Review for Your Final Exam

Last class is on Monday the 26th!!!!

Final Comprehensive Exam,

Wednesday July 28,

9:00-10:00

Dear Students,

Your final exam will be comprehensive.  That means that content from Week 1 to Week 8 will be on the test.  This review will help you revisit each of the discrete listening items, vocabulary and skills that we learned this term.  This is as an overview for the exam.  You will need to study all the vocabulary listed on the Glossary Page, as well as other content from each week.  This review is to prepare you for the format of the exam.

Week 1

 Study the schwa (ə) symbol used to represent speech reduction.   

 http://www.trainyouraccent.com/symbols.htm

Audio Test on the Sounds of Speech Reduction: Version 1

Week 2 

Learn the three different sounds of the plural -s. 

Listen to the teacher pronounce the words in the list above

Week 3 

How to Ask for Clarification

Note: Being able to ask for clarification when you don't understand is actually a very good listening skill! (Offline)

Useful questions and statements to elicit more information: LISTEN 

1. I'm sorry, what did you say?
2. Could you repeat that please?
3. Pardon?
4. I'm sorry, I didn't hear what you said.
5. You want to do what?
6. Say that again.
7. Could you say that slowly please?

Week 4 Listen to the 3 different sounds of the past tense of -ed

 LISTEN to Mrs. Rogers read the words from the list!

Week 5

Take a medium level test to practice your comprehension skills: http://www.esl-lab.com.

Week 6 

Sharpen your listening skills by matching the sounds in this concentration game:  http://www.manythings.org/ac/ac.html

Week 7

Listen to NPR for practice: http://www.npr.org

Week 8

  Study the vocabulary and expressions in the rap song.  The entire lyrics are below.

Will I Am

Yes We Can

It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation.

Yes we can.

It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail toward freedom.

Yes we can.

It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness.

Yes we can.

It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballots; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountaintop and pointed the way to the Promised Land.

Yes we can to justice and equality.

Yes we can to opportunity and prosperity.

Yes we can heal this nation.

Yes we can repair this world.

Yes we can.

We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change. (We want change.)

We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics…they will only grow louder and more dissonant ……….. We’ve been asked to pause for a reality check. We’ve been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope.

But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

Now the hopes of the little girl who goes to a crumbling school in Dillon are the same as the dreams of the boy who learns on the streets of LA; we will remember that there is something happening in America; that we are not as divided as our politics suggests; that we are one people; we are one nation; and together, we will begin the next great chapter in the American story with three words that will ring from coast to coast; from sea to shining sea: Yes We Can.

Homework: Mrs. Rogers has prepared a practice final exam for you to study at the following Web page, Practice Final Exam.

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