Monday January 4th, 2016

Welcome back!

I hope everyone enjoyed their long break. Students returned to class discussing their breaks and our assignments this week focused on the new year. 

Agenda

• Review
• Listening Comprehension
• Speaking
• Reading
• Writing
• Looking Ahead
• Homework

Review

Discussed lesson plans from our last classes. Reviewed today's lesson plan and objectives.

Listening Comprehension

Debate Challenge: New Year's Resolutions - Worthwhile challenge, or fast track to disappointment? 

Instructor outlined some basic debate skills and guidelines for students in this exercise which includes an academic and social dimensions overlap. Students acted out a debate scene using both social and academic language skills. Students debated the two points of our topic while visualizing themselves among people they are comfortable with, as well as people they are not comfortable with, such as in a job or professional setting. They took a minute to outline their thoughts on each side of the topic before debating. Class discussed the differences between each conversation settings after each debate to help strengthen their language comprehension skills.

Speaking

Worked on vocabulary building, phrases, and articles with our class worksheets. Had class discussion after worksheets completed to help strengthen students speaking skills. 

Vocabulary Word List:

1. resolution
2. memories
3. intention
4. favorite
5. trying 
6. goals
7. forward
8. hardest
9. planning
10. succeed

• Vocabulary Builder Part 3 Worksheet  
• New Years Mad Libs
  
  Students completed a list of nouns, adverbs, adjectives,and verbs. They list was then applied to a story. The students read each story aloud, and discussed the elements of the story together in class. Students strengthened their reading and grammar skill with this fun exercise! 

Reading 

Learning Through Teenage Celebrity Culture

Students read articles out loud in class to strengthen their reading and speaking skills. 

Writing

"Ideas for 2016" 

What are you ideas for 2016? Write an essay answering the items below:

1. My goal, what I really want to achieve in 2016, is ...
2. My needs, things I cannot go without, for 2016 are...
3. I can, and will, achieve this goal because of ....  and will do so by taking these steps.... 
4. I will achieve my goal by this time.... 
5. In 2016, I plan to share.... with my community, friends, or family because...
6. My greatest lesson learned from 2015 was....
7. I feel my hardest challenge in 2015 was....
8. The best thing about 2015 was...

Students assigned writing prompt to help strengthen their current writing skills. Students requested to include:

• 10 Complete sentences
• Correct punctuation, spelling, capitalization, BME format
• 3 Vocabulary words (underline vocabulary words)
• Prompt
• If you could make one wish to help others, what would it be and why? Write what wish you'd make and how it would help others. Be detailed. 

After students completed their writing, they shared their writing in class. 

Looking Ahead

Class discussed objectives for the next class and went over any questions the students had.

Homework

Prepositions - Phrasal Verbs Worksheet #1