Thanks!

• Many thanks to all who showed up on Wednesday for the potluck!  

Wednesday May 23rd...

If you want to share what you will bring for the party, please...

either use the comment on this post

or email me.

SEE YOU WEDNESDAY 05/23/18

Class will not meet on Wednesday the 16th and Monday the 21st.

FINAL EXAM SCHEDULE

Wednesday May 9
Listening & Speaking

Monday May 14
Reading & Writing

Assignments - Wednesday 05/09/18

FoG4:

Read "The Stress Interview" on pages 420-421.
Do the Vocabulary/Comprehension exercise on pages 421-422.
Study the Grammar Presentation on pages 422-425.
Do exercises 1 and 2 on pages 426-427.

Assignments - Monday 05/07/18

FoG4:

Do exercises 4, 5, and 6 on pages 384 to 386.

Read "Force of Nature" on pages 392-394.
Complete the Vocabulary/Comprehension exercise on page 394.

Study the Grammar Presentation on pages 395-398.
Do exercises 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 on pages 398 to 404.

Read "Here's to Your Health" on pages 408-409.
Complete the Vocabulary/Comprehension exercise on pages 409-410.

Study the Grammar Presentation on pages 410-411.
Do exercises 1, 2, and 3 on pages 412-414.

Assignments - Wednesday 05/02/18

FoG4:
Read "The Truth about Lying" on pages 376-377.
Then do the Vocabulary/Comprehension exercises.
Study the Grammar Presentation on pages 378-380.
Do exercises 1 and 2 on pages 381-382.

Assignments - Monday 04/30/18

FoG4:

Do exercises 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 on pages 337-340.

Read "The Fisherman and His Wife" on pages 344-346.

Study the Grammar Presentation on pages 347-349 and 362-363.

Do exercises 1 and 2 on pages 350-351.

Do exercises 1, 2, and 3 on pages 364-366.

Assignments - Wednesday 04/25/18

FoG4:

Do exercises 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 on pages 322 to 326.

Read "Knock on Wood" on pages 331 & 332.
Complete the Vocabulary/Comprehension exercise on pages 332-333.

Dr. Peralta's Visit

https://www.saddleback.edu/news/campus-events/one-book-one-college-author-visit

MAP OF SADDLEBACK COLLEGE

https://www.saddleback.edu/uploads/maps/map.pdf

Assignments - Monday 04/23/18

FoG4:

Review Unit 10.
Read "Body Art" on pages 301-303.
Do the Comprehension/Vocabulary exercises on page 303.
Study the Grammar Presentation on pages 304-305.
Do exercises 3, 4, and 5 on pages 308-310.

Undocumented:

Are you ready to meet Dr. Padilla Peralta on Tuesday, April 24th?
What would you like to ask him?

Dr. Padilla Peralta - UNDOCUMENTED

Tuesday, April 24, 2018 - McKinney Theatre

• 9:30am - Breakfast
• 10:45am - Talk by Dr. Padilla Peralta
• 12:30pm - Book Signing

FINAL EXAM SCHEDULE

The final exam will have two parts on two different days:

Part 1 - Listening / Speaking will be on Wednesday, May 9th.

Part 2 - Reading / Writing will be on Monday, May 14th.

Assignments - Wednesday 04/18/18

FoG4:
Do exercises 8 on page 281.
Review Units 17 & 18 very well.

Assignments - Monday 04/16/18

Write a summary (10 sentences) of the movie (Last Holiday) you watched in class on Wednesday.

Bring it to class on Monday.

FoG4:

Read Close Quarters on pages 287-288.

Do the Vocabulary/Comprehension exercises on pages 289.

Study the Grammar Presentation on pages 290-291.

Do exercises 1, 2, and 3 on pages 292 to 295.

Undocumented:

Please prepare ONE important question for Dr. Peralta.

