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N101_2014_Vance_Section2

Page history last edited by Vance Stevens 9 years, 3 months ago

 

This page is to clarify work assigned to

Section 2 N101 and Section 4 N100/N101

Listening / speaking course Aug-Sept 2014

 

  1. Weeks remaining in the semester
    1. Week 39 and onwards through November
    2. Week 38 Sept 21 - Sept 25, 2014 
      1. Tuesday September 23 - Per 5 Section 4 Speaking preparation - Paragraph writing and AudioBoo
        1. Use AudioBoo to practice your speaking
        2. Write out your description of a picture
      2. Monday September 22 - Per 7 Section 4 Speaking preparation
      3. Sunday September 21 - Speaking preparation
    3. Week 39 Sept 28 - Oct 2, 2014 - Section 4
  2. Work completed by now
    1. Week 37 Sept 14 - Sept 18, 2014
      1. Tuesday Sept 14 Section 2 per 7
      2. Sunday Sept 14 Final Exam review Section 2 per 4
      3. Monday Sept 15 final exams for N101 and N100
    2. Week 36 Sept 7 - Sept 11, 2014
      1. Thursday September 11 Practice listening and vocabulary tests
        1. Section 4 period 3 and Section 2 period 4
      2. Wednesday September 10
        1. Section 4 period 1 and Section 2 period 3 
      3. Tuesday September 9 CfTO Listen for missing words: Instructor teaches straight and level flight?
        1. Section 4 period 7 and Section 2 period 3 
      4. Monday September 8 More Vocabulary Practice for Section 2
        1. Section 4 period 7 Kahoot vocabulary practice
        2. Section 2 period 4 assigned Memrise and Vocab Test 
      5. Sunday September 7 Vocabulary work with Socrative, Memrise, and VocabTest
        1. Section 4 period 7 assigned Memrise and Vocab Test to be completed Tue
        2. Section 2 period 5 Socrative CFT Unit 5 voc part 2 sentences
        3. Section 4 period 4 Instruments
        4. Section 2 period 3 start instructor talk
    3. Week 35 Aug 31 - Sept 4, 2014
      1. Wed Sep 3 (section 4) and Thu Sep 4 - Cleared for Takeoff - Instructor Talk
      2. Monday Sept 1 - Wed Sept 3 Speaking tests
      3. Sunday Aug 31 - Speaking exam preparation, what you can do
    4. Week 34 Aug 24 - Aug 28, 2014  
      1. Thu Aug 28 Periods 5 and 6 for sections 4 and 2
      2. Wed Aug 27 Periods 1-2 Vocabulary and Listening tests
      3. Tue Aug 26 Per 4
      4. Mon Aug 25 Per 4 - Vocab practice
      5. Sun Aug 24 Per 4 - Route clearance to Audioboo
      6. Sun Aug 24 Per 1 - Practice Vocabulary Test
    5. Week 33 Aug 17 - Aug 21, 2014
      1. Thu Aug 21 per 3
      2. Wed Aug 20 per 3
      3. Tue Aug 19 per 4
      4. Mon Aug 18 per 4
      5. Mon Aug 18 per 4
      6. Sunday Aug 17 Per 4
      7. Sunday Aug 17 Per 1
    6. Week 32 Aug 10 - Aug 14, 2014
      1. Thu Aug 14 Per 4 consolidation and review
      2. Wed Aug 13 Per 4
      3. Wed Aug 13 Per 3
      4. Tue Aug 12 Per 4 ATIS listening using Hot Potatoes
      5. Mon Aug 11 Periods 3 and 4 Record ATIS and Readback in Audacity and upload to Audioboo
      1. Sunday Aug 10 Period 4 listen to ATIS, complete worksheet
      2. Sunday Aug 10 Period 1 Memrise
    7. Week 31 Aug 3 - Aug 7, 2014
      1. Thursday Aug 7 Period 4 Unit 5 Vocab fill-in-blank exercise
      2. Wednesday Aug 6 Periods 3 and 5 Departure information on Padlet and Word attachment
      3. Tuesday Aug 5 Periods 3 and 4 work with CFT, Adobe, HTC email
      4. Monday Aug 4 Periods 3 and 4 download CFT, HCT email, Socrative
      5. Sunday Aug 3 Period 1 welcome back to KBZAC

