Jose, Gerardo, and Jovanny's White City Project

Hello Students,

You can work on Focus On Grammar in the Computer Lab, Intermediate Level, find the Unit on word order, and or look up connectors in the menu. Also, the link to the right for OWL Purdue has great information for high level ESL students on many grammar points, check it out. Additionally, the link for A4esl.org has the Voice of America programs that are good for listening, here's a good link for pronunciation:

http://www.fonetiks.org/

Ok, have a great day, see you Thursday!

- Bonnie

Level 5 Mysterious Assignment

Hello Level 5 ESL Class!

On Thursday, April 1st, your poster assignment is due on an unsolved mystery.

Today, you can research, with your partner or group, more information about the topic you chose.

Remember: the design of your poster should include:

-Title

-What?

-Where?

-Historical details?

-Explanations?


You can do a Google search or here are some links to find information about various mysteries that we have discussed and others that might interest you, these websites will give you more information:

- about the Mothman:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothman

- about Betty and Barney Hill and the UFOs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_and_Barney_Hill_abduction

- about Bigfoot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot




- about the Loch Ness Monster aka Nessie: http://www.nessie.co.uk/


Good luck!

Thursday's L5 Lesson

Hi Class,

Today you have a lot to do:

1) Take the survey, it's quick, 1 minute, click on the link:
TRANSFERRING TO MAIN CAMPUS AT PCC???

Let CEC know what your goals are for your ESL education. Are you planning to transfer to main campus? Are you learning English to improve your communication skills at work or at home or both? Please take this quick survey and let CEC know what you think so that we can help you achieve your goals. All responses are anonymous - you don't need to put your name or email on the survey. Thank you!

Click here to take survey

2) You need to type up your paragraph that you wrote in class on Wednesday. When you finish, you can email it to me: english4work@yahoo.com or print it out.

3) You can work on modals of obligation and other modal forms. You can use the Focus on Grammar program, Intermediate level and search for modal lessons, which I will put on the board, too.

4) You can use the website links on the right side of this page for additional lessons on modals. Also, you might want to study the passive voice.

5) Also, we are going to do class projects on Mysteries! You can work with a partner and find a mystery that you want to research, create a poster presentation and share it with the class.

Yay! It's almost the weekend!!!

- Your Teacher, Bonnie

GRAMMAR CLASS! Levels 1, 2 and 3

Happy Wednesday, Class!

Here are some links for today's practice on the present progressive tense:

1) Easy challenge lessons:

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs1.htm

http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verb-tenses_present-continuous_quiz.htm

2) Medium challenge:

http://www.learn-english-online.org/Lesson9/TestIt/PresContQuestions.htm

http://www.english-4u.de/grammar_exercises.htm

Noun Clauses

Hi Class,

Here are some links to some websites that help describe noun clauses:

http://faculty.deanza.edu/flemingjohn/stories/storyReader$23

http://buckhoff.topcities.com/noun_clauses.htm

Enjoy!

Teacher Bonnie

L5 ESL CLASS - TUESDAY, MARCH 2

TRANSFERRING TO MAIN CAMPUS AT PCC???

Let CEC know what your goals are for your ESL education. Are you planning to transfer to main campus? Are you learning English to improve your communication skills at work or at home or both? Please take this quick survey and let CEC know what you think so that we can help you achieve your goals. All responses are anonymous - you don't need to put your name or email on the survey. Thank you!

Click here to take survey

Welcome to Level 5 ESL! Class Syllabus:

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.