 

Dr. Padilla Peralta - Undocumented

Tuesday, April 24, 2018 - McKinney Theatre

• 9:30am - Breakfast
• 10:45am - Talk by Dr. Padilla Peralta
• 12:30pm - Book Signing

Event: Friday - April 20th

Assignments - Wednesday 04/11/18

NO HOMEWORK

Assignments - Monday 04/09/18

FoG4:

Study the Grammar Presentation on pages 255-256.
Do exercises 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 on pages 257-263.

Undocumented

Read pages 294 to 299.

White Collar - Pilot (Season 1 Episode 1)

White Collar - Season 1 - Episode 1 (Pilot) - Questions

1. What is Neal wearing when he walks through the prison hallways?
2. Why does Neal buy a yellow jacket?
3. Why does Agent ask, “How many of you went to Harvard?”?
4. Why are US Marshals requesting Agent Burke’s help?
5. Why do the marshals and Burke agree that Neal’s escape is “unusual”?
6. How long did Agent Burke chase Neal before he arrested him?
7. How much head start does Neal have?
8. Where did Neal get his guard uniform?
9. Whose credit card did Neal use to buy the uniform?
10. What kind of credit card did Neal use?
11. What kind of car did Neal use to escape?
12. What does Peter Burke find inside the book in Neal’s prison cell?
13. Why is Neal shaving his beard important to the story?
14. How often did Kate visit Neal before she disappeared?
15. Where does Peter find Neal?
16. How long did it take Neal to escape prison?
17. How much time will Neal get for escaping prison?
18. Neal offers to tell Peter what he finds on his coat in exchange for what?
19. Why are the Canadians upset about Peter finding the security fibers for the Canadian hundred dollar bills? 
20. Why does Peter call the criminal he is chasing “the Dutchman”?
21. What does Neal offer to do in exchange for getting out?
22. What does Neal say about the new GPS tracking anklets?
23. Why does Peter stay up on that particular night?
24. What is Neal wearing on his ankle when he gets out in Peter’s custody?
25. What will happen if Neal runs again?
26. What is the condition of making Neal a permanent FBI consultant?
27. How far can Neil go from the Motel he is supposed to stay in?
28. Where does Neal go right after Peter leaves him at the motel?
29. How do Neal and June meet?
30. Why does Neal ask June if she lives nearby?
31. Why does Peter think he has the wrong address?
32. What is Peter’s reaction to Neal new living arrangements?
33. Neal says he helps out in addition to the $700 rent he pays.  What are his responsibilities?
34. What does June’s granddaughter do?
35. Why does Peter think the book is not rare?
36. Why was Tony Field killed?
37. Does the FBI have a policy against hiring homosexuals?
38. Why are the books valuable?
39. Where did Tony Fields go before he left for Spain?
40. How many times did Fields visit that place?
41. What does he do each time?
42. Why did Fields go through the trouble of making a nice forgery?
43. Why did Fields put the forgery at the National Archives?
44. When Elizabeth calls Peter, what does she lie about?
45. What happens to the dinner El cooked for Peter?
46. Why does Peter suddenly stop the car in the middle of the street?
47. Where is Mozzie waiting for Neal in the dark?
48. Why does Peter go through his wife’s things?
49. Why does Jones call Peter at home?
50. Why did Neal go to Peter’s house?
51. How did Neal find out who the Dutchman is?
52. Where do Peter and Neal go on the way to the office?
53. Why is the church closed to the public?
54. Why does Neal “lie” to the priest?
55. Why does Neal ask Peter if he thinks Diana is attractive?
56. Why does Peter go through his wife’s visa bill?
57. What was the bottle a symbol of for Neal and Kate?
58. How much time does Neal have to help catch Curtis Hagen?
59. What happens if they lose Curtis Hagen?
60. What did Mozzie find about Kate?
61. Is Mozzie a smoker?
62. Why is he smoking?
63. What’s hidden in the filter?
64. Why doesn’t Peter go to the warehouse and arrest Hagen?
65. What does Neal do to help Peter?
66. What does Peter think when he gets the phone call in the middle of the night about Neal?
67. How does Neal get in the warehouse?
68. What does he explain he’s doing with the camera?
69. What does Peter Burke say to his agents when they get to the warehouse?
70. What do they find in Hagen’s office?
71. How does Peter surprise El?
72. What does Peter show El when they’re on Neal’s roof?
73. Does Neal show Kate’s picture to Peter? Explain.