Weeks remaining in the semester

 

Week 39 and onwards through November

 

See Vance's class assignments here

http://efan101.pbworks.com/w/page/86249212/Vance_Section4 

 

Week 38 Sept 21 - Sept 25, 2014 

  • Assessment in Section 2:  
    Final speaking evaluations, 10% of final mark (one of 3 components to Final exam)

 

Tuesday September 23 - Per 5 Section 4 Speaking preparation - Paragraph writing and AudioBoo

Today we will continue with our preparation for your speaking tests next week

From yesterday, it appears that the best practice is ACTIVE writing or speaking. The following techniques will work best:

 

Use AudioBoo to practice your speaking

Find a partner and record your conversation about one of the photos <== BEST PRACTICE

  1. Pilot 1 speaks about the photo for a couple of minutes
  2. Pilot 2 asks follow up questions
  3. Pilot 1 answers questions and posts mp3 to Audioboo
  4. Pilot 2 becomes pilot 1 and carries out steps 1-3,
  5. both pilots post an mp3 to each one's individual Audioboo profile

If you do this, ask your teacher to listen to it in your profile and give you feedback 

 

Write out your description of a picture

  1. Choose a picture or a pair of pictures from the many available
  2. Write a paragraph on a separate sheet of paper
  3. Show it to your teacher for feedback and correction

 

Sample picture pair 1 (engine fires)

   

 

Sample picture pair 2 (difficult landings)

   

 

Sample picture pair 3 (Don't try this at home)

   

 

 

 

Monday September 22 - Per 7 Section 4 Speaking preparation

Vance's classes today and tomorrow can be used for speaking test preparation.

 

There are many things you can do

  1. You can study the two handouts you are given today in class
    You can find these handouts here
    http://efan101.pbworks.com/w/page/85120366/45-EFA-N101#Extensionmaterialsforspeakingpractice  
  2. You can write answers to the questions on p.2
    on the TEA Complete the cloze practice you were given yesterday
  3. Your teacher can show you some sample pictures 
    You can write some statements about any of the pictures (on a separate sheet of paper) or use page 2 of the TEA Complete the cloze practice 

 

There is just one thing you should NOT do 

nothing

 

Sunday September 21 - Speaking preparation

Here is the official speaking preparation hub for Sections 1-3 and Section 4

http://efan101.pbworks.com/w/page/85120366/45-EFA-N101#Week39SpeakingAssessment 

 

  • Speaking tests start on Monday Sept 22 (final 10% of course mark
  • You will speak about a pair of photographs and be marked on
    • Pronunciation
    • Structure (grammar - you can practice this)
    • Vocabulary (you should review vocabulary from the course and try to use it in talking about photos) 
    • Fluency (this takes practice, in order to develop fluid speaking skills)
    • Comprehension (we can help you anticipate the format of the exam)
    • Interactions (you can practice this in pairs with colleagues) 

 

In class today we can look at photos and try to model what we can say about those photos

 

You should review 

 

You can also find a partner and record your conversation about one of the photos

    1. Pilot 1 speaks about the photo for a couple of minutes
    2. Pilot 2 asks follow up questions
    3. Pilot 1 answers questions and posts mp3 to Audioboo
    4. Pilot 2 becomes pilot 1 and carries out steps 1-3, so that both pilots post an mp3 to each one's individual Audioboo profile

 

For Section 4

 

All of the above can be found here: 
http://efan101.pbworks.com/w/page/85120366/45-EFA-N101#Week39SpeakingAssessment 

