TAPESTRY 3 (textbook) [week 4, 2008 - Thor May]
Theme 4 - Borders - "Crossing the Line"
- implicit and explicit requests ⁄ refusal ⁄ excuses ⁄ stating intent
Extra material by Thor :
1. Listening Tests 3a & 3b based on "All Men Are Bastards"
2. Student performance of their out-of-class dialogue creations, based around male⁄female conflict.
3. Dialogue (Thor May) - "Truce" + supporting expressions
4. Identification of steps to conflict resolution in "Truce"
5. Out-of-class assignment for next week : a) report on an historical event; b) research and present some facts about one of the fifteen countries on the border of China.
6. Intensive listening & response : text "Eureka Stockade" (Thor May)
Tapestry 3 Chapter 3 Exercises
7. Tapestry 3, pp. 77-80 exercise on national boundaries (note absence of time-line information on China : obtain)
8. Tapestry 3, p. 81 reading exercise + vocabulary
9. Tapestry 3, p. 83 personal boundary scenarios : use for spoken responses
10. Tapestry 3, p. 85 terms for stating a request, refusing a demand, offering an excuse
11. Tapestry 3, pp. 86-87 scenarios for performance requests
12. Tapestry 3, pp.87-90 recorded requests : identify the intentions of the speakers
13. Tapestry 3, p. 94 settling boundary disputes in international relations: scenarios
14. Tapestry 3, p. 232 (liftout) - transcript of a conflict resolution, with the steps involved : students assigned to give a verbal summary with a report to others.