It’s week 13 for the freshman English conversation class. It’s also festival week.
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English Advanced Conversation: Week 14
This is the last week of our advanced level university English conversation class. Let’s quickly review the class objectives contained in syllabus
The objectives were:
- students will expand their vocabulary by developing a working knowledge of at least 300 new words through reading and self study;
- students will improve fluency through regular pair work practice on a wide range of topics;
- students will improve their critical thinking skills by learning and using 12 logical fallacies;
- students will demonstrate their research and organizational skills by making a 5 to 10
minute presentation that includes a critical analysis of one current issues topic.
English Advanced Conversation: Week 11
Update
Last Monday, we completed the analysis of the climate change argument. Time was short so today I would like to do a debrief. I am especially interested in hearing your ideas about the causes and effects of global warming.
English Advanced Conversation: Week 10
Last week, we looked at analogies. Let’s finish analogies this week. We will watch a few videos that make arguments with analogies. This will show us how analogies can be used to make very strong arguments. Then we will finish the analogy worksheets.