2: An Invitation to Visit
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Learning Objectives
After completing this chapter, students will be able to
- Analyze rhetorical features of a promotional blurb on a tourism website.
- Analyze and practice composing sentences in a promotional genre.
- Listen to a presentation about the four seasons and identify the main ideas and details.
- Read an ESL text about festivals.
- Practice reading and writing strategies including word forms and capitalization
- Use vocabulary related to seasons and activities to describe a place.
- Use simple present tense to describe a place.
- Use compound sentences to write about a place.
- Use positive descriptive adjectives to describe a place.
- Write an email inviting a tourist to visit a place.
- 2.1: Reading a Tourism Website: Welcome to East County
- Read and analyze a tourism blurb about East County San Diego. Identify the form and meaning of descriptive adjectives and noun modifiers.
- 2.2: Writing: Promotional Language
- Analyze and practice writing sentences for promotional writing.
- 2.3: Randall's Listening Lab: The Four Seasons
- Listen to a student speech and practice vocabulary about seasons.
- 2.4: Reading an ESL Reader: BC Festivals
- Read a description of festivals in British Columbia. Build vocabulary by examining word form patterns.
- 2.5: Reading Strategies: BC Festivals
- Practice reading and writing strategies after reading the text "BC Festivals."
- 2.6: Grammar: Present Tense Verbs
- Slide presentation about the simple present tense.
- 2.7: Grammar: Compound Sentences
- Slide presentation about compound sentences.
- 2.8: Grammar: Descriptive Adjectives
- Slide presentation about descriptive adjectives.
- 2.9: Assignment: Write a Persuasive Email
- Write a persuasive email to a friend or family member using your new vocabulary, rhetorical and grammar skills.