Agendas

5/14/10 1. Expressions Quiz 2. Check chart p. 137-138 Which listening did you hear this in? 3. In groups, write questions for videos on huddleboards. Watch video do the questions match the videos? 4. Voc. p. 138-140 5. Create p. 141 6. Choose a topic for a presentation p. 147 HW 1. Expand p. 140-141 2. Work on presentation-p. 146-148

5/12/10 1. Share remaining prenuptial agreements 2. Share words and their stories expressions, write two each on huddleboards to share in small groups/large groups 3. Check chart p. 137-138 Which listening did you hear this in? 4. Voc. p. 138-140 5. VOA- captioned videos 6. Create p. 141 HW 1. Choose one captioned video in VOA, write 5 questions based on the video to ask class 2. Finish Create p. 141

5/10/10 1. Share remaining prenuptial agreements 2. Share words and their stories expressions, write two each on huddleboards to share in small groups/large groups 3. Voc. p. 138-140 4. VOA- captioned videos HW 1. p. 140-141 Expand Fill in the chart 2. Choose one captioned video in VOA, write 5 questions based on the video to ask class

5/7/10 1. VOA Hit wordmaster 2. Continue working on prenuptial agreements, present them to class Who has the best agreement? 3.Voc. p. 138-140 HW 1. Expand voc p. 140-141 2. Wordmaster prepare your own to share

5/4/10 1. Check Main Ideas and Details p. 135, How can you make the false statements true? 2. Inferences p. 136 3. Listening 2 p. 137 Good or Bad Idea for prenuptial? 4. Work first with the women and men groups separately, then with your fiance to share your list of expectations for your marriage. Work on your prenuptial agreement. 5. VOA Hit HW 1. Continue work on prenuptial agreement 2. p. 137-138 Integrate Listenings Chart 3. Voc. p. 138-139

5/3/10 1. B Share Information p. 132 2. Vocabulary p. 133-134 collocations and figuring meaning from context 3. Listening 1 p. 134 Intro, Main Ideas 4. Partner up- write a prenuptial agreement for your marriage, make up a background so we know why you have what you have in your contract 5. VOA HIT HW 1.Details p. 135 2. VOA choose a story in word masters to be ready to share

4/30/10 1. Finish individual answers to p. 72 2. Finish groups 3. B Share Information p. 132 4. Vocabulary p. 133-134 collocations and figuring meaning from context 5. Listening 1 p. 134 Intro, Main Ideas 6. VOA HIT HW 1. Collocations for 6 of the words in sentences 2. Details p. 135 3. VOA choose a story in word masters to be ready to share

4/26/10 1. Group Discussion presentations 2. Individual one minute speeches 3. Test Unit 3 Review

4/19/10 1. Partner word can vs. can't p. 67 2. VOA Hit 3. Group Discussion p. 69-70 expressions 4. Group Discussion project p. 71 prepare for fishbowl HW 1. VOA story to share Words and Their Stories 2. Practice Group Discussion 3. NS

4/16/10 1. Slang Research Divide into groups, each group will take one letter to look up slang words in the online dictionary, report out to class. 2. Make a survey to ask native speakers about slang. 3. Go over sentences p. 66 using can, could 4. Pronunciation p. 66-68 Can VS. Can't 5. VOA-Hit HW 1. Ask 5 people slang survey 2. NS assignments 3. VOA Words

4/13/10 1. Check p.60 # 4, 5 2. Step 2 p. 60-61 Interviewer, Peter, Teenager in small groups of 3, in front of class 3. Vocabulary p. 61 4. Truth or Dare in small groups 5. Can, can't could, couldn't paragraph p. 65 6. #2 p. 66 How has your English improved in the past year? 7. Listen to the answers of your classmates in VT for p. 58. Choose 2 people to comment on. HW 1. Finish comments 2. Write answers to the questions in # 2, 3 p. 66 3. NS assignments

