Welcome to week 3 of the semester.
Extra Resources
- Touchstone online listening files
Remember
- Book report due last class of week 5
- Finish 12 online listening activities by week 13
- Consultations – book your appointment
- Rob’s office hours (MON 12-2PM, TUES 1-2, THURS 1-2, AND MON-THURS 8-8:30am)
Hour 1
What did we did last week? (5)
- finished a couple of page 66-67 from the textbook plus some listening exercises
- learned some textbook words, such as convenient and hot right now
- did a quick review of three clauses: relative clause, dependent clause and independent clause
Small Group Discussion (25)
Don’t forget the two golden rules:
- full and proper sentences
- follow up questions
Get the conversation questions on this worksheet.
money puzzle worksheet (15)
- answer the questions on this puzzle worksheet
Homework (5)
Your homework is to read a short story.
During the 3rd hour of our class, we will make small groups. Each person will have a different story.
Your job will be 2:
- retell the story – keep all the best parts (1-2 minutes)
- no reading – remember (but you can read some notes)
- conclude with a message – what can we learn from the story
- the other people in your group will ask at least one question per person
Here are the reading stories for this ESL speaking activity.
Hour 2
textbook (45)
- Touchstone online listening files
vocabulary (5)
- hedges
- look forward to
- lose touch
- get back in touch
page 70 Conversation #1 (10)
- read conversation
- listen
- read and listen
page 71 listening #3 (15)
- look forward to – what does that mean?
- listen once and fill in blanks
- listen again – what does he look forward to?
page 73 listening #2 (10)
- friends lose touch – what does that mean?
- listen once and fill in blanks
- listen again – what did he lose touch with his old friends?
page 74 vocabulary (15)
- pair work with dictionary
- define phrases
- box in top right corner
- #1 and #2 and #3
Hour 3
Maze Puzzle (5)
Can you solve this puzzle?
Small group activity (20)
- retell short stories and messages
- Q&A
Other (10)
- puzzle worksheet about shopping
Quick Review (10)
Find the mice. Describe locations with prepositions of location.