Academic Interactions AI130

IECP Summer 2015Zachary Shellenberger, adapted from Nikki Mattson

Agenda

Conversation Starter

Review for Test

Introduce Group Project

Return Your PSU Classroom Observation Grades

Conversation Starter – AI130 A

All the universities around the word welcome thousands of students every semester. 90% of these students are freshmen, and more the 50% of them are required to take several same classes. For instance,  most of them are required to take math, chemistry, and  physics. It's hard for the universities to provide a lot of classes for only one subject, so they prefer to include more than one hundred students in each class. Unfortunately, students face many difficulties because of this huge number of students. What do you prefer, classes that

have a lot of students or few students? Why ?

( Mallak, Biomedical Engineering)

What’s on the Test?

Listening section - 10 multiple choice questions

(Not) Too/Enough – 3 multiple choice questions

Vocabulary – 12 fill-in-the-blank

Follow-up questions – 3 question sentences – 3pts. each

Describing Charts – 5 fill-in-the-blank

Extra Credit – 5 possible points

Too Much/Many/Not Enough

too enough = not possible in English

Review

“Have you been to Times Square? I really think there are _______ people there, and there’s never any place to sit.”

“I tried to go to the theater yesterday, but I looked in my wallet and saw that there was _______ money to afford a ticket.

“Doctors are finding that ______ texting can damage the thumb joints.”

Vocabulary - Review

Page 44

native temporary emigrate abroad

community immigrant permanent trend

negative original

Page 54

assimilate settle ancestors minority

attitude generation positiveethnic

discrimination retain

Follow-Up Questions

Example: “Hi! Do you live in State College?” “Yes.” “Oh, where do you live?” <= follow-up

question

So, what is a follow-up question?

3 questions on test – 3pts. Each (others are 1pt.)

Describing Charts – Vocab Review

1. Climbed steadily

2. Fell steadily

3. Steep rise

4. Slight dip

5. Fluctuated wildly

6. Fluctuated slightly

7. Plunged

8. Rose steadily

9. Declined slightly

10. Remained steady

11. Increased dramatically

12. Fell dramatically

13. Were stable

14. Declined gradually

Past Continuous - Review

Volunteer sentences and write them on the board: long + long long + short

Extra Credit - Info

On the back of the last page, you can write sentences using the past continuous.

Each sentence with a correct usage of the past continuous tense will earn you 1 extra credit point.

Each sentence must use a different form, but still be in the past continuous. Examples:

“Yesterday, when I was walking to the store, I ran into an old friend.”

“Were you skiing when you saw that bear?”

Group Project - Intro

PSU Classroom Observations

Homework

Conversation Starter #3

VoiceThread comments

Bring Language Journal TOMORROW – I will check for completion when you turn in your test You should have at least 20 entries (10 vocab, 10

reflections, or a different combination) altogether