Lesson Summary - 28/08/2009

Grade 9B & 9A

Objective: Students learn to work on ESL IGCSE progressive test to give them more knowledge about the types of topics that they will get later on for their IGCSE examination.

Assessment: Igcse type progressive test.

Grade 10

Objective: Students learn to work on ESL IGCSE type of test to give them more knowledge about the topics that they will get later on for their IGCSE examination.

Assessment: test.

Lesson summary (25/08/.2009)

Grade 9B

Objective: Students learn to evaluate and synthesize reading comprehension and critical thinking and key word questions and do matching work.

Assessment: Students were asked to answer reading and key word questions and after that they did matching work and finished their movie review posters.

Lesson Summary (25/08/2009)

Grade 8A: (3 periods)

Objective: Students learn to create their own drama about a bank and store robbery. The drama was video taped and the best group will receive a prize.. The objective of the lesson is to allow them to express themselves using proper English words. The final outcome of the program will be shown in our blog and face book.

Assessment: Students prepare the story and dialog and play their part in a group for the final resolution of the drama . The narrator explains the story.

Grade 10

Objective: Students were informed about the IGCSE marking scheme continued with an assignment about writing a formal letter to an editor of a local newspaper.

Assessment: Students were asked to make a letter to the editor of a newspaper disapproving the government's decision to break down a community service building in order to build a parking lot. Students need to give their suggestions and opinions and way out of the problem. The letter must be 150 words long (Extended).

Lesson summary for August 21,2009.

Grade 8A: (3 periods)

Objective: Students learn to mimic and act out a play about a bank robbery. The idea is to allow them to express themselves using proper English words and to prepare for Tuesday's video shooting program for their play. This program will be shown in our blog and face book later on.

Assessment: Students prepare the story and dialogue in a group for the final resolution of the play and began to speak out each part with the narrator telling the story.

Grade 9A
Objective: Listening - movie review; Prince Caspian. The idea is that students will be able to answer critical thinking questions and do discussions and oral presentations after they have finished watching the movie.

Assessment: Watching a movie and preparing to answer critical thinking questions.

Grade 10

Objective: Students were lectured about the different types of Narrative, Creative and descriptive writing. Discussion about the three types was done when students started asking questions about the concepts of each types of writing.

Assessment: Students were given free writing topics to write Narrative, creative and descriptive types of writing. Each piece must not be more than 100 words (Core).

Lesson Summary for August 19, 2009.

Grade 9B:

Objective: Students learn to prepare summary and answer literary questions about the movie 'Prince Caspian (Narnia)' which they had seen last week continued with preparing a poster in the first period. In the second period , they were doing reading and vocabulary writing practice from their text books.

Assessment: Students were answering literary feature questions and doing reading writing and vocab practice from their text books.

9A

Objective: Students learn new vocabs and had time to discuss the movie review questions (Prince Caspian-Narnia).

Assessment: Writing movie review questions doing discussions with the teacher and after that continue with the Movie.

Lesson Summary for the Aug 18th,2009.

Grade 8

Objective: Students learn to practice their spoken English through debating and story telling.

Assessment: 1.Debating activity.
2. Reading & Writing a story for a drama.


Grade : 9B

Objective: Students discuss together meaning of difficult words and teacher explains about some of the critical thinking questions and how they are related to doctrinal knowledge that the students have learned in their lives.

Assessment: Students discuss and answer movie review questions and learn new vocabulary by checking them from the teacher and the dictionary.

Grade: 10

Objective: Students learn the meaning of idioms. e.g:Idioms are words, phrases, or expressions that are unusual either grammatically, as in "Long time, no see!" or there is a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements, as in "It's raining cats and dogs!" Every language has idioms, and they are challenging for students to learn.

LITERAL MEANING:
Before the bartender made the drink, he broke the ice with a spoon and dropped in into the glass.

IDIOMATIC MEANING:
Before the conference began, the speaker broke the ice with a joke.

