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- Steps to Credit Fall 14
- Listening Speaking: Intermediate-High
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Steps to Credit
May 14
1. Bay to Breakers Race on Sunday
2. Train Crash in Philadelphia
5. Adjective + Preposition Handout
May 12
3. Vocabulary 17: College Vocabulary
4. Noncount Nouns
5. Reading on Manners
Homework: 10 sentences for Vocabulary 17
May 6
2. Registration
3. Survey
4. Vocabulary 16 Review
5. Continue with Friendship Handout
6. Noncount Nouns
Homework: Write 10 sentences for 10 words from Vocabulary 16 that you didn't know before class today.
May 4
2. What is Cinco de Mayo? Video
4. American Culture Friendship Handout
5. American Friendship Article
Homework: Write 10 sentences for 10 words from Vocabulary 16 that you didn't know before class today.
April 30
1. Mother who disciplined her son
2. Survey
3. Friendships
Homework: Write a paragraph with a title, topic sentence, three examples, a concluding sentence, and transition words about what friendships are like in your country or about your best friend.
April 28
1. Nepal
3. Marriage Equality and the Supreme Court
5. Count/Noncount Nouns
Homework: Write example sentences for Vocabulary 15
April 23
1. Obama and the US apologize over killing
hostages
2. Slam Poetry: Dear Future Generations: Sorry
3. Noncount Nouns
5. Birth Order Reading and Discussion
April 21
3. Birth Order Reading
Homework: 10 setnences for Vocabulary 14 and the Birth Order Reading
April 16
1. Three Historical Events
2. BART Sucide Prevention Plan
April 14
1. Hillary Clinton Announces Candidacy
3. Group Discussion on Time Travel Paragraph
- Who had the most interested event?
- What events did you hear about that made you want to change your list of events?
- What events had you never heard of before?
Homework: Write 10 sentences for Vocabulary Week 13
April 9
1. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and the Death Penalty
2. Vocabulary Week 12 Review
Homework: Writing
April 7
3. In Class Writing Summary
- Follow Directions
- Indent
- Captialize Title
- Use Transition Words
4. Go over Reading Homework
5. Q: Writing and Grammar
Homework: Reading on Music Trends
March 25
1. News: Kidnapped Woman OK and Delibrate Crashing of the Airliner
2. Vocabulary Week 11 Review
4. In-Class Writing
Homework: Reading on What Makes a Hit Song
March 23
1. News: Woman Kidnap in Vallejo
2. Housekeeping: Field Trip, Movie, Interview
Fair, Job Fair
4. Q: Reading and Writing Handout
Homework: Write 10 sentences for Vocabulary Week 11
March 19
1. San Francisco Police Scandal
3. Topic Sentence Handout
Homework: Reading on Social Media
March 17
4. Q: Skills for Success
Homework: Write sentences for Vocabulary Week 10
March 12
3. Word Order
4. Paragraph Writing
- Go over mistakes
- Go over what makes a good paragraph
5. In-class writing
Homework: Word Order handout
March 10
1. Oaklahoma Univeristy Faternity Scandal
Homework: Write 10 setences for Vocabulary 9
March 5
2. Vocabulary Week 8 Review
3. Paragraph Writing
- What is a paragraph?
- What is a topic sentence?
- What are transition words or phrases?
4. Notetaking Activity: How to write
a paragraph?
Homework: Write five good topic sentences. Then choose one of them and write a paragraph.
March 3
1.Vocabulary Week 7 Review
2. Reading Homework
3. Restrictive Clause Review
Homework: Write sentences for Vocabulary Week 8
February 26
1. Willia's Services
2. Americans Trying to Join ISIS
3. Review Week 7 Vocabulary
4. Restrictive Clause Review
Homework: Reading on Languages
February 24
1. News: Chinese Girls Reunited
4. Parenting: Letting Kids Fail and
5. Discussion on Parenting
Homework: Write a paragraph about how much supervision kids need OR answer one of the questions on your handout.
February 17
1. Fat Tuesday
3. Dictation: Academic Vocabulary Week 5
5. Letting Kids Fail Discussion
6. Larry Whilmore on the Government Raising
Homework: Write example sentences for Acadmeic Vocabulary 6
February 12
1. Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Clauses
Review
2. Restrictive and Nonrestrictive
4. Discussion on Parenting
5. Dictation
Homework: Read the article and do the activites
February 10
1. News
3. Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Clauses
4. Franchises Reading
Homework: Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Clause Worksheet
February 5
2. Interview about Organic Food and GMOs
3. Sentence Combining
Homework: Write sentences for Vocabulary 4. Read and do the activities for this week's reading.
February 3
1. News: Fire in Alamo Square
2. This Land is Your Lannd - Woody Guthrie
Homework: Sentence Combining Activity
January 29
3. Notetaking Activity: Relative Clauses
Homework: Reading on Organic Food and Relative Clauses (2)
Error Correction Activity with Answers
Janaury 27
- snowmageddon, snowpocalypse
2. Blogs Reading
2. Vocabulary Week 3 - More Binomials
3. Quiz on Notes about Phrases and Clauses
Homework: Example sentences for Vocabulary Week 3
January 22
2. Notetaking Activity
4. Real Engilsh Lesson 68
Homework: Read the article on Blogs and do the exercises and handout on relative clauses
January 20
1. Talk about King Tides
2. Stem Cells
4. Phrases and Clauses - Notetaking Activity
Homework: Write examples sentences for Vocabulary 2
January 13
1. Talk about Recent News
2. Go over the Syllabus
3. Natural English: How to Start a Conversation
Homework: Write five questions for Linda
Slang Week 1 with Notes from Class
January 15
1. Real English Lesson 68 and Transcript
2. In groups discuss the best year of your life.
What year was it? Why was it so special?
3. Parts of Speech: Review
Homework: Reading on Stem Cells
Write a paragraph on how much supervision you think kids need?
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