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Fall Trimester 2013 Block 3 Lesson 9

Links and book information indicated by brackets [1] is available in notes at bottom.

WHAT HAPPENED IN CLASS

a | 09:30 – 10:25 | News Hour | Breaking News English.com | Syria says it will destroy chemical weapons (21st September, 2013)[1]
a1 | Warm-up activity: debate about if/when peace will come to Syria
a2 | Listened to the article and students determined the main idea and supporting details
a3 | Students completed comprehension questions and the synonym match activity
a4 | Had a class discussion about what is happening in Syria

b | 10:54 – 11:30 | NorthStar 2 Listening and Speaking Third Edition[2]
b1 | Pages 29 – 30

c | 11:30 – 12:00 | Grammar in Context[3]
c1 | Pages 272 – 275

d | 12:45 – 13:55 | Jungle Love[4] | Themes Discussion
d1 | Outlined the differences between “themes” and “subjects”
d2 | Students picked a subject and theme from the book
d3 | Students found examples supporting the theme and subject from the book
d4 | Students wrote a paragraph explaining their theme and its supporting evidence

e | 13:55 – 14:15  | Quiz 2 Review

f | 14:15 – 15:00  | USA History Elective

HOMEWORK

1 | Write 10 sentences using the new vocabulary words from today’s Breaking News English.com article
2 | Fix article summaries and questionnaire
3 | Finish Jungle Love theme paragraph

NOTES

1 | http://breakingnewsenglish.com/1309/130921-chemical-weapons.html
2 | ISBN 978-0-13-240988-9
3 | ISBN 978-0-521-75084-9
4 | ISBN 978-1-4130-0736-7

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2013 by Charlie Danoff (contact@mr.danoff.org)/Mr. Danoff’s Teaching Laboratory (http://dalab.cc).
Rights given a  CC Zero 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).

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Fall Trimester 2013 Block 3 Lesson 3

Links and book information indicated by brackets [1] is available in notes at bottom.

WHAT HAPPENED IN CLASS

a | 09:30 – 10:40 | News Hour
a1 | Completed the activities from the News for You Teacher’s Guide[1] regarding the Judge Says NYC’s “Stop and Frisk” Policy Is Unfair to Minorities[2] article

b | 10:50 – 11:25 |NorthStar 2 Listening and Speaking Third Edition[3]
b1 | EXPRESS OPINIONS on page 22
b2 | B: LISTENING TWO: Let’s Hear from Our Listeners

c | 11:25 – 12:00 & 13:00 – 13:15 | Jungle Love[4]
c1 | Worked our way through pages 68 – 70 focusing on uncovering the “Main Idea” and “Details” therein

d | 13:15 – 14:00  | Listening
d1 | Reviewed the homework from Monday on the Airports[5] and Alcohol[6] Listen A Minute.com (LAM) listenings
d2 | Completed a worksheet for the Aliens[7] LAM listening

e | 14:00 – 15:00  | USA History Elective

HOMEWORK

1 | Study for Quiz 1
2 | Pick a topic for your Survey Project

NOTES

1 | http://newsforyouonline.com/tg/2013-09-04_tg.pdf
2 | http://newsforyouonline.com/stories.asp?ID=1436
3 | ISBN 978-0-13-240988-9
4 | ISBN 978-0-521-75084-9
5 | http://listenaminute.com/a/airports.html
6 | http://listenaminute.com/a/alcohol.html
7 | http://listenaminute.com/a/aliens.html

COC IEP 200 | Fall Trimester 2013 Block 2 Lesson 9

WHAT HAPPENED IN CLASS

a | 09:30 – 10:38 | News Hour | | Supreme Court rules Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional
a1 | Students took notes while listening to the audio recording of the news three times
a2 | Students answered True/False questions using their notes
a3 | Students completed a gap fill exercise while listening again and then checked answers to it and the T/F with partners
a4 | In the article the lead researcher points out how more work needs to be done to prove volunteering causes happiness, and not that happy people are the ones who volunteer. To illustrate this idea I explained to students the difference between correlation and causation.
a5 | Students completed the Synonym Match and Comprehension Questions then checked answers with their partners

b | 10:48 – 11:00 | Discussion about everyone’s weekends

c | 11:00 – 12:00 | NorthStar Listening & Speaking 2 | Unit 1
c1 | Pages 12 to 14, PRONUNCIATION: Stress exercises 1 to 3

d | 12:45 – 13:50 | Fast Listening
d1 | Students completed a gap fill exercise for the “Advice” Listen A Minute.com recording http://listenaminute.com/a/advice.html
d2 | Students wrote 5 questions about advice and then surveyed eachother (p. 7 of the PDF http://listenaminute.com/a/advice.pdf)

e | 11:40 – 12:00 | Fiction | Jungle Love
e1 | Students answered the following questions as a pop quiz to see if they’d done their homework and read Chapter 8

Chapter 8 Questions

1 | TRUE / FALSE    Jennifer painted a picture sitting on the Jetty.
2 | TRUE / FALSE    Lisa gave Jennifer the message before Mary.
3 | TRUE / FALSE    Jennifer does not want to break up with Pete.
4 | TRUE / FALSE    Mary wants to study at University in the USA.
5 | TRUE / FALSE    Jennifer was happy she kissed Ian.
6 | What was the game Mary had them play with oranges?

f | 14:00 – 15:00 | IEP Elective
f1 | We completed Lesson 15 on pages 69 – 72 of “English Pronunciation Made Simple” on the diphtong /aʊ/ commonly used in words like out, cow, how and loud.

HOMEWORK

1 | Study NorthStar & news vocabulary for Thursday’s quiz 3 (New words from today’s news article: sense, boosts, establish)
2 | Read “FUNCTION: Small Talk” on page 14 of NorthStar 2 Listening & Speaking and complete the exercise on the top of page 15
3 | Finish up any missing homework (e.g. 10 sentences using vocabulary words from quiz 2)

COPYRIGHT NOTES

Copyright © 2013 by Charlie Danoff (contact@mr.danoff.org)/Mr. Danoff’s Teaching Laboratory (http://dalab.cc).
Rights given a  CC Zero 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).