Homework for Monday

Review for the final grammar test:
Finish verb tense sentences - I will come at 10:30 to check them.
Review all verb tenses, modals, and articles (a, the, some), count, non-count

Review for the reading test:
Review old vocabulary, look at main ideas/topic practice before the readings in the book.

Thursday Homework

• Contact USA pages 147, 148, 149
• Re-write the paragraph about your room if you got less than 9/10
• Write 3 sentences using. Because S+V, S+V.   S+V because S+V.  S+V, so S+V.
• Study for the vocabulary quiz + your 5 words

1. Guarantee              promise
2. Prevent                  stop something from happening
3. Disability              physical or mental problem that makes a person not able to do something
4. Discrimination      being unfair to someone because of the person’s race, religion, gender.
5. Equality                 treating people the same, having the same chances under the law.
6. Ideally                   in the best possible situation, but not always really true
7. Adequate               enough, goo enough but not great
8. Background           experience, life or work history
9. Illegal                     against the law
10. Social class           level in society, for example upper, middle, or lower

Wednesday homework

Photocopy of connecting words
Contact USA page 142, 143

Weekend Homework

Grammar pages 52, 52, 54, 136, 138, 139
Finish reading the Count of Monte Cristo Chapters 13-15
On paper answer the questions on pages 53-54  #26 and 27 on paper.

Words for Friday's Vocabulary Quiz

Vocabulary Quiz Week 8

1.       Influences                           changes, has an effect

2.       Financial                               economic, related to money

3.       Productive                          useful

4.       Afford                                   have enough money , be able to buy

5.       Provide                                 give

6.       Concerned                          worried

7.       Salary                                    money earned from a job

8.       discount                              to have a lower price

9.       Retire                                    to stop working at a job when a person is older

10.   Attitude                               way of thinking, belief

11.   Define                                  to say what something, or what something means

12.   Volunteer                           to work without getting paid or do something to be helpful

Wednesday homework

Grammar review count/non count nouns on page 46. Find 10 non-count nouns in your home.
Contact USA pages 120, 121, 123 and 127 (timed reading)

Tuesday Homework

Grammar pages 42, 42, 44, 45
Review the Reading Test in Contact USA page 118-119

Homework for Thursday READING TEST ON FRIDAY!!!

Review main ideas and bring your Contact USA Book for a reading skills test.
Grammar:  page 87

Study for the vocabulary quiz: your five words  + Contact USA Words

1.      Interaction                              person to person contact

2.      Primary                                   most important, basic

3.      Remain                                    stay

4.      Reaction                                  response, feeling when something happens

5.      Postpone                                 wait until later

6.      Face (v)                                   to have in front of

7.      Conservative                           traditional, following old ways

8.      Liberal                                     open to change, following new ways

9.      Emphasize                               to show something is important, focus on a lot

10.  Current                                    modern, contemporary, happening nowadays

11.  Opportunity                             chance to do something

12.  Technology                              scientific development, useful new things made by science

 

 

Wednesday Homework

1. Write a paragraph that gives advice to a person traveling to your country.
Use: should, can, have to, don't have to , must, must not.
Look at the example about Australia that I gave you in class.

2. Contact USA review page 103 finish 104 (from yesterday) and  try the summary on page 105

Tuesday Homework

Grammar pages 78, 79,  80, 81
Contact USA: Re pread pages 99-100 Do the exercises on pages 102, 103, 104
Bring 5 new vocabulary words and their meanings.

Monday Homework

Contact USA: pages  98 to 101.
Grammar  pages  76-77

Weekend Homework

Read Count of Monte Cristo chapters 8 and 9 pages 19-24 and answer the questions below:

1. What did Edmond learn from Faria?

2. What is the problem with Faria?  Will he live a long time?

3. What does Faria show Edmond? What is special about it? 

4. Who was Cesare Borgia?  Why does Faria talk about him?

5. What do you think will happen next?


Write a paragraph about your future. What are you going to do during in December during the break? What will you do next quarter? What will you when you finish ESL? What will you do when you graduate from SSCC?


If you didn't do it yesterday, write a paragraph about a holiday in your country. Look at the Halloween photocopy for an example.

Homework for Thursday

Schedule for Friday November 1st

10:30 Grammar Review
11:00 Grammar Re-Test for people who had 75% or lower
12:00 Normal Class


Homework for Thursday Night: 
Grammar pages 22-23
Photocopy about Halloween. Read and do the vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises.
Write a paragraph about a holiday in your country

Wednesday Homework

Contact USA pages 82,  84, 88-89
Write 10 sentences with hard, new words from page 81.

Extra writing  practice: How would an American feel if he or she came to your country? What are some cultural differences that might cause culture shock for an American in your country?

Tuesday homework

Contact USA pages 79-82

Write a short paragraph about your experience with culture shock. How did you feel? What confused you you first arrived?

Grammar Practice with WILL : Write 4 sentences using:
          will,      won't,      will  ?  ,      won't ?

People who got below 75% on the grammar test, please come to class at 10:30 for more practice.

Monday Homework

Grammar pages 18-21 Future Tense

Weekend Homework

Study for the grammar and writing test on Monday

Review More Grammar Practice pages: 2-17, 24-29, 70-73.
Review the photocopies : Self Test and Used to
Review the paragraph about your county and the paragraph about your city. You will need to write a similar paragraph in class.

