MCC ESL Level 5 Blog

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

For this final week, we practiced modals of advice (should, ought to, had better). The textbook exercises and readings were about etiquette. Here is the online quiz we took on business etiquette.

Final Computer Assignment: Advice Comic Strip

Work with a partner or alone, if you prefer.
Use the situations below or create your own situation in which advice is given.
Write a dialog (a conversation between two people) of 4 – 8 lines. Use modals of advice (should, ought to, had better).

You will use the dialog to make a comic strip that we will post here on the class blog.
It is OK to use humor, drama, spice – anything that will make the dialog interesting!!

Possible situations:

A friend needs to improve his or her English to get a better job.
A friend has just moved to California and is homesick. He or she wants to make some friends.
A coworker is annoyed because he or she is the only one working on a project. The other coworkers are messing around and surfing the internet instead of doing their work.
A coworker needs more money to pay for hospital bills. He or she wants to ask the boss for a raise.
A friend has bought some shoes at a department store. He takes out his wallet to pay and leaves his wallet on the counter.
A friend is leaving her house. As she walks away, she leaves the door unlocked.
A friend is going to walk home alone late at night. She refuses to take a taxi.
A friend parks his car on the street. He leaves his digital camera on the front seat.
A friend is complaining that he needs money to buy his wife an anniversary gift. He does not know what to buy for her.
Or -- a situation of your own.

In the computer lab, use one of the following websites to dramatize your dialog. The instructor will demonstrate in class and give you the logins and passwords.

Comeeko http://www.comeeko.com

Comiqs http://comiqs.com

Toondoo http://www.toondo.com

Pixton http://pixton.com/

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Weeks 7 - 8:

For week 7, we will finish up the EL Civics Assessment (oral report) on home safety and security.

We will not have class on Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 26 and 27.

For these two weeks, we will continue to review comparative and superlative adjectives and practice reading comprehension.

What do you know about Thanksgiving?
Take this Quiz to test your knowledge

Learn more about Thanksgiving: What happened at the first Thanksgiving? Some historians think that “The First Thanksgiving” wasn’t really a thanksgiving. They call it “The 1621 Harvest Celebration” because it was more like a harvest festival. At the Plimoth Plantation Web site, students will discover clues about what really happened at the 1621 harvest celebration. Discover what might really have happened during the fall of 1621: Visit Web Site

Another Site to Visit (Learn about the Mayflower, the Daily Life of the Pilgrims, and the Thanksgiving Feast).