1. Thank you so much for all your hard work this semester. Look over the work you did in Word, Excel, Power Point, email and Voicethread.
   1. What questions do you have?
   2. We will make a review list together.
   3. We will talk about your questions.
2. Word Review:
   1. Look at the information from our school survey. What do you think about our students and these numbers?
   2. Write a class letter to our Campus Dean, Gary Tom about our student survey.
   3. We will send it with our pie charts.
3. Add your comment to the class Voicethread! On Tuesday, I will email our Voicethread to the Chinatown class.
4. On Wednesday, we will watch one of your Power Point shows. Email a link to me!
5. Would you like to be a software engineer? Talk with two classmates.
6. Podcast Fifteen. Listen and send me an email about our class.

• Talk with your classmates about holiday plans.
• Get ready for our holiday party on Thursday. What should we do?
• Read a holiday story from an Alemany student.

Computer Lessons: Power Point One and Two

Watch the Power Point demonstration. We will work on Power Point this week and next week, too.

1. Click here and watch the example Power Point Slide show.
2. Follow these steps to make your first Power Point slide show.
3. Talk with two or three classmtes about your show.
4. Follow these steps to make your second Power Point slide show.

Speaking Lessons

1. Finish Voicethread story about your family.
2. Add your comment to the class story this week. We didn't email it yet, so you have time.

1. Watch this video about a software engineer.

2. Podcast Fourteen: Listen and choose True or False after you watch the video.

Testing Week: Wednesday, our room will be open for any Eddy students from 8-12. Please come to class and show students your work, or practice English by answering questions for your ESL Eddy Street classmates.

Suvey Project: Review our notes from class.

1. Help finish the student survey project. Find the survey spreadsheet in the public folder on your desktop.
2. Make one pie chart, or make more than one. Make a beautiful, interesting, easy-to-read pie chart with large letters for the bulletin board.
3. Put up our work on the third floor! You have done great work!

Voicethread: Family Story and Class Story

1. Finish your family story from last week. Please listen and look at your classmates' stories. Make a comment for one or two classmates.
2. Class story. Add your comment. Introduce yourself to the class in Chinatown this week! We will email our voicethread this week.

Computer Lessons:

1. Check Podcast Twelve. How did you do with past time and present time?
2. Podcast Thirteen is ready. Learn about computer programmers.
   1. I enjoy working on computers, but I would not like to be a programmer.
   2. How about you? Would you like this job?
   3. Do you know any computer programmers?
3. Watch this video about computer programmers. We will talk together about it.
4. Watch the Power Point demonstration.
   1. Click here and watch the example Power Point Slide show.
   2. Follow these steps to make your Power Point slide show about yourself.

Campus Survey:

1. Finish this week. Look at notes from last week.

Voicethread: Family Story and Class Story

1. Finish your family story from last week. Scroll down to read.
2. Class story. We will make one story together to email to students in Chinatown.

Listening Lesson: Podcast about Plastic Bags

Have a Happy Thanksgiving, and please recycle your plastic bags!

Spreadsheet Lessons: Civic Center/Alemany Student Survey

Talk about these questions: Click and then click back to this page.

We will write answers together on our website!

1. We are going to make a school survey about our students.
2. We are going to ask 100 or more students to answer our questions.
3. We will put our questions and answers in an Excel spreadsheet.
4. We will make pie charts about our survey.
5. We will put our survey on a bulletin board at school so students can read it.
6. Download the survey.
7. Follow these steps to finish the survey in class together.

New Speaking Lesson with Voicethread

1. Bring a photo of your family or a friend. You can bring a digital picture or regular picture and we can scan it.
2. Write a story about your family or friend in Word. Write 6-10 sentences.
3. Save and print your story so I can check your grammar.
4. Upload your photo to your Voicethread account.
5. Record your story. Check your pronunciation and grammar. Are you loud enough?
6. Make your story public.
7. Copy and send me your link!
8. Click here to listen to my story about father. Please make a comment.
9. Click here to listen to Beatriz, your classmate's, story. Please make a comment.

1. Listening: Podcast Twelve: Listen to past and present tense.
2. Pronunciation:
3. Slang: Continue with lessons you like.

Speaking Lesson with Voicethread

1. Review and finish your story about food.
2. Make your voicethread story public and email your link to me.
3. Write a story about your family or a friend.
4. Bring a photo to school. You can bring digital or a printed photo.
5. Upload your photo and record your story.
6. Make your story public.
7. Email your link to me.

