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Tuesday Lab

Hello all,

Here are some things to do:

1) Take a Thanksgiving quiz:  
http://thanksgiving.spike-jamie.com/quiz.html
http://funschool.kaboose.com/fun-blaster/thanksgiving/quiz/index.html
http://puzzles.about.com/od/trivia/l/bl_thanksgivingquiz.htm

2) Type and print out your writing paragraph about advatages/disadvantages of a time saving device.

3) Learn about Thanksgiving (for ESL) This is good!
http://www.ego4u.com/en/read-on/countries/holidays/thanksgiving

4) Study Ventures 4 website, Unit 6 (see link on this page)

5) Review or watch "Digital Nation Videos" and make comments.

Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante

If you like the background picture on my blog, go to this link to see and learn more about the artist and the famous people in the picture. Thanks to Long Hao and (Kenneth) Quiming Lui for your help!

http://cliptank.com/PeopleofInfluencePainting.htm

 

although & even though

This is funny. You've got to see it!

Grammar: Clauses of Concession--  using although and even though. These help us add new or surprising information to a statement (in contrast). Here is another website for more practice:

http://www.tolearnenglish.com/english_lessons/although-though-even-though

Technology Topic-- "Digital Nation" Frontline News

Happy Tuesday!

Today we begin talking about how technology changes our lives, and quite possibly our brains. Is technology an advantage? Does it help us save time and make us smarter/better? Or, is it a disadvantage, creating more problems than it solves? We will watch a Frontline News Story called Digital Nation about this topic and then have discussions. English subtitles (CC).

Today (Tuesday), just watch Chapter 1 and comment. (You can watch more if you want)

------------EACH VIDEO CHAPTER IS ONLY 6-12 MINUTES LONG---------------

1. Choose "watch online" to view the video
(Press the << button on the bottom right side of the video screen for English words)

2. Choose "transcript" if you want to read the words to the video separate.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/programs/categories/8.html

After watching a chapter, please post/comment 2 new vocabulary words that you have learned and a short comment/opinion about the topic in the chapter. You do not have to comment on every chapter this/next week, just the ones that interest you. Thanks!!!

Chapter 1    Distracted by Everything (Students at MIT- multi-tasking)
Chapter 2    What's it Doing to Their Brains? (Stanford-- multi-tasking)
Chapter 3    South Korea's Gaming Craze
Chapter 4    Teaching with Technology
Chapter 5    The Dumbest Generation?
Chapter 6    Relationships
Chapter 7    Virtual Worlds (IBM Company)
Chapter 8    Can Virtual Experiences Change us? (U.S. Military)
Chpater 9    Where are We Headed?

*****IF THIS IS TOO HARD, OR YOU ARE FINISHED WITH A FRONTLINE CHAPTER****

Go the California Distance Learning Project link under "Listening and Comprehension"
1. Choose Science and Technology
2. Choose one:
               *Ready, Click, Spend
               *Computers in the Classroom
               *Computer Virus
               *Video Games
3. Listen and do the activities (including writing)
4. Email the results to me (Alison Wilcox) at awilcox40@yahoo.com

Have fun!!!  :)

Everybody can be great, because anybody can serve.  You don't have to have a college degree to serve.  You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve.... You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve.  You only need a heart full of grace.  A soul generated by love. 

 ~Martin Luther King, Jr.