Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Class on 11/6/13

Warm up exercise:

Write a dialogue for one of the following:
You are late for work. What do you say to your boss?
You need a day off. How do you ask your boss?
Someone you work with is doing something suspicious. How do you approach your boss?

Example:

Some typical "clean" answers: 
Dave: Good Morning.
Jose: Do you know what time it is?
D: Yes. I'm sorry. I'm late.
J: Why were you late?
D: I was stuck in traffic.
J: I need you to be on time everyday.
D: Ok. I will try to leave earlier everyday.

Some not so good answers:
Dave: Oh I'm so sorry. You would not believe what happened to me?
Jose: Do you know what time it is?
D: It is 9:05. Oh my sister's car broke down and I had to pick her up and drive her to work and take her kid to school and he was crying the whole time. It was a mess.
J: You should have called.
D: Oh and then my battery died on my cellphone
J: I need you to be on time everyday.
D: Oh dude. I am so gonna try harder tomorrow. Plus my sister, she can just walk to work!

Students practiced writing and the reading out loud their dialogues. The instructor took the class through some general patterns or trends in Good or "Clean" answers to use with the boss.

Students read out loud their homework (on a recent news story) to a partner. Then they switched partners and tried to tell what they had read about without looking at the paper. Then each student did a presentation infront of the class without written materials.

Students re-wrote a corrected paragraph that had been recently returned.

Students took "Spelling" Quiz #5

Reading from the reader pages 65 and 66.

Homework: Do the same exercise as for 11/4/13 but pick a different News Story
Also practice logging on to https://websmart.smccd.edu/ 
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