Assignments - Wednesday 04/04/18

FoG4:

Read "The Iceman" on pages 252-253.
Do the Vocabulary / Comprehension exercises on page 264.
Study the Grammar Presentation on pages 255-256.
Do exercises 1 and 2 on pages 257-258.

Assignments - Monday 04/02/18

FoG4:

Read "Useless Regrets" on pages 238-239.
Study the Grammar Presentation on pages 240-241.
Do exercises 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 on pages 234 to 237.

Undocumented:

Read pages 243 to 250.

Writing Assignment:

You can prepare yourself for the in-class writing assignment by reviewing the name of the characters in both movies and the book.

Assignments - Wednesday 03/28/18

FoG4:
Study pages 222 to 226.
Then do exercises 3, 4, and 5 on pages 230 to 232.

HAPPY NOWRUZ!

Assignments - Monday 03/26/18

FoG4:
Study Unit 11.
Do all of the exercises.

Watch the movie"Trading Places"
https://youtu.be/oNmAjyjMVpo

Verb Tenses

TENSE	EXAMPLE
Simple Present	She studies every day.
Simple Past	She studied yesterday.
Simple Future	She will study tomorrow.
Present Progressive	She is studying now.
Past Progressive	She was studying from 2 to 4.
Future Progressive	She will be studying this time tomorrow.
Present Perfect	She has studied since last year.
Past Perfect	She had studied before yesterday.
Future Perfect	She will have studied by next year.
Present Perfect Progressive	She has been studying since last year.
Past Perfect Progressive	She had been studying before yesterday.
Future Perfect Progressive	She will have been studying for one year by next year.

Wednesday - Test & Party

The midterm exam starts at exactly 7pm on Wednesday, March 14, and it ends at 8pm.

This test will focus on grammar only.  Please review Units 1 to 10 & 12-13 (not Unit 11).

The potluck party starts at 8pm.

I will bring plates, spoons, forks, knives, and napkins.   I will also bring a main dish.
Several students have also decided what they will bring.  See below:
Simon - drinks
Houshang - appetizer
Dolat - water
Maria & Laura - chips and salsa
Tuba - dessert
Juan Carlos - chips
Rosa - main dish
Maribel - salad
Houman - drinks
Shahzad - cake
Leticia - chicken
Thai - cheese bread
Esmeralda  - macaroni and cheese

WEDNESDAY MARCH 14 - MIDTERM

Assignments - Monday 03/12/18

FoG4:

Review Units 12 & 13.

Undocumented:

Read pages 177 to 188.

Assignments - Wednesday 03/07/18

FoG4:
Study pages 184-188 carefully.
Do exercises 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 on pages 189-194.

Trading Places

https://youtu.be/oNmAjyjMVpo

Assignments - Monday 03/05/18

FoG4:

Do exercises 4, 5, and 6 on pages 159 to 161.
Do the Unit 7 Review on page 117.
Do the Unit 8 Review on page 133.
Do the Unit 9 Review on page 151.
Do the Unit 10 Review on page 164.


Undocumented:

Correct the mistakes in your paragraphs.

Read pages 163 to 171




***Reminder: The MIDTERM exam is on Wednesday, March 14.

Assignments - Wednesday 02/28/18

FoG4
Review the Grammar Presentation on pages 139-143.
Study appendices 10-15 on pages 459-460.
Do exercise 5 (page 147) and exercise 6 - parts A&B (page 148).
Read That's Entertainment on pages 152-153.
Do the Vocabulary/Comprehension exercises on page 154.

Assignments - Monday 02/26/18

FoG4:
Do all the exercises in Unit 8 (again).
Read Fast Food in a Fast World on pages 136-137.
Do the Vocabulary/Comprehension exercises on page 138.
Study the Grammar Presentation on pages 139-143.
Do exercise 1 on page 143.


