To be ready for this class:
- View the links in Class 3 in the section about "Writing references for the sciences."
- For the Reading & Listening (R&L) Project finish your notes in the WORD365 document for this section of the video "How sugar affects the brain":
- segment 3:12 to 4:20
- Choose a video related to your field that you want to use in the R&L Project.
- See the R&L Project to know what kind of video is good and what isn't.
- Send me a MIO with the link if you're not sure that your choice is a good one.
- If you are in Tremplin DEC and not sure of your future program, choose a field that you're curious about. Be sure to send me a MIO with the video link.
- Create notes for a section of the video.
- Follow the instructions in the R&L Project for "Respecting the guidelines".
What we'll do:
Reading & Listening Project: Writing
- Use ChatGPT to write a text from our notes.
Evaluating credibility
- Learn how.
- See it done for Nicole Avena, the author of our sugar video from CLASS 1.
- Do it for the author of the video that you chose.
Text types
- Browse these pages:
- Text types
- Academic registers
- especially the table titled "Academic Register Characteristics"
Vocabulary Tables
- Quiz each other to warm up.
- Add a polite request to our repertoire.
Reading & Listening Project: Speaking
- Speak from our first set of notes to different partners.
- See if our partners can speak to someone else from our notes.