G10.04 & G10.09

Many thanks to those students who turned in the household furniture homework ON TIME. Those who didn't be careful. You lose points for turning in your assignments late, especially if you were given enough time to get it in before the deadline.

Today's assignments however, are a different story. Each class will have two pages of homework to do, with one of the pages being a common exercise. The work is marked for each section below. If you can print it from home, do so and give it to me on Wednesday. However, if you don't have access to a printer, but you have a flash drive, download your work onto the flash and give me the flash drive to upload your work into my laptop when you come to class. One of the exercises is a reading text with 10 comprehension questions and the other is an exercise on our classroom vocabulary. Both exercises together shouldn't take more than 45 minutes to complete.

I look forward to seeing you in class tomorrow.

G10.04 & G10.09 Vocab homework

G10.04 Reading Comprehension

G10.09 Reading Comprehension

G10-04 & G10-09

Just a friendly reminder folks about what is expected of you in class for the next week. Tomorrow, Tuesday, the homework assignment on "household furniture" is due for both sections. Thursday you are expected to hand in the five comprehension questions for the project. If any of you have any problems downloading those questions please see me before 3pm on Wednesday; I'll make a paper copy for you to complete and return to me.

Wednesday we will have our weekly quiz of reading comp, grammar and on this coming Sunday we will return to having our vocabulary quiz of the words in my last post here on the English "blog". That doesn't look like too much work and I hope what work you do have won't interfere too badly with your other subjects. See you in class!

How can I be a successful Language Learner....

A good Language Learner will always....

-find his own way and take charge of his learning,

-organize information

-be creative (play/experiment with grammar, words and sounds)

-make opportunities for practicing the language

-make errors work for himself and not against

-make intelligent guesses

-learn different styles of writing and speaking.

Global Warming: Is there really a scientific consensus that human action has been war planet?

Well put on your thinking caps, as this topic is up for discussion tomorrow. Gentlemen, go through the following link and gather enough points to support your reasoning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropogenic_Global_Warming

G10.04 & 10.09- Welcome Back

Rise and shine, time for another fun filled week of English with Abdul Karim and we have a busy week ahead of us, sort of. I am including two documents at the end of this post that I want you to hand in to me sometime this week. One is a homework assignment incorporating the household furniture vocabulary words from last week. It should be easy to follow the instructions on the page, but if you have questions please see me about it. The second document is the final part of the project that I want you to complete and give to me by Wednesday of this week. Answer all five questions, but take your time doing so because I am going to grade you not only on what you say but how well you say it. In other words, grammar and punctuation as well as the answers you write will be what you are graded on. But wait! We've been doing that all year right, so this should be an easy assignment to complete!

Finally there are this week's vocabulary words below. Write them down and understand what part of speech they are as well as know the meaning of the words. We will do some of that in class however, so there's no need to turn anything in to me yet. Hope you all had a fun and relaxed weekend.

VOCABULARY
launch
pilot
vehicle
competition
competitor
global
employer
employee
consumer
consume
mock
quiver

Household furniture

Project Questions

LC1 EXAMS COMING SOON!

Hello Gentleman,

The end of your first learning cycle is fast approaching and soon enough you will be taking your LC1 exams. Be sure to use good study habits throughout the exam period. Choose a set time to study, find a quiet place to focus on your work, avoid distractions, like TV and computers, and go to bed early so you wake up fresh and ready to go each day. Click here for your exam schedule and best of luck!

G10-04 & G10-09 It's that time!

All the hard work we've done so far, the homework, vocabulary, the drop quizzes, the class work assignments has led us to one of the milestones of this academic year and that is our first mid cycle quiz which we are having on Wednesday. It will cover the same material we've covered in class and with our smaller drop quizzes so there is nothing really to worry about if you've kept up in class. To help you prepare I'm making available to you exercises we've done in class up to this point in the learning cycle.

The best way to prepare for any quiz is to keep up with the class work on a daily basis. You cannot expect to do well by "cramming" for a test the night before the exam. I think most of you have done a fairly good job of doing your assignments and remaining alert in class and that will help you a lot. Another thing that will help you is a good night's sleep. Don't stay awake until the last minute trying to memorize everything you think is going to be on the quiz.

English is not like other tests; what's essential is the ability to understand oral or written communication of a wide variety of topics. The best preparation other than going through the worksheets we've had in class is reading. The online sources we read in class everyday are a good start. www.gulfnews.com and www.thenational.ae have plenty of articles that can keep your interest and you should take a minute or two tonight to look at some of them. Both online papers have excellent articles on UAE culture and breakthroughs in technology and development and if there are expressions or words you don't understand, we can talk about them during our "Brain Dump" sessions at the beginning of each class.

So gentlemen, spend a few minutes going over our class material which I am reproducing here, and read a brief article in one of the papers and then get some sleep. That's the best advice I can give you to prepare for the quiz. See you in class!

Grammar Exercise

Writing Practice

Students are advised to use their critical thinking skills to become intellectually fit, and to overcome inherent self-deceptive tendencies and rise to the challenges of a rapidly changing world.

"Education based on the knowledge of facts without the wisdom to interpret them is a hollow deception and forcefully argues that critical thinking is essential to both effective learning and productive living....... Dr. Richard Paul