After discussing Idioms, students were asked to answer their movie review questions (critical thinking questions).

Lesson Summary (14/08/2009- Grade 9A)

Grade 9A

Objective: Students enhance their listening knowledge by watching a movie :'Narnia-Prince Caspian'. After that they will be discussing and answering critical thinking and literary feature questions.

Assessment: Watching a movie and do some discussion about the chapters/scenes.

Lesson Summary -Grade 10 (14/08/09)

Objective: Helping students getting used to listening to English words without script and preparing them for movie review questions and literary features.

Assessment:

CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS –Prince Caspian Movie.

1. After watching the movie ‘Prince Caspian’, do you find an allegory in the movie that is related to some of our beliefs? Which one? How is it related?

2. Is the story a reasoned argument in defense of a theory or doctrine that we know?

3. During the absence of the kings and queens of the first Narnia movie, who reigned over the kingdom? What kind of a king is he? What is the relationship between Prince Caspian and Lord Miraz? How long is one year compared to the years in Narnia?

4. Why does Prince caspian’s uncle want to murder him?

5. C.S. Lewis didn’t think of his Narnia books as being an allegory, strictly speaking. Instead, he though of them as exploring the nature of Christianity and God’s relationship with man in a parallel universe:

"I did not say to myself ‘Let us represent Jesus as He really is in our world by a Lion in Narnia’; I said, ‘Let us suppose that there were a land like Narnia and that the Son of God, as he became a Man in our world, became a Lion there, and then imagine what would happen.'"(Explain the meaning of the above underlined paragraph in your own words).

6.Please read below the meaning of an allusion; which part of the movie is an allusion?

( Allusion= is a figure of speech , reference/ representation of or to a well known . person , place, event or a work of art.(an indirect or implicit reference).

7. Check out the meaning of the following wordsL1) Brigand 2) Chasm 3) Sea farer . 4)Pirates

8. Create a poster of the movie dividing it into the following segments;

1. Plot: Story outline and brief summary.

2. Introduction : What happened in the story

3. Rising action: Starting from the train station

4. Falling action: The Narnians won and finally went back home.

9. Explain in your own words the problems, conflicts and situation in the story.

Lesson Summary ( Thursday :13/08/2009)- Grade 10

Objective: Helping students getting used to listening to English words without script and preparing them for movie review questions and literary features.

Assessment: Watching the movie: 'Prince Caspian-Narnia', to be continued with movie review questions and literary features of the film.

Lesson Summary (13/08/2009-Thursday)

GRADE 8

Objective: (Continued activity)Students were preparing poem questions for debating activities.

Assessment: (Group 3 & 4) Students were asked to generate poem questions in groups of 4 (four) and then they read the questions in class to be debated by the other groups. This lesson was very interactive and lively and students had a lot of fun.

GRADE 9A

Objective: Students learn to answer difficult reading questions.

Assessment: Reading, vocabulary check and answer critical reading comprehension questions.

Lesson summary for grade 9A & 9B (12/08/2009).

Grade 9B

Objective: Preparing students for; debating activity, Question & answer session (critical thinking questions), Vocabulary and writing work, Summary, Movie review Poster.

Assessment: Watching a movie and preparing to answer critical thinking questions and doing the above assessments as written in the objective beginning next class hours.

Grade 9A

Objective: Preparing students to speak better English words and sentences by being able to give opinions and suggestions.

Assessment: Oral presentations and Q.A.

Lesson summary (11/08/2009)

Grade 8

Objective: Students were preparing poem questions for debating activities.

Assessment: Students were asked to generate poem questions in groups of 4 (four) and then they read the questions in class to be debated by the other groups. This lesson was very interactive and lively and students had a lot of fun.

Grade 10
Objective: Students were given time to watch a movie (Prince Caspian) to enhance their listening skills and to prepare for further projects (Debating, critical thinking questions and movie review posters)

Assessments: Watch a movie and answer questions.

