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)