Category: Sogo – Engineering Elementary Spring

Vacations

HOMEWORK

• quiz 4 (Saturday 9am – before the next class)(in class)
• p46. A. / B.
• p47-48. Reading: Managing Life and Work; take notes; learn the key words / phrases / main points

Task 6 Title: Free writing (Unit 3 warm-up): Question Where do you want to travel in Japan or Abroad? Where and why?

• Upload Unit 2 worksheet and notes (in class) – Moodle Link

Task 1: Title p.49 C Identify (Shikibetstu – 識別する)

1. Pro / Pros = positive points / good things (experiences)
2. Con / Cons = negative points / not good (experiences)

Sentence examples:

1.[No.3] Pro: more creative when they come home – why? discover different ways people live – interesting — people feel creative in their thinking / better at solving problems

• One of the pros for [long / short vacations] is that people …
• One [positive experience / good point] for [long / short vacations] is that people …

2.[No.4] Con: people do not sleep well – why?

• One of the cons for [long / short vacations] is that people …
• One [negative experience / bad point] for [long / short vacations] is that people …
  

Task 2. Title: Sentences; finish for homework

• write 2 example sentences for long vacation
• 1 Pro
• 1 Con
• write 2 example sentences for short vacation
• 1 Pro
• 1 Con

Homework

• Task 2 finish
• Task 3. Title: p52. B (1-6) Look at the Table and do the exercise
• Quiz 5 – Saturday 9am –> (remember to log out after the quiz)

June 9th Aim: To read Tables and graphs

Task 3 Title. Reading a Table

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).
4. Line (2-8): … write the details for every country.
5. Results (the groups and details) (Task 4)

Task 3 activity: select countries and write the sentences

Task 4 Title: Evaluation: groups / grouping method

• Step 1: decide the result – what is the result?
• Step 2: what groups can you see – think about it?
• Step 3: make the groups [***Hint – there are three groups of countries]

Teacher example:

• In group 1 / For group 1 : there are no days vacation left. These countries include Brazil, Canada and France.
• In group 2 / For group 2 : there are a few days vacation left. There are four countries and they are Malaysia, Mexico, UK and the US. The days left are between 1 to 4 days.
• In group 3 / For group 3 : there are a lot of days vacation left. There is only one country Japan [ and they only take half the numbers of days vacation / and take 10 days only vacation ]

Task 5/6 Title Table Report please write the whole report for Brazil, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, and Mexico.

HOMEWORK

• Finish Task 5/6
• Quiz 6

June 15

Activity continue: Graphs

Reflection (Note section)

Summary: What did we learn?

• FOI (facts of information)
• sources are: internet, journals, magazines, textbooks, … (where we get information from)
• tables / graphs: there is a lot of information / helpful to understand a topic
• American Standard for writing paragraphs; Topic sentence (1); Support sentences (ideas)(2-3-4); to finish we use a Conclusion sentence (usually a shorter sentence)(5)

Question: What is your best summer vacation? Answer with the American Standard (1-2-3-4-5)

HOMEWORK

• Read the next topic: p.73-74 (30-45minutes)
• check the language; key words (topic words); phrases; main ideas
• use A4 paper / Campus paper
• Saturday quiz – No7.

***this topic is “Physiology” check the meaning?