Lesson 15 – Renewable Energy

We continued our discussion of Germany: Is It Really Boing Green?

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Pros and Cons of Renewable Energy

Also, remember to practice Quizlet.

Lesson 12

Slideshow
I shared photographs from my trip to Okinawa. You can see them again on my Facebook account. Or, if you don't have Facebook, you can see them from this link:
Okinawa Trip 2016


Mini-presentation
In this lesson we heard from Miku about her trip to Laos to train to ride elephants.



Presentation Preparation
We spent time in our groups to prepare for next week's presentation.

Lesson 11

In this lesson, we listened to two example discussions and thought about how to be good participants in discussions.

We then brainstormed ideas about how to help victims of the earthquakes in Kumamoto.

Next Week

1. No class on Saturday. Enjoy your weekend!
2. Thursday — Preparation for your group presentation on your idea.
3. Saturday — Group Presentations

Make Up Class: July 2, 3rd period.
If you cannot come, just let me know.

Please practice using Quizlet!

Video: Samurai Smartphone Parade

We watched this TV commercial by Softbank about walking while texting. What do you think about it?

Lesson 4 — Family Conversation and Discussion Principles

In this lesson, we did some more conversation practice and looked at our first discussion principle.

Conversation
We learned vocabulary for talking about our families and learned 3 family conversation questions:

How many people are (there) in your family?
What's your mother like?
What does your father look like?

We practiced the conversation questions and then had a conversation using those questions.


Discussion: Discussion Principle #1
We learned about Disucssion Principle #1 — Respect Every Voice: Be a good listener.
We looked at some bad attitudes and practices. Next week, we will consider some better attitudes and practices.

Principles are like the foundation of a building.

Building foundation

Feedback Form
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Feedback form for Lesson 4

Video — Gangnam Style (Jayesslee cover on YouTube)

We watched Jayesslee's (Janice & Sonia Lee) cover of Psy's Gangnam Style. They are a talented pair of Korean-Australian women from Sydney. Enjoy it again below:

Lesson 3 — Conversation / Discussion / Quizlet

We practiced conversation and discussion skills and signed up for vocabulary study.

Conversation Strategies
We learned and practiced these strategies:

Opening a conversation (questions)
How (are) you doing?

How's it going?

Opening a conversation (answers)
Never been better!

Great!

Good!

Pretty good.

Not bad.

Okay.

Not so good.

I’ve been better.

Terrible!

Ending a conversation
Nice talking with you!
You too!



Discussion Dynamics
We experimented to find the best-sized group for discussion. We will continue with this on Saturday.



Quizlet
Quizlet is a flashcard app for iOS and Android as well as Mac and Windows.

Join our group and try out the features on Quizlet for next class.