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What we Did in Our COC IEP 200 Class on Monday, November 18th, 2013

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Winter Trimester 2013-14 Block 1 Lesson 8

a | 09:30 – 09:45 | Welcome Back Discussion About Everyone’s Weekends

b | 09:45 – 10:46 | NorthStar 2 Listening and Speaking (Third Ed.)[1] | Unit 4 | Pages 60 – 62

c | 11:22 – 12:00 & 123:45 – 13:10 | News Hour | Breaking News English.com | Aid too slow in reaching Philippine needy (16th November, 2013)[2]

d | 13:10 – 14:15| Fast Listening | Listen A Minute.com | Business[3]

e | 14:15 – 15:00 | Elective

NOTES

1 | ISBN 978-0-13-240988-9 | Copyright © 2009, 2004, 1998 by Pearson Education, Inc. | All rights reserved.
2 | http://breakingnewsenglish.com/1311/131116-typhoon-haiyan.html | Copyright © 2013 by Sean Banville | All rights reserved.
3 | http://listenaminute.com/b/business.html | Copyright © 2009-2013 by Sean Banville | All rights reserved.

HOMEWORK

1 | Make 11 vocabulary sentences with the vocab words on page 62 of NorthStar
2 | Finish your “introduction” paragraph and e-mail it back to me as 1 file with the “results” paragraph

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What we Did in Our COC IEP 200 Class on Wednesday, November 13th, 2013

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Winter Trimester 2013-14 Block 1 Lesson 6

a | 09:30 – 12:00 | News Hour | Breaking News English.com | Toronto mayor smoked crack cocaine (8th November, 2013) [1]

b | 12:45 – 13:15 | Project | Students edited their questionnaires on their laptops

c | 13:45 – 14:10 | Grammar

c1 | Reviewed the basic sentence lesson from Athabasca’s Mobile ESL textbook with the PDF[2]

c2 | Read “1.6 | Be With Descriptions” and completed exercises 7 and 8 from Grammar in Context 1[3]

d |14:10 – 14:15 | Reviewed the quiz 2 study guide

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

NOTES

1 | http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1311/131108-toronto-mayor.html
2 | Lesson http://eslau.ca/ and PDF http://www.eslau.ca/lesson/unit1.pdf

3 | ISBN 978-1-4130-0736-7

HOMEWORK

1 | Study for Quiz 2
2 | Give your questionnaire to 20 people; write your results paragraph and make 3 (or more) graphs (due Monday)

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What we Did in Our COC IEP 200 Class on Monday, November 4th, 2013

Winter Trimester 2013-14 Block 1 Lesson 1

a | 09:30 – 09:40 | Greetings and Weekend Activities Discussion

b | 09:40 – 10:40 & 10:50 – 12 | News Hour | Breaking News English.com | Vladimir Putin most powerful person in the world (2nd November, 2013)[1]
b1 | Article about how Putin has topped the Forbes most power person list[2]

c | 12:45 – 13:30 | Final Exam Review

d | 13:30 – 14:00 | Go Over this Block’s Syllabus

e | 14:00 – 14:15 | Fast Listening | Being Single[3]

NOTES

1 | http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1311/131102-most-powerful-people.html
2 | http://www.forbes.com/powerful-people/list/
3 | http://listenaminute.com/b/being_single.html

HOMEWORK

1 | Write 3 vocabulary sentences with today’s new words (listed below)

2 | Finish the “Being Single” survey

3 | Pick a topic for your survey project (due Wednesday)

NEWS VOCABULARY WORDS TO STUDY

compile [kəmˈp(-ə)l] transitive v.
organize things into a list, book, report, etc.
The students are compiling a list of the most popular Hollywood movie stars.

ongoing [ˈɔnˌgoʊ·ɪŋ] adj.
continuing to progress, develop, exist or happen
Learning is an ongoing process for everyone.

sphere [‘sfir] n.
an area of influence; the range of an activity
The bank had a lot of power in the financial sphere.

Definition sources include http://merriam-webster.com/ and http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ both via http://onelook.com

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What we Did in Our COC IEP 200 Class on Tuesday, October 15th, 2013

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

Fall Trimester 2013 Block 4 Lesson 5

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

WHAT HAPPENED IN CLASS

a | 09:30 – 09:49 | Welcome Back Chat
a1 | After 4 days off, took some time to catch up

b | 09:49 – 10:30 & 10:30 – 11 | News Hour | Breaking News English.com | Jet-lag drug is a step closer (7th October, 2013)[1]
b1 | Warm-up activity had student come up with names for new miracle drugs for studying, love, etc.
b2 | Student read the article then answered comprehension and synonym match questions
b3 | To practice inference I asked the student how the author of the article felt about people who work on airplanes (they have a stressful job with lots of jet-lag) and how Yoshiaki Yamaguchi felt about jet-lag and then had the student explain how he inferred the answer

c | 11:00 – 11:40 | NorthStar 2 Listening and Speaking (Third Ed.)[2] | Unit 3
c1 | MAKE INFERENCES on p. 41
c2 | EXPRESS OPINIONS on p. 42 – Had the student write out 2 or 3 reasons why they agreed/disagreed with each statement.

