The book I recommended today. Here is a good review. I would suggest downloading the e-book from Amazon to your e-book reader or tablet computer.
I also recommend a movie I watched last weekend that is about reinventing oneself and about effective English communication. The movie is called Larry Crowne and stars Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts. You can read a review from imdb here. Watching this movie will also help you better understand American culture. I watched it for free via a trial subscription of zip.ca
About your NGO presentations ...
You should complete the interview before next Thursday. The information from the interview will help you to prepare a survey (if you have chosen to do that). Remember the survey is not only about NGOs, but about your specific NGO. I would complete the survey by the following Thursday (March 29th).
I liked our NGO discussion in class today. I will ask for two different students to lead the discussion next Thursday. I will give the discussion questions on Tuesday. Remember that a good leader doesn't talk too much and/or do the work of the participants. A good leader draws in all the people around the table.
About homework ...
1. Remember to study your notes from todays COC lecture and think about possible questions.
2. Read Ch.6 in COC -- pp.143- 160 (Do activity 2, 4, 6 and 7)
3. Read Treblinka Gas Chamber in SOS pp.240-241 and Do parts 1, 2 and 3 from p.241 (I suggest doing this in pairs or groups). I will ask groups to discuss and present on Tuesday.
4. Study the rest of the academic words and review previous words in sublist 9 and 10. There will be
a final quiz on Thursday. It will be a slightly longer one.
5. In your groups, prepare and practice a 100 word summary of the short story, "An Occurrence at Owl
Creek Bridge". Practice before Tuesday. Everyone in your group will receive a mark for the content
and spoken presentation. The speaker must not be someone who summarized on Thursday.
Some recommended websites ...
Some favourite quotations (from one of my old websites)
Speech Club (a nice blog about speaking and presentations)
ESL Pronunciation (many of you continue to be challenged by pronunciation,so this can help)
VIU MBA Experience Blog
Hi Les,
ReplyDeleteKacie and me are confused about the NGO writing tomorrow. Are we going to write about David Robinson's lecture tomorrow in class or about an international NGO which we have to search about? Moreover, what do we have to handin tomorrow? The Handout which we got last Thursday says we have to Hand in 4 Journals but you have already 2 from us.
Please reply us as soon as possible.
Thank you.
Regards.
Gunel