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Section 4

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Class 45 Section 4 - N101 Aviation Speaking course

Teacher: Vance Stevens

 

The course is 8 weeks long, according to the following plan

  1. Materials required
    1. Week 45 - Exam preparation and final exam
      1. Choose your work from these activities today. You must do at least ONE different activity in EACH of the three periods today
      2. Sunday Nov 9 Period 3
      3. Sunday Nov 9 Period 2
  2. Weeks Completed in the Course
    1. Week 44
      1. Monday Nov 3 period 3 with Vance - Practice vocabulary test today
      2. Sunday Nov 2 period 4 with Vance - Hot Potatoes listening practice
    2. Week 43 - Self-study and Final speaking tests
      1. Thursday Oct 30 - Self-study assignment 5 - improve your Memrise score
      2. Wednesday Oct 29 - TWO self study periods and assignments
        1. Wed Oct 29 Per 3 - Socrative vocabularly review
        2. Wed Oct 29 Per 4 - VocabTest spelling practice 
      3. Tuesday Oct 28 Period 4 Self-study assignment 2 - VocabTest definitions and reverse definitions 
      4. Monday Oct 27 Period 3 Self-study assignment 1 - Memrise
      5. Sunday Oct 26 Period 4 last day to prepare for the test with your teacher's help
        1. You can prepare by using the following Hot Potatoes and paper-based Speaking Practice exercises
    3. Week 42 - Speaking test preparation
      1. Mon, Tue, Wed Oct 20, 21, 22 speaking preparation plan
      2. Sunday Oct 19
        1. Period 2 Introduce speaking test
        2. Period 3, Mr. Bob
        3. Period 4 Practice speaking test
    4. Week 43 Speaking test #2
      1. Sunday Oct 26 (no) holiday
        1. Speaking final exam worth 20% of your final mark
        2. Self Study while waiting to sit your speaking final
    5. Week 41 - CfTO Unit 6
      1. Thursday Oct 16 - Progress test on Vocabulary and Listening (20% of semester mark)
      2. Wednesday, Oct 15 - Vocabulary midterm practice
      3. Tuesday, Oct 14 Standard traffic patterns - standard traffic patterns Hot Potatoes
      4. Monday Oct 13 Study Vocabulary and Listening (Hot Potatoes and practice listening exam)
      5. Sunday Oct 12 Study 
    6. Week 39 - Speaking tests and self-study
      1. Thursday Oct 2 - Get Cleared for Takeoff Unit 6 on laptop and activate text writer
      2. Wednesday Oct 1 - Self Study mark: Memrise and Cleared for Takeoff
      3. Tuesday Sept 30 - Important notices for Self Study
      4. Monday Sept 29 - Self study assignments at EFAN101
      5. Sunday Sept 28 - Speaking test preparation
        1. Use AudioBoo to practice your speaking
    7. Week 38 Vocabulary and Speaking Test preparation

English class schedules are here: 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17bsV3TeqNWWtF4BLHT4qXEMi_qGErRMvEPRTYlQNB7s/edit?usp=sharing  

 

Materials required

 

 

 

 

Weeks Remaining in the Course

 

Week 45 - Exam preparation and final exam

 

Choose your work from these activities today. You must do at least ONE different activity in EACH of the three periods today

Show  your teacher your results at the end of  each period to show your effort in exam preparation for today

  1. Fill in the blanks in the pages from your Cleared for Takeoff Unit 6 textbook that your teacher gives you today (counts as activity for one period today)
  2. Flippity - Study the "flash" cards and take written test your teacher gives you (counts as work for one period) 
    1. Test 2 words 36-57
      http://www.flippity.net/fc.asp?k=1hzPMK770I4lhDfkQUqXGCUPTZtWcnbhq4KGeKJhnaOQ 
    2. Match diagrams to radio calls, pages 118 and 122
      http://www.flippity.net/fc.asp?k=1th9vwqVxQvWp02m1mj6rDGKcQpC91TA1iGbv6hxm-Zg  
    3. Midterm vocabulary words 1-35 review
      http://www.flippity.net/fc.asp?k=1CqsIfZ7TBAfZ7iv30BiSRVydJJSeRTnDhjWz-Bj9fTw  
  3. Try these Spelling City activities set by Bob Studholm https://www.spellingcity.com/akisdad/ (show score at the end of any one period today)
  4. Memrise  - show an increase in score on the leaderboard (will count as work for one period today)  
  5. Practice vocabulary with any of the work you did not complete last week (each completed assignment counts as work for one period)
    1. http://efan101.pbworks.com/w/page/85120426/Section%204#MondayNov3period3nbspwithVancePracticevocabularytesttoday  
  6. Show your teacher scores on any Hot potatoes listening practice exercises you complete here
    (each completed assignment counts as work for one period) 

 

Sunday Nov 9 Period 3

 

Assessment - You can choose your Exam preparation activity. The results for that activity will be recorded here.  

