DSTI ENGLISH COURSE
Documents, LINKS & Assignments
Welcome to our class page, where you will find the documents, links and assignments for our English course.
9/28/21
- English level evaluation/ Background questions
- Present Continuous Reminder
- Discussion about classes
- Vocabulary practice activity
- Pronunciation/Intonation Lesson: Word Stress
- Pronunciation/Intonation Cont’d: Sentence Stress
9/29/21
- Tell me about yourself video
- Writing Practice
- Presentations + Word Stress Practice
- Q & A
- Data Science Articles
- Summaries + Vocabulary
10/1/21
- Email writing cont’d and speaking activity
- Future Tense Video
- Future Tense Practice
- Linking Words
- A Day in an Anglophone City
- Homework Assignment
Notes / Comments
DSTI ENGLISH Homework Assignment (due October 25th)
Imagine you are meeting a group of adolescents who may be interested in pursuing their studies at DSTI. Choose one course in your program and prepare a presentation of that course in simple terms. Explain what students learn in the course, and how the coursework could be applied to different careers. Be sure to use linking words in your presentation, and try to use vocabulary/ phrasal verbs from our lessons this week.
Your presentation should be 2 paragraphs long.
10/25/21
- Warm-up: 3 things you did over the past 3 weeks
- HW assignment peer editing
- Linguaskill practice: 5.2 Speaking/ Content words
- Questioning practice activity
- Communication skills
10/26/21
- Warm-up: describe where you are in relation to 3 other places
- Prepositions of movement
- Giving directions
- Asking For/ Giving Directions
- Activity: Imagine you are giving an exchange student a tour of your school and the town where you live. Present your school to the student. Plan a day of activities (visit at least 2 different attractions) and go to 2 different restaurants.
- Exchange Student Tour
10/27/21
- Presentation of directions dialogues and student tour highlights
- Directions partner activity using Google Maps
- Linguaskill Prep videos: speaking and reading
- Current Events Articles
10/28/21
- Current Event article presentations (see link from 10/ 27)
- Vocabulary from each article
- Quizzes generated by students
- Practice writing a persuasive text
10/29/21
- Facebook Changes Announced
- Persuasive writing speaking expressions
- Promoting a Product Linguaskill
- Practice: promoting a service
- Student presentations with timer (1 min limit)
- Linguaskill Listening Tips
