Monday, Oct. 15: Preparation: Be ready to hand in the lab assignment due today. Review the vocabulary of Unit 4, Sports. If you did not finish pp. 30-31, do the Before You Read, Reading, ex. A and B. (I collected this Friday from some of you.)
In class: We will go over p. 31 and do ex. C together. We will also do the Wrap-up, A and B, p. 32.
Wednesday, Oct. 17: Preparation: Review vocabulary and study for the Quiz on Unit 4, Sports. Finish B in the Wrap-up, p. 32.
In class: Short vocabulary review. Quiz on Unit 4.
Friday, Oct. 19: Mid-term break. No class! Happy weekend!
Monday, Oct. 22: Unit 5: Weather. Preparation: Write your answers to the questions on p. 33. Look up words you don’t know in the list of Vocabulary and put the words in the correct list. (on your homework paper). Also do the Before you read, Reading and ex. A, After You Read, pp. 34-35.
In class: We’ll go over your answers and we’ll do ex. B and C, p. 35, in class.
Wednesday, Oct. 24: Unit 5: "Nature's weather forecasters." Preparation: Do the Before you read, p. 37. Then do the Reading to check your answers according to the information on p. 36. Then do After you read, ex. A and B. For B mark T (true) only those sentences that are true according to the reading on p. 36. If it is not clear from the reading whether true or false and you think it might be true, put a question mark [?].
In class: We'll go over your answers and we'll do ex. C, p. 37.
Friday, Oct. 26: Unit 5: "Could you survive a natural disaster?" Preparation: Before you read, p. 39, by writing one piece of advice to go with each heading. Then read the text and see if the author gave the same advice. Do ex. A, filling in the headings where you think they should go in the text. Then do ex. B. Put the number of the picture and the type of disaster on your paper.
In class: We'll go over your answers on p. 39, and we'll do C together.
Monday, Oct. 29: Wrap-up, p. 40: Do A and B. Then add two more questions to the interview. Ask at least one American friend the 5 questions and write down the person's answers on your homework paper. Try to find the "weather words" on the card given out in class Friday. Put as many of these words as you can in your vocabulary notebook with definitions or sentences to show the meaning.
In class: We'll go over your vocabulary answers, and we'll interview one another and compare answers to the questions on weather. Bring any questions you want to ask about the vocabulary of Unit 5.
Friday, Nov. 2: Unit 6: Clothes. Preparation: Read page 41 and answer the questions on your homework paper. Do the Vocabulary exercise at the bottom of the page. Write the meaning of each word in italics on your paper. Then answer questions about the people in the picture. Do the Before you read, scanning, reading (p. 42) and ex. A, p. 43.
In class: We'll discuss the questions on p. 41 and go over your answers on p. 43. Then we'll do B and C on p. 43.