d | 11:40 – 12:00 | Grammar in Context 1[3]
d1 | Completed instructor’s worksheet on Must, Have to, May/Might and Will corresponding to textbook lesson 9

e | 12:45 – 14:00 | Fiction | Fantom of the Fair
e1 | Older student caught up a student who is new in the class with whap has happened on pages 1 to 4 and we read page 5 as a class

HOMEWORK

1 | Make vocabulary sentences with the new vocabulary words from the Breaking News English article
2 | Finish the grammar worksheet

NOTES

1 | Download lesson at http://breakingnewsenglish.com/1310/131007-jet-lag.pdf via http://breakingnewsenglish.com/1310/131007-jet-lag.html
2 | ISBN 978-0-13-240988-9
3 | ISBN 978-0-521-75084-9
4 | Taken from the pages of “Amazing Mystery Funnies” Volume 2 Number 7 http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=756

COPYRIGHT

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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 Thursday, October 10th, 2013

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Fall Trimester 2013 Block 4 Lesson 4

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

WHAT HAPPENED IN CLASS

a | 09:30 – 10:00 | Grammar Homework Review

b | 10:00 – 10:30 | Study Guide Review for Quiz

c | 10:30 – 11:00 | Quiz 1

d | 11:10 – 12:00 & 12:45 – 13:15 & 13:55 – 14:10 | News Hour | Breaking News English.com |4,000 could die building Qatar World Cup (29th September, 2013)[1]

e | 13:15 – 13:55 | Fast Listening Lesson 2
e1 | A Healthy Lifestyle[2]

f | 14:10 – 15:00 | USA History Elective

HOMEWORK

1 | Make vocabulary sentences with the new vocabulary words from the Breaking News English article

NOTES

1 | Download lesson at http://breakingnewsenglish.com/1309/130929-qatar-world-cup.pdf via http://breakingnewsenglish.com/1309/130929-qatar-world-cup.html
2 | http://www.esl-lab.com/health/healrd1.htm

COPYRIGHT

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What we Did in Our COC IEP 200 Class on Wednesday, October 9th, 2013

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

Fall Trimester 2013 Block 4 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 & 10:50 – 11:30 | News Hour | Breaking News English.com | [1]
c1 | Warm-up activity #3 where the students worked together to come up with names and descriptions new combination crops like strawberry and melon
c2 | Listened to the article as students completed a gap fill exercise
c3 | Students divided up for a debate where they argued why one of the crops they created was the best and the others did not measure up

b | 11:30 – 12:00 & 12:45 – 13:15 | NorthStar 2 Listening and Speaking (Third Ed.)[2] | Unit 3
b1 | Pages 39 – 40 on predicting the content of a listening and then listening for the main idea and details

c | 13:15 – 14:05 | Grammar in Context | Must & Have to
c1 | Students completed instructor generated worksheet

d | 14:05 – 14:15 | Review the Quiz 1 Study Guide

e | 14:15 – 15:00 | Japanese Business Philosophy Presentation
e1 | One of the IEP 200 students who is a Japanese businessman gave a presentation about Japanese business ideas for the Business English elective and the IEP 200 students watched

HOMEWORK

1 | Make vocabulary sentences with the new vocabulary words from NorthStar

NOTES

1 | Download lesson at http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1310/131001-tomtato.pdf and mp3 at http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1310/131001-tomtato_1.mp3 via http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1310/131001-tomtato.html
2 | ISBN 978-0-13-240988-9

COPYRIGHT

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What we Did in Our COC IEP 200 Class on Tuesday, October 8th, 2013

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Fall Trimester 2013 Block 1 Lesson 2

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

WHAT HAPPENED IN CLASS

a | 09:30 – 09:45 | Reviewed last block’s Final Exam

b | 09:45 – 09:50 | Reviewed revised syllabus and welcomed another new student

c | 09:50 – 10:45 & 10:55 – 12:00 | News Hour | Breaking News English.com | One in five songs “advertises” alcohol (5th October, 2013)[1]
c1 | Warm-up activity #3
c2 | Read the article; answer comprehension questions and finish the “Synonym Match” activity
c3 | Listened to “Royals”[2] by Lorde. A song by a 17-year-old whose subjects include alcohol and one of the themes is that some people are not interested in the luxurious life style including expensive alcohol like Grey Goose. This was fun to discuss in light of an article about how songs with alcohol as one of their subjects were influencing young people to drink more.

