This can used by students for taking notes about one of the speakers on Simon Hunter’s ‘Talking About Books’ presentation at:

http://www.futurehunt.com/

Talking About Books worksheet

This is a worksheet to guide students how to write the introduction (and to a lesser extent, the conclusion) of the Compare and Contrast essay.

How to write the C&C introduction

Please click the link to download the file.

This is Simon Hunter’s original work, but I added a section to the end in which students practice writing sentences comparing 3 characters.

the worksheet

Here is the QuickTime version of Dan’s PowerPoint file.

download me! (zipped .mov file)

Here is a PDF of the presentation.

Live link to movie online at: http://randomhawk.com/brain/ali2/

This contains a matching activity for vocab that describes personality as well as a an exercise to describe things that people may or may not have in common. Useful input for the Compare and Contrast essay.

Click here to download the Vocab for Character Activity

A follow up to the handout on suffixes in Alibrandi (thanks for the comment, Ted). Same format, but this one’s on prefixes. It may seem out of sequence to present suffixes THEN prefixes (after all, prefixes come at the beginning of a word), but I would point out that words with suffixes are easy to classify according to part of speech (e.g., words w/ -tion are nouns, words w/ -ly are adverbs, etc.), while words with the same prefix can be different parts of speech (e.g., international, internationally). I don’t know if this makes them harder to learn, but you can’t really organize them to the same extent…

Word parts II (ali)

This is a vocab worksheet for Looking for Alibrandi focusing on suffixes. It has examples of noun, adjective and adverb suffixes and a fill-in exercise using quotes from Chapter five. Ss scan the text to see if their answers are correct…

Word Parts I (Ali)

A pair of handouts to familiarize Ss with a range of words and phrases used to connect ideas in writing. If your Ss are ready for something more than ‘first’, ‘next’, and ‘finally’, you may want to have a look. The handouts have clozes (based on the online quizzes for chapters 3 and 5) asking Ss to distinguish between six types of connectors followed by additional examples of each type.

It may also be necessary to teach appropriate sentence patterns. There is plenty of room to improve on these, so here they are in Word format.

Connectors 1 (alibrandi)

Connectors 2 (alibrandi)

Here is the Talking Book for all of Alibrandi.

http://elpweb.com/ali/itunes.html

enjoy!

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This is a summary for Chapters Five ~ Fifteen

Summaries for Chapters Two ~ Four.

This is a summary for Chapter One.

Here’s a file I uploaded:

Autumn semester EAP presentation on writing assignment 2