Summer is Here!

Hello everyone, welcome to Science English. Thank you all for your homework. It was very good. The total points were 30. The top score was 26. The average score was 23. Some things were slightly hard in this homework. For example, the Extending Skills section 6.3, part B was difficult for some people. I think if you read carefully you will find that some words don't work grammatically. In addition, 6.4 was a bit difficult I know. Part B was not easily understandable. You were to divide the notes (in blue) to make paragraphs, and then you had to describe which ideas were good topic sentences for paragraphs. I think it's best if you write complete sentences for this part. Finally, in part 3 you had to write full sentences from the notes and put them into one larger paragraph.

In today's class we will go over the homework, and then basically review the information we learned to get ready for the test. We will go through each chapter and I will tell you the important parts in each chapter. We will in a sense, follow this outline below:

Science English review for exam.

1) What is environmental science?

1.1 Vocabulary A, B (1-8), C, D; 1.3 Extending skills A, B, D.

2) What do environmental scientists do?

2.1 Vocabulary B (1-10), C H. Page 15 (top and bottom);2.2 Reading A; 2.3 Extending skills

3) The Atmosphere

3.1 Vocabulary B, D, F (pictures); 3.2 Listening B, C, E, G; 3.4 Extending Skills A, C, D, G, H.

4) Computer in ES

4.1 Vocabulary A, B, C, D, E; 4.2 Reading A, B, C, F;4.3 Extending skills; A, B, C 4.4 A, B, C

5) Energy Resources

5.1 Vocabulary B, D, E (picture); 5.2 Listening A, B, C, D D, F; 5.3 Extending skills D; 5.4 A, E, F

6) Soil as a resource

6.1 Vocabulary A, B, E; 6.2 Reading A, B, C, E, F; extending skills A, B, C, D; 6.4 A, B

This outline will stay on this blog through until test time so you can always refer to it. Some of these items may be on the exam, but some may not be. The order might change. We may use pictures. We may use listening. To study, just please review the textbook as well as your homework so you can find your mistakes. If things are used from the textbook, they will be used as is, and the question itself won't change. Most of you are doing very well in the class. I think if you do the test like you do the homework, there is no need to worry about failing.

In addition, I'm thinking about making one section to have you write one open ended-question on a particular topic. This will a topic with which you are all familiar; it will not be anything you don't know. I will, hopefully let you know what this topic is in tomorrow's class.

By the way, in tomorrow's class we will also have the questionnaire since it's the last day. Unbelievable how fast time flies! See you tomorrow!