PE1 week 4

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Grades and homework

• In future, all late work will get a maximum of 60%

• Sketch Engine grades are on the web, but not on the papers. Sorry.

• Quiz grades are on the papers and on the web.

• There is a bonus grade for students using an exercise book.

Sketch Engine homework grades• Low grade

– Attendance is very important• Medium grade

– time and place at which the applicant 's attendance is required should be specified , with

• Better grade– The date, time and place at which the applicant 's attendance is required should be specified.

• Good grade1. The date, time and place at which the applicant 's attendance is required should be specified. [frequency: 27, salience: 22.27]

2. Students should be encouraged to self-monitor through using a simple form on which they record their attendance and punctuality [frequency: 8, salience: 14.65]

3. …

Nolen’s family and hometown

1. Read page 25

2. Then, read page 21

3. Answer the questions on page 26

4. Go through the answers

Wonderful, terrible or just OK?

1. My father loves my mother, and sometimes buys her gifts.Really? That’s wonderful!

2. My father goes to work every day, and gives his salary to my mother.Oh right, I see!

3. My father lives in Shanghai with his girlfriend.Oh no! That’s terrible!

page 28, in two lines

You need your PE book (closed!) and a pen and paper

• Hi there. What’s your name?

• I’m Jane. And you?

• I’m John. Hey Jane, can I ask you something about your family?

• Sure, go ahead.

• Well, can you tell me one thing about your mother?

• Well, she controls the money in our family

Other phrases

• Well, can you tell me one thing about your grandmother?

• Actually, my grandmothers are both dead

• Well, can you tell me one thing about your sister?• Actually, I don’t have any sisters.• Actually, I’m an only child.• Actually, I have two sisters. I’ll tell you about my

older sister, shall I?

You need your PE book (closed!) and a pen and paper

• Hi there. What’s your name?

• I’m ___. And you?

• I’m ___. Hey ___, can I ask you something about your family?

• Sure, go ahead.

• Well, can you tell me one thing about your ___?

• Well, ___

Choose one…

• Brother/sister/mother/father/grandfather/ grandmother

• Ask ten different students

• Write down– Their names– Their answer

• Report your findings to the class, using the microphone

Email task

• Write an email to your teacher that describes your family, for example, how many people there are in your family – brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts, cousins and grandparents? What is your family like? How would you describe your home and where you live?

• Use page 25 as an example.• Use email format (Subject, To:, Greeting…)• Make it short.• Write it in your exercise book.• Give me your exercise book.

Homework 1

• Study page 23 vocabulary

• Correct the spelling of “lightning” (not “lightening”)

• Complete pp 23-24 vocab exercises

Homework 2

• Use the Sketch Engine to get two sentences for each noun, verb and adjective (24 sentences in total)– Use two different collocates for the two sentences, for

the nouns, verbs and adjectives

• Get one sentence for each phrase • Use collocates with high frequency or salience• Show the frequency and salience• Print it and bring it to class next week