Homework - Friday April 29

Review the charts in chapter 20
Pgs. 365-386
Do Exercises 4,6,10, 14, 17, and 23

Homework - Wed. April 20th

Review Conjunctive adverbs - Dave's ESL Cafe Review Pg. 400 Grammar book Do Exercise 35 Pg. 413 Grammar book Use either the UCC catalog or the online catalog to write up a schedule for yourself for Fall Semester Bring in an essay you have written for another class NO CLASS FRIDAY, APRIL 22

Homework - Friday, April 15

Do Exercise 12 and 14 on the Handout These exercises practice the progressive tenses in the conditionals. Do Exercises 36 and 37 in Chapter 20 Write out Ex. 37 on a separate piece of paper. (Don't write it in the book)

Homework Wed. April 13

Review Pgs. 416-428 Pay attention to the charts, so you understand the patterns. Do exercise 29 (Mixed conditionals) Write these out. (Pg. 429) Look at the handout on "Mistakes that Worked" and make sure you have two Unreal conditionals in the past (Type III) and two Mixed (Type III/Type II) If Clause in the past and result in the present. We did these in class, but make sure you understand them and that your sentences are logical. Make sure you have 6 sentences about Joan's Time Mgt. 3 about her weekday activities and 3 about her weekend activities. Be sure to do Exercise III on this handout. Look at your own time chart and write unreal present sentences (Type II). What would you do differently if you could? I'M GOING TO COLLECT ALL THIS AND I DON'T WANT LATE WORK!

Homework for Monday April 11

Do Exercises 21, 23,and 26 Review Chart 20-5 Pages 425-427 Review your sentences on Handout - Guide Dog and Joan's Time Complete time Management sheets for yourself

Homework Wednesday -April 6

Review Pgs. 416-420 Chapter 20 - Conditionals. Be sure to understand the three types of conditionals. Do the practice handout I gave out in class. For students who are out this week, do all the exercises in the book on these pages and correct them yourselves with the answer key. This is a good to practice if you have to be out this week. Since the book doesn't give many exercises on this, there is a hand-out. Get this paper from another student and work on it.

Homework Friday April 1

Read Pages 416-417 and Do Exercises 1,2, and 3 This is in chapter 20 and is a new topic. I will go over this grammar in class. Pay attention to Charts 20-1 and 20-2 Re-write your essay about Time for School - Word processed

Suggestions for Studying Midterm

Hello students!
Here is how the test is structured.
Section I
Write 5 questions in different tenses

SectionII
Take 5 questions and embed them into sentences Ex. Can you tell me. . . . .?

Section III
Change the following examples of direct speech into indirect speech - Make sure you use the sequence of verb tenses

Section IV
Combine two sentences into one, with an adjective clause. There will be one each for the following words: who, whom, which, whose, when and where

Section V
Essay - You will have to use 4 different verb tenses and 1 direct quote.

Good Luck! When you see this, call a friend to make sure everyone can benefit from this information.
Thanks!!

Friday, March 25 Homework

Do Error logs on Direct/Indirect speech (Handout)

Review Charts on Adjective clauses - 13-3, 13-4,,13-5, 13-6, and 13-8

Do exercises 17, 18, 24, 26, and 35

Essay on "My town"

Stay after on Friday if have extra questions for the midterm

Monday March 21

Review Adjective clauses Pages 270-276 Review assignment for last week Exercises 3,4,6, 7 & 8

Study Chart 13-3 Adjective clauses used as objects of a preposition and Do Exercises 10, 11, 12, and 13 Chapter 13, Pages 274-275

Homework Fri. March 11

Do test corrections and Time for School corrections on Green sheet
I will collect these on Friday

Read and do exercises on handout (About childcare) Direct and Indirect speech

Read and Study the charts in Chapter 13 - Pgs. 270-276
Do Exercises 3, 4, 6,7 and 8.

Homework for Monday, March 7

Finish sheet on indirect speech "Time for School"

Work on Error Log - This could be an effective way to review for your quiz - Make 5 entries

Study for quiz on Chapter 12 - Noun clauses, Quoted speech, and Reported speech

Oral presentations - Anh, Aziz and Amna

Homework Wed. March 2

Do Exercise 16 on Handout
Do Exercise #37 Pg 262 in book. Write this out on a separate piece of paper.

