Class: 25^th/26^th January, 2013

Unit 3: Learning a language

Can-Do Objectives:  Talk about languages and ways to learn them

  Describe experience of language learning

                               Discuss plans and priorities

Pages: 32, 33, 35 and 37

Grammar: Collocations with language

Vocabulary: remark, underline, highlight, emphasize, grip, grasp, grab

Homework: Workbook – pg. 19, 21 (not ex. 14), 22 and 23

Remember: Next class will be our last class in January. We will not meet again until the 15^th/16^th of February.

Comments: Thanks to you all for your comments evaluating the class. I shall do my best to take them into consideration.

ACCENTS

I’m including the video below that will hopefully allow you to realize that there are many (infinite) accents in English. I confess that I don’t fully understand many of these.  So, if I don’t, why should you?

The English Language In 30 Accents (Animated)

Class: 18^th/19^th January 2013

Unit 3: Learning a language    

Can-Do Objectives:         Talk about languages and ways to learn them

                                      Describe experience of language learning

                                      Discuss plans and priorities

Pages: 30 -31

Grammar: Phrasal verbs and equivalent

Vocabulary: to get to grips with, to get by, to take up, cumbersome, bulky, ricochet

Homework: Workbook pgs. 17, 18, 20

Remember: Next class will be our last class in January. We will not meet again until the 15^th/16^th of February.

Comments: Thanks to you all for doing the Trial Reading Exam. Also, your comments on identity, language learning and education were quite enlightening. Everyone and anyone who studies English should read 1984 by George Orwell. He wrote:

         

          “The decline of a language must ultimately have political

and economic causes.”

Check out this link on Phrasal Verbs:

http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/caneng/phrasal.htm

Class: 11^th/12^th January 2013

Unit 3: Language and Literature

Can-Do Objectives: Describe a book and give a personal response

Pages: 29, 34, and 36

Grammar: Present forms / Adverbs / diphthongs

Vocabulary: Worth, worthwhile, for what it’s worth, endorse, clout, boast, feature, spawn, surge, hectic, crave, tap into, guise, coarse, insight, thrive

Homework: Finish Unit 2 in the Workbook

Remember: Please, please send me your Written Project Drafts if you haven’t already done so. Also, for those of you who might be interested in learning more about literature and book clubs here is the website mentioned in class - http://www.oprah.com/packages/oprahs-book-club-2.html