We will get started
at 12:00
Today’s agenda
·
Collect Questionaire today or Thursday
·
Prescribed Learning Outcomes segment
·
Pronunciation of the Day
·
IF TIME Introduction of classmates
·
HW Read
“What Happened During the Ice Storm” for Monday.
Make notes on the back for the
Thought Questions. This will ensure you are prepared for group discussion.
Return “Questionaire” for Thursday
Thursday
·
Collect Questionaire
·
Continue with Prescribed Learning Outcomes
·
Review paragraph form and structure
·
Pronunciation of the Day
Friday
· Test#1 Pass-in writing- paragraph
·
Pronunciation of the Day
· Song lyrics
·
HW Read “What Happened During the Ice
Storm” for Monday.
Make notes on the back for the Thought
Questions. This will ensure you are prepared for group discussion.
Monday
· Begin “Ice Storm”
FIRST
DAY ICEBREAKER:
A.
Chat with your partners.
1. Name
2. Home
3. Family
4. Job
5. Travel
6. Hobbies
7. Future
plans
B. Make
notes about one of your partners from yesterday.
C. You
will introduce one of your partners to the class. Choose one person. Make sure
that you have information about them.
·
NEW THING
Pronunciation
of the Day
/F/ vs /V/ Minimal
Pairs List
‘f’ unvoiced
‘v’ voiced
1. Fast
/ Vast
We
drove fast through the vast desert.
desert
dessert
Distribute, go over
prescribed learning outcomes
“Prescribed
Learning Outcomes” module
· HW
Review the PLOs. Come ready to talk about a few which are
strengths and which
are areas for improvement.
Thursday
· Continue “Prescribed Learning Outcomes”
module
· “Core Competencies: Self Assessment”
· Paragraph structure
from www.bced.gov.bc.ca
Every Foundations course has PLOs.
PLOs “Prescribed Learning Outcomes”
-guidelines for what I should teach
-broad areas of focus
-areas to explore in the course
Explore vocabulary
Prescribed Learning Outcomes
-prescribed(adj)- like an order, mandatory,
not an option
-prescription(noun)
A doctor prescribes(v) some medicine. –
recommend, need to take, tells you
Some teachers teach prescriptive grammar. –hard
grammar rules
who/whom
past perfect verb tense
Some teachers teach descriptive grammar. –soft
grammar guidelines
-learning(verb,adj,noun) – synonyms-
knowledge(n), study(v), understanding(n), discover(v), research, educating,
developing, growing, getting better, explore, improve, increase, comprehension
Nice rich vocab!
NEW BEST FRIEND: thesaurus.com
Wonderful for getting new vocabulary.
A thesaurus gives synonyms and antonyms.
-outcome(n)- result, find, discover, as a
result, finish, end, conclude, completed, complete, therefore, final, sum
up, at the end, what you got, aftermath, summation, summative
PLOs (Prescribed Learning Outcomes) – the
things that we should be able to do by the end of the course.
Setting goals- plan, target, aim,
trajectory, vision, purpose, dream?, destination, ambition, project, aspiration
“I aspire to be an immigration lawyer.”
“My aspiration is to run my own business.”
“My aspiration/ambition is to be an interior
designer.”
Stretch your comfort zone.
IDIOM your comfort zone – just doing what
does not challenge you
Our
goals for the course.
Read the document over for homework.
A.ORAL LANGUAGE
B.READING AND VIEWING
C.WRITING AND REPRESENTING
D.EVIDENCE OF THINKING
BIG QUESTIONS to think about while I teach
and explain
1.
Which PLOs feel most important to you? Which
ones resonate with you? Which ones stand out to you as being relevant to your
life?
resonate- vibrate, shake, has deep meaning
relevant- related, connected to
2.
Which of the PLOs do you already do well? Which
ones are your strengths. Which one are you already good at?
3.
Which of the PLOs do you want to improve upon?
Which ones reveal some weakness that could strenghtened? Which ones do feel
would be worthwhile working on?
10-15m
Small
groups
We
will do some small group talking about your choices for the PLOs.
This
will be the basis for our paragraph writing.
Go
over some together.
Let’s go over these- read them, talk about
vocab, meaning
ambiguous- unclear, not black or white
Small group (4-5 people) discussion, chatting,
casual talking
Share your ideas on the PLOS- your strengths
and weaknesses
As a small group, discussion, asking
questions- clarify points. Figure out meaning.
clarify(v) – clear(adj) – make an idea clear
in your mind or to someone else
-
building vocabulary
-
finding synonyms-
e.g. impromptu- without planning,
off-the-cuff
This will be an opportunity to talk in
English about big ideas, concepts, challenging material.
Impromptu discussion is a challenge, and one
that we all are called upon to meet daily.
e.g. impromptu- without planning,
off-the-cuff
Challenging discussion will stretch our
ability to communicate in English.
Let’s report out about our discussions of
the PLOs.
report out- committee work, group work- share
ideas from the groups, share what you found, talked about intersting topics,
anecdotes
share the highpoints of our discussions
highlights-
EF6
oral- spoken
-
public
speaking- mind goes blank, forget ideas
Suggestions- speaking in front of a mirror
-making
friends
-talk to different people – shopping,coffee
shop,
small talk, chit chat
-talking with seniors- They speak slowly and
have free time.
volunteer in a senior centre, community
centre, school
-
speak with Siri
-
practice talking on the phone- customer service
-
Speaking Club
AI- Artificial Intelligence- pros and cons
weakness and strength viewing maps
Worldle
https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/
Focus on extended reading – challenging
keeping your mind on it, focus,
concentration
not be distracted
-retention- remembering what you have read
Build up it to.
I use ear plugs.
Turn off the phone.
Cultural
differences are very challenging.
We were on track;
then we got off-track.
Planning and organizing
ideas for paragraphs and essays. Being careful about grammar and higher-level vocabulary.
-nervousness about
speaking out loud in public
***Pronunciation of
the Day***
/S/ vs /TH/ Minimal
Pairs List
‘s’-
‘th’ th-unvoiced
th-voiced
Sick / Thick
The
sick man has thick skin.
IDIOM
thick skin- things don’t bother you, you don’t get insulted
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