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Yucatan CELA 2024

Welcome to Victoria and Camosun College! I am so excited you are here and to be your instructor! Make the most of your time by speaking to as many people as you can and trying many new things! I will post class materials here. Email: hadwinl@camosun.ca

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Weekly Homework

 

Week One

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Monday

1) Introduce yourself to the class tomorrow. You can use some of the information from the get-to-know-you activity we did in class. 

2) Think in English! 

3) Talk to your homestay family as much as possible!

4) Write at least ten sentences in your journal. Think about 5W+H (who, what, when, where, why and how). Use your five senses (Sight, touch, taste, smell and hearing). These three weeks will go by quickly, and writing in your journal is a great way to remember all the great things you see and do!

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Tuesday

1) Work on your SMART Goals.

2) Think about your "Victoria's Newest Restaurant" project.

3) Start to plan your poster presentation. 

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Wednesday

1) Thank you for your amazing "Victoria's Newest Restaurant" presentations.

2) Tomorrow, you will work on your poster presentation in the afternoon. Do as much research and planning as you can so that you can start on the poster. 

3) Continue to work on your SMART Goals, journals and enjoy your adventure in the city this afternoon! Remember, Canadians are friendly, but sometimes they are shy to speak first, so you may need to break the ice! 

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Thursday

It was great to ride the bus with some of you yesterday! Be brave and talk to new people. This weekend, you could visit Sidney (45 minute bus ride), Oak Bay (15 min. bus ride), Craigdarroch Castle (near downtown), Fisherman's Wharf and Ogden Point.

1) Choose your best journal from the week. Proofread it carefully. It is due Monday.

2) We will check in about our SMART Goals Monday. Do your best! Be a kind but firm boss! ;)

3) Work on your poster presentation.

4) We will have our AWL 1 quiz Monday. Here is the link: https://learninglab.rmit.edu.au/content/academic-word-list-1-2

Here is the work we did Thursday:  Academic Vocab                  Tense Review

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Week Two 

Monday

1) SMART Goals, journal and poster presentation

2) Work on your AWL List 2 for our quiz next Tuesday: https://www.examenglish.com/vocabulary/academic_wordlist.html

3) Here is the linking words activity we did today. Here is some more practice for linkers: https://agendaweb.org/grammar/conjunctions.html

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Wednesday

1) SMART Goals, journal and poster presentation

2) Correct your journal. Find the three most common mistakes and write these three (e.g., prepositions, punctuation and tense) at the bottom of your best journal you give me next Tuesday. 

3) If you want more writing feedback, you can write the summary/synopsis of your "Hollywood Blockbuster". You must give it to me tomorrow.

4) Tomorrow, our class in in CBA 101.  

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Thursday

1) SMART Goals, poster presentation and AWL (Academic Word List) 2 team quiz 

2) Rewrite your best journal from the week to hand in Tuesday. Proofread carefully -- polish it like a gem! What are the three areas you will work on from last week's journal? Write those at the bottom of the page. Add adjectives and adverbs for more detail and creativity. Use a variety of simple, compound, complex and compound-complex sentences.

3) Listen to three songs from https://lyricstraining.com/ Tell us about your favorite one on Tuesday morning.

4) Here are the grammar cards we did today. 

5) Here is the phrasal verb activity we did today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGnMPHSNcfI

5) Friday, you are at Lansdowne Campus for your Indigenous workshop. I will come and see you! Sunday is the Lunar New Year celebration in Chinatown. There are cool lion and dragon dances in the streets! Monday is family Day, so we don't have class. Have some fun and so some extra speaking! 

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Week Three

Tuesday

1) Poster presentation, SMART Goals and journals

2) Here is the pronunciation worksheet we did today. 

3) We will have our Academic Word List 3 Quiz Friday. https://www.examenglish.com/vocabulary/academic_wordlist.html

Practice: https://learninglab.rmit.edu.au/content/academic-word-list-3-4.html

4) Work on your "Best Band/Musician Ever" nomination recordings. 

5) Think of binomials, for example, "fish and chips" or "salt and pepper".

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Wednesday

1) Poster presentation, SMART Goals and journals

2) Here is the pronunciation worksheet we did today. 

3) We will have our Academic Word List 3 Quiz Friday. https://www.examenglish.com/vocabulary/academic_wordlist.html

Practice: https://learninglab.rmit.edu.au/content/academic-word-list-3-4.html

4) Here are the grammar cards we did.

5) Here are the phrasal verbs we did. 

6) Check your horoscope tonight. Was it accurate? We will talk about it tomorrow. https://www.elle.com/horoscopes/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/horoscopes/

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Thursday

1) Your poster presentation is tomorrow at 10 am, so you need to be ready! Can you practice in front of friends or your host family? Also, work on your SMART Goals and journals.

2) We will have our Academic Word List 3 Quiz tomorrow. https://www.examenglish.com/vocabulary/academic_wordlist.html

Practice: https://learninglab.rmit.edu.au/content/academic-word-list-3-4.html

3) Check your horoscope tonight. Was it accurate? We will talk about it again tomorrow. https://www.elle.com/horoscopes/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/horoscopes/

4) Here is the AI song-writing website: https://app.suno.ai/

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Friday

Thank you so much for your fantastic effort on your course! It has been a delight to get to know each of you, and I am certain great things await you in your sparkling futures! :) Your poster presentations were so well done! Please keep up your SMART Goals and journal writing. These positive language learning habits will help you continue to improve. 

1) Conditionals review: https://agendaweb.org/verbs/conditional-mixed-exercises.html

2) If you would like to leave some anonymous course feedback for me: https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/add/professor-rating/2610359

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