Today's Schedule (Sept 25, 2007)

Part I

Warm up

Find a quote from one of these, or similar website: http://thinkexist.com/quotes/top/nationality/english/
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/english.html

You can search for nice quotes by topic, author, etc. Please practice your chosen quote, record it using sound recorder, and send it to me.

Part II

Get into groups of 3. Choose one of the videos below, and listen to /watch it. Try to transcribe two minutes of it. Writing down ever word that you hear, and the person who said it. For example:

John:
Yoko:
Dick:
John:
John:


Then write a 5 sentence response to what you watched. What did you think of it? How difficult was it to understand? What new words did you hear? Etc.

Part III

Your commentary. Please think about a topic that you could speak about for about 6 minutes. Take some notes on it. If we have time, please record a short sample of the commentary. For example: "Today I am going to talk about ... because ... I think that it is an important, interesting, amusing topic because ...