Activity Score earned Per 3 Nov 9 Activity
Score
earned Per 3 Nov 9  Activity
Score
earned Per 3 Nov 9
Activity
Score
earned Per 3 Nov 9 
listening  80
Omar   listening part 1 only
50
Abdullah Nasser
no evidence of Final Exam preparation
no evidence of Final Exam preparation
Mohammed Eid   no evidence of Final Exam preparation
0
Mansour
no evidence of Final Exam preparation
 0
Hamad   thinking about Final Exam preparation
50
Eissa    no evidence of Final Exam preparation
no evidence of Final Exam preparation
Mohammed Obaid
listening
100
Ali  
no evidence of Final Exam preparation
 0
Saif   listening  100  Mubarak
listening
100  Saeed  listening  100  Adnan 
 listening
 100 
Mohammed Suleiman   listening
100  Saoud 
listening
100  Jassem 
listening
80  Khalid 

Results from practice listening exam preparation for Period 3 today

 

Sunday Nov 9 Period 2

 

Self-study assignments were given and individual student work was tracked in the documents shared with teachers for that purpose

 

Monday , November 10 Final exam, periods 1 & 2 

The Final Exam is worth 30% of your final mark in this course

 

Weeks Completed in the Course

 

Week 44

You have the following classes with English teachers this term:

 

Monday Nov 3 period 3 with Vance - Practice vocabulary test today

 

To help you practice vocabulary,

You can do the vocabulary practice that was assigned last week.

Your self-study work last week during mid-term speaking tests was worth 10% of your final mark in this course

 

You need to study your Unit 6 Vocabulary list  

 

This is from Unit 6 of Cleared for Takeoff

 which you should have already downloaded here: 

 

Sunday Nov 2 period 4 with Vance - Hot Potatoes listening practice

 

To help you prepare for your Final Exam next week, 

your teachers have prepared listening practice materials here 

 

PDA reports will be submitted this Thursday by all English teachers of N101 courses

What you have done in class all semester is reported on your PDA form which teachers submit this Thursday

Your PDA (Personal Development Assessment) score is worth 10% of your final mark in this course

You can download a copy of the PDA report here

 

More information about your final course assessment here:

  • Download the Student handout HERE.
  • Download the Assessment Plan by clicking HERE.

 

Tuesday Nov 4 period 4 with John

Wednesday Nov 5 period 2 with John - Practice listening test

Thursday  Nov 6 there are no English classes

 

Week 43 - Self-study and Final speaking tests

Monday through Thursday Oct 27-30 - Self Study assignments

Each of you will sign that you have received the following documents

 

During self-study you can prepare for your speaking test and for you vocab/listening final next week

 

 

Self study this week counts as 5% of your final mark (1% each for each of the 5 assignments)

The remaining assignments are due as follows

  • Thur Oct 30 Period 5 - Study period 5 - Improve your score in Memrise

Teachers are required to enter marks each day in a database set up by administrators

Final speaking tests count as 20% of your final mark

 

Thursday Oct 30 - Self-study assignment 5 - improve your Memrise score

 

STUDY PERIOD 5   http://www.memrise.com/course/386498/n101/3/

    Complete N101 Level 4:  If you do not hear or understand

    Review  N101 Level 3 Radio Calls in the Traffic Pattern

    You can get more points by

      a. adding your own MEM (picture)

      b. watering (reviewing) words you studied before  

 

Assessment - Improvement to your Memrise points earned by the end of the week

Mon Thu earned Oct 27 Mon Thu earned Oct 27  Mon Thu earned Oct 27  Mon Thu earned Oct 27 
 0
 0
Omar   0
0
Abdullah Nasser
0
0
Mohammed Eid   0
0 Mansour
 0
 0
Hamad   0
0
Eissa    0
0
Mohammed Obaid
4971  6912 Ali  
 0
 0
Saif   Mubarak
Saeed 
0 Adnan 
 7716
18411 Mohammed Suleiman   Saoud 
Jassem 
0   0 Khalid 

Teachers are required to enter marks each day in a database set up by administrators 

 

 

Wednesday Oct 29 - TWO self study periods and assignments

 

Wed Oct 29 Per 3 - Socrative vocabularly review

 

Vance will START the Vocabulary Review exercise on Socrative during the break before 3rd period Wed

    STUDY PERIOD 3   Students need to visit: http://www.socrative.com

    Click on Student Login.

