Class 4

To be ready for class:

  1. Write notes for  3 new paragraphs in this worksheet from Class 2:
    • These notes will be useful in the Midterm Evaluations.
    • Perhaps you'll also want to make notes a second time for something we already did together. This can help you learn too.
  2. Do Part 1 of Theme 2.
  3. Study the words in your Vocabulary Table.
  4. Learn what readers want in a text.
  5. Learn about blog posts and how to write a good one.

Or if you prefer to watch a video about what to do, check this.

What we'll do in class:

 

Speaking to warm up (10 minutes)

  1. Practice our polite phrasings by quizzing a partner politely about the new words in their Vocabulary Table.

 

Tag-questions for conjectures (20 minutes)

  1. What a tag-question is (video)
  2. In pairs, we use tag-questions to guess things about our partner. "You look like someone who..."

 

Typical text body structure (25 minutes)

  1. We go over our notes for the worksheet.
  2. With partners, we look for ideas that are developed in our Theme 1 articles:

Speaking from notes (15 minutes)

  1. We use our notes from the Theme 1 articles to practice speaking.

 

Gather some facts (25 minutes)

  1. We'll choose some facts from the video & article in Part 1 of Theme 2.
    • We'll also simulate the Speaking Evaluation coming up in Class 6.

Get our writing going (20 minutes)

  1. Start our Target Errors List.
  2. Start our own blog post about a topic of your choice in our shared WORD 365 document.