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LS 1 (Jenni)
Books/Materials
-Q Skills Listening and Speaking 1 and CD
-Impact Issues I
-Side by Side Videos
-Randall’s ESL Lab
-Lingtlanguage
-Bill Cosby Show
-Father Knows Best
-Jennifer English (for Review and HW)
Activities/Trips
-Weekly Lingtlanguage assignments
-Daily Randall’s ESL Lab
-Daily English conversation recordings (Named “English Lunch”)
-Line-up fluency drills
-Discussions from textbook units
-Discovery grammar activities
-Vocabulary/Grammar HW from text
-Unit vocabulary quizzes
-Pair work and small group work
-Jigsaw Activities
-Interview assignments and reporting
-Mini presentations based on topics from the book or interview assignments
-Interviews with Mansfield shop owners on North Main Street; Follow-up presentation
-Regular role plays
-Listening passages from Q Skills and Impact Issues with comprehension quizzes
-Re-enacted scenes from videos viewed in class (Side by Side)
-The Game of Clue to practice all verb tenses (particularly past progressive)
-Matching picture cards for opposites
-Family Tree Presentations with poster
-Telling a Joke Presentations
-Giving Advice Role Play
-Giving an Interview Role Play
-Jobs on Campus Interview Report
-Building a Dream Vacation Presentations with Power Point
-A Time When You Were Afraid Presentations
-Team Newscast with Power Point
Presentations
PowerPoint Presentation 1: Vacation in Ohio
Latifah and Rami: Wayne County
Tariq and Majed: Mohican
PowerPoint Presentation 2: Doing Something New for a Change
Majed: Visiting Germany
Tariq: Visiting New Places in Saudi Arabia
Latifah: Cooking Lasagna
Rami: Learning a New Language
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Power Presentation 3: Team Newscast
Latifah: International News
Rami: Local News
Tariq: Weather
Majed: Sports
LS 2 (none)
LS 3 (Marcus)
Books/Materials
-Q: Skills for Success Listening and Speaking 3
-Randall’s ESL Lab
-Psychology and Advertising (www. youtube.com/watch?v=EC&VLjIw8hY)
-Riley Thomas Stuart - Toyota Highlander Commercial (2010)
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=80pNUxIczig)
-Coca Cola “Big Game” Commercial 2014 (www.youtube.com/watch?v=443Vy3IogJs)
-Cooking with Jack Show
-Using Apostrophes in Contractions (From www.k12reader.com)
-Modal Exercises (From www.grammarbank.com)
Activities/Trips
-Daily Speaking Journals
-Weekly Randall’s ESL Lab Assignment
-Line-up Fluency Drills
-Discussion Questions from Textbook
Listening Skills from Textbook
-Vocabulary Skills from Textbook
-Grammar sections from Textbook
-Verbal Information Exchanges
-Vocabulary Context and Definition Match
-Vocabulary Letter Gap-Fill
-Vocabulary Synonym and Antonym Match
-Modal Hot-potato
-Pairs/Small group assignments
-Pop Presentations: Major issues, Coming to Ashland: The Good and the Bad, A Story of
Success, Healthy and Unhealthy foods from our home countries
-Listening passages from Q: Skills and the associated comprehension quizzes
-Follow-up Group Presentation for Mansfield and Fire Museum Trip
-Trip to downtown Mansfield and Fire museum
Presentations
Presentation #1 A Geat Leader
Cong Cong: Vladimir Putin
Shatha: Barack Obama
Anyan: Confucius
Mohammad: George Washington
Sulaiman: Lionel Messi
Shaopeng: Mao Zedong
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Reem: King Abdul Aziz
Khalid: Mohammad Bandar Al-Shalhoub
Rabab: Sheikh Sabah Al Khalid Al Sabah
Meng: Sir Alex Ferguson
Presentation #2 First Impressions
Mohammad: Asim
Cong Cong: Peggy Wu
Anyan: First Boss
Shatha: Nafhed Alnabet
Khalid: Othman
Rabab: Fatimah
Reem: Kabten Meshaal
Shaopeng: Hao Yipeng
Meng: Brother
Sulaiman: Abdullah Naze
Presentation #3 Food from my life and culture
Khalid: Haniny
Reem: Pasta
Rabab: Stuffed Grape Leaves
Sulaiman: White Rice and Chicken
Shatha: Msabeab
Anyan: Shredded Potatoes curd salad
Meng: Braised Pork
Mohammad: Mandi
Cong Cong: Bouilli
Presentation #4 A success and a failure and what you learned
Khalid: Learning to play soccer again
Shatha: Learning to speak English
