day 10

IECP SUMMER 2015ZACHARY SHELLENBERGER

Academic Interactions 130

Agenda

Conversation StarterWord StressPathways Ch. 2 - CloningGrammar – Adjective Clauses

Conversation Starter – AI130 A

Industrial engineering is a branch of engineering which deals with the optimization of complex systems. It is concerned with operations engineering, which is divided into studying business and regular engineering in this major. Although a lot of banks need employees with this major, in my country, most banks are already fully-staffed. Can industrial engineers find jobs easily?

(Industrial engineering, Abdullah Alenezi)

over-qualification; to be over-qualified

community service; Emiratization

Conversation Starter – AI130 B

Word Syllable Stress

What is a syllable?How can we count them?What is it?

Emphasized part of the word Louder, longer

Do you have stress in your first language? If so, how does it work?

Why is stress important in English?

Word Stress (cont’d)

present (gift, n) present (time, n.) present (v.)

How are they different? What is going on here?

Stress SHIFT!

PRESent (n.) preSENT (v.)

&

Big difference!

desert (n.) vs. dessert (n.)

produce (n.) vs. produce (v.)

Things to think about...

What pattern(s) do you notice?

Do you notice any patterns with the endings

(in general)?

Do you notice any patterns involving nouns

that change to adjectives?

Do you notice anything else that is

interesting?

repeat (v.)revise (v.)advise (v.)defend (v.)depleat (v.)detain (v.)

respect (v. and n.)

function (n.)creation (n.)

reproduction (n.)geography (n.)biography (n.)

photography (n.)biology (n.)

genetic (adj.)scientific (adj.)terrific! (adj.)

advantage (n.)advantageous (adj.)

finance (n.)financial (adj.)

politics (n.)political (adj.)

origin (n.)original (adj.)

economy (n.)economics (n.)formal (adj.)formality (n.)

Pronunciation and Stress

mateweighpre-da-torcol-o-nyterr-i-tor-ycha-llengere-pro-duc-

tiona-dultde-pendde-fend

Questions?

There are 3 syllables in “professor.” Which syllable is stressed?

Any other words you would like to know the stress of?

Pathways Ch. 2, Pg. 29

A. Listening: CloningTransition words for speaking about a

process

B. Paraphrase the process of cloning with your partner

TED Talk: Cloning

1) Listen and take notes on important information

2) Group Quiz3) Cloning Discussion

TED Talk

Video

Group Quiz

1. What is the main purpose/idea of the talk? To discuss the use of cloning and stem cells to resurrect life.

2. What are the two ways to ways to make copies of cells and organisms? cloning (somatic cell nuclear transfer) and cell reprogramming

3. About how many species have been cloned so far? 2 dozen (24)

4. Which animal was the first to be cloned? a frog

5. What are the two types of cloning that are mentioned? interspecies and intraspecies

6. What was the first endangered species to be cloned? a gaur

7. What happened with the gaur that was born? It was born successfully, but it died two days later.

8. Which animal from the San Diego Zoo was cloned? A banteng

Discussion

What are your thoughts about the video that you saw?

What do you think happened with the banteng that was born?

What do you think about the idea of cloning to save endangered species or even to bring back extinct species?

Homework

Conversation starter with new vocab words

due in Google Docs by Saturday at Midnight

PSU Classroom Observation presentation

recording due to Box.net by Sunday at

Midnight

E-mail me your classroom observation

information tonight: zfs5004@psu.edu include class name, time, location, date, and

professor’s name