Hi everyone!
As you know, next week (Week 8) is your Midterm Test! For your Midterm, please study Units 1-20 in your "Essential Grammar in Use" textbook, except for Unit 9 (which we didn't study).
Also, next week you will have your Oral Test which will be in Building E (411). If you look on my class website (www.tylereslclass.info), you will see the Marking Rubric which will be using to mark your oral test. If you have any questions about that, please ask me before your test!
To help you study for your Midterm, I will also be putting three online quizzes on my class website which I would like every student to finish this weekend (October 16/17). Your mark on each quiz is not important so don't worry about making too many mistakes. The quizzes are just there to help you prepare for your Midterm! However, if you don't finish the three quizzes, I will minus points from your partcipation mark!!
When you finish each online quiz, please make sure you click on "Submit all and Finish". You only get one attempt to answer each quiz and there's no time limit for each one.
That's it for now. Good luck on all your midterms and study hard!
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Week 5
Hi, everyone!
I hope you are all enjoying the nice, cool fall weather! It feels so nice to be outside after such a long, hot, humid summer.
Because of the Chusok holiday, we will be a little busy in the next few weeks before the Midterm Test. Last week, we finished studying about the Present Continuous and Simple Present and I think you guys better understand how to correctly use adverbs of frequency now.
In week 6, we will be studying about Past Tense which will be more exciting because you can share some of your memories with your classmates. To give you more practice, I would also like you to try using a very easy website called http://www.fotobabble.com/. On this site, you can upload a picture, record your voice and then share your presentation with friends. I will demostrate how to use it in class but I will also put a video here so you can watch it later if you don't understand.
This semester is going very quickly and I'm very happy with the amount of participation I have been getting from your class! Keep up the good work!
I hope you are all enjoying the nice, cool fall weather! It feels so nice to be outside after such a long, hot, humid summer.
Because of the Chusok holiday, we will be a little busy in the next few weeks before the Midterm Test. Last week, we finished studying about the Present Continuous and Simple Present and I think you guys better understand how to correctly use adverbs of frequency now.
In week 6, we will be studying about Past Tense which will be more exciting because you can share some of your memories with your classmates. To give you more practice, I would also like you to try using a very easy website called http://www.fotobabble.com/. On this site, you can upload a picture, record your voice and then share your presentation with friends. I will demostrate how to use it in class but I will also put a video here so you can watch it later if you don't understand.
This semester is going very quickly and I'm very happy with the amount of participation I have been getting from your class! Keep up the good work!
Monday, September 20, 2010
Week 4
Happy Chusok!
I promised to write in my blog every week so I thought I'd better do it before I forget! It feels very strange to have a one week holiday already this semester. It seems like we just started! I think our class is going well so far. We have studied and practiced using the Simple Present, and the Present Continuous. We have also looked at the 'five' forms when studying grammar: positive, negative, yes/no questions, yes/no anwswers, and wh-questions. I think that if you practice these five forms it will definitely help your spoken English. Just like everything you do in life - 'practice makes perfect' and studying a second language is no different:)
Before I finish today, I have a short message for you!
Tyler
I promised to write in my blog every week so I thought I'd better do it before I forget! It feels very strange to have a one week holiday already this semester. It seems like we just started! I think our class is going well so far. We have studied and practiced using the Simple Present, and the Present Continuous. We have also looked at the 'five' forms when studying grammar: positive, negative, yes/no questions, yes/no anwswers, and wh-questions. I think that if you practice these five forms it will definitely help your spoken English. Just like everything you do in life - 'practice makes perfect' and studying a second language is no different:)
Before I finish today, I have a short message for you!
Tyler
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Week 2:
Hi everybody,
It was nice to meet both my Essential Grammar in Use classes this week. All of you made a good first impression and I'm really looking forward to teaching all of you this semester! I hope you enjoy my class and that you can improve your English at the same time.
During the semester, I will be keeping this blog for all my Essential Grammar in Use students so you can read how I feel about your classes. Also, I can post things, like videos, here which will help you understand my website and other things I will be doing in class.
I know some of you are better at multimedia (especially computers) than others so if one of your classmates in having a hard time understanding, please help him/her ok?
In our first class, I asked you to sign up for my website (http://tylereslclass.info/). I think it is a little difficult so I want to help you by posting a video to guide you through the process.
After you sign in, I also want you to edit your profile and upload a picture. I made a second instructional video to help guide you through this process as well. I hope both videos help you!
Talk to you next week!
Also, I will be attaching a few surveys in my blog to see how my students feel about English! Please answer the survey about "Confidence" below!:
It was nice to meet both my Essential Grammar in Use classes this week. All of you made a good first impression and I'm really looking forward to teaching all of you this semester! I hope you enjoy my class and that you can improve your English at the same time.
During the semester, I will be keeping this blog for all my Essential Grammar in Use students so you can read how I feel about your classes. Also, I can post things, like videos, here which will help you understand my website and other things I will be doing in class.
I know some of you are better at multimedia (especially computers) than others so if one of your classmates in having a hard time understanding, please help him/her ok?
In our first class, I asked you to sign up for my website (http://tylereslclass.info/). I think it is a little difficult so I want to help you by posting a video to guide you through the process.
After you sign in, I also want you to edit your profile and upload a picture. I made a second instructional video to help guide you through this process as well. I hope both videos help you!
Talk to you next week!
Also, I will be attaching a few surveys in my blog to see how my students feel about English! Please answer the survey about "Confidence" below!:
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