 

Week 39 Sept 28 - Oct 2, 2014 - Section 4

 

Students will be on self-study for most of the week while the speaking tests are running.
They should use their self-study time to:

 

 

 

 

Work completed by now

At the end of each week, details for the week will be moved to this area

 

Week 37 Sept 14 - Sept 18, 2014

 

Tuesday Sept 14 Section 2 per 7

Speaking Final preparation 

 

Sunday Sept 14 Final Exam review Section 2 per 4

 

Monday Sept 15 final exams for N101 and N100

  • Final Listening and Vocabulary exams, 10% each 
    (final two components to final exam worth 30%)

 

End of week

Assessment:  teachers prepare PDA evaluations, 10% of final mark

 

 

 

 

Week 36 Sept 7 - Sept 11, 2014

 

Thursday September 11 Practice listening and vocabulary tests

 

Section 4 period 3 and Section 2 period 4

You will be given a practice test to allow you to understand the format of your test next Monday

We understand that the recordings used on the test will be clearer than those on the practice

 

Wednesday September 10

 

Section 4 period 1 and Section 2 period 3 

 

Do ATIS practice listening for information: http://vancestevens.com/kbzac/hotpots/ATIS/atisAlpha.htm 

There are SIX (6) exercises: Alpha, Echo, November, Oscar, Victor, Whiskey

Click the NEXT ==> button to do each in turn


Assessment: show teacher when each is completed for 20 pts each

 

Tuesday September 9 CfTO Listen for missing words: Instructor teaches straight and level flight?

 

Section 4 period 7 and Section 2 period 3 

Do this Hot Potatoes listening exercise and show your score to your teacher

CFT Unit 5 p.99-100 Listen to an instructor teaching straight and level flight and fill in the missing words

http://vancestevens.com/kbzac/hotpots/cft99listening/cft5p99listening.htm 

In case of bandwidth issues use CFT Track 16 or play the audio here:

http://vancestevens.com/kbzac/hotpots/cft99listening/cft5p99track16.mp3 

 

Monday September 8 More Vocabulary Practice for Section 2

 

Section 4 period 7 Kahoot vocabulary practice

  • Please visit http://kahoot.it
  • enter the PIN number you see on the whiteboard
  • On your mark, get set ... GO!

 

Section 2 period 4 assigned Memrise and Vocab Test 

Section 2 period 4 do the work for Section 4 period 7 yesterday. This is

 

Sunday September 7 Vocabulary work with Socrative, Memrise, and VocabTest

 

Section 4 period 7 assigned Memrise and Vocab Test to be completed Tue

The students were getting started on this work when the Internet cut out mid-class.

Most just tuned out but some participated in a classic teacher-led discussion of in-flight verbs and Instructor Talk on 96-98 in CFT

 

Memrise 

Unit 5 Vocabulary on Memrise, http://www.memrise.com/course/360171/n100/  

Assessment - Show a points increase on leaderboard

 

VocabTest Part 3  

http://www.vocabtest.com/vocabulary_word_test.php?tid=210446

Assessment: Send results on 3 tests (spelling particularly important) to vstevens@hct.ac.ae

 

Words in this Test (I'm worried about the periods at the ends of some expressions):

 check

 check the wings are level.

 clean the aircraft up.

 did you get that?

 follow through or follow along

 hand over

 have you got the traffic in sight?

 i want you to have a go now.

 jerk

 keep your eyes outside the cockpit

 make sure the ball is in the center.

 place

 rest

 set the power.

 take over

 you must not use use power against brake.

 you were behind the aircraft then.

