Lesson 8 – June 16

Task Title. Reading a Table: American standard

Task 4 Title: Work Culture – Brazil / Malaysia / Japan

  1. The title of this Table is “Vacation Days per Year” per=every
  2. Short Description: reading left to right; 1) The left side has 8 countries, 2) From there there is information in order starting with Average =====employees give, next Average =====employee takes, and finally 3) Not used days.
  3. Detail (Line 1): In Brazil they have an average of 30days vacation (1), they take an average of 30 days (2), and there are no days left (3).

Task 5 Title: Why do Japan workers (employees) only take 50% or half of the vacation days.

write 5 points in your groups

Task 6 Title : Graphs

 

Summary: Facts of Information (FOI)

  • we can use the internet to research for information
  • if we copy from the internet we use “quotation marks” and we write the URL Title
  • Tables and Graphs also give a lot of information
  • we can write the sentences using a lot of grammar
  • we can use numbers / % / describing words – half / all of them …
  • we can learn the language using video / journals / newspapers / …

***remember to learn the key words (topic words) called vocabulary / phrases (short sentences) / grammar

Task 6 TitleReflection What’s your impression about Japan’s data. Write what you think about Japan’s work-culture (50 words). what is good / not good / … do you think it should change? Why? …

HOMEWORK

  • Find a Table/Graph about another topic (todays topic about Vacation). Including Japan and other countries. Write a short report (50-75 words). A4 paper!
  • Next lesson: show your table, and read your report to your group
  • Quiz 7