guide exercise. The students were not happy to hear this summer will be very noisy with lots of bugs!
2. Homework Check-in
3. NorthStar 2 R&W: “Wh- Questions in the Simple Present Tense and with Can and Should” Grammar reading and exercises on pages 148 to 149 about making questions with auxiliary verbs, with a complementary handout of “UNIT B: Questions from the Understanding and Using English Grammar Volume A (2nd Ed.)” book as well as “Appendix C | Question Formation” (pp. AP4 – AP5) of Grammar in Context 1 (2nd Ed.)
4. Short Story: Read page 48 of “Sweetie” our newest story from Frozen Pizza
5. Fast Listening: Taped Library Tour and Airport Announcement
6. Movie Project: Handed back their first and second scenese they turned in.
7. Y as a Vowel: During a discussion about vowels it came up that at times the letter “y” can be a vowel. I mistakenly said it is only a vowel when the word has no other vowels. According to OxfordDictionaries.com “The letter Y can be regarded as both a vowel and a consonant. … Whether the letter Y is a vowel or a consonant is therefore rather an arbitrary decision.” Additionally, it should be noted that the letter “w” can also sometimes be a vowel. More reading:
   • Phoenix College has a nice webpage on “vowels”, scroll down to Y as a Vowel to read more.
   • English Language and Usage Stack Exchange discussion about “y” as a vowel.
   • Wikipedia’s List of words in English without A, E, I, O or U.

For Next Class

To Read

1. Grammar in Context 1: “4.8 | Articles with Definite and Indefinite Nouns” on page 118

To Do

1. NorthStar 2 R&W: Exercises 3 and 4 on page 149
2. Grammar in Context 1: Exercise 14 on pages 118-9
3. Study for Quiz 3 on Thursday
4. Movie Project: Revise your first and second scenes; write your third scene

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