    Enter the name of your teacher's room -  843039

 

The Socrative exercise has been started. You must do it before period 5 today.

Vance will END the Vocabulary Review exercise on Socrative when English classes finish 4th period Wed

I will leave the exercise running through periods 3 and 4, your English self-study periods

I will monitor progress during those periods and stop the exercises during period 5

(If you have not done the exercise by then it will be clear that you do not intend to do it)

Assessment: Marks will be recorded and reported once the exercise is switched off

points earned Oct 28 points earned Oct 28  points earned Oct 28  points earned Oct 28 
0
Omar   0
Abdullah Nasser
0 Mohammed Eid  
Mansour
0
Hamad   0
Eissa    0 Mohammed Obaid
95 Ali  
0
Saif   Mubarak
Saeed  14 Adnan 
86
Mohammed Suleiman   Saoud 
86  Jassem 
Khalid 

Teachers are required to enter marks each day in a database set up by administrators 

 

Wed Oct 29 Per 4 - VocabTest spelling practice 

 

    STUDY PERIOD 4   www.vocabtest.com    

    Test code: 222146, direct link https://www.vocabtest.com/vocabulary_word_test.php?tid=222146  

    Complete  Spelling Practice (22 questions)

    Email the results  to vstevens@hct.ac.ae, as shown in the illustrations below

 

Tuesday Oct 28 Period 4 Self-study assignment 2 - VocabTest definitions and reverse definitions 

 

STUDY PERIOD 2   http://www.vocabtest.com     

            Test code: 222146, direct link https://www.vocabtest.com/vocabulary_word_test.php?tid=222146  

            Review second half of words from Unit 6

            1. Do  Learning Definitions (22 questions)

            2.  Do  Reverse Definitions  (22 questions 

 

Fill in your name and ID

 

  Email the results  to vstevens@hct.ac.ae


 

Assessment - Your VocabTest scores in 2 emails submitted by the end of the day. Each report must have a Unique ID number (prevents cheating)

Def Rev Spelling earned Oct 28-29 Def Rev Spelling earned Oct 28-29  Def Rev Spelling earned Oct 28 -29 Def Rev Spelling earned Oct 28-29
 100
0 0 Omar   0 0 0 Abdullah Nasser
0 0 0 Mohammed Eid   0 0 0 Mansour
0 0 0 Hamad   0 0 0 Eissa    0 0 0 Mohammed Obaid
95 100 82 Ali  
0 0 0 Saif   0 0 0 Mubarak
0 0 0 Saeed  0 0 0 Adnan 
 100
95 77 Mohammed Suleiman    0
 0
0 Saoud 
 0
 0
0 Jassem 
0 0 0 Khalid 

Teachers are required to enter marks each day in a database set up by administrators 

 

Monday Oct 27 Period 3 Self-study assignment 1 - Memrise

 

Work on N101:  Level 3 Radio Calls in the Traffic Pattern (28 items)

You can get more points by 

  • adding your own MEM (picture)
  • watering (reviewing) words you studied before

 

Assessment Your Memrise points earned by the end of the day

points earned Oct 27 points earned Oct 27  points earned Oct 27  points earned Oct 27 
 0
Omar   0
Abdullah Nasser
0
Mohammed Eid   0
Mansour
 0
Hamad   0
Eissa    0
Mohammed Obaid
4971  Ali  
 0
Saif   Mubarak
Saeed 
Adnan 
 7716
Mohammed Suleiman   Saoud 
Jassem 
0   Khalid 

Teachers are required to enter marks each day in a database set up by administrators 

 

Sunday Oct 26 Period 4 last day to prepare for the test with your teacher's help

 

Here's how you can prepare today for your speaking test

Practice the model speaking tests listed below and at this link http://tinyurl.com/n101hotpots 

Review all vocabulary for N101 here: http://tinyurl.com/n101finalvocab 

Work here in your own personal Pirate Pad

Record yourself describing a video, upload it to AudioBoom, and

  • email vstevens@hct.ac.ae that you have done it

 

