Sec 2: Summary and Use Your Own Words

In-class:
- Students were given time in class to complete and hand in Turtle summary
- Students given practice peice for Use Your Own Words (Eyes of a Tourist)

Answers from Eyes of a Tourist:
1) It was first introduced when Singapore got its independence.
2) It was because the investment in sculpting the Merlionat $165000 was worthwhile [1] and it will probably generate more money [1] in the future than the original sum [1].
3) It was because the Merlion icon cannot be used for many other purposes unless there was approval from STB [1] and this limited the growth of the Merlion icon [1]
4) The reason was to allow enough space for visitors to take photographs of the baby Merlion and the giant Merlion. [2] OR The reason was that the giant Merlion was too tall to be fully captured, hence a smaller one was built for the purpose of photo-taking [2]

Sec 2: Own Words exercise

Here are the answers for the extra (optional) Use Your Own Words Exercise

1) Parents falsely believe that a child will learn a language naturally by himself
Clue: language acquistion is an automatic process. This, however, is not true.

2) Babies who have been read in the womb are likely to be smart [1], happy [1] and able to understand language songs [1].

3) A very pretty flower
Clue: visually pleasant flower

4) Sunbathers are addicted to the pleasuable feelings that they get when they tan.
Clue: This endorphin buzz may be what sun bathers are really chasing

5) "Tanorexic" means people who are obsessed with getting a tan.

6) This is because many nurses were from poor / lowly background [1] and nursing was not seen as a proper job.

Sec 2: Use Your Own Words & Summary

In-class:
- Went through answers for 'Job' comprehension passage
- Students taught explicitly the steps to answer Summary Questions (Distinction in EL pages 118 - 123)

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(credits to Ms. Wendy Ng for the ppt slides)

Homework:
- Complete Distinction in EL pages 124 - 125 (questions #1 & #2)
- Complete handout on Use Your Own Words and Language Use questions

Sec 2: Use Your Own Words

In-class:
- Went through answers for Insect Comprehension


Homework:
- Job Comprehension due Monday 29 March, 2010
- Please complete the FOUR steps for Use Your Own Words questions


Example

Step One - Finding the answer from the passage and write it out

Step Two - Underline or circle the key ideas or words

Step Three - Brainstorm words, phrases or expressions to replace the key words/ideas

Step Four - Refine and rewrite your answer in a complete sentence

Sec 2: Use Your Own Words & Language Use

In-class:
- Students practiced Use Your Own Words question (tiger question)
- Students taught explictly how to answer Language Use Questions from Distinction in EL book (pages 29 - 30)

Homework:
- Distinction in EL (pages 37 - 39)
- 'Insect' Comprehension handout
- Phrase book (510 words)

DUE: Friday, March 26, 2010.

Sec 2: Use Your Own Words

In-class:
- Students taught explicitly the steps to answer Use Your Own Words Questions from Distinction in EL book (pages 23 - 27)
- Students worked on Exercise 4 (pages 27 - 28), and answers were discussed