Assignments for Weeks 7 & 8

         Thursday, December 12:  Final Oral Presentation.

 Read "Presentation Strageties," pp. 116-117 for reference ; prepare a short  original conversation with a partner based on JenniferESLAmerican Slang Lesson 8, Part I "Cool Car (accessible on YouTube)."
 It should have the following characteristics:

·      5 lines a piece, using 5 slang expressions 

·      Talk about a technological device, real or imagined.

·      Make it interesting and/or entertaining.

·      Have a visual

Tuesday, December 17: Final test. You will listen to the main lecture of chapter 9"What's Up with Slang?", take notes and answer some comprehension and discussion questions.

 To prepare, you can listen to the lecture in advance, available at

www.lectureready.com/student. Your Username is LectureReady, and your Password is LR1215.  You can also read pp. 106-109 and pp. 113-115.

Please ask if you have any questions about the schedule or the assignments.

Good luck!

Diana

Blog Post #3 : Assignment due Tuesday, December 10

Dear Students,

Listen to the following 5 segments of JenniferESL's American Slang lessons, and then answer 3 out of  the 4 questions that follow. This assignment is due on Tuesday, December 10.

1. What are the 3 components of slang, according to Jennifer in Lesson 1?
2. Name 3 slang expressions in Lessons 1-5 that you have heard before now, and 3 that you have never heard. Which ones do you think you can use in the future?
3. What is the difference between "..say..." in Lesson 3 and "...see?.." in Lesson 4?
4. Give a short summary of what happens in Lesson 5 "An Old Classmate."

I hope you will enjoy listening to these lessons!

Diana

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

Blog Post #1

Dear Students,

Welcome to Diana's class blog! I look forward to hearing from all of you.

Good luck this term,
Diana

Homework due Thursday, November 7  For this assignment you will need to listen  again to the chapter 2 Practice Lecture ( called Lecture #1) Go to www.lectureready.com/student. Your username is LectureReady, and your Password is LR1215. Listen t and fill in J, p. 18 . Then read p. 19 and do exercise A ( unrelated to the practice lectures).

Blog Post #1 - due Tuesday, November 12
For your first blog post assignment, you are going to watch and listen to ads from two banks: TD Bank and JP Morgan Chase Bank. Think about their effectiveness: are they effective or not? If so, what is the nature of their appeal?  What different groups does the Chase ad appeal to? Do they appeal to facts or emotions ( as mentioned in the chapter 2 pre-lectures)? Which ones do you like or dislike? Write a brief paragraph ( minimum 5 sentences) to answer these questions . Then feel free to respond to each other's answers.

Dear Students,

Thank you all for your very thoughtful comments. All were good! Let me just mention a few:

Philip and Raul, I agree with you that the Chase ad is very interesting and effective, but too long. Romulo, Rox and Gabriela, I agree that the Chase ad plays on people's emotional attachment to certain groups and their individual dreams. Priscilla and Anoud, you point out the power and value of humor as well as brevity in the TD Bank ad.

Next time I will respond to those of you that I missed this time.
Diana