HW for Monday, Oct. 1st

1. Video Presentation Evaluation
**Evaluate your presentation with your partner.
**Be honest!!!!!

Unit 3 Groups:

A: Aman, Chika, Rway, Sulaiman, Brian (Montana)
B: Ethan, Chad, Tomoyo, Kazusa, Zainab (Missoula)
C: Nick, Yang, Younes, Ayaka (U.S.)

HW for Friday, Sept. 28th

1. Workbook

• Check Answers to Lesson A (Act. 1 and 2)

2. Unit 3 Project Group

• Form a group of three or four students. 
• **There must be at least two different first languages in your group!!!!!
• Example: Chinese and Arabic; Russian and Japanese

Homework for Thursday, Sept 27th

1. Workbook, Lesson A (p. 18-19)

HW for Monday, Sept. 24

Announcement
**Please remember that we will meet at Mansfield lobby at 1 pm on Monday, Sept. 24th.

Homework
1. Study for Quiz
2. Read classmates' adventure stories. Leave a comment on the following:

• The story--What is something like about their story?
• Grammar or unclear language--Is there a grammatical error (adjective/adverb use, simple past tense)? A sentence you don't understand?? 

3. Work on Video Presentations (due Wednesday)

Video Presentation Description and Grading

What: Video Presentation on American Interview Information

When: Video Presentations are due by Wednesday, Sept. 26

Description: 

In your video presentation, you and your partner will answer the following information:

1. What did you want to find out? (questions)

2. What were your predictions? 

3. Who did you interview?

4. How did your interviewee respond? 

5. How accurate were your predictions? 

6. How would you describe this person (using adverbs/adjectives)? 

Grading: 

Your presentation will be graded based on the evaluation form (below) that you create with your classmates:

Video Presentation Grading Rubric 

Good luck and have fun! 

HW for Friday, September 21st

1. Student Book, Activity 3A

• Goal: Describe the most exciting experience you've ever had. 
• Description/directions: Write about your experience on your blog. Be sure to use adverbs of attitude (p. 19) and adverb/adjective combinations (Unit 1). Write at least 10 sentences. 
• **Try to add a photo about your experience.

2. Present Perfect Interviews

• You MUST work with a partner!
• INTERVIEW an American (or two or three) about their past experiences. 
• Use the present perfect questions you wrote and answered from Monday. 
• Make sure to write your interviewee's (person you interview) answers.

HW for Thursday, Sept. 20st

1. Workbook

• Check answers to Activities 1-2 (p. 14-15)
•  Lesson D (p. 16 only!)

2. Student Book--Exercise C (p. 18) (collected)

• Write answers to questions. 
• Choose a place (Galapagos or Greece). Give three reasons why you want to visit this place.

HW for Wednesday, September 19th

1. Workbook, Lesson C (p. 14-15)

2. Student Book
*Finish writing answers for  Freetalk 2 (if you didn't finish in class).

HW for Monday, Sept. 17th

1. Workbook
*Check answers to Activity 1 (p. 12)

2. VoiceThread Presentations
*Watch your classmates' VoiceThread presentations and leave one oral (SPOKEN) comment for each presentation.

3. Native Speaker Interview Preparation

• Work with a partner. 
• Write 10 questions that you’d like to ask an American. YOUR QUESTIONS SHOULD BE IN THE PRESENT PERFECT. 
•  Make a prediction about an American’s response and write the predicted answers. 
• Turn in your questions + Predicted Response on Monday! 
• Example
• Question: Have you ever gone snowboarding? 
• Predicted Answer: Yes, I have gone snowboarding many times. 

HW for Friday, Sept. 14th

1. Workbook

• Check answers for Ex. B and Ex. 2 (p. 10-11)
• Lesson B (p. 12-13)

2. Student book

•  Word Builder (p. 20)
•  Write the past tense & past participle forms for each verb. 

HW for Thursday, Sept. 13th

1. Workbook

• Lesson A (p. 10-11)

2. Student Book

• Activity B (p. 14)
• Read grammar box (p. 14) 
• Activity 2A (p. 14) 

HW for Wednesday, Sept. 12

1. VoiceThread Presentation
**Please post your presentation to your blog.

2. Student Book
**Study grammar box on p. 13

VoiceThread Presentation Description

For Week 4, you will create a short presentation on VoiceThread. To start, make sure that you have set up an account. If you have an account, you are ready to begin!

Deadline: Monday, Wednesday, Sept. 12th

Directions

1. Create a new Voicethread.

2. Make sure your Voicethread has a title (e.g. My Three Best Friends).

3. Upload three photos--one for each of the friends/family members you described in your week 3 HW activity.

4. Record a description of each person using BOTH adverbs/adjective AND explanation/examples.

• Make sure to save your recording each time you record. 
• Please DO NOT READ your description. Do your best to record each description without reading from your paper.

5. Post your final VoiceThread Presentation to your blog on a new blog post.

• To do this, follow these steps:
• click "Menu" (lower right corner of main photo);
• click "Share;"
• click "Get Link;"
• go to your blog;
• open "New Post;"
• click on "Link" on sidebar;
• paste VoiceThread link in "web address" box;
• type your title in the "text to display" box;
• publish your new post!

Please let me know if you have any questions. 

Good luck!

HW for Friday, Sept. 7th

1. Visit your classmates' blogs, read their introductions, and write one comment for each classmate's introduction.

2. Josh's VoiceThread Presentations

• Watch Josh's VoiceThread Presentation
• Leave at least a comment on his VoiceThread Presentation

3. Workbook

*Act. 1 (p. 8)
**Check Answers

4. Student Book

**Check Act. 3 Answers (p. 10)

Answers: 
1. impatient              5. disorganized
2. dishonest              6. unhealthy
3. unfriendly             7. unreliable
4. incompetent          8. inconsiderate
 
5. Study for Quiz (the Unit 1 Quiz is on Monday)

**Bring questions to class on Friday.

HW for Thursday, Sept. 6th

1. Edit/Revise Family/Friend Descriptions (collected)

2. Student Book

• Act. D (p. 9) 

3. Workbook

• Act. 3-4 (p. 7) 
• Act. 1 (A &B) (p. 8) 

For Friday:

1. Visit your classmates' blogs, read their introductions, and write one comment for each classmates' introduction.

2. Josh's VoiceThread Presentations

• Watch Josh's VoiceThread Presentation
• Leave at least a comment on his VoiceThread Presentation