Spreadsheet Lessons

1. Podcast Eleven. Listen and write questions about what we do and what we like.
2. Work with two or three classmates. Write some fun and interesting questions to ask other students. You can ask students in this class, and students in your other classes.
3. Write possible answers for your questions. Open this document to see a spreadsheet example for questions.
4. Print your poll with answers. Check your grammar.
5. Percent Lesson:
   1. What color are m & m's
   2. How many m & m's in one bag?
   3. What percent will we find for each color?
6. Check your answers to Podcast Ten, Roberta's budget.
7. Now that you finished Podcast 10, open this document about spreadsheets.
   1. Read and make a budget spreadsheet for Roberta.
   2. Make a pie chart. Work with one or two partners in class.

Extra Listening

1. Credit card spending dialog
2. Dialog with answers and dictionary
3. Listening exercise
4. Matching exercise

Slang

1. Click on the slang lesson page (look at last week.)
2. Study some more slang vocabulary.

Wednesday is CASAS testing day. We will not have testing in this class. Be sure you take the test with a different teacher at 8:15 or 1:15. CASAS testing makes money for our college, and we need this money very much. Take the test!!!!!!

1. New spreadsheet lessons:
   1. Spreadsheet Lesson Two.
   2. New Lesson: We will make checkbooks in Excel this week.
2. Take this vocabulary quiz about spreadsheets.
3. Podcast Ten is about making a budget.
4. Check your email. I will send you questions about budgets!
5. Voicethread:
   1. Review: Register, sign in, type a comment, record a comment.
   2. Review: How to search and get a photo from the Internet.
   3. Your story: Food.
      1. What food do you love to eat? Talk about one of your favorite foods with your classmates.
      2. Find a photo on the Internet.
      3. Upload to your voicethread.
      4. Record a comment. Talk about this food you love.
      5. Send me your link.
      6. Listen to my story about apples.
      7. Type or record a comment.

Exta English

1. Watch this video about Day of the Dead in Mexico.
2. Read a student story about a holiday.
   1. Send me an email.
   2. Which story did you read?
   3. Why do you like this story?
3. Study more slang.
   1. Far-out...
   2. Glitzy...

1. Speaking Practice: Learn about Voicethread. Join and make a comment.
2. Listen to students from Chinatown. Make one comment.
3. Review spreadsheet vocabulary and spelling with this page. Give yourself a test. Test a classmate.
4. Listening: Podcast Nine. Infinitives: I want to make a spreadsheet.
5. Grammar Help with Infinitives:
   1. Extra Help One - Go to Book 3, Lesson 5. Look for infinitives.
   2. Extra Help Two - Check your email. Write back to me!
   3. Listening lesson -It's important to talk about money.
   4. Listen and watch this video. "You need to get this job!"
6. Review about spreadsheets:
   1. Spreadsheet Lesson One.
   2. Spreadsheet Lesson Two.
7. New Lesson: We will make checkbooks in Excel this week on Wednesday and Thursday.

Holiday Extras This Week.

1. Make an invitation to a party for Halloween.
2. Enjoy this funny video about costumes and pets.
3. Many movies about monsters use organ music. Listen and watch this woman play music. Is it scary?
4. Watch this video about Day of the Dead in Mexico.

1. How are your mouse skills? You need good mouse skills to work with spreadsheets, our next MS Office lesson.
   1. Practice click and drag skills with this mouse puzzle! It is a picture of our school!
   2. This a puzzle of apples and cabbage.
   3. This our beautiful Golden Gate Bridge.
2. Listen to Podcast 8. This lesson helps with spreadsheet vocabulary and grammar for gerunds.
   1. Extra Help One - Go to Book 3, Lesson 1. Look for gerunds.
   2. Extra Help Two - Go to Book 3, Lesson 7. Look for gerunds.
   3. Extra Help Three - Read and practice.
3. Write online to practice.
4. There are three spreadsheet lesson this week. Watch the demonstrations. Work with classmates to try these lessons.
   1. Vocabulary and Introduction
   2. Spreadsheet Lesson One.
   3. Spreadsheet Lesson Two.
5. Speaking Practice: Learn about Voicethread.

Extra English: More Slang Lessons

1. Click to learn more: couch potato to dicey
2. Click for more: dirty to face-off
3. Write a dialog with some slang. Email your dialog to me and I will check your English.
4. Make a new cartoon movie lke this one with your dialog.

Your Resume Project: After you finish Juanita's resume, make your resume.

