Rainy Day

This is Environmental Science English blog for June 11th, 2015. Tomorrow will be week 10 of the class. It's unbelievable how fast time flies. Today is a rainy day, and many trains were stopped. As a result, many of you couldn't turn in your homework. For this reason, I will collect it in class on Friday this week. For those of you who did it and made it to E-Learning Lab to drop it off, thank you very much. Your efforts will be remembered. By the way, rain is something that is necessary to a normal environment. Sometimes it is troublesome, but we need rain. In fact, having no rain is more problematic that getting enough rain. Too much, however, can be equally troubling because it is dangerous and can cause power outages and landslides.

The homework I have checked so far is quite good, and I will hold off checking and giving answers in class until I am sure everyone was able to turn it in. This Friday we will do a bit of Extending Skills on page 41, and then move to pager 42 where we will look at a renewable energy supply graph and discuss two kinds of power: solar and hydro. As you know, we will soon begin another Topic Design Project, and in this project, you will be asked to design your own renewable energy source. At first I was going to ask you to design your own solar energy plant, but I think it's better if you choose your own topic to design. I will give you some ideas in class tomorrow, and then you and your partner can take some time to choose the topic from the list of choices that you will complete. As last time, I would like you to practice some vocabulary, write some sentences, answer some questions, and finally, design your project which I would like you to present to the class. I will explain this more later.

The homework for the following week will be completing the topic design projects parts 1-3: vocabulary, sentences, and answers to questions. Then, we will begin designing your topics the following week in class. We will probably begin the presentations at the end of June or the beginning of July. I will let you practice for this exercise, and will give you some hints and points. This is a very good opportunity for you to practice spoken English in front of people. It may make you nervous, but after it is over, you can relax. Then you will feel as if you've accomplished something.

That is all for this blog for this rainy day. It seems to have stopped raining now (it's 14:08 now), but it may start again. Don't get stuck in the downpour! See you all tomorrow.