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What we Did in Our COC IEP 200 Class on Tuesday, November 12th, 2013

Posted on November 12, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

COC IEP 200 | https://www.mr.danoff.org/cociep200

Winter Trimester 2013-14 Block 1 Lesson 5

a | 09:30 – 09:50 | Greetings and Weekend Activities Discussion

b | 09:50 – 12 & 12:45 – 13:10 | News Hour | Breaking News English.com | Better tables for beautiful people in Paris restaurants (10th November, 2013)[1]

c | 13:10 – 14:15 | NorthStar 2 Listening and Speaking (Third Ed.)[2] | Unit 4

d | 13:45 – 14:15 | Project | Review Everyone’s Survey Questionnaires

e | 14:15 – 15:00 | Wonder Years Elective

NOTES

1 | http://breakingnewsenglish.com/1311/131110-frenchrestaurants.html
2 | ISBN 978-0-13-240988-9

HOMEWORK

1 | Bring laptop tomorrow
2 | Make 3 vocabulary sentences with trendy, good-looking and furthermore
3 | Finish the 2nd draft of your questionnaire
4 | Read Mobile Unit 1 “The Basic Sentence” http://www.eslau.ca/lesson/unit1.php and do Exercise 1.1 http://www.eslau.ca/exercise/ex1.1.php from Athabasca University

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What we Did in Our COC IEP 200 Class on Tuesday, October 1st, 2013

Posted on October 1, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

COC IEP 200 | https://www.mr.danoff.org/cociep200

Fall Trimester 2013 Block 3 Lesson 13

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

WHAT HAPPENED IN CLASS

a | 09:30 – 10:37 & 10:47 – 11:30 | News Hour | Breaking News English.com | Iran’s Rouhani addresses UN General Assembly[1] | 27th September, 2013
a1 | Students listened to an audio podcast of the article 3 times for its main idea and details
a2 | Students read the article and completed “Multiple Choice Questions” exercise
a3 | Students completed “Synonym Match” exercise
a4 | “Friends” debtate: Student A believes American and Iran will soon be friends; B disagrees

c | 13:15 – 14:05 | Grammar in Context 1[3] | Overview of Modals

d | 14:05 – 14:10 | Project | Review survey experiences

e | 14:10 – 14:15 | Reviewed quiz 3

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

HOMEWORK

1 | Finish 2nd draft of your presentation
2 | Finish the grammar worksheet
2 | Study for the Final Exam (use quizzes 1&2 and the quiz 3 study guide)

NOTES

1 | http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1309/130927-un-speech.html
2 | ISBN 978-0-13-240988-9
3 | ISBN 978-0-521-75084-9

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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What we Did in Our COC IEP 200 Class on Tuesday, August 20th, 2013

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

COC IEP 200 | Fall Trimester 2013 Block 2 Lesson 6

WHAT HAPPENED IN CLASS

a | 09:30 – 10:42 | News Hour | Good grammar means more money (20th August, 2013)
http://breakingnewsenglish.com/1308/130820-grammar.html
* The three vocabulary words we will focus on from this article for Thursday’s quiz are: text, profitable and campaign.

b | 10:52 – 12:00 | NorthStar Listening & Speaking 2 | Unit 1
* Reviewed last night’s vocabualry homework, then spent a while digging into each of the words.
* Completed the vocabulary activity on pages 9-10.

c | 12:45 – 13:55 | Fiction | Jungle Love (pp. 42 – 43)
p. 42 | QUESTION: What was like a bomb exploding? | ANSWER: The pelican diving into the sea to catch a fish.
p. 42 | Q: What is a jetty? | A: British word for dock.
p. 42 | Q: Does Lisa really like birds? (look at page 7) Why do you think she tells Ian she likes birds? | A: No, she does not like birds. She probably tells Ian she does, because she wants to talk to him and attract his attention.
p. 43 | Q: Why is Lisa jealous of the pelican? | A: Ian seems more interested in it than her.
p. 43 | Q: Why does Lisa frown? | A: Because Ian made a comment about her eating too much that made her sound greedy.
p. 43 | Q: How is Caroline boring to Ian? | A: She always worries about what she eats and if it’s too much fat.

d | 13:55 – 14:06 | Grammar
* Reviewed Monday’s grammar homework.

e | 14:06 – 15:00 | Elements of Style Elective

HOMEWORK

1 | Study NorthStar & news vocabulary for Thursday’s quiz 2
2 | Take notes on the Listen a Minute Advertising exercise and write 6 discussion questions
3 | Finish up any missing homework

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What we Did in Our COC IEP 200 Class on Monday, August 19th 2013

Posted on August 19, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

COC IEP 200

Fall Trimester 2013 Block 2 Lesson 4

WHAT HAPPENED IN CLASS

a | 09:30 – 11:07 | News Hour | “Facebook “selfies” can harm relationships”
* http://breakingnewsenglish.com/1308/130818-selfies.html
* The four vocabulary words we will focus on from this article for Thursday’s quiz are: study, flatter, genre and appeal.

Reading Objective | Scanning for and recognizing details in an intermediate reading passage

b | 11:17 – 11:24 | Discussed What Everyone Did Over the Weekend

c | 11:24 – 12:00 & 12:45 – 12:50 | NorthStar Listening & Speaking 2 | Unit 1
* Began with a review question asking what last week’s listenings were about.
* Completed Steps 1 & 2 on page 7

d | 12:50 – 13:40 | Fiction | Jungle Love (pp. 39 – 41)
* Questions:
p. 39 | How does Lisa feel about the price of the bus? (Answer: It it too expensive)
p. 39 | Who did Pete call? (Answer: Jennifer)
p. 40 | What can you infer from Pete’s message about how he feels about Jennifer? (Answer: He is worried about their engagement.)
p. 40 | Why does Lisa tell herself “All’s fair in love and war, isn’t it?” (A: As an excuse to justify reading Jennifer’s notebook.)
p. 40 | What did Lisa write down from Jennifer’s notebook? (A: 2 of Peter’s phone numbers.)
p. 41 | Why is Jennifer a threat to Lisa? (A: Because she is also attracted to Ian.)
p. 41 | What does Lisa hope Ian will notice? (A: How attractive she looks in her skirt and bikini, blowing in the wind.)

d | 13:40 – 14:00 | Fast Listening
* Listen a Minute: Accidents
http://www.listenaminute.com/a/accidents.html

e | 14:00 – 15:00 | IEP Elective
Pronunciation Objective | Learn 2 new IPA symbols to aid in general pronunciation.
Copyright notes

HOMEWORK

1 | Finish Vocabulary exercise on page 8 of NorthStar
2 | Finish Listen a Minute Actors exercise (I will e-mail you)
3 | E-Mail me your survey topic, research articles and 10 questions (if not already done)

LESSON PLAN

Compare what was planned with what happened listed above. Download .odt file from danoff.org
http://www.danoff.org/leftinfront/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=99

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