I feel so stupid! Today, Lujain and Young Jin had their last class in Proficiency. Of course, we said good-bye, but I should have taken some pictures! What was I thinking? (Rhetorical question--real meaning: I wasn't thinking!)
I'm going to miss them a lot. I hate saying goodbye, but that's part of the business of being a teacher. They are both wonderful students and super nice people! Good luck Lujain and Young Jin!
Today we covered a lot of Focus Points in Grammar Dimensions, but there really wasn't anything so complicated or difficult to remember. Mostly "discourse organizers" and rhetorical questions, which we are all familiar with in our own languages. Sometimes they are used to emphasize a point, like in my example above ("What was I thinking," meaning that I wasn't thinking about the right things).
Rhetorical questions can also be used to introduce topics and are frequently the titles of books, films, articles, and lectures.
For homework, let's do Exercise 13 on page, "Let's Suppose..." Find the six rhetorical questions and be prepared to discuss them. Also, read page 28 of the handout from Academic Connections and do the four questions on page 29.
On the quiz on Friday, I'll give you examples of different forms of organizations in writing--all that you will have to do is identify which ones they are.
Finally, we watched the next segment of It's a Wonderful Life. As I mentioned, the scene we saw about the bank run is often used by economics classes to illustrate what a "bank run" is--a situation in which the customers of a bank rush to get their money out. How will George save his business? You'll find out in the next class (or you can watch it on youtube if you scroll down a bit to yesterday's post). And don't forget, the complete script is also available through a link.
That's it for today--see you tomorrow!
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