Narrative Writing

Here are the instructions for your next writing assignment which I'd like you to send me before Monday 2nd May 2011. You need to write a story about a dangerous situation that you've been in. Those of you who managed to drag yourselves out of bed to attend the first class did a speaking/shouting dictation activity in class talking about a dangerous situation. You need to write a minimum of 250 words and give your story a title.

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Please refer to page 113 (particularly question 6) in the book for more information.

judy x

Writing an informal letter correction & Individual Presentation Preparation

Hi Everyone Firstly, you must give me the letter before the end of this lesson. I'm going to use the correction key and give you back the letter to correct (you must also look at the correction key on page 112). Please do your corrections and email me the letter back (or print it off and give it to me). The corrected letter must be submitted this week and Friday is your deadline. Secondly, you can use this time to start preparing your individual presentation. The topic is your favoutite book or film. You will give the presentation on Friday 29th April. Remember the presentation must be between 4 to 6 minutes. If you want to show a clip about the book or film, the clip time is not included in the 4 minimum time. Please come and speak to me if you have any queries. Have a good week. Judy x

FRIDAY'S TEST

Here are details of what will be included in the test on Friday and the corresponding pages you need to review:

UNIT 1

Grammar: Tense revision and Identifying the tenses pages 6-8

Spoken English - Missing words out page 8

Vocabulary: Language work page 11 (look at the boxes with Ian in Chile and Thomas in Korea)

Formal and informal language: page 111

House and home page 13

Compound nouns page 13 (question 5)

UNIT 2

Grammar: Present Perfect (simple and continuous) and past perfect pages 16-18

Vocabulary: make & do page 23

Exclamations page 25

There is also a reading part to the test that you cannot revise for.

See you all Friday.

judy

Evaluation

Here is the breakdown of coursework we will complete in class for evaluation during the semester: 20% LAB Classes - This will be made up of 4 writing assignments. We will complete a total of 6 and your 4 best scores will make up the 20%. WARNING! You must complete all 6 pieces of writing. For every piece of writing not submitted 1 point wil be deducted from the overall total. e.g. Your overall average for the 4 writing assignments is 6.5 but you only submitted 4 pieces, your average will be 4.5 because of the one point deducted. 30% Quizzes - 3 quizzes, one for every two units in the book. 20% Presentation - Individual work, relating to a topic connected with Unit 3. Details to follow. 30% Presentation - Group work, relating to a topic connected with Unit 4.

Quick Placement Tests and Writing Assignment II

Good morning class Today we'll be doing the above mentioned activities. Please email me your informal letter or (save me some ink!) print it off and hand it to me no later than Monday 18th April 2011. READ THE INSTRUCTION FOR THE INFORMAL LETTER CAREFULLY ON PAGE 112 QUESTION 4. judy

Re-cut trailer & language practice

Hello Class

Today we're going to do something a bit different...

These are the links for the re-cut trailer:

Re-cut:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfout_rgPSA

Original:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6qDqdYY6-Y

Hope you enjoy the class.

judy x