Grade 9b

Objective: Students were doing speaking activities; giving opinions and sharing their point of views about children's activities. After that, they answered vocabulary questions from their text books and finally watched a movie; Prince Caspian.

Assessment: Discussions (Speaking activities, writing and watch a movie to enhance their listening skills and to prepare for their poster projects, etc)

Lesson Summary for grade 9A/B & grade 10 (07/08/09)

Grade 9A/B.

Objective:1. Reading and answering questions about a leaflet and vocabulary check.
2. More difficult reading comprehension practice.
Assessment: Students were doing reading and writing from their ICCSE textbooks and after that
they were given worksheets from The English composition book for class practice.

Grade 10.

Objective: Students practice more difficult reading comprehension from their High school English composition w sheets and discuss the meaning of words and phrases and matching work from their IGCSE books.

Assessment: Reading, writing and vocabulary practice.

Lesson summary for the 6th of August 2009.

Grade-8

Objective: Students practice speaking and writing in English by doing their role plays about : The Interview.

Assessment: Students prepare role plays about a television interview between a reporter and
a government official and the topic of the interview is about an epidemic.

Grade -9A

Objective: Students practice reading and writing skills by creating questions from newspaper reading and critical thinking reading material to improve their writing skills.

Assessment: Newspaper reading and reading material from the IGCSE text book and Internet practice ( students were working in partners)

Grade 1o

Objective: Students practice their reading and vocabulary skills.

Assessment: Reading, discussions and vocabulary check from the IGCSE text book.

Lesson summary (05/08/2009) for grade 9A & B

Objective:
Students learn to answer critical thinking questions from reading and writing multiple choice practice material from the IGCSE and IELTS books.

Assessment:
1. Reading (critical thinking questions)
2. Writing and grammar practice.

Lesson summary (4/08/2009)

Grade-8
Objective: students learn to practice speaking and writing.

Assessment:Students continued with their speaking practice and performed a string story telling. All the students were asked to participate. After that the students were asked to create dialogue questions for an epidemic/pandemic, topic (s); Swine flu, Birdf flu, others.

Grade-10

Objective: Students learn about critical thinking questions in reading and language study.

Assessment: Critical thinking multiple choice , vocabulary and reading paragraphs on extended reasoning topics.

Grade 9B

Objective: Reading and language study from the IGCSE text book and doing an oral presentation.

Assessment: Reading and language study, incorporating written practice and discussion.

LESSON SUMMARY (31/07/09) FOR GRADES: 9 & 10

GRADE 9A

OBJECTIVE: Students prepare to do their final preparation for the oral preparation about 'A plot of Land' and learn to answer listening comprehension questions from their IGCSE work books and do reading for vocabulary and grammar.

ASSESSMENT:
1. IGCSE work book, exam focus by reading and grammar practice from page 1-3.
2. Unit 4 from the IGCSE work book, doing listening exercise (Task 2 page 21)



GRADE 9b

OBJECTIVE: Students prepare to do their final preparation for the oral preparation about 'A plot of Land' and learn to answer listening comprehension questions from their IGCSE work books and do reading for vocabulary and grammar.

ASSESSMENT:
1. IGCSE work book, exam focus by reading and grammar practice from page 1-3.
2. Unit 4 from the IGCSE work book, doing listening exercise (Task 2 page 21)

GRADE 10

OBJECTIVE: On that day, students were able to strengthen their vocabulary skills from page 55 Unit 12 of their work books. Besides this students did an IGCSE listening practice from page 63 Unit-14 (Topic: A conservationist being interviewed about the world's smallest Lizard). Besides this students were able to enhance their speaking skills by doing some exercises from the TOEFL book.

ASSESSMENT:
1.Reading and understanding new vocabulary through discussions and review from the dictionary
2. Listening from the IGCSE work book.
2. Speaking exercise from the TOEFL book.

