We finally had our field trip, although it was completely lacking in educational value--just a chance to sit and talk together at Cheesecake Factory. And unfortunately, we were missing some very important people! Thanks for coming to help say goodbye to the people who are leaving and to special guests Soo and Ohana, who are still in Boston but leaving here very soon. We're going to miss them and aren't looking forward to losing great students like Oswaldo, Dhefaf, Sundus, Minah, JongSun, Yonju and Minah.
In the first part of class we went over the test pretty extensively. It was a tough grammar section, and if you made some mistakes don't worry. It's an opportunity to focus on what you missed and make what used to be weak points into strong points!
We also began Unit 6 of Grammar Dimensions and studied reference words and phrases. This is a school very important in good writing--I realize that this point is equally important for everyone, but I think that good (formal) speaking is based on good writing, so please bear with us.
The homework for tonight is Exercise 2 on pages 111-112. We'll go over it in class tomorrow.
We also began Unit 4 of Academic Connections, in which we will focus on paraphrasing. This is an essential skill not only in academic writing, but also general fluency. If you can rephrase something, that means you have the vocabulary and knowledge of grammar to express the same idea in more than one way. For TOEFL test takers, it can be the difference between a good and great score. So do your best!
Tomorrow Afnan will make her first presentation, so let's get there early and give her a lot of support.
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