Freeway Chases and Drunk Drivers

I.             Root Word “OMNI”= ALL

1.     Insomnia 失眠（症）

2.     Omnivore 雜食動物

3.     Omnipotent全能的，萬能的，無所不能的

II.          Idiom:

“Put the brakes on”. 抑制，控制；制止The government has put a brake on further spending. 政府已經控制進一步的開支了。

III. Grammar

A Classes: Making questions/Confusing Vocabulary/Sentence building/ Writing a paragraph/story (Parts of Story review,)

B Classes:  To Be or To Have? (2 )/Making questions,

B Classes:  Prepositions/ Words of location (at, in, on, to) worksheet+ online game, Confusing Vocabular

IV.             Reading (A): Freeway Chase Ends at Newsstand  (Vocabulary)

Fill in the blank Robin Hood (Learn English Through Stories), Robin Hood  Kōichi Mashimo and Studio Tatsunoko . Taiwan's own Robin Hood is here.

Robin Hood was an outlaw who lived in the forest and stole from the rich to give to the poor.

 羅賓漢是個劫富濟貧的綠林好漢

Video: (A) Matrix Chase Scene, Top 10 Car Chase scenes 

Reading (B) A Drunk Driver + Vocabulary
 Activity: put the sentences in order/ fill in the blank/ Fill in the blanks song and thinking about body image, "Try" (with Chinese subs)  "Try" (original video)
EXTRA: Drunk Man Falls off Bridge Documents:
A Classes Unit 11
B Classes Unit 12

Gender Quiz

I made the gender quizzes open book style. The students were encouraged to bring their dictionaries and handouts as reference. I prefer this kind of meaningful assessment rather than the traditional regurgitation of past lessons because it allows the students to clarify what they learned by elaborating their ideas with examples. They can paraphrase what they learned by synthesizing their ideas and building upon their vocabulary (new words in the test) with what they already know. Its kind of like a lesson within the test.

I gave the 303 classes an easier infograph with 6 questions about society's impossible demands on women's appearance and how this may undermine them in the workplace. How must women look to be professional? Does looking professional  effect equal pay?

For the 302 and 301 classes I gave them an article from the Taipei Times, "Men in skirts," with 8 questions to answer. I want to know if the students think "Man skirts week" was an effective campaign for thinking about gender equality and if they have any better ideas. The article called gender a "myth" and I want to  know if they agree, among other questions.