Victoria's Page

Hello, everyone! I will be posting homework and other information on this page. Please visit often!

Here is a link to a blog post in which an English teacher recommends ten good WEBSITES FOR PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE.

APA guide from Perdue University Online Writing Lab: Click Here

Here is a link to a listening game at Lingual-Net.

Have you heard of the Academic Word List?

It's a list of the most frequently used words found in English textbooks and academic writing.

Here is link to quizzes on the AWL.

SELECTED TOPICS Class: 

Homework:

Due on Friday, April 4, 2014

Create a map that includes at least 6 places you like to go.

Your map can be of places in Rochester, or anywhere in the US.

Label your 6 places, and show how they relate to each other.

Click HERE for a link to our class syllabus.

GRAMMAR HOMEWORK: 

This is our textbook. It is in the bookstore. Please bring it to class.

LISTENING/ SPEAKING HOMEWORK: 

Due Monday, 4-21-14: Unit 5 assessment - Read pp. 120-123. Prepare your presentation according to the instructions. You need at least 8 wordless slides, and each person must speak for at least 2 minutes. You may work in pairs, groups, or individually. Use AWL vocabulary in your presentation. Please follow all directions. 

If you missed class on 4-15-14: Please hand in Exercise C, page 114. Write 6 sentences using the collocations listed.

Today, 4-9-14, listen to this message from Victoria:

For homework due today, 4-9-14, follow these instructions:
Record your response and send to me at: vlbolton@gmail.com

For Monday, 4-7-14, create a Voicethread presentation comparing and contrasting the two TED talks we saw in class: Brain Magic and Optical Illusions

Your presentation must answer the question: How can the mind deceive the eye?

Your Voicethread must have 

at least 8 slides/photos, 

each slide will have a voice recording, and 

you will play your presentation for the class. 

This project has no re-do date. 

If you are sick or absent, you will send your presentation to me BEFORE CLASS (vlbolton@gmail.com) and we will watch it in class. 

  

 CLICK here for the Cornell note format.

 

 

Due by 10pm, Monday, 3-17-14: 

Record a comment on this Voicethread (click to the second slide to see the questions you will answer):

  Room Change! We will now meet in Smyth 345 for all L/S 4 classes.

TOEFL PREPARATION:Click HERE for the link to the TOEFL Tips from EnglishClub.com (from class on 4-10-14).


Due Tuesday, 4-8-14, 8:30am: Choose one of the following writing prompts:

1. If you could go back to some time and place in the past, when and where would you go? Why? Use specific reasons and details to support your choice.

2.Imagine that you have received some land to use as you wish. How would you use this land? Use specific details to explain your answer.

Write a timed essay (30 minutes)

Share it with me using Google Drive/Docs (my email: vlbolton@gmail.com)

For Thursday, 3-20-14: 
DID YOU KNOW that YouTube has a TOEFL-TV channel? Check it out!

 Click HERE for the website we used in class on 2-18 for speaking strategies and practice.


For the AWL vocabulary quiz on 4-22-14:
1.accommodate
2. analogy
3. converse
4.distort
5. coherent
6. inherent
7. concurrent
8. coincide
9. protocol
10. rigid
11. trigger
12. mediate

For the Vocabulary Quiz on 4-15-14, learn the following words:

1.   appreciate

2. arbitrary

3. contradict

4. crucial

5.  exploit

6. fluctuate

7. manipulate

8. minimize

9. random

10.  via

11. virtual

12. reinforce

Click HERE for the Writing 4 practice site we used in class on 2-6-14.
Click HERE for the Listening practice site we used in class.
Click here for Free Rice. 

Click HERE for the EDITING SYMBOLS I will use to correct your papers.

Videos from 1-30: Speaking questions 3 & 5    and   Writing the Introduction (Independent writing task 2)

Click HERE for a link to our class syllabus.

Get a free TOEFL test planner here. 

READING/WRITING:Due 4-22-14: Short story for publication on the class blog. Polish and edit, send to me via Google Drive. 

 Due April 17th: Reflection on a topic of your choice. Be sure to:
1. Write in the first person
2.  Question, connect, apply, evaluate, show insight,  and strategize.

 Due Thursday, April 3, 2014: Persuasive/Argumentative Essay. Hand in 3 parts: 
1.Rough draft
2. Peer edit sheet (p.137-8)
3. Final draft: double spaced, printed.

Due Tuesday, April 8: Read chapter 5 of The Namesake and write a reflection about the chapter.
(one page, printed, double spaced, 12 point font).



Due Tuesday, March 25: Narrative Essay, 5 PARTS, according to the score sheet.


Click HERE for a link to the EDITING SYMBOLS I will use to correct your papers.

Click HERE for a link to our class syllabus.


PRONUNCIATION: Homework  due on Tuesday, March 31,2014:
Go to www.voicethread.com and create a free account.    Create a slideshow presentation of 3-5 photos with spoken captions.

Here is an example slideshow presentation:
Use the left and right ARROWS to see and listen to each slide and its spoken caption.

 Click  HERE for a link to the audio we heard in class today.
Scroll down the page to Clear Speech Fourth Edition, choose the appropriate unit.