Lesson Summary (Thursday 30/7), grades 8, 9 & 10

Grade-8A

Objective: Students practice speaking and learn to express their ideas into words.
Assessment:Students were asked to finish their summaries on the chosen stories and prepare a complete one according to the diagram that they have sketched incorporating the following important aspects;
plot, rising action, falling action and conclusion.

Grade -9 A

Objective: Students practice their reading skills (Skimming and Scanning) and learn new vocabulary.
Assessment: Students were asked to work on their reading , writing and vocabulary practice from page 1 - 4 (IGCSE workbook).


GRADE-10
Objective: Students practice their reading and writing skills and learn new vocabulary.
Assessment: Students were asked to work on their reading , writing and vocabulary practice from unit 12 (IGCSE workbook).

Lesson summary for date: 29/07/09 (Wednesday) -Grade 9A

GRADE 9A (Period 5)- Unit-1 (Leisure and entertainment)

Topic: Focus on reading skills (leisure & Entertainment)- Unit-1 (IGCSE Cambridge text book).

Objective: Students learn new vocabulary from the unit and discuss about skimming and scanning and answering key word questions about a leaflet.

Assessment: Group work, discussing meaning of words, Skimming & scanning to answer

key word questions about a leaflet.

Lesson Summary ( 10/07/2009)
Grade: 9 B

Objective:
1.Students learn how an adjective is connected to a Noun, an adverb is connected to a verb and how certain words change in relevance to grammatical forms.
2.Students work in a group to prepare a speech presentation;
Topic: Land development.
3.Students were reading and answering critical thinking questions.

Assessment:Structure writing, Vocabulary, Group work (preparing an oral presentation)and reading.

Lesson summaries for grade 8,9,10 for date: 28/07/2009.

Lesson Summary for Tuesday the 28th of July 2009.
GRADE: 8a
Period 1 + 2; Unit-1 (Talking teams) (Check point English 2)

Unit-1 Topic: (Talking teams)

e.g:(a). About a spooky experience

Objective & Assessment.

Speaking (expressing what is in students' minds in the form of words and writing work)

1. Students learn to discuss in English in groups.

2. Students learn to write and narrate the best story from one of the pairs.

3. Students prepare a plot.

GRADE: 10 (Period 3 & 4) (IGCSE Cambridge text book)
Topics: people & Relationships- (Unit-12)

Objectives:Discussing comparative adjectives and Speaking skills.
Students learn grammar skills : the difference between Adjective and Adverb and comparatives (one,two and three syllabled words) and discuss in group for their oral presentations.

Assessments:
1. Discussion in groups and finally oral string presentations.
2. Grammar- Comparatives- writing work.


GRADE 9B (Period 6 &7)

Topic: Focus on reading skills (leisure & Entertainment)- Unit-1 (IGCSE Cambridge text book)

Objective: Students learn new vocabulary from the unit and discuss about skimming and scanning and answer 'Leaflet' questions.

GRADE 7B -ENGLISH PRACTICAL EXAMINATION PREPARATION

English Oral Examination

Topic: Graffiti Art

Mode of presentation:

1. Students prepare their Graffiti art poster in groups and show it to the class. Then each student in the groups must share something about it for 3 – 5 minutes. The criteria for grading are based on; VOCABULARY, CONTENT / CONVERSATIONAL APPROPRIACY / CREATIVITY, GRAMMAR / STRUCTURE, PRONUNCIATION/FLUENCY.

