English 2 Basic: Class 5

Richard Wilson

Agenda•Registration• Portfolio Check•Work Groups• Free-writing•Homework Review•Reading Skills – Identifying the

Main Idea

PortfoliosLined Paper

A4 Size

Graded Reader Quiz

Friday 27th September

Work Groups

Group 1• Ji, Seul-gi•Ankhtsetseg•Kim Dae-hwan•Do, Yesung•Lee, Jong Sun

Group 2•Ahn, Jin Woo• Park, Young Gun• Park, Jong Hyeok•Kim, Byoung Eun• Park, Soo Bin

Group 3•Lim, Soo-Yeong• Shin, Bora•Lee, Ji Hoon•Chen Fei•Kim, Min Ji

Group 4•Cho, An-na• Seo, Hyun-Woo• Jeong, Young-Ju•Cho, Min-Ki•Kim, Jin Hyun

Group 5•Hong, Min-ki• Chang, Jen-Tai•Koo, Kyo-Jun• Xu Liang• Jang, Ah Young

Free-writing

Free-writing• Write for 5 minutes at the beginning of each class.

• This will be kept in your portfolio -but it’s not part of your grade.

• Don’t worry about spelling, grammar etc.

• Try not to stop writing!

Free-writing

Memories of Chuseok

HOMEWORK REVIEW: THE POPULARITY OF SOCIAL NETWORKSUnit 1 – Pg. 8-9

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instant messaging

Mixi Orkut

2004

You Tube

anyone

IDENTIFYING THE MAIN IDEA

THE MAIN IDEA

The Main Idea– What?

• Allows us to understand and express the main point of an article or text.

The Main Idea– Why?

• To show our understanding.

• To easily explain an article to others.

• To help us if we look at the article again in the future.

The Main Idea–How?

Ask Yourself:

• What is the text about? (but not only this!)

• What is the author trying to say?

• What is the central message of the writing?

The Main Idea–How?

Ask Yourself:

• What is the text about?

• What is the author trying to say?

• What is the central message of the writing?

The Main Idea – 3 Steps

Identify the important information

Group the important information

Combine the groups to get the main idea

IDENTIFYING THE MAIN IDEAS OF A PARAGRAPHPg. 9

EXERCISE 2: CONTRIBUTING TO THE MAIN IDEA

Homework• Literature Circles Task• www.richardsclassroom.wordpress.com• Find your task – don’t choose another

one!• Print your worksheet• Complete it and bring to class on Friday