 

Section 2 period 5 Socrative CFT Unit 5 voc part 2 sentences

Assessment: Get a score on Socrative cft5 voc part2 sentences

Internet problems prevented some students from accessing Socrative, but most tried and eventually succeeded

 

Section 4 period 4 Instruments

 

Section 2 period 3 start instructor talk

 

 

Week 35 Aug 31 - Sept 4, 2014

 

Wed Sep 3 (section 4) and Thu Sep 4 - Cleared for Takeoff - Instructor Talk

 

Because the following didn't work at per.6, Section 4 did Socrative cft5 voc part2 sentences

 

Learn the names of these instruments

 

Monday Sept 1 - Wed Sept 3 Speaking tests

Assessment:  Mid-semester speaking evaluations, 20% of final mark

 

Sunday Aug 31 - Speaking exam preparation, what you can do

Students were given sample speaking scripts last Thursday, Download yours HERE

Students are being given opportunity to practice in class one-on-one with teacher but many are disinterested

 

Practice practice practice with your classmates

Use the samples in the handout above to record conversations with each other acting as ATC and pilot.

 

How can you prove that you have practiced?

 

 

Week 34 Aug 24 - Aug 28, 2014  

 

Thu Aug 28 Periods 5 and 6 for sections 4 and 2

Gave out scripts for sample listening tests and practiced individually with students

See Sunday Aug 31 for materials used

 

Wed Aug 27 Periods 1-2 Vocabulary and Listening tests

 

Tue Aug 26 Per 4

Also assigned to Section 4 Period 7 

 

  1. Visit http://socrative.com, log in as a student and enter the ROOM: 843039
  2. Put your name on the worksheet and fill in the blanks with words from 24 vocab items
  3. Crossword puzzle optional (but hand the worksheet in to the teacher) 
  4. Last chance to complete the work assigned to date

 

Mon Aug 25 Per 7 cancelled

 

Mon Aug 25 Per 4 - Vocab practice

Also assigned to Section 4 Period 5

 

Free time? You might enjoy SCATTER or SPACE RACE with these

  1. Quizlet 

 

 

Sun Aug 24 Per 4 - Route clearance to Audioboo

Also assigned to Section 4 Periods 2 and 6

Download mp3, listen, record readback, upload that to Audioboo

  1. download this audio file for Route Clearance #3
  2. open it in Audacity
  3. in the first gap record your call sign and say "ready to copy" (it will make a new track for your voice)
  4. After you get your clearance, record yourself as you read it back to ATC
  5. check to see that the sound file is good
  6. If it's ok, upload it to AudioBoo.

 

Sun Aug 24 Per 1 - Practice Vocabulary Test

 

Remaining classes this week

Wed Aug 27 Periods 1 and 2

Assessments: (two at one time in one auditorium sitting) 

  • Vocabulary test, 20% of final mark
  • Listening test, 20% of final mark

 

 

 

 

Week 33 Aug 17 - Aug 21, 2014

8 Hours for English classes

No assessment this week, but tests next week are worth 40% of final mark in this course

 

Thu Aug 21 per 3

Practice listening test

Complete work assigned up to now. Marks will go into gradebook Thursday

 

Wed Aug 20 per 3

 

Download the important Handout for students to your computer

  • Right click on DOWNLOAD and save link / target as to a location on your computer
  • Sign the official form when you have done that

 

Complete the work assigned for yesterday

  • Memrise
  • three vocabulary hot potatoes exercises
  • mp3 file uploaded to AudioBoo

 

New assignment for today, listen and complete the information, show teacher your score when done 

AWO#8 http://vancestevens.com/kbzac/hotpots/UNIT4-AWO8.htm 

 

 

Tue Aug 19 per 4

 

Continue the work from yesterday where you listen to the Control Tower and fill in the critical information

http://vancestevens.com/kbzac/hotpots/Part2Routeclearance2toParis.htm

  1. record your readback and
  2. upload the mp3 file to Audioboo

IMPORTANT: Name your post "cleared to Paris"

 

Do these vocabulary practice exercises. Show your score to your teacher before going on to the next one

(or open a new tab for the next one and carry on working, but show the teacher your scores before end of class)

 

1. CFTO Unit 5 Vocabulary Part  1 Matching Drag and Drop

http://kbzac.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/83863924/CFT5Vocabulary1.htm

2. CFTO Unit 5  Part 1 Multiple-choice exercise

http://kbzac.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/84033865/CFTOUnit5Vocabpart1multiplechoice.htm

3. CFTO Unit 5  Part 1 Matching Drag and Drop

http://kbzac.pbworks.com/w/file/84146506/CFTOUnit5Part1WordsMatching.htm

 

Need more work?

