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IEP-499-A-Current-Events-Spring1-2015
(redirected from IEP-499-A: Current Events, Spring 1 2014)
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Current Events
Spring Session #1, 2015
Syllabus
Date |
Class Resources |
Assignment |
Tuesday, 1/20/2015 |
1. Orientation to the course 2. Student Information Sheet 3. Student Interviews
4. Listening/News Story/Activities: Keeping cold could keep you thinner (Breaking News English, Jan. 10, 2015)
5. Resources
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- Register for a free Google account.
- Find out your complete home or campus address.
- Bring your mobile devices (iPad/tablet, smartphone, laptop) to class!
- Read the article (handout).
- Do page 3 (Listen and fill in the gaps) and page 4 (Matching).
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Thursday, 1/22/2015 |
- Put links into students' own mobile devices:
- Canvas site for course
- Apps for mobile devices:
- A QR code reader
- Advanced English Dictionary and Thesaurus
- Polleverywhere
Optional: Remind, Thinglink, Dragon Dictation, Popplet
- Collaborative homework exercise as an example: Current Events News Log #1 on Google Drive
- Listening/News Story/Activities: Keeping cold could keep you thinner (Breaking News English, Jan. 10, 2015)
- MP3 (medium speed)
- Exercises --
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- Listen to 2 news events of your choice. Use
Christine's Links to Listening Resources > News. Use the links for VOA, Breaking News English, NPR, or TED. Enter the information about the news events in the Current Events News Log #1 on Google Drive.
- Review Keeping cold could keep you thinner (Breaking News English, Jan. 10, 2015) for a quiz on meaning and vocabulary.
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Tuesday, 1/27/2015
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- Logging into Canvas
- Checking on SMC email, homework (Google Doc)
- Oral Summaries of 3 news events, using notes (1 min.)--Online Stopwatch
- Add Christine's Links to Online Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Thesauri, Translators -- Longman, Merriam-Webster's Learners Dictionary
- Listening/News Story/Activities: Keeping cold could keep you thinner (Breaking News English, Jan. 10, 2015)
- Dictation
- Academic Skills -- Note-taking Strategies, Standard Symbols & Abbreviations, Discourse Cues
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- Review Standard Symbols & Abbreviations for a QUIZ (matching).
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Thursday, 1/29/2015 |
- Academic Skills -- Note-taking Strategies, Standard Symbols & Abbreviations, Discourse Cues
- Quiz on Standard Symbols & Abbreviations
- BreakingNewsEnglish: Tech giants woo 15-year-old whizzkid
LEVEL 4
LISTENING: Slowest | Slower | Medium | Faster | Fastest
VOCABULARY: Quizlet flashcards
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- Listen to 2 news events of your choice. Use Christine's Links to Listening Resources > News. Use the links for VOA, Breaking News English, NPR, or TED.
- Take notes on the important information in the Cornell Method. Put the author, source, and date at the top of your notes.
- Vocabulary: In the left margin of your notes, write 3 new words from the news story to explain to your Oral Summaries partner. Use an online dictionary for pronunciation and write down the definition(s).
- Enter the information about the news events in the Current Events News Log #2 on Google Drive.
- Study the vocabulary in Quizlet flashcards.
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Tuesday,
2/3/2015
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- Oral Summaries of news events, using your notes (paper)
- More Note-taking Strategies
- BreakingNewsEnglish: Tech giants woo 15-year-old whizzkid
Exercises
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Review the Quizlet flashcards on
BreakingNewsEnglish: Tech giants woo 15-year-old whizzkid for a quiz.
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