Anyan: Composition Competition and Long Distance Race
Reem: Becoming a Professional Inventor
Rabab: Becoming a mother
Mohammad: Learning English and his first presentation at ACCESS
Cong Cong: Climbing Mount Huashan
Meng: Learning to Draw and Learning to play Dota
Presentation #5 A Personal Change: The Good and The Bad
Anyan: Changing her studying habits
Reem: Moving to America
Rabab: Moving to New Zealand
Meng: Changing his life for the better
Mohammad: Stages of Change
Khalid: Changing his diet
Presentation #6 Global Issues
Anyan: Global Warming
Reem: Fraud
Rabab: Obesity
Meng: Personal Confrontation
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Cong Cong: Childcare
Mohammad: Desertification
Khalid: Unemployment
LS 4 (Jessica)
Books/Materials
-Northstar Level 4
-Lecture Ready 2
-TED Talks
-Novascience Now (youtube)
Activities/Trips
-Line-up fluency drills
-Discussions from textbook units
-Using grammar errors from students’ discussion, writing the errors on the board, and
have the students find and correct the error (group work)
-Vocabulary/Grammar HW from text
-Unit vocabulary quizzes
-Pair work and small group work
-Interview assignments and reporting
-Role play (used to demonstrate the students’ understanding of common themes in TV
shows and movies)
-Listening passages from Northstar and Lecture Ready
-Audio Journals
-Debate
-Group Presentations (Should animals have certain rights? Discoveries in Health and
Medicine)
-Individual Presentations (“Linguistics” and “Media”)
-Trip to Ohio Bird Sanctuary with follow-up report
Presentations
PowerPoint Presentation 1: Social media and advertising
Sean-Impact of social media
Nasser-Uses for social media
Bob-Social Media in China
Abdullah-Social Media around the World
Yacht-How the news is affected by social media
Turki-Uses for social media
PowerPoint Presentation 2: Discoveries in Health and Science
Turki, Yacht, Nasser-Cancer Research
Sean, Abdullah, and Bob-What we know about sleep and health
PowerPoint Presentation 3: Linguistics
Nasser-Body Language
Sean-Which language is the hardest?
Yacht-Which language is the hardest?
Turki-Why people study English
Abdullah-Differences between Arabic and English
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Bob-What is more difficult, learn to speak or write?
PowerPoint Presentation 4: Animal Rights
Sean, Abdullah, and Nasser-Should people eat meat?
Yacht, Turki, and Bob-Should animal testing be allowed?
LS 5 (Linda)
Books/Materials
-No main text
-From Q-Skills 5
Unit 3, Listening 1 (Voluntourism) and 2 (Science Fairs and Nature Preserves)
-From Contemporary Topics 3
Unit 3 Social Status: Flaunting Your Success, Unit 4 Art of Marketing, Unit 12 Marriage
-From Lecture Ready 3
Chapter 1 New Trends in Marketing Research, Chapter 2 Business Ethics,
Chapter 6 Intelligent Machines, Chapter 8 Multiple Intelligences
-Videos:
TedTalks:
Diana Laufenberg: How to learn? From mistakes
http://www.ted.com/talks/diana_laufenberg_3_ways_to_teach
Elizabeth Gilbert: Success, failure and the drive to keep creating
http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_success_failure_and_the_drive_to_keep_crea
ting
Sarah Lewis: Embrace the near win
http://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_lewis_embrace_the_near_win
Shawn Achor: The Happy Secret to Better Work
http://www.ted.com/talks/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work
Derek Sivers: Weird or Just Different (Cloze as homework)
http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_weird_or_just_different
Richard St. John: 8 Secrets of Success
http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_st_john_s_8_secrets_of_success
-TedTalks Chosen by Students for Class Discussion:
Azooz: Diana Nyad, Extreme Swimming with the World’s Most Dangerous Jellyfish?
http://www.ted.com/talks/diana_nyad_extreme_swimming_with_the_world_s_most_dan
gerous_jellyfish?language=en#t-936615
Abdulaziz Alabdali: David Epstein, Are Athletes Really Getting Faster, Better,
Stronger?
