Assignments for Week 6

Due Tuesday, December 3 ( postponed until Thursday, December 5)
 Oral presentation #2  Guidelines:
Read presentation strategies, pp. 38-9. Choose a partner and interview each other about 3 generations of women in your family. For each generation:

·      ·      Find out :

i       - If they worked or not

·              - What type of work, if any, they did

·                - If they were typical of their generation + native country

·             Have some visuals, preferably pictures of the women you are talking about. 

T    Talk for about 2 minutes ( 1 minute per person)

Thursday, December 5  chapter 3 test. (20 points) Format:
   A. Short video lecture and note-taking :Comprehension and vocabulary in context questions ( 6 points)
    B. Multiple choice questions re using symbols and abbreviations in note-taking, and creating rapport ( 3 points) Study pp. 33,38 + 45 to prepare.
    C. Vocabulary: matching word/idiom and definitions, and original sentences ( 11 points)
         Study p. 30 and work related idioms  to prepare for this section.

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Blog Post #2

Assignments for Week 4

For Thursday, November 21 : Read p. 29; do Exs. D, E & G, p. 30. Read p. 31.

For Tuesday, November 26: Blog Post #2

Listen to the above video: "Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders." Answer 3 out of the 4 questions that follow on our class blog:

1. Are the statistics that Ms. Sandberg mentions re women leaders worldwide also true for your country? If not, how does your country differ?

2. Explain Ms. Sandberg's 3 main points. What does she mean by: 1. "Sit at the table"   2 "Make your partner a real partner ."  3. "Don't leave before you leave."

3. At the end of her talk, she says " I think a world where half of our countries and half of our companies were run by women, would be a better world." Do you agree with this statement? Why or wny not?

4. A recent comment on this speech says " This speech is merely stereotypical baloney." What do you think the author of this statement means? Do you agree or disagree? Why?

Assignments for Week 3

Dear Students,

Thank you again for your very thoughtful and insightful  comments on the bank ads. I addressed some of them specifically at the end of Blog #1.

Your assignments this week are as follows:

Due Thursday, November 14  Oral presentations. Prepare a short presentation with your partner ( 40-60 seconds each), creating an original ad for a product you are interested in. You can use Ex. F, p. 25 as a guide. It doesn't have to be a new way of advertising, and you don't have to tell a story. But you will need a visual aid that you either draw, bring or show via computer.

Tuesday, November 19 - Quiz on chapter 2. You will have a short video clip to listen to and then answer some questions. You will also need to make sentences with some vocabulary words. Details in class on Thursday.

Best,
Diana