Year 7 English Language Acquisition : December 9, 10, 11

December 9
1. 1. 5 minute warm-up Respond to the following prompt in your journal: If I wake up tomorrow and everything has changed, what will have changed?

2. p. 53 Making Notes -
Taking good notes helps you focus on and organize the information you need to study and learn. The most important thing about note taking is that you need to do more than simply listen and write. What strategies do you use to take notes? Do you have a special way to make notes?

To take good notes you need to listen, think, respond, question, summarize, organize label and write.
10 Steps on "How to make notes"
1. Label and date your notes at the beginning of the page.
2. Read or listen to the text carefully and make sure you understand what it is about.
3. Write your notes as neatly as you can.
4. Work out what the important facts are.
5. Select information - you do not want sentences, you want:
   -single words (especially nouns, adjectives, verbs)
   -short phrases
   -use your own words
6. Relate the material to something in your life by writing an example or a reminder.
7. Use colours to highlight important sections or things you do not understand.
8. Use lines and arrows to show the links between things.
9. Use a system or note-taking guide that works for you.
10. Ask questions when you do not understand something and always re-read your notes.

3. p. 53 Watch-Think-Share
What's wrong with our food system? :https://www.ted.com/talks/birke_baehr_what_s_wrong_with_our_food_system?language=en#t-8369

December 10
1. Present Perfect Quiz - Criterion D
2. p 55-57 What effect does the food we eat have on our health?
   What is a healthy Diet?

December 11

Year 7 English Language Acquisition

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