Homework for December 7

Today in class you did a survey of your classmates on a chosen topic. I was really pleased with the questions you have written for your survey and with the visual aids you have made using the PowerPoint. Excellent job!

To help you prepare for the presentation, I'd like you to do the following:

1. Interview the classmates who were absent today. You can talk to them personally or you can e-mail them your survey and ask them to do the questionnaire and e-mail the answers to you.

2. Summarize the results of your survey and prepare visual aids for your presentation. You need to prepare one graph / pie chart / table per question. For example, if you have 5 questions, you need to have 5 visual aids. Use different types of visual aids.

3. Make a poster with your visual aids. The poster needs to have a topic of your survey and 5 visual aids. To make sure that your poster with visual aids is effective and helpful, please ask yourself questions listed on p. 28 under Presentation Tip.

4. Write an outline of your presentation. See p. 31 in the textbook to help you with the outline. You can also use Hannah's outline on p. 25 as an example how to write an outline of your presentation.

Note: Type and e-mail your outline to me by Sunday evening.

5. Make note cards from your outline. Don't just make notes; make note cards. "Dos and don'ts"
of making and using note cards can be found on p. 16 of the textbook.

6. Write the text of the presentation and e-mail it to me by Sunday evening. When writing the text of your presentation, please use a copy of Unit 2 Language Summary given in class. (If you were absent, please click here to download a copy.)

Note: I will check your outlines and texts of the presentations and sent them back to you with suggestions and corrections, if any, on Monday.

7. Practice for a presentation for the next class.

8. When you come to the next class on Wednesday, please bring the following with you:

a) poster
b) note cards
c) printed outline


Note cards and outlines will be graded and points will be a part of your total grade for the presentation. The grade for this presentation will constitute a substantial percentage of your total grade for the course, so work hard and do your best.

Next class, you will do presentations in groups of 3 or 4 using your posters. Everyone will do their presentations 3-4 times. In this way, you will have a chance to practice your presentations and improve your presentation skills.


If you have any questions, please feel free to see me at the office or contact me via e-mail.

See you in class next Wednesday. Looking forward to your presentations!

Homework for November 30

Today in class we continued working on unit 2 Young People Today. We learned various ways of presenting survey results. The table on p. 23 provides useful expressions of reporting survey results and p. 28 gives examples of visual aids.

For our next class, you need to do the following:

1. As a preparation for your presentation about a survey, choose a survey topic. Then brainstorm survey questions you can ask about the topic. Write 3-5 survey questions. To help you do it, please use Brainstorming on p. 30.

After you have decided on your survey questions, type them, print them out and bring them to class. 

2. Learn how to prepare visual aids using a computer.

a) Watch the PowerPoint Presentation on making visual aids on a computer. Click HERE.

b) Now, make a visual aid (a graph or a chart) for the following information.

"In Japan, 71 percent of high school girls consider themselves to be overweight, the survey showed. That was higher than 57 percent in South Korea, 39 percent in China and 29 percent in the United States."

c) Make a graph or a chart showing the results of the mini-survey you conducted today (November 16) in class. (Exercise 3 on p. 23)

After you have finished making the two visual aids, please e-mail them to me at brylko@yahoo.com

Deadline for e-mailing your visual aids to me is Monday, November 28.

3. Please, go to Vocabulary (on the top of the blog, next to Home) where you can see a list of words and useful expressions for each unit. 

If you have any questions, please come by my office or contact me via e-mail.

See you in class on November 30! :)

Homework for November 16

Today in class we have started talking about surveys. We have looked at how to ask survey questions, how to describe a survey and how to report survey results. Next class, we will look at how to organize survey results in a form of presentation and how to use visual aids effectively while reporting survey results. To help you prepare for the next class, I'd like you to do the following:

1. pp. 24 - 25: Organization Focus.This exercise helps you learn how to make a good presentation outline.
2. pp. 26-27: Presentation Focus. This part of the unit shows you what information to include in 3 main parts of a presentation - introduction, body and conclusion - and what useful language can be used when reporting survey results.