Slideshow for ESP Lesson 6, Fall semester 2013. Contains information about the midterm.

1. English for Specific Purposes
Lesson 6
Talks

2. Quiz
•2 minutes to review
homework
•Pass in your
homework
•Take the quiz

3. Talks
• Like the Conversations
questions, but only 1
person talking
Announcements
(train, store, etc.)
News/Weather
Business meetings

4. Announcements
• Page 32, Part 1
Listen to four
announcements
Decide where they are
from

5. Announcements
• Page 32, Part 2
Read the phrases in the
orange box
Listen again
When you hear a
phrase, write the letter

6. Content words
• Reminder: Content words are
“important” words—usually
nouns or verbs
• For talks (like conversations)
preview the questions and
answers, looking at the
content words

7. Content words
• Goal: To guess
What (big topic)
Where
Who
What details to listen for

8. Practice
• Page 34
Preview questions 1-3
Predict the information at
the top
Listen, and answer

9. Dictation practice
• Page 37, Part D
• Listen and fill in the
blanks

10. Mini-test
• Page 38
• Questions 1-6
• Questions 7-12

11. Practice
• Try p. 53, questions 1-3
You have 30 seconds for
the first pass
You have 60 seconds for
the second pass

12. Voice mails
• Page 88, purple box
Pattern
•Introduction
•Purpose/background
•Request/suggestion/option
Part 1
Part 3

13. Midterm
• The next class is the
midterm
• Four parts:
Listening
17
Reading (IS/TC) 21
Vocabulary
30
Strategy
5

14. Midterm—Listening
• 5 Photograph questions
• 2 Conversations
3 questions each
• 2 Talks
3 questions each
• Ph. Q only
once, Conv/Talks played

15. Midterm—Reading
• 15 Incomplete Sentences
• 2 Text Completion
3 questions each

16. Midterm—Vocab
• 30 questions from all of
the words you’ve had
from the homework so
far
3 x 5 definitions
3 x 5 “Text Completion”

17. Midterm—Strategy
• 5 questions about “how”
to succeed on the TOEIC
Content words
Parts of speech
Methods

18. Studying?
• Learn all 129 vocabulary
words
• Practice previewing
listening questions
• Practice IS & TC
questions in the book

19. Studying?
• Know:
Content words (p. 25)
2-pass method for IS/TC
(p.41)
Future tenses (p. 40)
Past tenses (p. 43)
Parts of speech (p. 48)
Suffixes (p. 51)