Day 26

 

OBJECTIVES

* Practice speaking

* Finish writing an efective paragraph

* Continue working on Steve Job´s Speech

* Continue reviweing the Past Perfect


ORAL PRESENTATION 2:


SPEAKING: Answer these trivia questions and win a bonus point!


Mid Term Exam


WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 3: Writing an Effective Paragraph in English

DUE: Tuesday, November 16th, at 12 midnight.

TASK: Write a paragraph on the topic, MY JOURNEY IN THE LEARNING OF ENGLISH.

Double space, Word Document, send it to my email.

Criteria of Evaluation:

Content and Vocabulary: 25%

Elements of a Pagraph:  25%

Grammar: 25%

Punctuation: 25%


LISTENING AND READING COMPREHENSION: Steve Job´s Stanford Commencement Address



Vocabulary Associated

I am honored

commencement

finest (one of the finest...)

No big deal

connecting the dots

drop out (verbe)

drop in (verb)

drop in (noun)

unwed

graduate student

I feel very strongly...

pop out (verb)

naive (adjective)      naively (adverb)

savings

It will work out...

GRAMMAR: Reviewing the Past Perfect Tense

Mechanical Exercises







Video

Situations

Parents arrive home from holiday having left their teenage son in charge of the house. They soon realize he’s had a big party while they were away. Start: When they arrived home they saw...

A man arrived home having left his new puppy on its own for the first time. Start: When he arrived home he saw...

Someone arrived home to discover his/her partner has clearly found out about the affair he/she’d been having with his/her secretary. Start: When s/he arrived home s/he saw...

A teacher came back into the class and realized she shouldn’t have left the students on their own for that long. Start: She walked back in and saw...


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