Week 6 & 7 Listening Task: Goal-line Technology

Please login Edmodo for the links and exercise.

Week 5: Reading - Poem (Sound effects)

Sound effects in Poems

• Rhyme
• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Onomatopoeia

Week 5: Listening & Speaking - Health Issues

Your listening task for this week, "Cancer Treatment":
http://www.esl-lab.com/cancer/cancerrd1.htm


If you have problem downloading the mp3 audio file, you can try this software that reads any text you have on your screen.  Copy and paste the script for the listening task. (Click on the "Quiz Script" link on top of the page at esl-lab.com.)
To download the text-to-speech software, go to this website http://www.readplease.com/


Do you find the reading a bit strange?  Sounds like a robot, right?  That's because the speech generated by the software doesn't have the natural rhythm and intonation of a normal speech.   

If you need practice in rhythm and intonation, you can try these jazz chants that illustrate the natural stress and intonation patterns of conversational English: 

http://www.onestopenglish.com/skills/listening/jazz-chants/mp3-files-and-recording-scripts/

Week 4: Reading - Poem (Figurative language)

Identifying Key Features of a Poem

Literary Devices
Figurative language

• Personification
• Symbol
• Imagery
• Simile
• Metaphor

Define and give examples of the above devices used in the poems found in this website http://literature.com.my/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=349&Itemid=313.

Week 3: Listening & Speaking - TABLETS

Today's Listening & Speaking Class:
Breaking News English Headline
(6th July, 2011)
South Korea to Swap Textbooks for Tablets

Refer to the handout given.
Go to your class Edmodo for the rest of the exercises.

Week 2: Reading - IF

Schedule for this week's Reading class

3ppismp RBT2: Tuesday, 26th June, 2012. 11:30am-12:30pm
3ppismp RBT1: Wednesday, 27th June, 2012. 11:30am-12:30pm
3ppismp MT1 : Thursday, 28th June, 2012. 10:30am-11:30am

Title of poem:  If

Go to this website http://literature.com.my/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=422&Itemid=380

and read up on this poem. 

(Note that there are links to information on this poem on the left hand side – under Poem 6:  Biography, General Information, etc)

Sign in (Sign up, if you have not done so yet)  at http://www.edmodo.com/

to download the reading task.  After you have completed the task, you have to upload your answers (please rename clearly the file given) in Edmodo. 

As usual, post a comment here to prove your attendance.

Class schedule

3ppismp RBT2:  Tuesday, 26th June, 2012.      11:30am-12:30pm 
3ppismp RBT1:  Wednesday, 27th June, 2012.  11:30am-12:30pm 
3ppismp MT1  :  Thursday, 28th June, 2012.     10:30am-11:30pm 

Week 2: Listening - A Healthy Lifestyle

Class schedule for this week's listening class:

3ppismp RBT2: Monday, 25th June, 2012. 11:30am-12:30pm
3ppismp RBT1: Tuesday, 26th June, 2012. 12:30pm-1:30pm
3ppismp MT1 : Wednesday, 27th June, 2012. 10:30am-11:30am

For this week's listening activity, we shall listen to a conversation entitled "A Healthy Lifestyle" at Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab.

Instructions:
Please post a comment after you have read the instructions below.
(This is proof of your attendance)

Step 1:  Go to Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab

http://www.esl-lab.com/

Step 2:  Scroll down to General Listening Quizzes and choose Medium column the topic “A Healthy Lifestyle”

Step 3: 

Do all the activities in Part II (Listening Exercises)  and Part III (Vocabulary Activities – all 4 )

Step 4:

At the end of each activity, press PrntScn and paste the screen capture onto a Microsoft Word file.

There should be altogether 5 screen captures for the 5 activities.

Name the file as follows

ListenEx1_CLASS_ yourName  e.g.  ListenEx1_RBT1_AliAbu

Email your file to me.

Don't forget to post a comment after you have read the instructions below.
(This is proof of your attendance)

p/s  After you have finished the above task, you can register for Edmodo.  Please get the Powerpoint file (which has the instructions and code to register) from your Class representative.

Class schedule for this week's listening class:

3ppismp RBT2:  Monday, 25th June, 2012. 11:30am-12:30pm
3ppismp RBT1:  Tuesday, 26th June, 2012. 12:30pm-1:30pm
3ppismp MT1 :   Wednesday, 27th June, 2012. 10:30am-11:30am

Week 1: Reading - Bilingualism Boosts Brainpower

The text for this week's reading activity is a transcript of a news report on an interesting research finding entitled "Bilingualism Boosts Brainpower".

As a follow-up to the listening and speaking activities last lesson/period, complete the exercises in the printed handout given to you.
1. True/False Statements
2. Synonym Match
3. Phrase Match
4. Cloze passage - Multiple Choice Questions (Time limit:  15mins)
For more practice on the new vocabulary learnt from this text, try the quizzes displayed on the top section of the website
 http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1205/120504-brain_power.html

Week 1: L&S - Bilingualism

This week's listening and speaking activity is based on the news report "Bilingualism Boosts Brain Power". 

To review the activities that we have done in class, click on this link:

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1205/120504-brain_power.html

Each student should post also one comment based on the pair chats and class discussions.  To carry out a forum discussion, sign up at

http://www.edmodo.com

to join the English group.   The group code is  wbe5r8.