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2, 4 January |
- Course Syllabus
- Student Information Sheet
- Course Introduction
- Unit 1 pp. 2-5
- Listening: Everybody has a story
- Storycorps: How is this the same and different from the 'Everybody Has a Story' project at UCLA?
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- Buy the book: World Pass - Upper Intermediate
- Do exercises C& D, pp. 2-3
- Do exercises A & B on pp. 4-5
- Listen to one story on the storycorp website and answer three questions
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| 2 |
8, 9, 11 January |
- Unit 1 pp. 4-11
- Video: Joy Luck Club (2 scenes)
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- Read p.7
- Optional: Use a Storycorps interview as a dictation
- Complete Verb Tense chart
- Do Unit 1 workbook ex's
- Optional: Borrow Joy Luck Club film and complete the questions
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| 3 |
15, 16, 18 January |
- Unit 1 pp.12-13
- Video: The Storytellers of Moher
- Unit 2 pp. 14-15
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- Try Unit 1 Online QUIZ
- Send Jodi the definitions and sample sentences for your three words from Unit 1
- Write a story (a short one) - a story told in your family or by those in your home town. What does this story say about about the beliefs or thinking of those who tell it?
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| 4 |
22, 23, 25 January |
- Sharing Stories
- Unit 2 p16, pp19-21
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- Do the 'FreshDirect' exercise
- Read/Do ex. pp19-21
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| 5 |
29, 30 Jan.; 1 February |
- Your Choice: class, library tour, website evaluation or interview
- Video: Extreme Gadgets
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- Complete related handout
(if doing library tour or website evaluation)
- Complete Unit 2 workbook handout
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| 6 |
5, 6, 8 February |
- Unit 2 pp 16-18, 22-24
- Passive Voice
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- Type two paragraphs from class exercise (p22, B-D)
- Try Unit 2 Online QUIZ
- Optional: Do ex's in a handout about the Passive Voice
- Optional: Do Unit 2 Internet exercises (on student website)
- Make a comment on www.amny.com - iPod law - and send a copy to Jodi
- Do ex's on pp26-27
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| 7 |
12, 13, 15 February |
- Unit 2 pp 24-25
- Unit 3 pp.26-29
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- Do ex's on ppp24-25
- Optional: Valentine's Day exercises
- Optional: Chinese New Year handout
- Do ex's A-C on pp26-27, and ex's A-D on p28
- Do ex. E on p29
- Do all ex's on pp31-33
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| 8 |
20, 22 February
*NO CLASS on 19 Feb. for President's Day, a UN holiday |
- Unit 3 pp.30-33, 35
- Grammar: Adverb clauses
- Speaking: generalizing
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- Do all ex's pp.36-38
- Check answers to pp.36-37 on p.168 - and bring any questions to the next class.
- Do Unit 3 workbook ex's
- Do Units 1-3 Crossword puzzle
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| 9 |
26,. 27 February;
1 March |
- Video: Personality & Hypertension
- Review: Units 1-3 - pp38-39
- Unit 4: pp40-42; 44
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- Do ex. A-C & vocabulary builder on pp.41-42
- Do ex. A-D on pp42-43
- Optional: Go to EnglishPage and click on 'Modals' - for lessons and practice exercises
- Write a letter giving an opinion - see page 48, ex. A-D
- Try Unit 3 online quiz
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| 10 |
5, 6, 8 March |
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- Complete Modals Handout (Practice 41, 43, 27, 28) - grammar topics for Units 4 & 5
- Read/Do ex's on pp.45-47
- Do Unit 4 workbook pages (for Monday)
- Do ex's A-D on pp.54-55
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| 11 |
12, 13, 15 March |
- Video: Student Activists
- Unit 5: pp52-63
- Video: Missing Student Mystery
- Unit 6: pp64-68
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| 12 |
19, 20, 22 March |
- Unit 6: pp69-75
- Video: Forced to Outsource
- 22 March: In class writing - essay section of the final exam
- Review: Units 4-6 pp76-77
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| Make-up |
26 March |
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| Exam |
27, 28 OR 29 March (exact date and time will be given later) |
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