Valuable Lessons: Discussion, Listening, Reading, Writing
Objectives
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to ...
Introduction
Parents often try to teach their children lessons by saying things such as “Don’t cross the street before looking both ways,” “Wash your hands before eating,” “Eat your vegetables,” and “Don’t talk to strangers.”
Task 1.
Discussion Forum
If you have children, what sayings like these do you tell your children?
If you do not have children, what did your parents say to you to try to teach you life lessons?
Enter your answers by replying to the post in the News forum.
Then continue on in the lesson to Listening and Reading.
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to ...
- Identify main ideas and key information in a media presentation (audio recording of an essay)
- Identify main ideas and supporting details in a text (essay) using a variety of reading strategies (deducing meaning of vocabulary words using context clues, skimming and scanning, making inferences and drawing conclusions)
- Compose a well-organized, coherent narrative paragraph demonstrating sentence variety and appropriate word choices
- Modify writing based on peer and instructor feedback
Introduction
Parents often try to teach their children lessons by saying things such as “Don’t cross the street before looking both ways,” “Wash your hands before eating,” “Eat your vegetables,” and “Don’t talk to strangers.”
Task 1.
Discussion Forum
If you have children, what sayings like these do you tell your children?
If you do not have children, what did your parents say to you to try to teach you life lessons?
Enter your answers by replying to the post in the News forum.
Then continue on in the lesson to Listening and Reading.
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