2. Students have to face the whole class while doing their presentations.

3. Students are allowed to use palm cards during the oral presentation. If they read from any notes, their instructor will automatically take off at least 10 points from the overall oral presentation grade. No notes other than the handout/outline are permitted

Guiding questions:

1. What is Graffiti art? Is it vandalism?

2. What kind of people do this and why?

3. What's your opinion of graffiti in general? Does it have artistic merit (or worth)or is it a nuisance?

4. What's the funniest graffiti you've ever seen?

5. Explain in your own words the idea, techniques, spray, color, and the materials used for creating your poster.

6. Was it easier to do the work in groups or on your own? Why?

7. Is there any Graffiti in your home town or city?

8. What have you gained from this oral assignment preparation? Have you learned something out of it?

Oral presentation grading sheet

A-VOCABULARY (25%)

0 - 9: Inaccurate, insufficient for level; incomprehensible

10-13: Inadequate for level, errors sometimes preclude comprehension; key words not prepared

14-16: Errors are frequent but generally do not preclude comprehension; or limited vocabulary - even if accurate

17-19: Resourceful, errors do not obscure meaning; demonstrates preparation

20-25: Broad range, appropriate for context, resourceful; demonstrates preparation

B- CONTENT / CONVERSATIONAL APPROPRIACY / CREATIVITY (25%)

0 - 14: Little information conveyed, disconnected or disorganized ideas, and/or fails to engage with partner(s)

15-16: Lacks logical sequencing; little substance; says less than required

17-19: Topic covered but minimally; and/or limited connection of ideas; and/or lacks social conventions

20-22: Topic covered; limited development of ideas; most information relevant to topic, at least some social conventions included; creative

23-25: Informative; original & well-developed ideas; demonstrates creativity; and/or detailed coverage of topic

C-GRAMMAR / STRUCTURE (25%)

0 - 14: Generally inaccurate, with exception of set phrases; largely incomprehensible

15-16: Meaning frequently unclear due to frequent errors; extremely limited range of grammatical structures

17-19: Mistakes sometimes affect meaning, though adequate; and/or limited range of grammatical structures

20-22: Meaning generally clear despite mistakes; good range of structures

23-25: Wide range of structures, mostly accurate

D- PRONUNCIATION/FLUENCY (25%)

0 - 9: Halting, fragmented, unnatural pauses make it difficult to follow, pronunciation frequently unintelligible

10-12: Listener must make a concerted effort to understand; halting speech, lack of sufficient preparation

13-16: Discourse flows; mispronunciations are comprehensible, shows preparation

17-19: Clearly making an effort to pronounce accurately; occasional mispronunciations; few unnatural pauses

20-25: Language flows well, no unnatural pauses; few mispronunciation.

TOTAL (100%)

GRADE 8 -PRACTICAL EXAMINATION PREPARATION.

English Oral Examination

Mode of presentation:

1. Students prepare their oral presentations in groups and show it to the class. Then each student in the group must share something about it for 3 – 5 minutes. The criteria for grading are based on; VOCABULARY, CONTENT / CONVERSATIONAL APPROPRIACY / CREATIVITY, GRAMMAR / STRUCTURE, PRONUNCIATION/FLUENCY.

2. Students have to face the whole class while doing their presentations.

3. Students are allowed to use palm cards during the oral presentation. If they read from any notes, their instructor will automatically take off at least 10 points from the overall oral presentation grade. No notes other than the handouts/outlines are permitted.

Students must choose their oral presentation from one of the following topics:

1. Lost in a big city.
2. Alternative fuel energy.
3. Someone you admired the most that has made a difference in your life.
4. Your goals after you finish high school.
5. How would our life be in the future .
6. Tradition.
7. The environment in relevance to the green house gasses.

Topics other than the above must be discussed with the teacher first.

Oral presentation grading sheet

A-VOCABULARY (25%)

0 - 9: Inaccurate, insufficient for level; incomprehensible

10-13: Inadequate for level, errors sometimes preclude comprehension; key words not prepared

14-16: Errors are frequent but generally do not preclude comprehension; or limited vocabulary - even if accurate

17-19: Resourceful, errors do not obscure meaning; demonstrates preparation

20-25: Broad range, appropriate for context, resourceful; demonstrates preparation

B- CONTENT / CONVERSATIONAL APPROPRIACY / CREATIVITY (25%)

0 - 14: Little information conveyed, disconnected or disorganized ideas, and/or fails to engage with partner(s)

