Tenses practice!

This is a lesson conducted for 2N2 using the iPad.

Using Dropbox, download "Reading Article 1 (NA)". Open it in Office 2 HD.

Alternatively (Public dropbox):

Download it here: Reading Article 1

Notes from yesterday can be downloaded here: Tenses.PPT

Instructions:

1. Highlight the simple present and present progressive verbs
2. Fill in the rest of the worksheet by making inferences about the story.
3. Email the worksheet to shen_simin[at]tpsec.edu.sg with the subject: [My name / Partner's Name] 2N2 Reading Article 1
4. Move into a group of 4. Choose a leader among you who will host a popplet.
5. Open the Popplet app and join the popplet hosted by your leader.
6. Post your names at the bottom of the popplet. (See below for example)
7. Contribute what you know about the main character.
8. At the end of the lesson, the leader must email the JPG of the mind map to the same email address. Subject: 2N2 Mindmap

Example:

Social Media: The need for affirmation

The dangers of Facebook's 'like' button
The internet was supposed to set us free, says Neil Strauss at The Wall Street Journal, but "like" culture has made it a prison of conformity

Just as stand-up comedians are trained to be funny by observing which of their lines and expressions are greeted with laughter, so too are our thoughts online molded to conform to popular opinion by these buttons. A status update that is met with no likes (or a clever tweet that isn't retweeted) becomes the equivalent of a joke met with silence. It must be rethought and rewritten. And so we don't show our true selves online, but a mask designed to conform to the opinions of those around us. ...

So let's rise up against the tyranny of the "like" button. Share what makes you different from everyone else, not what makes you exactly the same. Write about what's important to you, not what you think everyone else wants to hear. Form your own opinions of something you're reading, rather than looking at the feedback for cues about what to think.

Read the full article

Natural Disasters - Reading Articles

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2010/08/30/five_years_after_katrina_an_im/