http://www.ted.com/talks/david_epstein_are_athletes_really_getting_faster_better_strong
er
Hidemi Ine: Mikko Hypponen, Fighting Viruses, Defending the Net
http://www.ted.com/talks/mikko_hypponen_fighting_viruses_defending_the_net
David Chen: Vijay Kumar, Robots that Fly and Cooperate
http://www.ted.com/talks/vijay_kumar_robots_that_fly_and_cooperate
Hani: Dan Buettner, How to Live to Be 100
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_buettner_how_to_live_to_be_100#t-187748
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Rabab: Jon Mooallem, The Strange Story of the Teddy Bear and What It Reveals About
our Relationship to Animals
http://www.ted.com/talks/jon_mooallem_the_strange_story_of_the_teddy_bear_and_wha
t_it_reveals_about_our_relationship_to_animals
Andy (Ahmed) Albaqshi: Andrew Solomon, How the Worst Moments in Our Lives Make
Us Who We Are
https://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_solomon_how_the_worst_moments_in_our_lives_ma
ke_us_who_we_are
Fatimah Ghannam: Sheryl Sandberg, Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders
http://www.ted.com/talks/sheryl_sandberg_why_we_have_too_few_women_leaders#t35245
YouTube:
Peter Svenneby, with Syntuity: What are Soft Skills?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjc8h6r_N8w
David Helfand, Designing a University for the New Millenium
http://youtu.be/DZQe73IXZtU
Activities / Assignments/ Trips
-Listenings from Ted.com and YouTube (listed above)
-Quizzes and Tests
-Line-up Fluency Drills / “Speed Dating”
-Student-led discussions on student-chosen Ted Talks
-Interview assignments
-Mini presentations on results of interview assignments
-Audio Journals
-Individual Presentations
-Pair Presentations
-Team Presentations
-Debate
-Individual AU class observations with mini-presentation
-Taking notes – using Cornell method
-Vocabulary/Vocabulary Journal
-Cloze
-Trip to Ohio Bird Sanctuary
Presentations
Individual:
Abdulaziz Alsleh (Azooz): Children and Competitive Sports
Fatimah Ghannim: Stress and College
Rabab Alhassan: Giant Panda
David Chen: On-line Books vs. Print Books
Hidemi Ine: Learn to Code
Abdulaziz Alabdali: Athlete’s High Salaries
Hani Alzharani: Six Sigma
Ahmed Albaqshi: Garbage Pollution
In Pairs:
Azooz and Hani: Banks
Fatimah and Rabab: Zoos
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David (Zooz was not present): Strategies for Learning English
Hidemi and Andy: Obesity
In Teams (based on field trip to Ohio Bird Sanctuary):
Fatimah, Azooz, and Hidemi (Azooz did not present): Owls
Andy, David and Hani (Rabab presented separately the next day): Crows
LS 6 (Jackie)
Books/Materials
-Vocabulary Power 3
-TED Talks
-NPR online
-PBS online
-BBC online
-YouTube
Activities/Trips
-Formal and informal presentations
-“Speed Dating” on various topics
-Native-speaker interviews
-Watch clips of movies, newscasts, etc.
-Audio Journals
-Listen to lectures, stories, news clips and take notes
-Comprehension quizzes over lectures (using notes)
-Comprehension quizzes over homework listening
-Class discussions
-Group discussions
-Class debate
-Daily grammar practice: crazy sentences from their speaking; specific instruction with
various forms
-Vocabulary cards and vocabulary assessments
-Specific instruction on notetaking
-Specific instruction on presentation best practices
-Specific instruction on formal outlines, in-text citation, and reference pages
-Presentations and class discussion on current event and student-picked TED lecture
-Note unknown words from Listenings
-Listen to AU Professor’s Lecture
-Trip to Ashland County Historical Society
Presentations
Formal Presentation 1: Prabal=Tango, Razia=Dark Romanticism, Jafar=Jazz,
Ahmad=Rock n’ Roll
Formal Presentation 2: Prabal=Meyer’s Home, Razia=Thomas Thornburg,
Jafar=Ashland’s Astronaut, Ahmad=Ashland Jail (did not finish; did not present)
Class Debate: Illegal Immigrants Used in U.S. Businesses
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RWF ( Shane)
RW 1 (none)
RW 2 (Jackie)
Books/ Materials
-NorthStar 2: Reading and Writing
-Jamestown Timed Reading (purple, book 1; neon orange, book 1)
-Articles from News for You
Activities/Trips
-Daily timed reading (A and B)
-Timed writing
