Context: Shopping & Invention
Invention is about turning an idea into a product or service.
Contents:
Understand 'what invention is and why it's important; what to do when you have an idea; how you get inventing started; what's the most important invention
Grammar:
Prepositions: for, from, in, of, on / Question tag
Writing: discursive composition, giving your opinion
Learning Objectives: at the end of your study, you will be able to
Talk (ask, answer) about shopping and invention
Use prepositions and question tags correctly
Write a discursive composition giving your opinion
Your progress
Unit 9 Activity 1 Assignment
Please listen to Dr. Gilbert advice on invention (A-F), about 4 minutes. You could follow along using your book, on unit 9 In-store innovations.
Then, write a summary, answering the three questions:
Why do you think that inventions are important? (1 - 2 sentences) from paragraph A
What could you do when you have an idea, in order to become an inventor (2-3 sentences) from paragraph B
What do you do to start inventing (2-3 sentences) from paragraph C
Write it out in a word processing, then submit it online...before November 1, 2015
Unit 9 Activity 2 Reading and Comprehension File
Optional: in this activity, you will listen again to the advice of Dr. Gilbert on inventions. This time please 'note' the words, phrases, you don't know yet, and find their meaning. You will use it in Activity 3.
Unit 9 Activity 3 Revise the basic about Questions File
Grammar: We are going to study 3 types of question sentences
Question tag, small question at the end of a statement
Question words
Indirect questions
Try doing all the exercises. In the next activity, we shall study them again, more systematically.
Unit 9 Activity 4 Lesson on Question Sentences SCORM package
This is a lesson on Question Sentences, including Question Tags. It's good for your ONET/Admission exams.
Unit 9 Activity 5 Learn how to write a Discursive Composition File
Discursive Composition: เป็นการเขียนแสดงความคิดเห็น จุดมุ่งหมายคือ บอกว่า คิดอะไร ทำไมจึงคิดเช่นนั้น (ข้อดี ข้อได้เปรียบ เมื่อเทียบกับอีกความคิดหนึ่ง) ในบทนี้ มีการเทียบระหว่างการซื้อของ "ร้านขายของชำ"กับ "ศูนย์การค้า"
Unit 9 Activity 6 Assignment: Write a Discursive Composition
Use the following hints to express opinion why you choose to go to 'Supermarket for Shopping' than to 'Local Store' near home.
(4-5 paragraphs, not more than 200 words)
Submit it by November 10, 2015)