Review the quiz (again):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ms-mx1ZDWeYOIhaJNQzvXTahSnwpQQ9o/view?usp=sharing

Undocumented:
Read pages 103 to 108.

NO CLASS ON MONDAY 02/19/18

Assignments - Wednesday 02/21/18

Take the quiz (again) and be ready to review it in class on Wednesday.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ms-mx1ZDWeYOIhaJNQzvXTahSnwpQQ9o/view?usp=sharing

FoG4:

Unit 8 -

Read "The Twin Question: Nature or Nurture?" on pages 118 - 119.
Do the Vocabulary/Comprehension exercises on page 120.
Study the Grammar Presentation - pages 121-124.
Do exercises 3, 4, 5, 6 on pages 126 to 129.

Undocumented: 

Read all the parts you have missed from the beginning until the end of Chapter 4.

Quiz (Monday 02/12/18)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ms-mx1ZDWeYOIhaJNQzvXTahSnwpQQ9o/view?usp=sharing

Intonation

http://rachelsenglish.com/intonation/

Video Text:

Today I’m going to talk about intonation. I’ve touched on this subject in various other videos without ever explicitly defining it. And today, that’s what we’re going to do. But I’m also going to reference these other videos, and I really encourage you to go watch those as well.

If you’ve seen my videos on word stress, then you’ve already heard me talk a little about pitch. Stressed syllables will be higher in pitch, and often a little longer and a little louder than unstressed syllables. And there are certain words that will have a stress within a sentence, content words. And certain words that will generally be unstressed, and those are function words. For information on that, I invite you to watch those videos.

Intonation is the idea that these different pitches across a phrase form a pattern, and that those patterns characterize speech. In American English, statements tend to start higher in pitch and end lower in pitch. You know this if you’ve seen my video questions vs. statements. In that video, we learned that statements, me, go down in pitch. And questions, me?, go up in pitch at the end. So these pitch patterns across a phrase that characterize a language are little melodies. that characterize a language are little melodies. for example, the melodies of Chinese. If you haven’t already seen the blog I did on the podcast Musical Language, I encourage you to take a look at that. It talks about the melody of speech.

Understanding and using correct intonation is a very important part to sounding natural. Even if you’re making the correct sounds of American English, but you’re speaking in the speech patterns, or intonation of another language, it will still sound very foreign.

Intonation can also convey meaning or an opinion, an attitude. Let’s take for example the statement ‘I’m dropping out of school and the response ‘Are you serious?’ Are you serious? A question going up in pitch conveys, perhaps, an open attitude, concern for the person. Are you serious? But, are you serious? Down in pitch, more what you would expect of a statement, are you serious? The same words, but when it is intoned this way, it is conveying a judgement. Are you serious, a negative one. I don’t agree that you should be dropping out of school. I’m dropping out of school. Are you serious? I’m dropping out of school. Are you serious? With the same words, very different meanings can be conveyed. So intonation is the stress pattern, the pitch pattern, of speech. The melody of speech. If you’ve read my bio on my website, you know melody is something I’m especially keen on, as I studied music through the master’s level. Yes, that was yours truly, thinking a lot about melody. Now, you know that in American English, statements will tend to go down in pitch.

Let’s look at some examples. Here we see two short sentences. Today it’s sunny. I wish I’d been there. And you can see for both of them, that the pitch goes down throughout the sentence. Here we have two longer sentences, and though there is some up and down throughout the sentences, for both sentences, the lowest point is at the end. I’m going to France next month to visit a friend who’s studying there. It’s finally starting to feel like spring in New York.

The software I used to look at the pitch of those sentences is called Pratt, and there’s a link in the footer of my website. So it’s at the very bottom of every page. I hope you’re getting a feel for how important intonation is to sounding natural and native in American English. I hope you’ll listen for this as you listen to native speakers, and that if you haven’t already done so, that you’ll go to my website and do that you’ll go to my website and do so you hear them several times to get the melody. That’s it, and thanks so much for using Rachel’s English.

