Unit 2: My Field of Study

Objective: At the end of this unit you should be able to gather information from reliable sources, use vocabulary related to a specific topic from your area of study, analyze that topics by describing their context and evaluating facts and give a recommendation based on the information gathered.

March 10th

Academic Reading Workshop 1

Objective: To study some strategies to improve our ability to read academic texts and explore the topic of our projects.

Reading Strategies Workshop 1

Skimming & Scanning

Reading Homework

Choose one of the texts below, read it by using the studied reading strategies, and take the quiz to check your knowledge:

Scientists: Prepare for el Nino

Companies make gas from Garbage

Nigerian President Promises Malala to find the Girls

NASA: Close to discovering Life Outer Space

Pro-Democracy Protesters Fill Hong Kong

March 15th

Academic Reading Workshop 2

Reading Strategy

ANALYSIS OF TERMINOLOGY: The purpose of this reading strategy is to increase your vocabulary on the topic by building a glossary of terms or words from the text

The Use of the Dictionary

Parts of the Speech Explanation

Parts of the Speech Exercise

TIP

Nouns often end: -ment, -ion, -ness, -ity.

People nouns often end: -er, -or, -ist, -ian.

Adjectives often end: -able, -ible, -ive, -al, -ic, -ed, -ing.

Some verbs end: -ise, -ate, -en.

Adverbs often end: -ly.

Project Homework

Look for an academic article in English about the problem you will be addressing with your project proposal.

You may find an academic paper in this database:http://www.biomedcentral.com/journals

The university also counts on databases available for the academic community using the username and password:http://sinab.unal.edu.co/index.php/recursos-bibliograficos/bases-de-datos

March 17th

Academic Reading Workshop 3

Review

Parts of the Speech Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGuDYHmc8_Y

Parts of the Speech
Game 1
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/grammargames/pandapopPartsofSpeech.htm

Game 2
http://www.abcya.com/parts_of_speech.htm

Reading Strategy
GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS: The purpose of a graphic organizer is to represent graphically the main themes or ideas of a text and the logical relations existing among them.

Graphic Organizers

Colombia on Strike!

Project Homework

Project: Task 1

Summative Assessment: 5%

Deadline: April 1st

Objective: to gather information from reliable sources and to use reading strategies to learn about a specific topic from an area of study.

Please download this file and do all the proposed activities with your project team. Send it via email (aljimenezqu) by April 1st

March 29th

Review

Reading Strategies

At the lab

Reading & Writing Tip: Word Formation

1. Watch this video about Prefixes and Suffixes

Prefixes and Suffixes Video