Hear what students say causes them stress

We all get stressed out from time to time, but to hear from some of our students, their stress is chronic.  Here is what they have to say about what causes them stress!

Vocabulary!

The following words will be used in a vocabulary test based on the article we read in class on Emirati students who volunteered to clean up the Manar al-Eman Charity school, here:

Volunteers

Scrub

Renovations

Assess

Hygiene

Expatriates

Accommodates

Orphans

Janitors

 
The quiz will be fill in the blank and it will be on your laptops so please make sure they are charged and you can open your web browsers.  For G10-02, the quiz will be on Thursday during the 5th period and for G10-08 on Tuesday in the 7th or 8th period.  I haven't forgotten about G10-05; perhaps you guys want to get started preparing early by reading the article linked above on your own.  However, we will read it together as a class when you come on Wednesday.  Please, students of G10-05, be prepared to work on your laptops on Tuesday on the My Academic Connections Lab web site.  See everyone in class!

Overdue Books!

There are still some students in G10-02, G10-05 & G10-08 who have books that are overdue at the library.  Ms. Smallpeice really wants you to turn in your books before she turns in your name to be penalized for them.  If you are not sure if you are one of the students with a late book, go to your schoology accounts and take a look see if your name is mentioned.  For those of you who responded to the first call to return your books thank you!

How do you cope with stress?

We all have experienced stress at some point in our lives.  Here are some of the ways students in G10-08 handle stress.

Welcome Back!

Good morning gentlemen,

I hope you all had a great time with your family and friends during the break. I'm positive that you all will start the 2nd term with great learning spirit, enthusiasm, sense of responsibility, punctuality and regularity. . Lets gear up for a great start at school and for English lessons.
We will start with Unit 3, Stress and Health.

Go to the link below or copy the link in your URL, read the text and complete the exercises given at the end of the reading text. You will also paraphrase the text in your own words using the linking words and upload on Edmodo.com.

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0412/01.stressKills.html

Welcome Back

Good morning gentlemen,

Welcome back..I sincerely wish you a healthy, happy and a successful new year and new term.

We are back on full schedule all geared up and ready to take off. We have a full new term ahead. It is a chance for you to make a difference.
Manage your time effectively, stick to deadlines, complete your work, focus, come on time, be serious are all gentle reminders of your responsibilities.

We will start with UNIT 3 -health and stress.
Below is a link to an article I would like you to read, and take notes on the word document I sent you.

http://www.webmd.com/balance/stress-management/news/20051214/cell-phones-raise-work-home-stress

Congratulations and welcome back

Welcome back to ATHS and 2012!  I hope all of you in G10-02,10-05 and 10-08 had a restful and safe term break.  It's time to think about school and especially English language, but before we do I want to remind all of you who have library books that you must turn them in immediately to the librarian Ms. Smallpeice who really wants the books back so that your school mates can read them when they want to.  I will post on your schoology accounts the names of those students who have overdue books, so go to your account to see if you are one of the students with a late book.

Now that school has resumed, let's get back in the habit of reading, writing and speaking in English.  All of the assignments we had during the first term, like writing summaries of news articles as well as reading and recording texts and answering questions on those texts for homework we will do during this term as well, so let's get ready.  God willing we will all be as successful this term as we were the last so take a deep breath and let's get back to work.  See you in class.

Cause and Effect Expressions

Gentlemen,

Making a Connection:- When you read that one action or event is the result of another action or event, you are reading about a cause-and- effect relationship. A cause makes something happen; an effect is what happens as a result of that cause. The link between cause and effect can sometimes be very obvious; at other times you may be required to make an educated guess about the connection.
When writers want to make cause-and-effect relationships very obvious for the reader, they do so with clue words that signal the cause-and- effect relationship.
A few more words and phrases that can signal cause-and-effect relationships are
accordingly, affect, as a result, because, cause, consequently,effect, for,
the reason why, results in, since, therefore why.......

Copy paste the link below, read carefully,complete the exercises and upload on Edmodo.


http://www.usq.edu.au/users/sonjb/projects/wbll/teacher-made/gap-fill2.htm
http://www2.elc.polyu.edu.hk/CILL/exercises/cause&effect.htm