Ten Effective Study Habits

http://psychcentral.com/lib/2006/top-10-most-effective-study-habits/all/1/

Unit 7- what's the use of homework?

http://iteslj.org/questions/homework.html
Conversation questions 

Unit 6- Giving to others

Presentation:

Choose a famous philanthropist (for example Bill Gates) or a philanthropic organization (for example Unicef)
Tell us who your person is (for example, the person's job, where they live, the charities that they donate to) or what your organization does 
Three important philanthropic contributions that it/he/she has made to society
Tell us why you have chosen your person or organization, and why you are interested in what they do.

Listening- The Red Hatters

The poem that inspired the organization: 

Warning by Jenny Joseph 
http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/jenny-joseph/warning/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cACbzanitg - A Youtube recording of Jenny reading her poem

New Vocabulary words: 

Go In For
Bold
Bitterness
Solidarity
Ensemble
Chapter
Gorgeous
Flamboyant
Brag
Self Improvement
Solidarity
Assisted Living Facility
Bargain basement shoes
Dressing down
Envious

Article on early retirement

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0510/051022-retirement-e.html

Please read the article and do the true and false section
and the synonym match section

Unit 5- Longevity, Refusing to be Invisible

Discussion Questions: 

1) Are these pictures of the same person, or of different people? How do we know? 

What identifying features can we see in the people's faces? 

2) What age do you think is most powerful in our society? (for example, teenage years, 20's, 30's...) 

What age do you think is the least powerful and therefore, the most invisible?

3) Why do you think on average, that women live longer than men? What do you think the reasons are?
4) Which country's life expectancy rate surprised you the most, and why? 

New Vocabulary

1) Socialized 
2) Deceive 
3) Spontaneously 
4) Intriguing 
5) Vocalize 
6) Rote Memorization 
7) Categorize 
8) Figure out 
9) Context 

Your sentences: 

1) It just happened spontaneously, so I couldn`t figure out what happened at that time.
2) Sometimes teenagers deceive their parents to protect thems elves.
3) In the movie, chimps were injected with medicine, which allowed them to vocalize words.
4) If you thought that class was intriguing, you should vocalize your thoughts to Danila.
5) I just turned on the tv spontaneously. When I saw cats on a program, I learned intriguing facts about their abilities.