d | 12:45 – 13:00 | Family History Discussion
d1 | Over lunch some students got to dicussing their family histories and it continued into the beginning of the afternoon

e | 13:00 – 13:40 | NorthStar 2 Listening and Speaking (Third Ed.)[3] | Unit 3
e1 | Pages 37 – 38

d | 13:30 – 14:10 | Fiction | Fantom of the Fair Episode 1[4]
d1 | Pages 3 – 4 of the Fantom episode

e | 14:10 – 15:00 | USA History Elective

HOMEWORK

1 | Make vocabulary sentences with the new vocabulary words from NorthStar

NOTES

1 | Download lesson at http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1310/131005-pop-songs.pdf via http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1310/131005-pop-songs.html
2 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlcIKh6sBtc
3 | ISBN 978-0-13-240988-9
4 | Taken from the pages of “Amazing Mystery Funnies” Volume 2 Number 7 http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=756

COPYRIGHT

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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 Monday, October 7th, 2013

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

Fall Trimester 2013 Block 4 Lesson 1

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

WHAT HAPPENED IN CLASS

a | 09:30 – 09:50 | New Block Orientation
a1 | Handed out and discussed the new syllabus
a2 | Welcomed the new student
a3 | Discussed everyone’s weekends

b | 09:50 – 10:35 & 10:45 – 12:00 | News Hour | Breaking News English.com | Hunger affects one in eight people (3rd October, 2013)[1]

c | 12:45 – 13:30 | NorthStar 2 Listening and Speaking (Third Ed.)[2] | Unit 3
c1 | Pages 37 – 38

d | 13:30 – 14:10 | Fiction | Fantom of the Fair Episode 1[3]

e | 14:10 – 15:00 | USA History Elective

HOMEWORK

1 | Make vocabulary sentences with the words from Breaking News English
2 | Finish the Fast Listening Lesson 1 worksheet[4]

NOTES

1 | http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1310/131003-world-hunger.html
2 | ISBN 978-0-13-240988-9
3 | Taken from the pages of “Amazing Mystery Funnies” Volume 2 Number 7 http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=756
4 | Listenings from Randall’s ESL Cyber Lab A Student Credit Card | http://esl-lab.com/credit/creditcardrd1.htm#list | AdSense | http://esl-lab.com/adsense/adsenserd1.htm#list

COPYRIGHT

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What we Did in Our COC IEP 200 Class on Thursday, October 3rd, 2013

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

Fall Trimester 2013 Block 3 Lesson 15

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

WHAT HAPPENED IN CLASS

a | 09:30 – 10:50 | Core Final Exam & News Hour Quiz 4

b | 10:50 – 11:25 | Survey Project Presentations

c | 11:30 – 12:00 | Elective Presentations

d | 12:00 – 14:00 | School Lunch at Reza’s[1]

HOMEWORK

1 | Finish your survey project essay

NOTES

1 | http://www.yelp.com/biz/rezas-restaurant-chicago-2

COPYRIGHT

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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 Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013

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Fall Trimester 2013 Block 3 Lesson 14

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

WHAT HAPPENED IN CLASS

a | 09:30 – 10:46 | News Hour | NPR | Beyond The Shutdown, There’s A Bigger Battle Brewing[1] | October 01, 2013 5:02 PM
a1 | Students listened to the podcast 3 times for its main idea and details
a2 | Students read the article the teacher answered questions paragraph by paragraph, focusing on vocabulary and comprehension
a3 | Discuseed the shutdown in general and health insurance in students’ home countries
a4 | Listened 1 final time to the article

b | 10:46 – 11:46 | Fast Listening | Babysitting[2]
b1 | Listened once for main idea and details
b2 | Listened 2 more times as students finished the Listening Gap Fill worksheet
b3 | Students did the 10 minutes of free writing activity

c | 11:46 – 12:08 & 12:53 – 13:21 | Grammar in Context 1[3] | Modals
c1 | Reviewed “should”
c2 | Students completed exercises 18, 19 and 20 in lesson 9

d | 13:21 – 13:55  | Project | Practice Presentation

e | 13:55 – 15:00 | Prepare for the Final Exam/Edit Student’s USA History Presentations

HOMEWORK

1 | Finish the final draft of your presentation
2 | Study for the Final Exam

NOTES

1 | http://www.npr.org/2013/10/01/228158870/beyond-the-shutdown-theres-a-bigger-battle-brewing
2 | http://listenaminute.com/b/babysitting.html
3 | ISBN 978-0-521-75084-9

COPYRIGHT

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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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