Monthly Archives: November 2013

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

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

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

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

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

Text Copyright © 2013 by Charlie Danoff (contact@mr.danoff.org)/Mr. Danoff’s Teaching Laboratory (http://dalab.cc). Rights available under 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, November 14th, 2013

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

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

Winter Trimester 2013-14 Block 1 Lesson 7

a | 09:30 – 10:04 | Review Quiz 1 and Prepare for Quiz 2

b | 10:04 – 11:22 | Quiz 2

c | 11:22 – 12:00 & 13:45 – 14:40 | News Hour | Breaking News English.com | Only 10% of UK engineers are women (6th November, 2013)[1]

c1 | We got into a long discussion about the many different definitions of the present participle verb “tapping” and its base verb “tap”.

d | 12:00 – 13:45 | School Lunch for a Student’s Last Day | James R. Thompson Center Food Court

e | 14:40 – 15:00 | Fiction | Read the fifth and sixth pages of the the second “Fantom of the Fair” comic[2]

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

NOTES

HOMEWORK

1 | Give your questionnaire to 20 people; write your results paragraph and make 3 (or more) graphs
2 | Read Mobile Unit 2 “The Subject” http://eslau.ca/lesson/unit2.php and do Exercises 2.1 http://eslau.ca/exercise/ex2.1.php and 2.2 http://eslau.ca/exercise/ex2.2.php Athabasca University | Copyright (C) 2007 by Athabasca University | CCA 3.0 Licensed (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

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What we Did in Our COC IEP 200 Class on Thursday, November 14th, 2013

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

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

Winter Trimester 2013-14 Block 1 Lesson 7

a | 09:30 – 10:04 | Review Quiz 1 and Prepare for Quiz 2

b | 10:04 – 11:22 | Quiz 2

c | 11:22 – 12:00 & 13:45 – 14:40 | News Hour | Breaking News English.com | Only 10% of UK engineers are women (6th November, 2013)[1]

c1 | We got into a long discussion about the many different definitions of the present participle verb “tapping” and its base verb “tap”.

d | 12:00 – 13:45 | School Lunch for a Student’s Last Day | James R. Thompson Center Food Court

e | 14:40 – 15:00 | Fiction | Read the fifth and sixth pages of the the second “Fantom of the Fair” comic[2]

NOTES

HOMEWORK

1 | Give your questionnaire to 20 people; write your results paragraph and make 3 (or more) graphs
2 | Read Mobile Unit 2 “The Subject” http://eslau.ca/lesson/unit2.php and do Exercises 2.1 http://eslau.ca/exercise/ex2.1.php and 2.2 http://eslau.ca/exercise/ex2.2.php Athabasca University | Copyright © 2007 by Athabasca University | CCA 3.0 Licensed (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

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

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

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

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)

Text Copyright © 2013 by Charlie Danoff (contact@mr.danoff.org)/Mr. Danoff’s Teaching Laboratory (http://dalab.cc).
Rights available under 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, 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

Text Copyright © 2013 by Charlie Danoff (contact@mr.danoff.org)/Mr. Danoff’s Teaching Laboratory (http://dalab.cc).
Rights available under 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, November 4th, 2013

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

Winter Trimester 2013-14 Block 1 Lesson 1

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

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

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

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