Intonation:
https://youtu.be/GPcBJfBTlNo


1.
https://youtu.be/p8DJFNjZiIM


2.
https://youtu.be/qLGJb63mkyA


3.
https://youtu.be/Aoj4HZlLQBY

http://usefulenglish.ru/phonetics/listening-for-falling-and-rising-intonation

https://englishwithjennifer.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/intonation-patterns_handout.pdf

http://magoosh.com/toefl/2015/english-intonation-knowing-when-to-rise-and-fall/

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

Assignments - Wednesday 02/14/18

FoG4:
Unit 7 - Do exercises 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 on pages 111 to 114.

ESL Conversation Groups

ESL CONVERSATION GROUPS 

Conversation Groups at the Tutoring Center Looking for more conversation practice? The Tutoring Center is offering Conversation Groups. 

1. Make sure you have enrolled in TU 300 (Ticket #: 20510) before meeting with the Conversation Groups. (It’s free.) 

2. Sign-up at the LRC – Tutoring Center front desk to reserve your place. 

3. Attend one, two, three or all four of the workshops: 

a. Topic: Olympics Date: Tuesday, February 20, 2018, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm 

b. Topic: Science & Technology Date: Tuesday, March 13, 2018, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm 

c. Topic: The Generation Gap Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2018, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm 

d. Topic: The Environment & Earth Day Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2018, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm 

4. Location: LRC – Tutoring Center, Room 219 5. All ESL students are welcome to attend any of the workshops. 

Assignments - Monday 02/09/18

Review all the verb tenses (FoG4 - Units 1-6).

Undocumented:
Read pages 49-66.

Verbs...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-2fvJUBid2yN043V1NIN05PQm8/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-2fvJUBid2yVldfTEJEOGthVm8/view?usp=sharing

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-perfect-use.html

http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/rules/future.htm 

Assignments - Wednesday 02/07/18

FoG 4:

Study the Grammar Presentation on pages 88-91.
Do exercises 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.
Do the Unit 6 Review on page 99.

Count & Non-Count Nouns

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/owlprint/541/

https://englishcecytem2.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/worksheets-cecytem.pdf

Assignments - Monday 02/05/18

Undocumented:

Read Chapter 1  (pages 9-27)

FoG4:

Review the Grammar Presentation on pages 50-52.
Do exercises 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 on pages  54-61.
Do the Unit 4 Review on page 65.

Review the Grammar Presentation on pages 71-74.
Do exercises 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.
Do Unit 5 Review on page 85.

Read Young Entrepreneur Looks toward the Future on pages 86-87.
Complete the Vocabulary/Comprehension exercises on page 87.

Assignments - Wednesday 01/31/18

Review the Grammar Presentation on pages 35-38.
Do exercises 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6 in Unit 3.
Do the Unit 3 Review.
Read "The People's Conductor" on pages 48-49.
Do the Vocabulary/Comprehension exercises on page 49.

Hero - Movie Script

http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/hero1.html

Assignments - Monday 01/29/18

FoG4:

Go to www.myenglishlab.com/register

Do exercise 5 on page 13.
Complete all the exercises in Unit 1 Review on page 17.
Read Super Couples on pages 18-19.
Do the Vocabulary/Comprehension exercises on pages 18-19.
Study the Grammar Presentation/Grammar Notes on pages 20-22.
Do exercises 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 pages 23-29.
Complete the exercises on page 31 (From Grammar to Writing).
Complete all the exercises in Unit 2 Review on page 32.

Undocumented

Read the Author's Note.
Read the Prologue (pages 1-5).

Assignments - Wednesday 01/24/18

FoG4:

pages 6-8 - Study the grammar presentation and grammar notes.

pages 9-11 - Do exercise 1, 2, and 3.

Assignments - Monday 01/22/18

1 - Get your grammar textbook.
2 - Study the syllabus and be ready for a quiz.
3 - Have a great weekend.

Syllabus

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f4e037HP0J9Tn2SAopitr4SiDerHo72h/view?usp=sharing

Welcome!

Spring 2018