15-16: Lacks logical sequencing; little substance; says less than required

17-19: Topic covered but minimally; and/or limited connection of ideas; and/or lacks social conventions

20-22: Topic covered; limited development of ideas; most information relevant to topic, at least some social conventions included; creative

23-25: Informative; original & well-developed ideas; demonstrates creativity; and/or detailed coverage of topic

C-GRAMMAR / STRUCTURE (25%)

0 - 14: Generally inaccurate, with exception of set phrases; largely incomprehensible

15-16: Meaning frequently unclear due to frequent errors; extremely limited range of grammatical structures

17-19: Mistakes sometimes affect meaning, though adequate; and/or limited range of grammatical structures

20-22: Meaning generally clear despite mistakes; good range of structures

23-25: Wide range of structures, mostly accurate

D- PRONUNCIATION /FLUENCY D- PRONUNCIATION (25%)

0 - 9: Halting, fragmented, unnatural pauses make it difficult to follow, pronunciation frequently unintelligible

10-12: Listener must make a concerted effort to understand; halting speech, lack of sufficient preparation

13-16: Discourse flows; mispronunciations are comprehensible, shows preparation

17-19: Clearly making an effort to pronounce accurately; occasional mispronunciations; few unnatural pauses

20-25: Language flows well, no unnatural pauses; few mispronunciation.

TOTAL (100%)

Grouping

Group-1 Group-2 Group-3

Alde Alan Theo

Steven Andreas David

Kevin Jeremiah Matthew

Timi Sura

Group-4 Group-5 Group-6

Chae Bin Carla Levina

Elaine Anastasia Monica

Group-7 Group-8 Group-9

Helena Julita Anthonny

Marshella Juanita Angel

Individual presentations by:

Jovis & Sugyong.

Grade 9 English practical examination.

GRADE		9 (nine)
PRACTICAL EXAM PREPARATION

Mode of presentation:

1. Students prepare their oral presentations in groups and show it to the class. Then each student in the group must share something about it for 3 – 5 minutes. The criteria for grading are based on; VOCABULARY, CONTENT / CONVERSATIONAL APPROPRIACY / CREATIVITY, GRAMMAR / STRUCTURE, PRONUNCIATION/FLUENCY.

2. Students have to face the whole class while doing their presentations.

3. Students are allowed to use palm cards during the oral presentation. If they read from any notes, their instructor will automatically take off at least 10 points from the overall oral presentation grade. No notes other than the handouts/outlines are permitted.

Students must choose their oral presentation from one of the following topics:

1. Lost in a big city.
2. Alternative fuel energy.
3. Someone you admired the most that has made a difference in your life.
4. Your goals after you finish high school.
5. How would our life be in the future .
6. Tradition.
7. The environment in relevance to the green house gasses.

Topics other than the above must be discussed with the teacher first.

Oral presentation grading sheet

A-VOCABULARY (25%)

0 - 9: Inaccurate, insufficient for level; incomprehensible

10-13: Inadequate for level, errors sometimes preclude comprehension; key words not prepared

14-16: Errors are frequent but generally do not preclude comprehension; or limited vocabulary - even if accurate

17-19: Resourceful, errors do not obscure meaning; demonstrates preparation

20-25: Broad range, appropriate for context, resourceful; demonstrates preparation

B- CONTENT / CONVERSATIONAL APPROPRIACY / CREATIVITY (25%)

0 - 14: Little information conveyed, disconnected or disorganized ideas, and/or fails to engage with partner(s)

15-16: Lacks logical sequencing; little substance; says less than required

17-19: Topic covered but minimally; and/or limited connection of ideas; and/or lacks social conventions

20-22: Topic covered; limited development of ideas; most information relevant to topic, at least some social conventions included; creative

23-25: Informative; original & well-developed ideas; demonstrates creativity; and/or detailed coverage of topic

C-GRAMMAR / STRUCTURE (25%)

