Level Tests

These tests are not for marks on your report, but for my information, so see where you are now.

For each test show me the final result on your screen.  Do not close the window.

Exam English level test.  You have done this before.  Log-in with a false identity, to keep your privacy.  There is a reading and a listening quiz.

You can try this TOEFL practice test, but it is much harder.

Good luck.

EXAM DATES and requirements

ESL EXAMS 
- will be the last two days and periods of ESL, Thursday, 6/12, and Friday, 6/13

Thursday, 6/12, P1
- grammar, multiple-choice and short answer
- reading, multiple-choice and short answer

Friday, 6/13, P2
- listening, multiple-choice and short answer
- writing, longer answers in paragraph and short essay form

Use and bring
- pencils, pens, etc
- English or English-Japanese/Korean/... dictionaries that do not have any Internet connection (paper or electronic)
- spare blank paper

Do not use
- smartphones or tablets, or other Internet devices (leave in bag with sound off)
- paper with notes written on them

Pathways 2, Unit 1: Happiness

We'll work on rough copy tomorrow to Friday, this week

Content:

- write an essay about happiness in your community
- include a clear topic-sentence in each paragraph of the body
- use vocabulary from the unit, and other vocabulary

Due dates: 

- rough copy is due Friday, 05/30, so that we can peer edit, especially for paragraphs and topic sentences

- good copy is due Monday, 06/02 (emailed and printed before the start of class!)

- presentations will be Thursday, 06/05 and Friday, 06/06

How to present it:

- the text must be three hundred to five hundred words, and you must print me a copy

- the font must be 'Times New Roman', size 12.  It must be double-spaced
- you must read the essay, or pre-record the essay to play it

- you should make this more interesting than simply a reading

- use pictures or video, of your own or other

- don't make a Power Point text-heavy presentation

Blog post for Monday, 5/19

Good morning, and welcome back from Golden Week.

You have a blog post due for Monday, 5/19.  The topic is your choice: I suggest something about your week off during Golden Week, or the JHS/SHS field trip.  Usual length, etc.

ESL Golden Week homework!

Conditionals Test on Monday, May 5/12

CONDITIONAL TENSES: 'If'
Begin practicing for the conditional on your apps and here:
- British Council Conditionals 1, explanation and exercises
- British Council Conditionals 2, explanation and exercises
- Explanation of all types 

Conditionals

A conditional sentence is a sentence containing the word if. There are three basic types of conditional sentence:

1. if clause > present simple tense : main clause > future tense (will)
   • If you help me, I will help you.
   • If I win the lottery, I will buy a new car.
   • If it snows tomorrow, we will go skiing.
2. if clause > past simple tense : main clause > would
   • If you knew her, you would agree with me.
   • If I won the lottery, I would buy a new car.
   • If it snowed tomorrow, we would go skiing.
3. if clause > past perfect tense : main clause > would have
   • If you had helped me, I would have helped you.
   • If I had won the lottery, I would have bought a new car.
   • If it had snowed yesterday, we would have gone skiing.

Of course, it is possible to start conditional sentences with the main clause:

• I will buy a new car if I win the lottery.
• I would buy a new car if I won the lottery.
• I would have bought a new car if I had won the lottery.

Passive Quizes

You have four!  They add up to 49; however, I will give you a mark out of 50: there is a one-mark bonus, 2%.

Like last time, do them all, and tell me all four marks.  Do not post the results or email them: write them and your name on a piece of scrap paper and give me the paper.

The first three are simple multiple choice:
- PASSIVE VOICE 2 (out of 10)
- PASSIVE VOICE 3 (out of 10)
- Passive Quiz (out of 15)

The last one is more difficult, even though it is multiple choice: the examples are correct, but you must choose why they are written in passive voice.
- Passive Quiz 2 (out of 14)


CONDITIONAL TENSES: 'If'
You can begin practicing for the conditional on your apps and here when you have finished the passive quizzes:
- British Council Conditionals 1, explanation and exercises
- British Council Conditionals 2, explanation and exercises
- Explanation of all types 

Conditionals

A conditional sentence is a sentence containing the word if. There are three basic types of conditional sentence:

1. if clause > present simple tense : main clause > future tense (will)
   • If you help me, I will help you.
   • If I win the lottery, I will buy a new car.
   • If it snows tomorrow, we will go skiing.
2. if clause > past simple tense : main clause > would
   • If you knew her, you would agree with me.
   • If I won the lottery, I would buy a new car.
   • If it snowed tomorrow, we would go skiing.
3. if clause > past perfect tense : main clause > would have
   • If you had helped me, I would have helped you.
   • If I had won the lottery, I would have bought a new car.
   • If it had snowed yesterday, we would have gone skiing.

Of course, it is possible to start conditional sentences with the main clause:

• I will buy a new car if I win the lottery.
• I would buy a new car if I won the lottery.
• I would have bought a new car if I had won the lottery.

Homework: last week of April

First, text reading and answers:
- answer p. 4, A, B, C (by yourself)
- read pp. 5-6
- answer p. 7, B, C, D and E (by yourself)
- finished by Thursday

No Blog due

Links to information from this unit on 'World Happiness':
- Ranking
- Map
- Main page

G8/9
- passive voice grammar quiz on Friday.  Study!
- K MJ has a presentation on Thursday