4/12/10 1. Share Yappr videos in pairs 2. Go over details p. 57 and Inferences p.58 3. Small group discussion Express opinions p. 58 4. Listening 2 p. 59 Code-Switching-Fill in notes with a partner 5. C Integrate p. 60 6. Interview with teen and Peter p. 60 HW 1. Voicethread question p. 58 2. Voc. p. 61-62

4/7/10 1. Vocabulary concentration in pairs 2. Share collocations on huddle boards. 3.Voc. # 2 p.55 divide into groups each group must act out three of the words to class for them to guess 4. Listening 1 p. 56-57 Main Ideas, Details 5. Introduce Yappr 6. Listen in pairs to a video HW 1. Choose a yappr video to listen to and be ready to share 2. Choose something from ELLLO to listen to and write about what you heard 3. Make Inferences p. 58 4. Choose one question on p. 58 Express Opinions to answer in Voicethread

4/5/10 1. Finish last role play 2. Go over test together 3. p.53 unit 3 4. Share information in small group p. 54 5. Background and vocabulary p, 54-55, What kinds of dialects are there in your language? 6. NS vocabulary readiness 7. Pronunciation in NS 8. Voc. # 2 p.55 divide into groups each group must act out three of the words to class for them to guess HW 1. Vocabulary Collocations in sentences, 5 words 2. Vocabulary concentration

3/24/10 1. Role-Plays- go over rubric 2. Presentations 3. NS 4. Go over test. HW Study for test

3/22/10 Dream House Competition 1. Video Commercial Target 2. Share ELLLO Views 3. ELLLO Songs 4. Work on Role-Play scripts 5. Test for Unit 2 HW 1. Role Plays 2. Study for Chapter 2 test

3/19/10 1. Check ELLLO game with a partner 2. ELLLO views-Displays of Affections 3. Check compound nouns 4. How to Keep a conversation going p.31, conversations with a partner p. 32-33 5. Work on Role plays p. 33 for next Monday, write a scripts with vocabulary and grammar from unit HW 1. Role Play 2. ELLLO View

3/17/10 1. Share ELLLO mixers with a partner 2. Share with large groups 3. ELLLO games 4. Give advice p. 30 in groups of 3 5. Pronunciation Compounds p. 30-31 6. # 2 p. 31 with a partner use at least 3 compounds 7. Keep a conversation going p. 31-32 conversations 1 and 2 8. Check NS lab work HW 1. ELLLO game to share 2. Read Role-Play p. 33, decide which situation you want to use for your role-play 3. NS lab assignments 4. Compound Nouns Link

3/15/10 1. check chart p. 25 2. Listen to one person's response in VT to questions p. 28 and respond 3. modals of advice p. 29 4. #3 giving advice p. 30 in groups of 3 5. Check NS Lab assignments 6. Share ELLLO mixers 7. ELLLO 8. Introduce games on ELLLO HW 1. Write 3 problems for your classmates to give advice about 2. Choose a game in ELLLO to share 3. NS lab work

3/12/10 1. Finish commercials Jan, Kim, Raginderpal Vote for Best commercial 2. Check vocabulary sentences fro listening 1 on huddleboards, collocations? 3. p. 24 Express Opinions 4. PSA p. 24 5. Chart p. 25 6. Questions p. 28 need help with pronunciation, record an answer for one of the questions in VT 7. ELLLO Mixers HW 1. Choose 1 ELLLO mixer to share with class 2. Read p.8-29 Do exercise 2 should, ought to, had better 3. Northstar Lab

3/10/10 finish commercials, choose best one to video 1. Share collocations 2. Listening 1 p. 22 3. Listening for Details p. 23 4. Vocabulary p. 26 positive, negative, neutral 5. Expand emails with phrasal verbs p. 27-28 6. Questions in groups p. 28 7. ELLLO mixer HW 1. Inferences Listening 1 p. 23 2. Choose one question from p. 28 create and make a voicethread answering it using vocabulary from p. 26-27 3. Listen to one ELLLO misxer to share

3/8/10 1. Finish commercials and choose the bestone to film 2.Vocabulary p. 21 in NS, pronunciation recordings 3. Find one collocation for assigned word in groups 4. Concentration with a partner 5. Go over Citi commercials, share with a partner first then discuss 6. Listening 1 Lily's Story p. 22 Main Ideas 7.Vocabulary p. 26 positive, negative, neutral in groups, discuss HW 1. Listening 1 Details and Inferences p. 23-24 2. NS Lab- Notetaking A, Academic Skill A 3. Choose 2 vocabulary words and write a sentence using a collocation.