Read Count of Monte Cristo chapters 6 and 7 and answer the questions on the photocopy.

Homework for Thursday

Study your words and Contact USA words for the vocabulary quiz tomorrow.

Contact USA words

1. waste - use poorly
2. essential - very important, necessary
3. source - origin, where something comes from
4. native - original to a country
5. diet - eating habit, eating plan, usual food
6. alternative- different choice
7. plenty - a lot of
8. common place - usual, normal
9. fresh - new (usually for food) natural not frozen or in a can
10. upset - worried, angry

Tuesday homework

Photocopy page 35 (used to)
Photocopy Exercise 16, simple past progressive

5 sentences that show the meaning from the words on page 60
5 words of your own with the meanings

Contact USA page 63

Homework for Monday

Read:

Contact USA page 59. Do the exercises on pages 60 and 61.

Weekend Homework

Read Count of Monte Cristo chapters 3 and 4
Write a paragraph about your city using the outline we did in class on Friday.
Grammar photocopy

Thursday Homework

Review for Vocabulary quiz:

Words from Contact USA       +       your 5 words

1. aspect - side, part
2. conflict - problem, disagreement
3. violence - using force, hurting people
4. space -room, area around something
5. shift - change
6. condominium - apartment that a person owns
7. benefit - good thing
8. suburb - area outside a city where people live
9. increase - to go up in number
10. decrease to go down in number

Brainstorm (make a list of ideas) about your city, and bring a picture of your city if you can.

Start Grammar photocopy (Due on Monday)
Start Chapers 4-5 in Count of Monte Cristo (Due Monday)

Wednesday Homework

Grammar pages 70, 71, 72, 73. Write your answers on paper except (but not) for pages 71 exercise 4 and 73 exercise 3.  You can do them in the book.

Contact USA page 49 and 50 C

Bring a picture of your city tomorrow.

Tuesday Homework

Contact USA Re-read page 40, then try page 44 (if you didn't already do it)  and page 45, B Reading comprehension.

Bring 5 new vocabulary words with their meanings and sentences for your quiz on Friday.


**If you were absent and celebrating Eid, please write a one page paragraph telling about the past and present of Eid.  What did people do in the past?  Why do Moslems celebrate this holiday? What do you usually do to celebrate Eid?

Monday Homework

Contact USA pages 39-43

Weekend Homework

For Monday read: Count of Monte Cristo Chapters 1, 2, 3 pages 1-7 and answer the questions on page 49.



For Friday

Study for the quiz.
Vocabulary

1. immigrant - person who leaves their country to live in another country
2. opportunity - chance
3. economic  - financial, related to money
4. diversity - having many different kinds of people
5. assistance - help
6. neighborhood -  area in a city
7. political - related to government and laws
8. social - related to a group of people
9. unwilling - not wanting to do something
10. divide - separate, make into parts

Review simple past, irregular verbs, negatives and questions in the simple past.

Write a paragraph about the history in your country. Use simple past tense.

Wednesday homework

Grammar Book pages 28, 28 exercise 1 & 2 on paper
Photocopy pages 76, 78, 79
Contact USA pages page 31 & 32 Vocabulary

Tuesday Homework

Grammar page 27 in book, photocopy pages 74, 75, 77
Start irregular verb list - Due Friday
Contact USA page 25, 26

Monday Homework

Contact USA pages 21, 22, 23
Grammar pages 24, 25 and study the irregular verbs on page 26

For next Monday October 14, start reading Count of Monte Cristo Chapters 1-3 pages 1-7.
Answer the questions on page 49

Weekend homework

Read the Introduction to the Count of Monte Cristo pages v-vii
Make a list of any new words.
Write three questions about the introduction or the story.

Thursday Homework

Photocopy "Understanding Main Ideas" pages  97, 98, 99  (finish all if you want)
Study for quiz:

• Your vocabulary words
• Words from Contact USA: concept, impression, immediately, lifestyle, scenery, entertainment, adjust, involve, profession, institution
• Grammar- Simple Present, Present Progressive, non-action verbs, questions, negatives
  
  
  

Wednesday Homework

Grammar Book pages 15, 16, 17
Write about your life in America. Use the diary on pages 14 and 15 as an example.
Review Vocabulary for a quiz on Friday:
concept
impression
immediately
lifestyle
scenery
entertainment
adjust
involve
profession
institution

Tuesday HW

Bring 5 new words and the meaning to share with a classmate and for a quiz
Photocopy page 4, 5
Grammar Book page 12-13

Optional / extra if you want
Write five sentences using words form Contact USA page  18

Homework For Monday

Re-write your "Introduction to Myself" paragraph. Fix the mistakes and add some more information.
Grammar  pages10-11 Write the answers for exercises 1, 2, 3 on paper, so I can collect them.
Contact USA pages 14, 16, 17

Weekend Homework

More Grammar Practice 2 pages 6, 7, 8, 9

Contact USA page 13

Thursday Homework

Study for vocabulary quiz (your own words)
Contact USA pages 7-8
Grammar pages  2, 3 4, 5

Homework for Wednesday

Answer the questions on page 3 and read page 4 in Contact USA.

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