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Here you will find all the documents that you need related to 0066.

Prebasic Syllabus

Week 1 lesson plans

findsomeonewho (ppt)

Findsomeonewho (doc file–4 up)

havebe (ppt)

policy email to instructors (copy of the email sent to you on Aug. 13)

prebasicweeklyUnit1 (A week-by-week summary of the first unit.  Probably needs some explanation, but provides an overview. Word.)

WEEK 2 MATERIALS

introduction-to-the-parts-of-speech3 (ppt)

San Juan Star (word Reading: LAND AUTHORITY: ISLAND COULD PRODUCE ENOUGH FOOD TO FEED POPULATION)

San Juan Star-marked up (my marked-up version of the article for teaching vocabulary. Green=technical vocabulary/farm-related; Yellow =content words; Purple=connecting words, transitions, commonly used phrases)

Identifying Main Idea San Juan Star

WORD CATEGORIES (Word doc handout designed to get students to guess word type of unfamiliar vocabulary)

Parts of speech-adverbs and adjectives (ppt-includes exercises)

Working with a dictionary (ppt-Includes conceltual map exercise)

WEEK 3 and 4 Materials

Sentence starters blog entry #1 (ppt-Use as speaking or writing prompts)

main-idea-and-supporting-details-2 (use to explain the parts of a paragraph–includes examples from student writing)

Peer review sheet (a simple peer review sheet)

WEEK 5 Materials

See Cathy for Test 1!

UNIT 2

prebasicweekly2009Unit 2

WEEK 5

FoodSafetyReading

Food Safety Outline (use as a skimming/scanning activity)

Food Safety Outline-Answers

present-tense-negatives2

WEEK 6

Vocabulary Maps

Online dictionary activity

Presentation from first sequence course coordination meeting: Teaching Online Dictionary Use

Week 7

This week I started the presentation project.  Students do a survey on food habits in groups and present the data using the past tense.

Preview activity: Watch a clip from Supersize Me, talk about questions in the following powerpoint:

Food and nutritionSurvey

Give them the assignment, then when they come to class with data, use teach the past tense.

pastregirreg (ppt about the past tense)

Most Common Irregular Verbs List

This powerpoint can be used over about 3 days of class.  I let them use class time to prep their presentations:

Presenting Data-Sentence starters and PowerPoint tips

Week 8

Do group presentations in class.  Speaking Rubric

Review for test 2.

Test 2 (I will email to instructors)

UNIT 3

In this unit, I will focus on issues related to the environment.

Week 10 (actually, the calendar changed so much that I’m not sure what week it is!!)

To introduce the unit, we watch about 20 minutes of the Simpsons Movie (from “Spider Pig” until Springfield gets trapped inside the dome).  Then we discuss these questions.  I may also have them write about the prompt.

Questions the Simpsons Movie

Homework Prompt-Writing about the Environment

Then we will discuss a very recent environmental issue by reading the article: Firefighters extinguish Puerto Rico blaze-marked

I ask the students to guess from contexts the highlighted words.  Then I will focus on the content of the article that has to do with the possible environmental impact from the fire.

Simple Future-Simplified version

Week 11

Future Practice (a summary of how to form the 2 types of future and questions related to the Bayamon fire that students will use to practice writing future sentences)

preparingportfolio This is an updated powerpoint of how to prepare the portfolio.  I changed the rubric slightly.  My portfolio is due very early because of maternitiy leave.  I take a whole day to talk about this in class.

Week 12

Pronoun exercises (courtesy of Myrta Maldonado–thanks!!)

Instructors:  please see the page titled “Final Exam Prep” for lots of materials and info about the final exam!!!

One response

8 12 2009
Gedyeliz Valle

Professor
I forgot due the hours of tell me more
Can you give me another chance to do the hours?
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