Special Announcement- March 4th

I am going to be out of town on FRIDAY, MARCH 4th, so there will be no class.

I will give you some extra work to make sure you don't get bored!

Homework Monday Feb. 28

Review page 261

Pay attention to p. q. and r. When the reporting verb is in the simple present (She says, He wants to know etc.) the noun clause (the reported speech) doesn't change tenses.

Do Exercise 15 on Handout

Read The Star Ledger article "More Schools Turn to Uniforms to Instill Pride"
Copy all direct quotes and then change them to Reported speech. You can paraphrase a little.

We are going to work on these in class, so if you are still confused, we will go over your concerns.

Homework - Friday, Feb. 25

Do exercises 9-13 Handout

Pick one of these quotes from famous people - Write a short reaction about it.

Homework Wednesday Feb. 23

Complete exercises 1-8 on handout- Noun Clauses

Write a summary of The Time for School video about Joab from Kenya
Use various verb tenses and 2 passives.
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Reminder

No class, President's Day
Monday Feb. 21st
Enjoy your holiday!!

Homework - Friday Feb. 18

Do Exercises 9 and 10
Pages 246 - 247
Chapter 12
Review chart # 12-3 Page 249.

Homework - Wed. Feb. 16

Write a summary about the video Nanavi from Benin. Try to use 5 different verb tenses.
Review Noun Clauses; I will go over this material on Wednesday.

Special Thank you!

Hello students,

Thank you very much for being so thoughtful.
It was fun to have our Valentine's Day pizza, the beautiful hand made card with all your signatures and the delicious chocolates!

You are a great class.

Sincerely,
Nancy Kotch

Homework for Monday Feb. 14

Happy Valentine's Day

Review errors from last Summary (Neeraj/Ken) and do the rewrite.
Read Handout about summarizing

Our next unit will be Noun Clauses - Chapter 12
Read Pages 242 - 245 and do exercises 1-6 (in the book)

I will go over this in class.

Special Announcement

If you would like more practice with verb tenses, here is the link:
www.ucc.edu
Academics
Academic Learning Center
Computer Assisted Instruction
Computer software on the web
ESL Software on the web
Grammar
Englishpage.com (Good for verb tense practice)
The first few websites are better for Level 6

If you would like to watch the PBS videos here is the link:
www.PBS.org
Go to search and enter Wide Angle Time for school
Click on the first item in the listing
When on the page, go over to the right and Click on Time for School 3 Full Episode

Homework Feb. 9

Chpt. 4 - 22,23,
25
Chpt. 5- Do exercises 1,2,3,9, & 13
Write a summary of one of the videos we viewed today. Use various tenses.

Homework - Feb. 7

Review Charts 4-1, 4-2,and 4-3- In chapter4 and Do exercises 11,14, and15.

Review Cornell notetaking handout

Homework - Feb. 2

Review your errors on Shugufa summary and do a re-write.
Do Exercises 23, 30, and 31 Chapter 3

Homework - Monday Jan 31

Write a 1 page summary of the Time for School Video "Jefferson - Brazil"
Follow suggested format - Word processed. Use 5 different verb tenses. Underline these

Review Pages 16-19 - Do Exsercise 10 (In book)

Learn suggested Past and Past Participles of irregular verbs. Pages 20-21
Write a TOTAL of 10 sentences with these. (Select your own from the list)

Friday Jan 28 Homework

Pages 6-7 Make sure you know the names and formation of all the tenses - Do Exercise 11
Study Chart 1-6 Page 10 Look at irregularities of spelling in gerund and regular past forms
Do Exercises 16 & 17 Pages 10-12
Do a re-write on "Getting Acquainted" exercise
Write a Summary of Time for School Video and include 5 different tenses- Underline the different tenses.

Attention!!

There will be a Conversation Club every Wednesday, Starting Feb. 2 at 12:30-1:30 PM
Room L -314
Hope you can attend!!

Wed. Jan 26 Homework

Write 5 discussion questions about the video "Time for School"
Answer questions on UCC website "Scavenger Hunt"

Homework - Jan 24, 2011

Purchase your book - Review 439-441 Parts of speech
Review Pgs. 442-445 Question formation Formulate questions about anything you don't understand

Write a short essay about your first day of class at UCC and the students you met during our "Getting acquainted" exercise. Word process this and follow recommended format.

Write 5 questions about UCC or this class.