in Hawaii

Work to do before going to Hawai'i:

  1. Prepare your notes for the Speaking Evaluation.
    • Be sure to check the evaluation grid for little details that get you higher points. For example, using two expert sources and naming them is a good thing.
  2. Write a 100-word (roughly) site description in scientific register.
    • Huh? What? Remember the description of the computer lab that you started in class? Choose a new location and describe it scientifically.
    • Do this in a WORD 365 document and share it with david.schwinghamer@collegeahuntsic.qc.ca
    • We'll use this to give you formative feedback.
  3. Write a 100-word (roughly) descriptive blog post in the descriptive style that we saw in class 5.
    • Remember the description of a person that you started in class? No? No problem. Describe someone, something, or some place using adjectives and adverbs and details that let we readers experience the way you experience that someone, something or some place.
    • Do this in a WORD 365 document and share it with david.schwinghamer@collegeahuntsic.qc.ca
    • We'll use this to give you formative feedback.

To bring for the English course elements in Hawai'i:

  1. Bring a notebook
    • for taking notes during expert lectures:
      • We'll use the factual content for our friendly, yet surprisingly competitive Génie en herbes competition.
    • for recording your thoughts, feelings, impressions, everythings as we do the different activities
      • You'll use this to add life to your blog posts.
  2. Bring your notes for the Speaking Evaluation.
  3. Bring your Language Journal Bonus Points sheet or document.

What we do while in Hawai'i:

  • We get immersed in English in both science-related learning and everyday interactions.
  • We pay attention to the language used by our interlocutors, especially during science-related learning.
  • We use only English among ourselves during one meal each day to improve fluency.
  • We do a summative speaking evaluation that we've prepared before going to Hawaii.
  • We gather content for a Génies en herbes style competition among ourselves that sharpens our science-related speaking.
  • We gather content to use in assignments post-Hawaii.