1. Save her resume again on your flash drive. Choose Save As, and change the name to: My resume.
2. Look at her resume. Highlight her name and address. Type yours. Save again.
3. Change Juanita's information to your information, in the same way.
4. Save often.
5. Use Spell check.
6. Print so I can check your work.
7. Make changes, save again.
8. Send your perfect resume to me as an attachment.

Other Classwork

1. Partner review about MS Word.
2. Spelling and vocabulary practice with Word.
   1. A fun game with sound.
3. You did great work with Audacity! We will make some more sound files this week.
   1. This week, record a short paragraph about your work.
      • Save your paragraph.
      • Export it to an MP3.
      • Then email it to me as an attachment! Try it!
4. Check your email. Look for email from me, and write back to me.

Extra English: More Slang Lessons

1. Click to learn more: boo-boo to catch some rays
2. Click here, too: catch some z's to cop
3. Write a dialog with some slang. Email your dialog to me and I will check your English.
4. Make a new cartoon movie with your dialog.
5. Here are the movies we made before.

1. Listen: Do you prefer to work in a big company or small company? Why? Listen to these people talk about this.
2. Send email to one classmate.
   1. Write about this question: What do you like better, a job in a big company, or a job in a small company?
   2. Learn how to cc
   3. Change your font in your email.
3. Resume Lesson One: What is a resume?
4. Click and download this resume. It has good info, but it isn't neat.
5. Download these directions. Read and change the resume.
6. Write about your job history.
7. Reivew Podcast 1-6.
8. Learn about recording your English. Watch and try.

Extra English: Slang Vocabulary Lessons

People like to use interesting words. People use slang a lot. When you know slang, it will help you understand Americans. You can use slang, too! Let's begin to learn every week.

1. Click and learn: ace to bench
2. Click and learn: bent to bonkers
3. Write five slang sentences to practice and remember. Send me an email so I can check them for you!

   For example:

   • You are an ace student! You do everything very well.
   • I feel bonkers when I get so much email!
4. You can choose a song for extra practice too. Songs usually have a lot of slang in them. Try one every week.

1. Where are your classmates from? How long have we been here? Last week we wrote about our answers. Check this week.You can add for yourself, too.
2. Watch your cartoon movies online.
3. Story Project: Interview classmates. Write about one classmate.
   1. Search for pictures on Google about your classmate.
   2. Look for a flag, food and a beautiful famous place.
   3. Copy and paste in your classmate's story. Use shortcuts: Control + C, and Control + V
   4. Save your story and hand it in!
4. Email: Podcast Six helps you with email vocabulary.
5. Email Spelling: practice these words with a partner or by yourself.
6. Send me email three times this week. My address is venccsf@gmail.com
   1. First email.
      • Answer this short question.What did you do on this beautiful weekend?
      • Type beautiful weekend in the subject line.
   2. Send me a second email.
      • Type attachment lesson for the subject heading.
      • What is an attachment? Good question!
      • Here is a short answer. An attachment is the best way to email something long, or big, with your email.
      • Email is best for short conversations and short messages. People send job applications with attachments for example.
   3. Click to read about gmail attachments.
   4. Click and download this paper. Read and email it back as an attachment.
   5. After you send these emails to me, I will send you one more. Check your email.
7. Be sure you sign out when you send email.

Extra English

An Environmental Leader: Rachel Carson

1. Grammar and Vocabulary: Copy or Cut and Paste.
2. Listen about her life.
3. Read and click to review after you listen.

Water Problems in Mexico

1. Listen about water problems in Mexico City.
2. Vocabulary practice.

1. Check your answers for Podcast Four. How did you do with complaining? We will have a short dictation this week from Podcast Three and Four.
2. Write a dialog with a partner this week.
   1. Write in Word. You can complain, or give a compliment.
   2. Then we will make computer cartoon movie.
   3. Look on the right. You can see a cartoon movie. You can make one too!
   4. Email your movie to me. We can see them in class.
3. Podcast Five helps you study present perfect grammar. Listen and practice.
   1. Level 2-4. Please listen and write.
   2. Level 5-8. Have you studied this grammar? It is important in your English. It is different from past and present. Click here for 4 practice lessons.
4. Review Tables: Make two more. Look at your papers from last week for help.
1. Two Columns, 15 rows: Opposites: Easy-Difficult, Cheap-Expensive.
2. Four columns, 10 rows: Classmate Interview: Your Name, Your Country, Your capital city, Your country leader's name
   1. Practice with borders.
   2. Practice with colors.
   3. Practice merging cells.

Congratualtions Table Winners From Last Week!