Follow VanceS in Memrise and get over 1000 points on the leader board for N101 
http://www.memrise.com/course/360171/n100/

Your teacher will keep track of your scores and record them on Thursday

 

 

Mon Aug 18 per 4

Review the pilot readback from the audio for part 1

Listen to the Control Tower and fill in the critical information

http://vancestevens.com/kbzac/hotpots/Part2Routeclearance2toParis.htm


Speak out loud the pilot parts
(for example, say "Ready to copy, sunair 926" during the gap in the recording)

When you have the information from the tower clearance to Paris,

  1. record your readback and
  2. upload the mp3 file to Audioboo

IMPORTANT: Name your post "cleared to Paris"

During readback include
— callsign
— cleared to____(destination)
— via flight planned route
— standard/instrument departure (— additional details)
— level instructions
— frequency
— squawk number (if given - not given here)

 

Mon Aug 18 per 4

This is the full audio for part 1

 

Sunday Aug 17 Per 4

 

Sunday Aug 17 Per 1

  • The teacher ascertained that each student with a working laptop had downloaded Cleared for Takeoff Unit 5 as a pdf file on his laptop, for study offline.
  • We went over Inside and Outside the Aircraft up through p.94 (the material covered on the test next week)
  • Students were reminded of work due at the end of last week, Thu Aug 14

 

 

Week 32 Aug 10 - Aug 14, 2014

 

Thu Aug 14 Per 4 consolidation and review

  • Audioboo - You need to have a place to store mp3 files
    Each pilot cadet should have
    1. an Audioboo account
    2. follow vancestevens in Audioboo
    3. have an mp3 file under your profile recording you as pilot in a conversation with ATC

Each pilot cadet should have

    1.  Memrise account
    2. Follow VanceS in Memrise
    3. Have points on the score board each week

 

Wed Aug 13 Per 4

  1. Complete this ATIS exercise
    http://vancestevens.com/kbzac/hotpots/CFT4_atis1_stamonicaL.htm 
  2. On completion each student becomes a pilot with
    Call sign (two initials from your name and first 3 digits of mobile phone number)
  3. Record yourself
    1. requesting  departure information
    2. say again one item of info
    3. reading back ATIS info 
  4. Upload the mp3 to audioboo see: http://kbzac.pbworks.com/w/page/81327437/tools4speaking#RecordaconversationusingAudioBoo

 

Wed Aug 13 Per 3

 

Tue Aug 12 Per 4 ATIS listening using Hot Potatoes

 

All students did the two exercises and I recorded an average of the two marks produced by Hot Potatoes

Some students followed me in Memrise, but only those I called on

 

Mon Aug 11 Periods 3 and 4 Record ATIS and Readback in Audacity and upload to Audioboo

 

Not all students participated in the activity Per 4 on Sunday so at the beginning of the period

  • please give your teacher your worksheet from yesterday so he can record a grade of 100% to credit you with full participation in case you did the work from Sunday
  • If you haven't completed the worksheet yet you will have a chance to complete it for a score of 85%

 

We took grades at the beginning of the period and started working on the plan as follows.

In practice, only half the students had Audacity, so we could only do step 1 below

All prepared recordings, but files came in as mp3 and wma

Later we'll need to get all students equipped with Audacity so they can produce mp3

We were not able to work in AudioBoo.