-Writing sprints
-Vocabulary exercises from the textbook
-Comprehension activities from the textbook
-Vocabulary class games, presentations, posters, cards
-Daily vocabulary (Timed Reading-B Reading) and explicit grammar lessons based off
errors from writings
-SRA Labs
-Nightly reading and writing homework
-Grammar: Crazy Sentences
-Graded Readers with weekly assessments (6 total)
-Peer Editing
-Group work: topic sentences, dependent clauses, phrases
-Visited Martha’s Farm and Olivesburg General Store
RW 3 (Jenni)
Books/Materials
Northstar Reading 3
Jamestown Readers: Extreme Sports and Bizarre Endings
Timed Reading Books:
Timed Readings (Purple) for Lower Level 3
Timed Readings in Science for Level 3
Timed Readings in Social Studies for Level 2
Timed Readings (Orange) Higher Level 3
Graded Readers for Level 3
Activities/Trips
-Writing sprints
-Paragraph and essay writing
-Writing structure discovery activities
-Pre-reading videos and group vocabulary building
-Daily timed readings
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-Bi-weekly Jamestown stories (HW) for comprehension, inferences, vocabulary in
context,
author’s purpose
- Review games for vocabulary
- Weekly word wall
- Weekly vocabulary quiz (written for spelling, meaning, use in a sentence, and word
forms)
- Individual and group reading or writing tasks
- Group posters of writing concepts
- Class compositions for practice
- Summarizing and paraphrasing activities
-Scavenger Hunt in downtown Mansfield on North Main Street/Tour of the Mansfield
Fire Museum
RW 4 (Marcus)
Books/Materials
-NorthStar Reading and Writing 4
-Graded Readers for Lvl 4
-Timed Readings Plus Book #5 (Purple)
-Timed Readings Plus Book #6 (Purple)
-Timed Readings Book #6 (Orange)
-Timed Readings in Literature Book #5 (Green)
Activities/Trips
-Writing Sprints
-Paragraph and Essay writing (Prompts from TOEFL)
-GIST (activity for practicing summarizing information)
-Book Reports
-Writing mini-lessons
-Writing Introductions
-Writing Conclusions
-English Articles
-Daily Timed Readings
-Thesis Statement Writing exercises
-Group writing tasks (examining example essays for thesis statement and other
characteristics of good writing)
-Vocabulary in Context Readings
-Daily independent reading using the SLA Reading Laboratories
RW 5 (Linda)
Books/Materials
-Jamestown Timed Readings lower and upper level 5 (purple, yellow, red, and orange)
and lower level 6 for some students (purple, yellow, and red)
-Sample research paper with annotations from Purdue Owl
-Readings from Q-Skills Reading/Writing 5
-Readings from Louis Bromfield, Pleasant Valley
-Graded Readers
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Activities / Trips
-Timed readings
-Timed writing, followed by writing essays
-Reading graded readers and writing book reports
-Research Paper
-“Personal Editing Checklist” to improve proofreading and grammar
-APA Citations
-Writing Process
-Notecard Research Method
-Trip to Malabar Farm
Research Paper Topics
Jafar Ashla: Homicide
Hidemi Ine: Hackers
Prabal Nath: Advertising
Razia Tuny: Global Warming
Ahmed Albaqshi: Disadvantages of On-Line Education
Badr Alsamkari: Origins of Dracula
RW 6 (Jessica)
Books/Materials
-Jamestown Timed Reading Books:
Timed Readings (Science) for higher-level 5
Timed Readings (Purple) for lower-level 6
Timed Readings (Purple) for higher-level 6
-Vocabulary Power 3
-10 Steps for Writing Comprehension
-O. Henry’s Gift of the Magi (public domain)
-O. Henry’s A Retrieved Reformation (public domain)
Activities/Trips
-In class essays
-Timed Readings
-“B” Readings
-Quizzes on 10 Steps to Writing
-Summarizing and paraphrasing
-Six page research paper
-Analytical Essay
-Persuasive Essay
-Compare and Contrast Essay
-Cause and Effect Essay
-Book Summary
-Grammar error identification (find the errors in the sample sentences and correct them)
-In class readings and follow-up discussions
-Field trip to bird sanctuary
Papers
Haotai (Sean)- The Economic Growth in China
Asma-Dangers of the Internet for children and how parents can protect them
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Fatmah-What is the connection between employee satisfaction and employee productivity?
Ahmad-Did not do it