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GOALS FOR WEEK 2
By the end of this week, you will:
  1. Discuss good public speaking skills and learn about your first presentation.
  2. Practice listening for main ideas and details.
  3. Better understand American vowel sounds and learn a system for identifying vowels.
  4. Review real conditionals in English and learn how to form the present/future unreal (2nd) conditional.
  5. Learn academic vocabulary from our textbook and your listening logs.
  6. Practice conversational and academic listening and speaking skills.
MONDAY
-Warm-up
​-Review Syllabus Quiz
-Class Statistics

-Introduce Speaking Journal 1 and TED Talks app
-Color vowel presentation and exercise
-Pathways Unit 1


HOMEWORK
-Set up Pathways online homework account and begin Unit 1 online homework

-Speaking Journal 1 due Monday
TUESDAY
NO CLASS

WEDNESDAY
-Warm-up
-Tips for Listening Logs
-Presentation Video 1
-Summarizing practice
-Discuss Presentation 1
-Pathways
Unit 1, Listening 1
-Grammar Focus: Conditionals Review and "If I Were a Boy"

HOMEWORK

-Set up Pathways online homework account and begin Unit 1 online homework
-Speaking Journal 1 due Monday
-Develop and practice Presentation 1, due Friday, 2/7.




THURSDAY
NO CLASS

 


FRIDAY
-Warm-up
-2nd Conditionals practice
-Presentation Video 2

-Presentation Video 3
-Pathways Unit 1
-CNN Student News


HOMEWORK

-Speaking Journal 1 due Monday
-Set up Pathways online homework account and do Unit 1 online homework by Wednesday, 2/5.
-Develop and practice Presentation 1, due Friday, 2/7.

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