0 - 14: Generally inaccurate, with exception of set phrases; largely incomprehensible

15-16: Meaning frequently unclear due to frequent errors; extremely limited range of grammatical structures

17-19: Mistakes sometimes affect meaning, though adequate; and/or limited range of grammatical structures

20-22: Meaning generally clear despite mistakes; good range of structures

23-25: Wide range of structures, mostly accurate

D- PRONUNCIATION /FLUENCY D- PRONUNCIATION (25%)

0 - 9: Halting, fragmented, unnatural pauses make it difficult to follow, pronunciation frequently unintelligible

10-12: Listener must make a concerted effort to understand; halting speech, lack of sufficient preparation

13-16: Discourse flows; mispronunciations are comprehensible, shows preparation

17-19: Clearly making an effort to pronounce accurately; occasional mispronunciations; few unnatural pauses

20-25: Language flows well, no unnatural pauses; few mispronunciation.

TOTAL (100%)

GROUPS

Group-1 Group-2 Group-3 Group-4 Group-5

1 Arlene 1. Bagas 1. Vania 1. Zahrah 1.Stephanie

2 Na Rae 2. R.J 2. Jessica 2.Veronica 2.Clarissa.

3 Debby 3. Aldo 3. Prisca

4 Tasha 4. Edric 4. Sherlyn

5 Abbigail 5. Filbert 5. Fiona

6. Darren

Group-6

1. Kevin

2. J.Deacon

Individual: Individual:

1.Monica 1.Shilla

Lesson summary for Grade 8 and 9( Monday:18/05/09)

Grade 9 students were given exercise practice on vocabulary, reading and writing to prepare them for the final examination.

Vocabulary practice grade 9.
Vocabulary practice-Grade-9-(Write the meaning of the following words)
1. Tryst.
2. Substantially.
3. Suppressed
4. Grandeur
5. Rebellion
6. Overly-subscribed
7. Hybrid
8. Magnitude.
9. Devastating
10.pressing
11.Destiny
12.eco friendly
13.converting.

Answer the following questions:

1. What is the difference between vegetable fuel and fossil fuel?

2. What is the difference between (a) a turbine, (b) an engine, (c) a car, and (d) a windmill.

Now open your Text book on page number 109 -110 and do the exercise –(part-G)

Translate the following into your own words:

Freedom and power bring responsibility. That responsibility rests upon this assembly, a sovereign body representing the sovereign body of Turkey. Before the birth of this country, we have endured all the pains of labor and our hearts are heavy with the memory of this sorrow. Some of those pains continue even now. Nevertheless, the past is over and it is the future that calls us now

1. Express in your own words;

(a) a tryst with destiny;

(b) at the midnight hour

(c) To step out from the old to the new.

Lesson summary (14/05/09) -Grade 7b/ grade 8 & Grade 9.

Grade 7b

Students were working on unit 9 and 10 ( review and practice of reading and grammar)

Grammar practice- Conditional 1 & 2 and the 'Wish' clause.
After that they were doing research for their story writing activity ; Dorian Grey, Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hyde and Frankenstein.

Grade 8

Students were working on their formal letter assignment and after that the class reviewed their pretest test papers for final exam preparation.

Grade 9
Students continued to finish their oral test in groups of 3 and 4. Each student were asked to talk for a duration of 3 to five minutes.

Summary of lessons conducted in class (Grade 8 & 9)

Grade 9.

Students were put in groups to prepare for their Oral tests. The topics given were:
1. Lost in a big city.
2. The person that I admired the most in my life.
3. My goals in life and how can I achieve them.
4. Alternative fuel energy- Hybrid engines.
5.Democracy.
The oral presentation is marked based on the following criteria:
1. Organization
2. Style
3. Use of communication aids
4. Depths of content.

Grade 8
Students were working on their movie summary and writing the formal letter as class exercise.

Lesson summary for grade 8 & 9.(11/0509)

Grade 9 & 8

Topic:Understanding Formal letter.

