FINAL EXAM - PART 2

 PART TWO: WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 7:30PM TO 8PM
(after 8pm we will have a potluck party)
This part of the exam will have questions related to grammar.

Study... FINAL EXAM - part one - MONDAY 05/16/16

Reading:
More True Stories:
Read "The Surgeon" (page 71) and "The Mermaid Balloon" (page 79).

Writing:
More True Stories:
Practice writing a letter (page 81).
Practice writing a paragraph about someone you admire (page 89).

Listening:
You will watch a film ONLY ONCE (Friends).

Speaking:
You will get 10 questions, and you can choose three (3) questions to answer.
Your answer MUST be a complete sentence.
example: Where did Rachel go?
You must answer: "She went to the hospital."
Saying "hospital" or "the hospital" is not enough.

Assignments - Wednesday 05/11/16

Complete the exercises on the handout (comparative & superlative adjectives).

More True Stories
Review units 13,14,15, and 16.

I WILL SEE YOU NEXT MONDAY -- FINAL EXAM DAY!

Adjectives - COMPARATIVE

ADJECTIVES -  COMPARATIVE + THAN
SHORT ADJECTIVES – MOST ADJECTIVES	ADJECTIVE + -ER OLD - OLDER
ADJECTIVE ENDS IN   –E	ADJECTIVE + - R NICE - NICER
ADJECTIVE ENDS IN 1 VOWEL + CONSONANT	DOUBLE THE CONSONANT + -ER BIG - BIGGER
ADJECTIVE ENDS IN –Y	-Y + -IER EASY - EASIER
LONG ADJECTIVES	MORE + ADJECTIVE MORE INTERESTING / MORE EXCITING
IRREGULAR ADJECTIVES	GOOD – BETTER BAD – WORSE FAR – FURTHER/FARTHER

Assignments - Monday 05/09/16

Basic English Grammar:
Preview Comparative & Superlative Adjectives.

More True Stories:
Review Units 9, 10, 11, and 12.

Assignments - Wednesday 05/04/16

Basic English Grammar:
Study and do all the exercises on pages 431 to 441.

White Collar

White Collar - Season 1 - Episode 1 - Questions

1. What is Neal wearing when he walks through the prison hallways?
2. Why does Neal buy a yellow jacket?
3. Why does Agent ask, “How many of you went to Harvard?”?
4. Why are US Marshals requesting Agent Burke’s help?
5. Why do the marshals and Burke agree that Neal’s escape is “unusual”?
6. How long did Agent Burke chase Neal before he arrested him?
7. How much head start does Neal have?
8. Where did Neal get his guard uniform?
9. Whose credit card did Neal use to buy the uniform?
10. What kind of credit card did Neal use?
11. What kind of car did Neal use to escape?
12. What does Peter Burke find inside the book in Neal’s prison cell?
13. Why is Neal shaving his beard important to the story?
14. How often did Kate visit Neal before she disappeared?
15. Where does Peter find Neal?
16. How long did it take Neal to escape prison?
17. How much time will Neal get for escaping prison?
18. Neal offers to tell Peter what he finds on his coat in exchange for what?
19. Why are the Canadians upset about Peter finding the security fibers for the Canadian hundred dollar bills? 
20. Why does Peter call the criminal he is chasing “the Dutchman”?
21. What does Neal offer to do in exchange for getting out?
22. What does Neal say about the new GPS tracking anklets?
23. Why does Peter stay up on that particular night?
24. What is Neal wearing on his ankle when he gets out in Peter’s custody?
25. What will happen if Neal runs again?
26. What is the condition of making Neal a permanent FBI consultant?
27. How far can Neil go from the Motel he is supposed to stay in?
28. Where does Neal go right after Peter leaves him at the motel?
29. How do Neal and June meet?
30. Why does Neal ask June if she lives nearby?
31. Why does Peter think he has the wrong address?
32. What is Peter’s reaction to Neal new living arrangements?
33. Neal says he helps out in addition to the $700 rent he pays.  What are his responsibilities?
34. What does June’s granddaughter do?
35. Why does Peter think the book is not rare?
36. Why was Tony Field killed?
37. Does the FBI have a policy against hiring homosexuals?
38. Why are the books valuable?
39. Where did Tony Fields go before he left for Spain?
40. How many times did Fields visit that place?
41. What does he do each time?
42. Why did Fields go through the trouble of making a nice forgery?
43. Why did Fields put the forgery at the National Archives?
44. When Elizabeth calls Peter, what does she lie about?
45. What happens to the dinner El cooked for Peter?
46. Why does Peter suddenly stop the car in the middle of the street?
47. Where is Mozzie waiting for Neal in the dark?
48. Why does Peter go through his wife’s things?
49. Why does Jones call Peter at home?
50. Why did Neal go to Peter’s house?
51. How did Neal find out who the Dutchman is?
52. Where do Peter and Neal go on the way to the office?
53. Why is the church closed to the public?
54. Why does Neal “lie” to the priest?
55. Why does Neal ask Peter if he thinks Diana is attractive?
56. Why does Peter go through his wife’s visa bill?
57. What was the bottle a symbol of for Neal and Kate?
58. How much time does Neal have to help catch Curtis Hagen?
59. What happens if they lose Curtis Hagen?
60. What did Mozzie find about Kate?
61. Is Mozzie a smoker?
62. Why is he smoking?
63. What’s hidden in the filter?
64. Why doesn’t Peter go to the warehouse and arrest Hagen?
65. What does Neal do to help Peter?
66. What does Peter think when he gets the phone call in the middle of the night about Neal?
67. How does Neal get in the warehouse?
68. What does he explain he’s doing with the camera?
69. What does Peter Burke say to his agents when they get to the warehouse?
70. What do they find in Hagen’s office?
71. How does Peter surprise El?
72. What does Peter show El when they’re on Neal’s roof?
73. Does Neal show Kate’s picture to Peter? Explain.
74. What do you think will happen next?

