Interactive Writing II Session #12: December 18th, 2009
Cover of Little Plum Report #1: comparing Little Plum with a Japanese children’s story (500 words). Please introduce your report to the rest of the class, in English and Japanese. If you did not give me your report today, please email it to me as soon as possible. Afterwards we listened to a well-known winter [...]
Interactive Writing II Session #10: December 4th, 2009
Assigned 1 paragraph of chapter 4 per student to translate into Japanese. Conferenced with each student to confirm outstanding assignments. When to do the make-up classes? I cancelled Nov. 6th class due to entrance exams at my home university. I will also cancel January 15th class in order to attend a conference. Official make-up days [...]
Interactive Writing II Session #9: November 27th, 2009
Mini-lecture on “Changing attitudes to children and the police in the U.K.” Write your notes in Japanese on your blog in 200 characters We read more of chapter 3 with individual students translating paragraphs. We read up to page the bottom of page 37. Homework: Write a summary of chapter 3 in Japanese in 200 [...]
Interactive Writing II Session #6: October 30th, 2009
Listen to my summary of chapter 1. Answer my questions. Write down/note these 7 questions, and answer them in English for homework. Post the answers to your blog AND give them to me next class (November 6th): What happened in your life when you were 7-10 years old? (E.g., when I was 7, my family [...]
Interactive Writing Session #5: October 23rd, 2009
Plagiarism handout. Plagiarism is a serious offence in Western countries. How to avoid plagiarism? Summarise (key points only) Paraphrase (use different words to say the same thing) Report (e.g. use quotation marks “…..”; Widdowson writes that “…..”; According to Widdowson (1983), …. ; etc.) ALWAYS give credit when you use someone else’s words, ideas, photos, [...]
Interactive Writing Session #4: October 16th, 2009
Image by Ravages via Flickr UPDATE: Test yourself! Try this vocabulary quiz about chapter 1 of Little Plum. Test yourself! Try this quiz on some of the words we read today in chapter 2. Review of basic rules of English writing: 5 conditions for a simple sentence complex sentences + common errors (fragments, run-ons, and [...]
Interactive Writing Session #3: October 9th, 2009
Editing symbols worksheet Complex sentences worksheet (run-ons, fragments, comma splices) List of editing symbols (reference) Read most of chapter 1 of “Little Plum”. You will need a notebook to take notes about vocabulary, British customs, history, etc., that come up in class as we read the “Little Plum” story. Homework: (from last week) Type a [...]
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