August 19: Preparing for oral presentation on Setting Goals

Thank you for your collaboration last week. With your help, we were able to identify the areas where you, as a class, can improve your writing.

Before we jump in to today's task, I encourage you to spend 10 minutes reviewing this link on the use of commas:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/607/02/

Now, today's lab class will be your opportunity to prepare for next week's oral presentations. I will explain everything you need to know here:

The topic of the presentation is "Goal setting", however, you may choose your subject from the following:

a) University students (in general)

b) LVIII students

c) School children

d) Teachers

e) Other ideas? Ask me.

To begin,

1) Explore some websites that talk about setting goals and the subject of your choice. For example, you might google "setting goals school" or "setting goals university", etc.

2) Of the sites you visit, choose 1 you really like to put in the Virtual "sites" folder for our class.

(NOTE: If somebody has already posted your link, you do NOT need to re-post it. Do not post another unless you consider it equally as good).

3) Once you have made this contribution, spend some time visiting the links your classmates posted. (Theoretically, you should only be visiting sites worth your time at this point).

4) Now, create (organize) a presentation that fulfills the following objectives:

*Discusses why you chose to concentrate on your subject (=needs analysis)

*A summary of concrete steps/plan of action that can be taken to help your subject establish and reach goals. This will likely be based on the content on some of the sites you visited.

*The expected outcome or result of your subject establishing and reaching goals

*Anything else (optional)

5) Now, the nitty-gritty:

*no power point presentation or visual.

*no reading from a previously prepared text, although notes are fine (and necessary)!

*make an effort to use new vocabulary/ expressions.

*content and use of English will be assessed.
*presentations should be 3-4 minutes. Be organized so you can say what you need to say without
excessive repetition or exceeding 4 minutes. (Time yourself!).

*Presentations will take place on Monday and Wednesday next week. Everybody should be ready to present on Monday, however.

Please remember that you can chat with me via sabdore@gmail.com if you have questions about English or this assignment.

I welcome your feedback or ideas! Drop me a line during class if you have a suggestion or comment to share.

Sabrina