FINAL EXAM SCHEDULE

THE FINAL EXAM WILL HAVE TWO PARTS:

PART ONE: MONDAY, MAY 16, 7PM TO 9:30PM
This part of the exam will have questions related to reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

PART TWO: WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 7:30PM TO 8PM (after 8pm we will have a potluck party)
This part of the exam will have questions related to grammar.

ESL Counseling Services -- INFORMATION

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-2fvJUBid2yTTFIX2M1TW0wdDA/view?usp=sharing

Assignments - Monday 05/02/16

Basic English Grammar:
Do exercises 12, 13, 15, 17, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, and 26 on pages 422 to 431.

More True Stories:
Review Units 5, 6, 7, and 8.

Assignments - Wednesday 04/27/16

Basic English Grammar:
Do exercises 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 on pages 416 to 422.

More True Stories:
Review Units 1, 2, 3, and 4.

Assignments - Monday 04/25/16

Basic English Grammar:
Review Chapters 12 & 13:  Modal Verbs

FINAL EXAM SCHEDULE

THE FINAL EXAM WILL HAVE TWO PARTS:

PART ONE: MONDAY, MAY 16, 7PM TO 9:30PM
This part of the exam will have questions related to reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

PART TWO: WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 7:30PM TO 8PM (after 8pm we will have a potluck party)
This part of the exam will have questions related to grammar.

Assignments - Wednesday 04/20/16

Basic English Grammar:

Do exercises 15, 16, 18, 27, 28, 33, 35, and 36 on pages 393 to 406.

Presidential English

https://youtu.be/GFIzuaGnnXU

Assignments - Monday 04/18/16

Basic English Grammar
1) Do all the exercises on pages 374 to 382.
2) Preview pages 413 to 414.


More True Stories
Unit 19 - Customer Service?

Assignments - Wednesday 04/13/16

Basic English Grammar:
Review pages 361 to 372.
Do Exercise 22 - page 372.

More True Stories:
Unit 18 - The Surgeon

Position of Adverbs in a Sentence

http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-lesson-position-of-adverbs.php

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/word-order/adverb-position

https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/adverb-position.htm

Assignments - Monday 04/11/16

More True Stories
Read Unit 17 and write a one-paragraph summary.  All your verbs should be in simple present tense. Email me your paragraph to noosharavaghi@gmail.com by Sunday 4/10/16 noon.

Basic English Grammar
Preview the Chapter on Modal Verbs.

Spelling Rules: --ing / --ed

http://www.grammar.cl/Notes/Spelling_ING.htm


http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/verb-tenses-adding-ed-and-ing


------------------------------- Rules for Adding ING to Verbs -------------------------------

The following is a guide to the correct spelling of –ing forms of verbs and gerunds.
The general rule when changing a verb into its -ING form is just to add -ING to the end of the verb.

Infinitive	ING form
to feel	feeling
to go	going
to work	working
to sleep	sleeping

• She wasn't feeling very well.
• He is working on a new project.
• The children are sleeping so be quiet.

Spelling exceptions

The following exceptions exist when spelling words ending in ING:
1). If the verb ends in an E we remove the E and add ING.

Infinitive	ING form
to live	living
to have	having
to make	making
to take	taking

• People are living longer now than they were 100 years ago.
• We are making a chocolate cake.
• He was taking his time to get ready.

2). If the verb ends in a consonant + vowel + consonant, we double the final consonant and add ING.

