For our test next week, you will need to be familiar with family relationship terms in English and be able to work with a “family tree” chart.
Here are two examples you may practice with:
April 2, 2010
October 14, 2009
Pre-University: Exam 2 study guide
We will finish Book 1 of our textbook soon and will have Exam 2. Following are the pages and topics you should study for the exam:
Unit 7
- p. 59 #3 Adverbs with the past and past perfect
- p. 61 #8
- p. 63 #3 Present perfect vs. past
- p. 63 #4 Past vs. past continuous
Unit 9
- p. 74 #1 Vocabulary
Unit 11
- p. 95 #3 Future perfect and future perfect continuous
- p. 95 #4 Gerunds as the object of prepositions
- p. 99 #3 Mixed conditionals
Other: Describing a process
September 22, 2009
Pre-university: Workbook homework for Units 1, 3, 5
We will have our first test on Friday, Sept 25. To prepare for this test, you may use the study guide I gave you in class and do activities in the workbook.
Unit 1
- p. 1 #2
- p. 4 #2
- p. 5 #4
Unit 3
- P. 13 #2
- p. 17 #3
Unit 5
- p. 25 #1
- p. 28 #1
- p. 29 #3, #4
This is homework, due Thursday. We will talk about these exercises in class on Thursday, so please be prepared if you have any questions.
Also, see the previous post for information about our class listening activity.
April 3, 2008
Pre-University: Exam 2 study guide
The Wiki site is temporarily down, but I will move this to the appropriate place there when it’s back up.
Study Guide for Insights 1 Unit 4
p. 142 Modals to express possibility
p. 143 family tree vocabulary
p. 161 Clarification connectors
p. 165 Latin and Greek roots
p. 175 Subordinators
Also be prepared to answer an essay question about any of the major topics we discussed in class: views of family, definitions of marriage, ways of recognizing marriage, adoption, and cousin couples.
October 3, 2006
Intermediate: study guide and writing assignment
Exam, Chapters 1 & 3:
For your test on Monday, October 9, you can study the following pages and sections in Interchange 2.
Chapter 1:
p. 3 #3 – past tense
p. 4 #6 – vocabulary
p. 4 #8 – “used to” for past
p. 7 #13 – reading a short article
Chapter 3:
p. 16 #1 – vocabulary
p. 17 #3 – evaluations and comparisons
p. 20 #9 – present wishes
Writing:
Your next writing assignment is due Wednesday, October 11. For this assignment, you should:
- Write a friendly letter to a friend or family member. Include the five parts of a letter we discussed in class (heading, salutation, body, closing, signature). Make it interesting!
- Address an envelope to go with the letter. Be sure to include an address and return address. You may draw the stamp in the place it should go.
September 26, 2006
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
