Unit 10: Cell Phone Culture

This week, we learned about how Apple's iPhone will compete with new Samsung and LG smart phones that use Google's Android open-source operating system. What kind of cell phone do you have? Will you buy a new cell phone next year? What kind do you want? Tell me about your current and future cell phone purchases. What do you look for?






Please practice using the following grammar styles we learned in class this semester. Write one sentence to answer each question:

1. PRESENT PERFECT (p. 93)/CELL PHONE VOCBABULARY (p. 109) - What has been your cell phone experience until now?

2. TIME CLAUSES (p. 78) - How do you usually use your phone? What do you use it for?

3. COMPARATIVES (p. 15) - Compare your current cell phone to your past cell phone.

4. SIMPLE FUTURE (p. 64) - Are you going to buy a new G3 smart phone? What kind will you buy?

Please make sure your response is at least 50 words.

Unit 9: Job Interviews

This week, we learned how to put together your QUALITIES with your EXPERIENCE using verbs in the 'present perfect' tense.

For example:

my experience: making films, painting, and playing bass guitar
my start date for doing this: 1997
So, my quality for that is: creative

In a job interview, I may say:

"I am creative. I have made films since 1997."

Now, choose one of the eight strange jobs from our 'job interview game' today and write how you would respond to an ad for one of the jobs. Please make your post at least 50 words.

Here are the job postings, one more time:




I hope everyone's energy is higher next week! We have a lot to practice before we prepare for our final exam.

Take care,

Becka

Unit 8: Storytelling

Sometimes we don't realize it, but humans are always telling stories. Sometimes these stories are fables from long ago. Often, they are simple events we relate to our friends. This week, we talked about storytelling. To do this, we practiced how to use simple past verbs vs. past continuous verbs. We also talked a little about how to use stative verbs. If you are not sure about what stative verbs are, CLICK HERE for a list and a description to help you.

For your homework this week, choose one of the videos below. Each video is a Canadian story, but these stories don't have many words. Please write at least 100 words to tell one of the stories. You may read your classmates' work, but don't copy them! Instead, try to improve upon what they did. Also, don't forget to do your WORKBOOK: pages 48 and 49C.

Here are the stories you can choose from:

1. The Story of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Mascots


2. "Neighbours" by Norman McLaren


3. "The Big Snit" by Richard Conde


Have fun with these stories! See you in class.

Becka

Unit 7: How do you celebrate your favorite festival?

There are lots of festivals and events that happen here at SCH during the semester such as the Cherry Blossom Festival, Spring Festival, GEE Days, the Medical Students' Festival, end-of-semester performances, homecoming, and more. Did you take part in any of these? How did you celebrate?

Here are a few of my pictures from past campus festivals and events:


Buddha's Birthday, May 2009


SCH Cherry Blossom Festival, April 2009


End-of-Semester Fine and Performing Arts Students' Festival, December 2007


My husband, Jim (left) and Prof. Min Kyung-won (right) are enjoying the SCH Spring Campus Festival, May 2007.


Here are some students performing at the Spring Campus Festival 2009. Do you recognize any of your classmates?

NOTE: try practicing expressions we learned in class, such as "before," "after," or "when," as well as definite and indefinite time expressions about events coming in the future!

Reading your Palm to Predict your Future!

Here is the hand out for tonight's homework.

Remember to practice definite/indefinite time expressions (page 61) and simple future tenses (page 64). Have fun!

Guide to Shinchang

How can new students to SCH learn about what Shinchang has to offer?



Please post your paragraphs about our neighborhood here!

How to get BONUS POINTS in my class

Hi everyone,

I promised a couple weeks ago that I would tell you about how to get bonus points in my class. Here is the way to do it.

If you go to our textbook's website (CLICK HERE), you will see a list that says "Series Resources". In that list, click "World Link 2 Student Site". Look for the link marked "Quiz," and click on it. You will see a list of quizzes for each unit. Click on each unit's quiz, complete the quiz, and e-mail the results to me. Even if your score is not great, I will see that you did make the effort to do it. I will give you one point for every quiz you complete, to a maximum of 10 points. These quizzes are good practice for your midterm exam, too!

If you have any problems accessing the textbook's website, please contact me. You can talk to me in class or email me your concerns.

Cheers!
Becka