Wednesday, January 21st, 2015

Good afternoon CLB 7/8,

This afternoon, I would like you to begin by completing the final copy of your autobiography. This will be the first item in the 'About Me' section of your new portfolio.  Once you're finished, please print it and add it to your binder.  Don't forget to out the inventory page at the beginning of the 'About Me' section.

Senait, Ileana, & Peter, please follow this link to complete the CLB 7/8 needs assessment from a few weeks ago. (The rest of you have already completed it)

http://goo.gl/forms/MP5mJmcJOC

When I was reading your autobiographies, I noticed a few things that you could all use a little more practice with: articles, punctuation, and verb tenses.  Please refer to the following pages in the 'Helpful English' section of your portfolio binder: verb tenses, pg. 44-47 and punctuation, pg. 49. Here are some additional resources and exercises.

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html

http://www.englishpage.com/articles/a-vs-an.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1456_gramchallenge24/

http://www.englishpage.com/articles/a-an-vs-the.htm

http://www.englishpage.com/articles/advanced-articles.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1113_gramchallenge30/

http://chompchomp.com/terms/commasplice.htm

http://chompchomp.com/csfs01/csfs01.htm

While you're working on these tasks, I'll record you reading the pronunciation passage individually.

Enjoy!