Some students have made recordings

Number of students  What they did  What the teacher did  How the student followed up Teacher action
4 students  made recordings in class Vance transcribed the recording
student read the transcription and corrected it gave final feedback
5 students  made recordings in class  Vance transcribed the recording  took no further action nothing more to do
         

 

 

 

You can prepare by using the following Hot Potatoes and paper-based Speaking Practice exercises

The following exercises have been created as model speaking samples

 

Week 42 - Speaking test preparation

 

Mon, Tue, Wed Oct 20, 21, 22 speaking preparation plan

You have today Monday, tomorrow Tuesday, and Wednesday to complete the work assigned here

 

Click here to find your own personal Pirate Pad

I have created a Pirate Pad work space for each of you so that when you record your description of a video

I can write what you say in that space and you can correct it and improve it.

 

(let me know when you have recorded audio)

 

Your teachers have also created 4 Hot Potatoes exercises based on recordings of samples modeling what you might say when you take your speaking test. If you listen to these and work the exercises, this will help you think of things to say and with vocabulary, verb tenses, and the kind of language you should use in your descriptions

 

You can review all the vocabulary you are expected to know in the course here

http://efan101.pbworks.com/w/page/85120366/45-EFA-N101#VocabularyrecycleforspeakingtestsOxfordEnglishforAviation  

 

Finally,  watch any video and answer these questions in your PiratePad

 

1. Who is taking the picture, and from where?

2. What kind of plane(s) is (are) involved?

3. What do you see here? What is happening?

4. What was the pilot trying to do?

5. What went wrong?

6. What would you do if you were the pilot? 

7. What happened in the end? 

8. Was this a good outcome? Why or why not? 

 

I will find your work in your Pirate Pad

 

 

Sunday Oct 19

 

Period 2 Introduce speaking test

Vance will describe the speaking test and explain how you can be guided to do well on it

 

You were given the information for today in a Handout ==> Download here 

 

Period 3, Mr. Bob

will most likely show you these sites:

He has also prepared a guide suggesting language you can use when describing videos 

 

Period 4 Practice speaking test

Vance will prepare exercises where you can practice writing answers to questions about videos

Download the exercise here <== and fill it out from any video you saw in Period 1

  1. Who is taking the picture, and from where?
  2. What kind of plane(s) is (are) involved?
  3. What do you see here? What is happening?
  4. What was the pilot trying to do?
  5. What went wrong?
  6. What would you do if you were the pilot? 
  7. What happened in the end? 
  8. Was this a good outcome? Why or why not? 

 

From http://ftejerez.com/test-and-tips 

 

After today, you will have three more class periods with Vance this week

In these classes you'll get feedback on your written work

and you will make recordings with another student where you will discuss the videos, asking and answering questions

You progress on these tasks will be tracked so that we can better understand your results on your speaking tests next week.

 

Week 43 Speaking test #2

Sunday Oct 26 (no) holiday

 

Speaking final exam worth 20% of your final mark

 

Description of test from your "Handout for Students"

Speaking Progress Test 2 (week 43)- Proficiency test that will test students’ ability to use aviation vocabulary

by assessing and describing a short video clip of a real-life non-routine situation.

 

The Exam:

In the speaking test students will have to

  • watch one short video clip or two,
  • describe what happened
  • answer follow-up questions related to the videos watched.
  • They must include as much aviation vocabulary as possible.

 

This is not just limited to the vocabulary learnt on CfT - Unit 6 but also what has been taught on previous courses. 

http://efan101.pbworks.com/w/page/85120366/45-EFA-N101#VocabularyrecycleforspeakingtestsOxfordEnglishforAviation 

 

Self Study while waiting to sit your speaking final

 

CFTO Unit 6 the pages to be covered for this week are: 

  • 117-118 (Vocab)
  • 119 – 120 (mini review of what’s been covered so far)
  • 121 – 122 (Bob’s Socrative exercise covers this part)
  • 126 – 127

 

Week 41 - CfTO Unit 6

 

Thursday Oct 16 - Progress test on Vocabulary and Listening (20% of semester mark)

 

Wednesday, Oct 15 - Vocabulary midterm practice

 

Tuesday, Oct 14 Standard traffic patterns - standard traffic patterns Hot Potatoes

