Foundations: Lab 4

“Tongue twisters” are sentences or poems with repeated sounds that make them difficult to pronounce. People use them as fun word games. Can you think of a tongue twister in your language?

1. Go to Tongue Twisters for the ESL/EFL Classroom.

2. Read the tongue twisters there and choose your 3 favorite. Do not choose ones we have talked about in class. Write them below.

3. Talk to three people and ask them to say the tongue twisters you chose.

4. Ask each person which tongue twister they think is the hardest.

5. Write your results in the chart on the page I gave you in class.

6. Pick out your favorite tongue twister, ideally one that is difficult for you. Practice saying it aloud. You will have to say it for the class this Friday.

7. Bring your paper to class Friday, October 6.

Intermediate: Alice in Wonderland Chapter 4

This week we are reading Chapber 4 (IV) of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

As you read, try to answer the following questions. If you can answer them, you will know that you understand the main events of the chapter. The vocabulary might also help you.

1. Why does Alice go to the White Rabbit’s house?
2. What does she do when she goes inside?
3. What do the White Rabbit and his workers see that frightens them? What different ways do they try to solve their problem?
4. How does Alice solve her problem?
5. Who does Alice meet in the forest?

Vocabulary
Executed
Vanished
Housemaid
“going messages”
Fancy (v.)
Grown up
Cucumber-frame
Cart
Ladder
Chimney
Pebbles
Lizard
Guinea-pig
(a) wood
Bark (v.)
Enormous
Mushroom
Caterpillar
Hookah

Foundations: study guide Chapters 2 & 4

For your test on Monday, October 2, you can study the following pages and sections in Interchange: Intro.

Chapter 2
page 8 #2 – Articles
p. 10 #5 – this/these, it/they, plurals
p. 11 #8 – Yes/No questions, ‘where’ questions with ‘be’
p. 12 #9 – prepostitions
~all – object vocabulary (desk, notebook, backpack, etc.)

Chapter 4
p. 22 #1 – clothing vocabulary
p. 23 #2 – color vocabulary
p. 24 #5 – possessives
p. 25 #7 – seasons and weather vocabulary
p. 26 #9 – present continuous, conjunctions
p. 27 (#9) – present continuous yes/no questions

Self-Study #2 and #4 with your Self-Study CD

Intermediate: Lab 3

Due 9/29/2006

You will be listening to “A Duty to Family, Heritage and Country” by Ying Ying Yu .

This is an essay she wrote for a class assignment. It was broadcast on NPR’s “This I Believe” segment on Morning Edition, July 17, 2006.

1. In your own words, what is this story about?

2. What does Ying Ying Yu believe?

3. What did Ying Ying first want to do when she grew up?

4. What is her plan, now?

5. At first, Ying Ying had a hard time “opening up” her feelings to write this essay. What made it easier?

6. Write about your personal thoughts and feelings on this topic or something related to the article.

Foundations: Lab 3

Lab 3 – due 09/29/06

Transportation / Using the internet

Do you know how to “get around” in Little Rock? If you don’t have a car, what kind of transportation can you use?

Coming and going: The Airport
Little Rock has the Little Rock National Airport.

1. Go to the airport’s website .

2. Find the link Maps & Directions and click it.

3. Look at the DIRECTIONS to the airport.

4. If you are driving from Memphis or somewhere in East Central Arkansas, how would you get to the Little Rock Airport?

(Here is a map if you want to look at the highways.)

 

In the city: Buses
In Little Rock, the buses are run by Central Arkansas Transit (CAT).

1. Go to CAT’s website.

2. Find the link for Bus Fares. (It is in a green stripe on the right.)

3. Look at the Fare Schedule. What do you think a “fare” is?

a. A fun event with farm animals and amusement games and rides.

b. The price (money) for riding the bus.

c. A long way.

4. How much does it cost for an adult to ride the bus one time? (Cash Fare)

5. If you are a student, how much does a 31-day pass cost? (Pre-Paid Fare)

 

In the city: Taxicabs
In Little Rock, taxis are not everywhere. If you need one, you will probably have to make a phone call.

1. Go to the search result for the Yellow Cab Company (http://littlerock.citysearch.com/profile/37509371/little_rock_ar/yellow_cab_co.html). What is their phone number?

2. Go to the search result for Capitol Cab (http://littlerock.citysearch.com/profile/1564123/little_rock_ar/capitol_cab.html). What is their phone number?

Foundations: Lab 2

For your lab this week, go to Wunderground’s Little Rock page.

1. Write down today’s date. (The date you are doing the lab; for example, “Monday, September 18.”)

2. Look under “Current Conditions.” What is the humidity right now?

3. Write sentences about today’s weather. (You can find the information under “5-day forecast.”)

Write the sentences like this: Today is ( cold / cool / warm / hot ). The high temperature is ____ *F, and the low temperature is ____*F. The weather is ( clear / partly cloudy / cloudy / rainy / windy ). There is a ______ % chance of (rain / thunderstorms ).

4. Write sentences about tomorrow’s weather.

Tomorrow will be ( cold / cool / warm / hot ). The high temperature will be ____ *F, and the low temperature will be ____*F. The weather will be ( clear / partly cloudy / cloudy / rainy / windy ). There is a ______ % chance of (rain / thunderstorms ).

5. Write sentences about the weather the day after tomorrow.

The day after tomorrow will be ( cold / cool / warm / hot ). The high temperature will be ____ *F, and the low temperature will be ____*F. The weather will be ( clear / partly cloudy / cloudy / rainy / windy ). There is a ______ % chance of (rain / thunderstorms ).

6. What kind of clothing will you be wearing tomorrow and the next day?

7. Bring your answers to these questions to class on Friday, September 22.

Intermediate: Lab 2

In class this week we will be talking about places people live. What is your “dream house” (ideal home) like?

1. Draw a picture of your dream house or find a picture of a house that looks a lot like your ideal home.

Bonus point: draw a floorplan with the rooms and furniture labeled!

2. Write one or two paragraphs describing your dream house. Be sure to have a topic sentence and arrange your ideas logically. Include the following information:

• Location (city, country, mountains, forest, beside the sea, beside a lake, etc.)
• Size (how many rooms, how many stories)
• Type of structure (apartment, condo, townhouse, cabin, farmhouse, compound, etc.)
• View (what can you see from the windows?)
• Rooms (how many? what type?)
• Features (fireplace, garden, balcony, big kitchen, courtyard, hot tub, laundry room, etc.)
• The reason for your choices. Why do you want these things in a house? What special things would you like to do while you live there? What will your life be like?

3. Bring your picture(s) and paragraph(s) to class on Friday, September 22.

Intermediate: Alice in Wonderland links

In the Fall semester 2006, my Intermediate class (Intermediate A) will be reading Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Here are some links to help you:

Wikipedia encyclopedia article about the book

Audio files of each chapter – listen to someone read the book

Free book to read on the web – scroll down for links to each chapter of Alice in Wonderland (illustrated by John Tenniel)
(Chapter 1 / Chapter 2 / Chapter 3 / Chapter 4 / Chapter 5 / Chapter 6 / Chapter 7 / Chapter 8 / Chapter 9 / Chapter 10 / Chapter 11 / Chapter 12)

Another free book to read on the web: the whole book or chapter by chapter. This version has larger text and might be easier to read.

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