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DFW Special Program: Reading/Writing A

duration: 4 weeks
price: free

About this Course

This course focuses on English reading and writing skills for advanced English learners. Skills covered include the production of a variety of sentence structures with correct grammar and syntax, reading passages and responding to questions, and completing IELTS reading and writing practice activities.

The Student Resources page on the TLC Website contains policies, forms, syllabi, and other useful information for students. A few examples of the policies found on Student Resources include: Make-up Work, Academic Integrity, Attendance, Satisfactory Academic Progress, etc. The Student Resources page is available at www.thelanguagecompany.com/student-resources.

Learning modules

  • Week 1
    • Review synonyms/enter into Brainscape/underline in reading: "Study finds that blue is the most popular color.”

    • Color Role Play (Pairs or group of 3)

    • Reading Conversation: Looking for a new apartment

    • "My Octopus Teacher" Explores Unique Human-Octopus Friendship | Amanpour and Company

    • STUDENTS AT BOARD: 2 SENTENCES FORM SYNONYMS; CLASS NOTES PATTERNS OF SENTENCE STRUCTURES

    • Homework Due FRIDAY, 07/22: Choose and answer 8 questions (re: Color) in complete sentences.

    • Quiz; vocabulary: The Gray Man

    • Australia's "shocking" decline in environment; Review Synonyms; enter into Brainscape; underlined in story

    • Writing: Choose 3 questions. Practice writing (2) complete sentences for each quesion, following the structure of the question.

    • Warm-up: Discussion Student A/B questions: Australia's "shocking" decline in environment

    • Biodiversity in Australia...main features (video) Using vocabulary; preview. 3 questions (Listening practice)

  • Week 2
    • Class Discussion: Summary/New or Favorite Experience

  • Week 3
    • Humanity just one misunderstanding away from nuclear annihilation re: UN chief (videos)

    • Breaking News 08/04/22 Nuclear Annihilation (potential) re: UN Secretary-General) vocab/synonyms/reading

    • Writing: Paragraph stating opinion: "Nuclear war is the biggest danger to the world today."

    • PREWRITING: Choose any 6 questions from STUDENT-A and/or STUDENT -B Discussion questions

    • Choose Role one of the 4 suggestions (world's biggest flashpoint) and defend your opinion.

    • Film Clip: The Day After Tomorrow-Climate Change (oral)

  • Week 4
    • Intro: You Tube video: What attracts mosquitoes? Listening for Details

    • Match Synonyms with definitions from article "Mosquitoes bite some people more than others." underline/app (new vocab)

    • Listening Practice 2 LISTENING opportunities followed by paraphrase)

    • Evaluation 1 Think/Pair/Share Ask 3 questions/respond to partner's 3 questions; partner presentation

    • Writing (opinion response to this statement: "We should never kill a mosquito because it's part of nature."

    • Following sentence patterns, synonym substitution and verb tenses

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Onna Seibold

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