What is Brainstorming?

Brainstorming combines a relaxed, informal approach to problem-solving with lateral thinking. It asks that students come up with ideas and thoughts that can first seem to be not so realistic. The idea here is that some of these ideas can be crafted into original, creative solutions to the problems they try to solve, and can later on spark off into bright ideas. It gives people a jolt to start thinking. During Brainstorming there should be no criticism of ideas.

Tip: When Brainstorming consider using Mind Maps to arrange and develop ideas.

LC1 English Project Assignment

Gentlemen,



It was really an interesting session of brainstorming about different jobs. I'm very sure that by now you are very confident about the meaning of the words like skills, qualifications, responsibilities and challenges. Your next target is to submit your project assignment on 13th of October. You can choose from ONE of the following as your research assignment.

• Select one job from a hospital or
• Dream Job
• A Successful Emirati

In your presentation you must include images, sound and all members of he group must take role to present the assignment. Please read the assignment details carefully given to you in the class. If you find any difficulty don't hesitate to ask......... :)It will be my pleasure to answer your questions.

Good luck!

Irregular English Verbs

Here is a tool I hope you will find helpful in understanding English. It is a list of the common irregular English verbs, their past and past participle tenses. Just click on the tools pictured above to get the verbs. Put it with your other study guides to refer to in composition exercises and for your general use of the language.

People & Places

Dear Students,

You have done a great job so far. Your have brainstormed, shared your thoughts and opinions, and contributed to whole class discussions as active participants. I appreciate your effort and good manners! It is such a pleasure to work with you and I am proud to be your teacher. Keep up the good work!

We will progress through the second unit this week and practice talking about people and places, listening to tape scripts and discuss what we hear, and write a paragraph on a chosen country, whether yet visited or not. As time progresses, I expect you to write a fully developed essay using correct grammar and varied vocabulary. So, our starting point is a paragraph. I encourage you to use your imagination and knowledge of new vocabulary to write well thought-out descriptive paragraphs on your country. You're more than welcome to extend it to a short composition/essay if you like !! I know most of you are capable of writing a four paragraph piece. Anyway, your paragraphs are due tomorrow. You will be asked to share them with your peers, who will ask questions and make comments on your writing.

Please copy the following list of new words, look them up in dictionaries, indicate parts of speech, use them in your own sentences (or modify the copied sentence), find synonyms (optional/bonus), and look up Arabic equivalents (optional/bonus). This is due on Sunday next week.

• annoy
• certainly
• climate
• coast
• complain
• cosmopolitan
• descent
• culture
• exciting
• export
• similar to
• variety
• successful
• scruffy
• habit
• immigrant
• independence
• inhabitants
• miserable
• opportunity

Here is the list of the phrasal verbs you'll come across throughout the unit. Don't look these up as we'll discuss these together in class.


· get used to
· have in common
· change gears
· make a decision
· put up with

Please e-mail me if you have questions or need clarification on the assignment.

Again, keep up the good work and see you in class tomorrow!

Ms. Neriman

Quiz Schedule for G10-04 and G10-09

It's really not that bad gentlemen. We will have our weekly vocabulary quiz on Tuesday and on Wednesday there will be the unit pop quiz. The vocab quiz will be in the usual format of multiple choice and the unit quiz on Wednesday will be assorted types of questions or exercises like we've had before. Also, G10-04's reading comp quiz for the book club members is postponed until Thursday. More about that and the new Holmes story given out today at a later date. Stay tuned to the Grade 10 English blog for any and all updates.

Project work

Mohammed Essa from class 10.09, presenting his research on " The Famous Emirati", which was followed by a question answer session on...."What if..................."One of the students asked: "What if you found the Time Machine and you went back in time?" And pop came the answer, " I would have been living in the age of dinosaurs, and probably I would have been one".

Career path

Students from class 10.06 were exposed to the various technological concepts and were assisted in finding career paths that match their academic and personal skills. Students worked in groups and then presented their work to the other members of the class.

Careers Education

Students from class 10.10, working in groups , learning to be responsible world citizens who can think creatively, reason critically, communicate effectively and learn enthusiastically, throughout their life.