Your Assignment :) Gerunds and Infinitives

Good Morning Class!

Welcome to computer class! Here's your assignment for today, you can choose to do all or at least one of the following:

1) Gerunds and infinitive review. Go to the Focus on Grammar program on this computer and then go to Unit 9. Choose an interactive lesson to work on.

2) Using Google, research a fast-food restaurant or an online restaurant menu. Make sentences using gerunds and/or infinitives stating your opinion about the food served at that restaurant. Discuss with a partner your choices and opinions.

Examples:

- At Joe's Cafe people can expect to find fresh food.
- This restaurant seems to be expensive.
- Many people can't afford to eat here because a hamburger costs $20.
- Try to avoid eating too much greasy food.
- I'd like to eat there because they have delicious food.
- I don't advise eating there because it's very expensive.

3) Following yesterday's lesson, write a paragraph about your negative or positive traits. Be sure to write a topic sentence using support and a conclusion. Keep it short, it's a paragraph!

4) Investigate Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Lousiana. Make notes and report to the class what you have learned.

Good luck, and have fun!

Your teacher,
Bonnie

PCC L5 Curriculum and Student Learning Objectives

Pasadena City College Noncredit Course
Department: Community Education Center

ESL 1031 English as a Second Language — Level 5

Course Description: High-Intermediate/Advanced English. This course is designed for students to demonstrate English proficiency in the four basic skills to meet most life/work-related demands with little problem. Students develop skills at the cognitive level in preparation to transition to higher education, career training, and active participation in the community.

Student Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, a student will be able to:

Speaking:
1. Give a well-prepared speech on a given topic, using outside resources.
2. Summarize, orally, a reading, lecture, or broadcast.
3. Speak fluently in formal and informal conversations.

Listening:
1. Demonstrate understanding of broadcast information.
2. Demonstrate understanding of verbal instructions /procedures, including idioms.
3. Demonstrate understanding of informal conversations among fluent speakers of English, without much repetition or rewording.

Reading:
1. Demonstrate appropriate reading strategies for understanding content on unfamiliar topics in a variety sources. Use strategies such as: skim, scan, preview, and predict.
2. Interpret main ideas and key passages of various types of readings such as: short stories, non-fiction, manuals, and magazine and newspapers articles.
3. Interpret a variety of forms such as: applications, graphs, and charts.

Writing:
1. Demonstrate pre-writing activities such as: brainstorming, clustering, and outlining.
2. Write descriptive, narrative, and/or expository essays.
3. Summarize media presentations, lectures, and interviews.

Critical Thinking:
1. Identify and solve complex problems.
2. Implement solutions.

Information Competency:
Use technology, effectively, to locate, retrieve, and evaluate information.

Social Responsibility:
1. Participate in school/community activities
2. Participate actively in group-activities.

Textbook & Workbook: Passages 1. Richards/Sandy, Cambridge University Press, 2005 Edition.

Today's Lesson

Hi Class!

Today we are going to learn more about time clauses, sleep and Valentines Day. Wow!




REDUCED TIME CLAUSES:

Notice how time clauses show time relationships.

Go to this website: http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/

Page down to:

"Connectors, Adverbs, Conjunctions & Transition Words"

Choose: When vs. While and Adverbs of Time

Study the lesson and complete the online quizzes.

(If you want you can study Noun Clauses:)

SLEEP:

In our Passages book, Unit 4, we will be studying about sleep:

Go to the article on Sleep:

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/sleep/healthysleepfs.pdf

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

You can learn about Valentines Day from this website:

http://www.history.com/content/valentine/history-of-valentine-s-day

Then take the quiz about dating through history:

http://www.history.com/content/valentine/game-dating-through-the-ages

Have fun!