Wk 06: Traveling

Comment

•  Last week's Google form: Link

Warm up

• What would you do if ...? Link

 Traveling

• Link
• Review the paper.
• Find a partner
• Decide on your plan
• Form a foursome
• Report your plan to the other pair
• Change and repeat
• Writing

    We decided that we want to visit San Francisco and stay for one week. We intend to travel by airplane of course and stay at a nice hotel near the airport. When we are there, we want to visit The Golden Gate Bridge, China Town, and the Exploratorium. Usually at a museum, a sign says, "Don't touch!!" At this museum a sign says, "Please touch."

Google Form

• Link

Wk 05: Opinions & Travel

Warm up

• Make pairs, one person facing the screen (A) and one facing away from the screen (B).
• A reads the sentence to B, and B decides if the sentence is strange or OK.

Pronunciation

• Link

Review opinions

• Make a group of three or four people. You may move.
• Choose one person.
• That person look at this page. Link.
• Read a question. The others answer.
• If someone wants to answer, he or she should slap the desk.
• If you answer correctly, then you get one point.

Essay writing

• Link. You will copy this as a paragraph into Google form.

Visiting other countries

• Link

Google Form

• Link

Wk 4: Where to live?

Warm up

• Handout: Link

Do you agree or disagree?

1. I want to live in a place with little pollution.
2. My hometown has good weather.
3. We need police because of crime.
4. I want to go to the top of a skyscraper.
5. My hometown has a lot of entertainment.

Choose one items and ask others around you.

1. In my view, the best way to relax in the evening is to ---.
2. I believe that learning --- is very important [not very important] because ---.
3. In my opinion, a perfect weekend would be to ---.
4. It seems to me that high school is better/worse than university because ---.
5. In my view, when you have free time you should ---.
6. In the future, I want to live in --- because ---.

 Review dictation:

• 1. What is your hometown like?
• 2. What is the weather like?
• 3. What do you like about your hometown?
• 4. What do you dislike about your hometown?
• 5. Where would you prefer to live, in a big city or in the countryside?

Review listening: Link

Warm down

• Make a small group
• Choose one person
• That person should open this link

Google form

• Link

Next week:

• Essay writing practice: Link

 

Wk 3 Opinions

 

Review

vocabulary

Agree/disagree

Pairs: Discuss

Homework

Groups: Take out essay

Read and then exchange, and add a comment

Talking

Choose two ideas from last week

Stand up and go around collecting opinions

How many agree? How many disagree?

Next week

Handout for next week: Link

Google Form

Link