  1. Study pp.115-117 in CfTO Unit 6
  2. CfTO Unit 6 - Position in traffic pattern - landing sequence (JCloze paragraph

 

Monday Oct 13 Study Vocabulary and Listening (Hot Potatoes and practice listening exam)

Period 5 - 

  1. Study pp. 117-118 in CfTO Unit 6
  2. Do CFT Unit 6 Radio Calls in the Traffic Pattern with ATC words 1-11 (12-22 on your list
    (preparation for mid-term Oct 16) 

Period 7 - Practice listening test (preparation for mid-term Oct 16)

 

You can also Download RAR file and take CFT Unit 6 Radio Calls in the Traffic Pattern with ATC words 1-11 and practice the exercises OFFLINE (in your barracks)

Online Start with this one: http://vancestevens.com/kbzac/hotpots/radiocalls/1-abort.htm  

 

Sunday Oct 12 Study 

Students were not in class today. They missed three scheduled English classes

 

 

 

 

Week 40 Eid Mubarak

 

Week 39 - Speaking tests and self-study

 

Thursday Oct 2 - Get Cleared for Takeoff Unit 6 on laptop and activate text writer

Free time AFTER you have completed your assigned work for the week

 

Wednesday Oct 1 - Self Study mark: Memrise and Cleared for Takeoff

Review this document explaining how your 10% Self-study mark will be set: Independent Study Assignment for Speaking Test week

Teachers are required to turn in your marks by the end of the day.

Successful students will need to show

  1. A 10,000 point increase in the Week score for N101 over the score reported on Monday
  2. Cleared for Takeoff Unit 6, Typewriter version, downloaded to your computer
    To get it onto your computer ...
    1. Click on the link above to open the DOWNLOAD tab
    2. RIGHT click on the word DOWNLOAD
       
    3. SAVE LINK AS or SAVE TARGET AS a file on your computer
    4. Find the file on your computer
       
    5. When you find the PDF file, use OPEN WITH to make sure it opens in Adobe
       
  3. Some work started as shown on the independent study worksheet (show your teacher before the end of the class)

 

 

 

UNIT 6 WORK TO BE COMPLETED

  • STUDY
    • page 110  The Parts of the Traffic Pattern
    • page 111  Landing Sequence
    • page 112  Describing Positions in the Traffic pattern

 

  • COMPLETE
    • p. 112 Questions 2 and 3
    • p.113  Questions 4 and 5
    • p.114 Questions 2 and 3
    • p.115  Questions 4 and 5 

 

Tuesday Sept 30 - Important notices for Self Study

Each student received this document today <=== Download HERE

  1. Each student in N101 received a similar document from each section teacher
  2. Performance marks are being requested by the director today and at end of the week
  3. The work on this self-study assignment is 10% of your final mark 
  4. You signed a document saying that you understand you must do this work 

 

Some of the work requires you to download and read Unit 6 in Cleared for Takeoff 

  • Typewriter version <== Download the version you can write on here
  • Do the exercises given on the worksheet  HERE

 

Continue with Memrize - In order that your marks can be accurately tracked ... 

  1. FOLLOW http://www.memrise.com/user/vances/  
  2. Your goal is 10,000 more points by the end of the week

 

 

Monday Sept 29 - Self study assignments at EFAN101

 

Speaking tests, one-by-one

 

Self-study

Students will be on self-study for most of the week while the speaking tests are running. 
They should use their self-study time to:

 

Tasks to submit, one each SS period

 

 

Sunday Sept 28 - Speaking test preparation

 

Use AudioBoo to practice your speaking

Follow vancestevens at http://audioboo.fm/ and then ...

Find a partner and record your conversation about one of the photos <== BEST PRACTICE

  1. Pilot 1 speaks about the photo for 1-2 minutes
  2. Pilot 2 asks follow up questions
  3. Pilot 1 answers questions and posts mp3 to http://audioboo.fm/ 
  4. Pilot 2 becomes pilot 1 and carries out steps 1-3,
  5. both pilots post an mp3 to each one's individual Audioboo profile

If you do this, ask your teacher to listen to it in your profile and give you feedback 

 

 

Week 38 Vocabulary and Speaking Test preparation

 

Section 4 had Cleared for Takeoff Unit 6 and Vocabulary practice from Bob and Viviana

 

Speaking Test preparation was handled by Vance via these instructions

http://kbzac.pbworks.com/w/page/83685943/N101_2014_Vance_Section2#Week38Sept21Sept252014 

 

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