Teacher explain how a formal letter is made by making a sketch of the formal letter on the white board and students were asked to re explain the concept and create a formal business letter with the teacher's guidance and worksheet sample. The objective of this lesson is to prepare students for their final examination.

Lesson summary (07/05/09)for grade 8 , 9 & 7b

Grade 9

Discussing pretest paper questions and doing listening and reading comprehension from the Cambridge workbook and textbook.

Grade 8

Students were working on their movie review summary and critical thinking questions.

Grade 7b

Students were having a reading, writing and grammar pretest to prepare themselves for their final examination.

lesson summary for Grade 8 & 9 (5th. - 6th.May,09)

Grade 8
Students were watching the movie 'The magical legend of the Leprechaun'. The objective of watching the movie is to prepare students to answer critical thinking movie review questions and summary.

Grade 9
Students were doing reading, listening comprehension and letter writing practice from their Cambridge textbook to prepare for their pretest and final exam.

Lesson summary of grade 8 & 9 on the 4th of May,09 (Monday)

Grade 9

Students learn about parallel structure with paired conjunctions. The aims and objective of the lesson is to help students create good sentences using equal structures with the correct coordination of words.

Please see sample of sentence forms;

1. Conjunctions (And,But,Or)

• 1. He discussed the problem with the nurse and the doctor.

Two nouns: nurse and doctor joined by the coordinate conjunction ‘And’

• 2. The professor was knowledgeable but boring.

Two Adjectives joined by the coordinate conjunction ‘But’.

• 3. She hikes, jogs, or rides her bicycle whenever she can.

• Three verbs are joined by the coordinate conjunction ‘Or’

2. Paired conjunction and parallel structure sentences.

• The paired conjunction both…..and, either….or, neither…..nor and not only…..but also , require parallel structure.

1. The lecture was both informative and enjoyable.
2. Either the history exam or the physics exam is on Tuesday.
3. The missing papers are neither on his desk nor in the file.
4. He visited not only his cousin but also his grandmother.

1.

Lesson summary for grade 7,8 and 9 (01/05/05)

Grade 7b

Students were having an English test on writing, reading, and multiple choice to prepare them for their final exam.

Grade 8

Continue with their movie 'The Legend of the Leprechauns' to prepare for a summary and to answer movie review questions.

Grade 9

Final discussion about students' pretest papers in order to prepare them for their final English end year examination.

Lesson summary for Thursday (30/04) for grade 7b and grade 8

Grade 7b
Students learn to match pictures and answer grammar questions about Infinitives and Gerund and did reading, discussions and answer questions. After that the students continued to work on their Graffiti posters for their oral presentations next week.

Grade 8

The class was discussing Grammar (Future perfect and future continuous) and also converting jumbled up words into proper sentences from unit 10. After that they watched a movie about 'The Legend of the Leprechauns'.

Lesson Summary for Wednesday (29/4) for grade 7b.grade 8 and grade 9

Grade 8

Answer questions on non-fiction material

In this section you will be given extracts to read and answer questions on. Read the questions carefully and make sure you give the exact information required.

Practice using front pages from two newspapers which are presenting two versions of the same news story. Read the two articles and then answer the following questions:

Compare how the story is presented in the two articles.

In your answer, you should comment on:

· The views expressed

· Use of language

· Layout and presentation

When you have completed the question, answer these additional questions on the two articles:

A Who do you think are the target audiences for the two articles? Explain how you know.

B What are the aims of the writers of both articles? How do we know this?

C How do the headlines affect the reader?

Grade 7b

This week, grade 7b students were given information about Gerund & Infinitives. After doing writing practice from book 3, students were able to work in groups in the library to discuss about Graffiti ( Is it a crime?). Students were given structured questions to prepare an oral presentation and a graffiti poster.

Grade 9

Students were discussing test paper questions and teacher was explaining some of the problems that the children faced.