3/5/20 1. Go over Test 2. Finish commercial presentations 3. Questions p. 20 in groups 4. Review Readiness Check and vocabulary Chapter 2 5. Concentration in groups 6. Citi identity theft commercial- who are they pretending to be, what did they do HW 1. Listening 1 main ideas and details p. 22-23 2. Two more Citi identity commercials, who are they pretending to be, what did they do

3/1/10 1. Practice in groups for 20 minutes 2. Begin commercial presentations HW 1. Study for test unit 1

2/26/10 1. Share You Tube Videos with highlighted words 2. Divide into groups of 3 to begin creating an advertisement which we will videotape. Work on ads. 3. Explain Rubric HW 1. Practice presentation 2. Prepare for Test Wed.

2/24/10 1. Fashion Show 2. Review vocabulary p. 8-9 3. Voc. Quiz 4. Share You Tube commercials which words are highlighted? 5. Read ads pg. 15 with highlighted words 6. Attention Grabbers p. 15-16 7. Divide into groups of 3 to begin creating an advertisement which we will videotape. Work on ads. 8. Check NS Lab

HW 1. Work on ads. 2. NS lab work 3. Voicethread due Friday

2/22/10 1. Create p. 10 in groups, share sentences 2. Review simple present and present progressive PPT 3. Share sentences in groups. 4.Highlighting Pronunciation p. 13-15 5. Attention Grabbers p. 15

HW 1. Watch several commercials on You Tube and write the highlighted words you hear and write which attention grabber is being used. 2. NS lab

2/19/10 1. Check Voicethread ads, respond to two other students' ads 2. p. 10 in small groups 3. Simple Present/Present Progressive p. 11-12 4. p. 13 make sentences with present and present progressive tense. 5. video in you tube describe using present progressive with a partner HW 1. p.8-9 voc. 2. Northstar lab assignments

2/17/10 1. Collect collocations 2. In Groups check p. 4-5 outline, write on boards, inferences p. 5 3. Listening 2 negative appeals chart p. 6 4. Share ads in concentric circles, discuss most interesting ads 5. chart p. 7 synthesize lectures 6. p. 10 group questions with questions 7. Introduce simple present, present progressive p. 11-12 8. Assign voicethread accounts HW 1. Voicethread ad describe the appeal used and answer questions p. 10 2. Voc. p.8-9

2/10/10 1. Review vocabulary collocations and share on huddleboards 2. Listening 1 Advertising on the Air Main Idea and Details, Inferences p. 3-4 3. Listening 2 Negative appeals p. 6 4. Voc. p. 8-9 using voicethread 5. Group work p. 10 analyzing ads

HW 1. Integrate listenings 1 and 2 p. 7 chart 2.Find an ad and answer the questions p. 10 in voicethread. 3. northstar assignments

2/5/2010 HW 1. Practice with wikispaces, northstar lab 2. Make voicethread introduction 3. Do assigned lab
 * 1) Introductions
 * 2) Introduce wikispaces, northstar lab, voicethread
 * 3) Write out and practice introductions to make in voicethread.

2/8/10 HW
 * 1) Check in for wiki and northstar accounts-Go over lab.
 * 2) Questions p. 1
 * 3) Watch several ads- Is this an effective ad? Would you buy the product?
 * 4) [[file:Funny commercials.doc]]
 * 5) Share p. 2
 * 6) Vocabulary p. 2-go over definitions, list collocations from story p. 2
 * 7) Teach online collocation dictionary. Use for first three vocabulary words and share.
 * 8) Give Voicethread accounts
 * 1) Northstar lab assignments
 * 2) Finish voc. collocations and sentences