Hello, ESL 500 students!  I wanted to remind you to sign up for a presentation time (if you haven't already).  Please click this link if you are in my 12:30 - 1:50 class:

ESL 500N Presentation Schedule

Please click this link if you are in my 3:30 - 4:50 class:

ESL 500L Presentation Schedule

I will check this schedule again tomorrow, and if it isn't full, I will write the names in myself!  This means you MAY HAVE TO DO YOUR PRESENTATION FIRST ON TUESDAY.  Please don't wait!  Enter your name into a time slot TODAY.

If you have any questions about your presentation, please e-mail me or come to my office on Monday after 1:00 pm.

See you on Tuesday.

OK, class, I see a few names on the sign-up sheets for presentations. This is good.  If you haven't, please sign up for a time to give your presentation.

I have added the presentation to the Homework Assignments list on the right.  Click here to see it.

Also, there is one more assignment that you have to do before the end of the semester.  It is the Reflective Essay 3.  You have done 2 of these already, so this one shouldn't be too difficult.  Keep it short, but please give good feedback.  We take these reflections seriously in order to improve our teaching and the classes you take.

Reflective Essay 3

See you at your conference.

Good job in class today, everyone!  I hope this lesson about public speaking and giving presentations was helpful to you.  Don't forget to review the lesson here:

Lesson 25 Review

If you come to class at 12:30, please go to this link to confirm your schedule:

ESL 500N1 Presentation Schedule

If you come to class at 3:30, please go to this link to confirm your schedule:

ESL 500L Presentation Schedule

Do NOT forget your conference!  Remember, if you don't come, it counts as 2 absences!

See you on Thursday.

Hello, ESL 500 members.  Today's lesson gave you a lot of information about doing your debates.  I hope you all understand your tasks and can perform well on Thursday.  We'll see which team can persuade others better.

If you need to review the lesson, you can go to the Lesson 23 Review page.

Good luck, and see you on Thursday.

Capital Punishment Source

Hello again, class.  Here, I have a link to a good article for some pro-con information about the death penalty.  You can use this for today's class and also for the debates on Thursday.

Death Penalty

I hope you have prepared for today's lesson.  See you in class.

I just wanted to remind ESL 500N class of your teams.  They are:

Pro:        Xi, Yao, Yu, Tigran, Ruiheng, Mingu

Con:       Yuqiao, Xuesong, Ping-ju, Trong, Elena, Bushra,

Mod:     Albert

PLEASE!  Get in contact with your group members (e-mail, phone calls, Facebook, etc.) and get ideas of the main points of your topics.  You will need to use them in class on Tuesday, and you will need to write your arguments after class to prepare for the debate on Thursday.

In addition, I put a link in my FYI list (right of this post, scroll down) that goes to the CRAAP method to evaluate your sources.

Hello, ESL 500 students.  I wanted to remind you that the debate lesson will be on Tuesday, and you will actually conduct the debate on Thursday.  This means you need to get in touch with the other members of your team and make sure everyone has their roles assigned.  If you are pro, you need to make sure everyone researches at least one of the five points.  If you are con, you need to make sure everyone researches at least one of the other five points.  You may want to actually meet in person to discuss these, and come prepared with a lot of material that will support the point (or points) you have.  If you are not clear about what your teams are or what your main points should be, send me an e-mail and I'll let you know.  You can use the internet or any other sources to find this information.

Good hunting.