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