Infinitive	ING form
to stop	stopping
to sit	sitting
to plan	planning
to get	getting
to swim	swimming

• The policeman is stopping the traffic.
• We are planning a surprise party for our teacher.
• I think I am getting a cold.

3). If a two-syllable verb ends in a consonant + vowel + consonant, we do not double the final consonant when the stress is on the first syllable.

Infinitive	ING form
to happen	happening
to enter	entering
to offer	offering
to suffer	suffering

• What is happening?
• They are offering a discount.
• Many people are suffering from a lack of food and water.

4). But, we do not double the final consonant when the verb ends in W, X or Y or when the final syllable is not emphasized.

Infinitive	ING form
to fix	fixing
to enjoy	enjoying
to snow	snowing

• He fixing his bike.
• We are enjoying this great weather.
• It's snowing outside.

5). If the verb ends in IE we change it to YING.

Infinitive	ING form
to lie	lying
to die	dying
to tie	tying

• I know you are lying to me!
• You should water your plant more because I think it is dying.
• The little boy is tying his shoelaces.

6). If the verb ends in consonant + vowel + L, we normally double the final L and add ING.
Note: In the United States (US) they do not double the L when the accent is on the first syllable.

Infinitive	ING form (UK)	ING form (US)
to travel	travelling	traveling
to marvel	marvelling	marveling

• I have been travelling around South America for 6 months.
• He was marvelling at her beauty.

7). If the verb ends in a stressed vowel + R, we double the final R and add ING.

Infinitive	ING form
refer	referring
defer	deferring

• Are you referring to this one or that one?
• They are thinking of deferring payment of their mortgage.

8). If the verb ends in an unstressed vowel + R, we do not double the final R and add ING.

Infinitive	ING form
to offer	offering
to suffer	suffering
to whisper	whispering

• I am offering you a special deal.
• He is now suffering the consequences of his actions.
• I wonder what he is whispering in her ear.

Assignments - Wednesday 04/06/16

Basic English Grammar:
Preview Chart 12-4 on page 368.
Complete Exercise 15 on page 369.

More True Stories:
Unit 16 - The School and the Stamp

Assignments - Monday 04/04/16

Basic English Grammar:
Do exercises 23, 25, 26, 30, 32, 33, 36, 38, 39, and 40. (pages 346 - 357)

Assignments - Wednesday 03/30/16

More True Stories:
Read Unit 14 - The Auction

Basic English Grammar:
Do exercises 2, 3, 4, and 7 on pages 334 to 338.

ESL Conversation Groups

Dear Students,

You can find the April 2016 schedule for the ESL conversation groups on the school website. Just click on the link below:

http://www.saddleback.edu/tutoring/esl-conversation-groups

Enjoy the rest of your spring break, and don't forget to review your grammar!

Noosha :-)

HAPPY NOWRUZ!

Quiz 03/16/16

A-     Fill in the blanks with prepositions of time and place.

Saddleback College classes begin _______ January.  All of the students start going ________ school.  Some of them have classes _______ the morning _______ nine o´clock and others have classes _______ the afternoon _______ two o´clock. Some students have classes _________ night.  _______ the 19th of January, the first day of school, the students meet many new classmates _________ their classes.  Some become good friends and spend the whole semester sitting next __________ each other. 

B-       Put the verb in brackets into the present continuous or simple present tense. 

1.       Wow! That man __________________ (have) a beautiful dog.

2.       Look! They ___________________ (have) a lot of fun.

3.       Who _____________ (know) the answer?

4.       I _______________ (call) my grandparents once a month.

5.        Can you hear them?  They ________________ (fight).

6.       These guys ______________ (watch) a movie every week.

7.       Listen! Someone ____________________ (knock) on the door.

8.       Look outside the window. The sun _________________ (shine) again.

9.       He _________________ (understand) many English words.

10.   She ________________ (wash) the dishes every morning before going to work.

C-      Complete the sentences with how much and how many.

1.       ___________________ money do you spend every week?

2.       ___________________ sugar do you want in your coffee?

3.       ___________________ furniture do you have?

4.       ___________________ books do you buy every semester?

5.       ___________________  bags of money did he find?

 

Assigments - Monday 03/28/16 (after spring break)

Basic English Grammar
Review Chapters 7, 8, 9, and 10.

Spring Break: March 21----March 25

Assignments - Wednesday 03/16/16

More True Stories
Unit 13 - The Husband

TOEFL Workshop

TOEFL Workshop
Fridays 1pm-2pm
LRC - room 240

Assignments - Monday 03/14/16

Basic English Grammar:

Study the charts and do all the exercises on pages 125 to 137.
Review SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE and PRESENT PROGRESSIVE TENSE.

More True Stories:
Unit 12 - Finders Keepers?

Order of Adjectives