CALL week 1 - welcome

Good morning and welcome to our 4A EFS class blog.

We are going to use this to communicate with each other. I will put up instructions for each CALL session, but I may also need to give you information at other times during the week when I'm not teaching you - so please check this space regularly.

I also want YOU to add posts to the blog:

• Do you use any English learning websites you would like to share with the rest of the class? Post a link on the blog and tell us why it is useful.
• Have you come across any English which is puzzling/amusing? Put it on the blog and we will try to help you work out what it means.
• Using the class blog is another way for you to use English to communicate - so use it!!

CALL for week 1

1.  Go to Moodle and find the Student Guide. Print it or save it to your USB.

2. Sentence structure practice

Go to the sentence structure website and print the page. You are going to review yesterday's lesson by identifying which sentences are simple, compound, or complex.

• highlight the verbs and underline the subject
• circle any co-ordinating conjunctions ('fanboys')
• put a rectangle around any subordinatiing conjunctions (p 163 Oshima & Hogue)
• underline the independent clause with a solid line
• underline any dependent clauses with a dotted line

3. Writing a paragraph

Choose one of the topic sentences from page 9, practice 2 of your course book. Identify the topic and the controlling idea, then write a paragraph on the topic. Post your paragraph to the blog. Don't be too concerned about mistakes! Remember we are all learning and we can learn a lot from the mistakes we make.