1. Finish your story with clip art about a classmate.
2. Listen to Podcast Four. Last week we listened to compliments. This week we listen about complaining!
3. Review vocabulary and MS Word.
   1. Partner dictation in class.
   2. Drag and drop quiz (review from last week.)
4. New Lesson in Word. Learn about tables.
   1. Lesson One. Learn the basics.
   2. Lesson Two: Make a table that helps you study English. Learn to merge cells and add color.
   3. Win a prize on Friday! Make a new table. Make it with partner, or two partners. The first group to finish will get a prize.
5. Sign up for email this week.
   1. Click here for a handout about gmail.
   2. Get an email account with Google. If you have another email that you like a lot, you can also get email with Google. It will be easier for our class, but you do not have to.
   3. Learn and spell these email words.
   4. I love food. Send me email about food: venccsf@gmail.com
      • What is your favorite food?
      • What is your favorite food to cook?
      • How often do you cook?

Extra English: An Environmental Leader : Rachel Carson:

1. Listen about her life.
2. Read and click to review after you listen.
3. Grammar and Vocabulary: Copy or Cut and Paste.

1. Listen to Podcast Three about giving compliments.
2. Learn about Word Lesson 7-Check Spelling. Finish all your 7 word lessons.
3. Review Word vocabulary. Drag and drop to match. Go for 100%!
4. Open this document. What's wrong? Find the mistakes. Correct them.
5. Write about a classmate. Learn to insert clip art. Put clip art in your story!
6. Take photos. Put a photo in your classmate's story!
7. We will start email this week.
   1. Click here for a handout about gmail.
   2. Get an email account with Google. If you have another email that you like a lot, you can also get email with Google. It will be easier for our class, but you do not have to.
   3. Learn and spell these email words.
   4. I love food. Send me email about food: venccsf@gmail.com
      • What is your favorite food to eat?
      • What is your favorite food to cook?
      • How often do you cook?

1. Download all seven Word lessons. Save them to your flash drive. OR, save them to public on the desktop.
2. After you download and save one time, open your documents from your flash or public.You don't need a new copy!
3. Learn more about Word and English with Lessons Three, Four, Five, Six and Seven.
4. Watch the demonstration lessons for Word in class.
5. Hand in your Word lessons to me. Ask for help about the English. Ask for help about the computer skills, too.
6. Talk with classmates about MS Word.
7. Listen to Podcast Two. Write or type to practice. Practice comparing. Is your computer faster, or slower? Is this computer more expensive or less expensive?
8. Did you take our survey last week. You can take it now. Click here to take a survey. Learn more about each other.
9. Who is taking this class? Find out about our survey last week.

1. Find out more about your classmates. Who are we? Click here to take a survey. Learn more about each other.
2. Listen to Podcast One. Write or type to practice.
3. How are your mouse skills? Click here for practice with mouse vocabulary.
4. Learn about MS Word. Work together to learn "the neighborhood" in Word 2007.
5. Write about your classmates.
6. Begin our seven word processing lessons: Lesson One Delete and Lesson Two Insert.
7. Learn to use a flash drive to download word processing documents for Word 2007.
8. Learn how to eject your flash drive the best way.
9. Extra English: Listen and learn with some fun music.

• Meet your classmates. You will learn and work together.
• Learn your classmates' names.
• Learn who has a computer at home.
• Learn who uses a computer at work.
• Who can help you? Who can you help?

1. Learn and remember Hardware and Software Vocabulary. Click to open and print-if you need a copy.
2. We will take a quiz on Friday about these computer words. Study together or at home.
3. You can practice spelling these words online. I'll show you, then try for yourself.
   • You can study.
   • You can take a test.
   • You can play a game to spell.
4. Practice keyboarding. You don't need to be fast, but don't get lost!
   • Where are the letters?
   • What are the keys?
   • How do you type a A?
   • How do your type $100,500.25?
5. Learn about keyboard English.
6. Mouse Practice. Learn about: point, click, double-click, scroll.
7. We will talk and write together about how computers can help us learn. We have a listening exercise, too.
8. If you have email, send me a message this week. Tell me about your school vacation. I will email back to you. My email address is venccsf@gmail.com

1. spellingcity.com Make your own spelling lists!
2. elllo.org This listening site has many choices.
3. www.uscitizenpod.com/ Great and many links.
4. www.elcivics.com/ History, holidays, culture.
5. www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/index.html What a great name for studying English!
6. A student blog from our school. Chanh wrote about your rights. Many great stories!!!
7. The Alemany Lab: Many links to good lessons.