 

You'll need to have a completed worksheet to continue with the work for today

Listen to examples of what we want to do from Section 1 http://audioboo.fm/playlists/1258337-section-1 

  1. Pair up with another student
    1. One student is the pilot, the other is the ATC
    2. Record your conversation in Audacity,
      For help, see: http://kbzac.pbworks.com/w/page/81327437/tools4speaking#InstallAUDACITYandtheLAMEpluginformp3 
  2. Upload your conversation to AudioBoo
    1. For help, see: http://kbzac.pbworks.com/w/page/81327437/tools4speaking#RecordaconversationusingAudioBoo
    2. Follow vancestevens on AudioBoo
    3. I'll add your recording to the Section 2 playlist

If you don't have / can't install Audacity, you can use Windows Sound Recorder

It's not as powerful or easy to work with as Audacity, but it will work

 

As a next step (tomorrow) Google ATIS on YouTube

Air Traffic Controllers extract the following information from real ATIS broadcasts:

http://www.speechtech.com/?gclid=CK3u5dOlisACFSEewwodZqcAHA

Use these recordings and use Audacity to extract ATIS information http://www.flykvny.com/aero/audio-recording/logs/2014/08/10/ 

  1. runway in use
  2. wind direction and strength
  3. visibility, temperature
  4. dew point
  5. QNH
  6. Other relevant information

Pilots use their call signs (two initials from your name and first 3 digits of mobile phone number)

Create and Record a dialog with your partner, upload it to AudioBoo

 

Sunday Aug 10 Period 4 listen to ATIS, complete worksheet

 

Edutainment:

 

Sunday Aug 10 Period 1 Memrise

In the half a period we had once students arrived in their new classrooms and settled in, they found the Memrise course http://www.memrise.com/course/360171/n100/

The task was to follow VanceS and get some points on the scoreboard

 

Week 31 Aug 3 - Aug 7, 2014

 

Thursday Aug 7 Period 4 Unit 5 Vocab fill-in-blank exercise

 Vocabulary preparation for exam at end of Week 34

Download the vocabulary list

 

Wednesday Aug 6 Periods 3 and 5 Departure information on Padlet and Word attachment

 

Tuesday Aug 5 Periods 3 and 4 work with CFT, Adobe, HTC email

Plan for today:

  • Explore KBZAC "magic web site" and see what is there
    • Work for THIS class (this page) - how to find it in the sidebar
    • assessment strategy and timing of assessments
    • where to find help for tools needed for this course, other pilot resources
  • Get CFT5 materials onto your computer for review in the barracks
  • By the end of Period 4 by

 

Monday Aug 4 Periods 3 and 4 download CFT, HCT email, Socrative

  • We stressed the importance of having a working and fully charged computer available at the beginning of each class, since the English Dept is not able to provide paper copies of all the worksheets needed this semester. Most students had one or had a plan to comply with this requirement.
  • Students were asked to download Unit 5 of Cleared for Takeoff (CFT5)
    http://kbzac.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/83624797/CfT%20Unit%205%20typewriter.pdf
    Most of the students were able to open the file in a reader
    Next step will be to save the file on the computer and open it in Adobe
  • We tried to get HCT email working for each student
    Only one student was able to send an email; there was confusion over the exact address of the HCT mail server (the one provided them with IDs and passwords was not correct). When the used the correct one most reached the MS/Outlook window where Microsoft credentials must be entered.
    Next step will be to have students create Google accounts so they will have email and access to Google tools
  • The students visited Socrative.com and did the
    prepositions exercise for CFT5 Inside the plane pp.88-89
    Most students were able to complete the exercise and appeared to enjoy it

 

Sunday Aug 3 Period 1 welcome back to KBZAC

Technology was not connected so we used the YouTube app on the iPad to find song lyrics that the students would like to study at a later date. There were recorded here:

http://kbzac.pbworks.com/w/page/67458687/TGIT#Etc 

 

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