English for Geographers

Unit 2: Being a Geographer

Lesson log, Monday 10:00 

- shared videos
- homework check hd 1, ex. 4c, 5
- set personal targets for the course (SMART objectives: By the end of the semester I will have watched 10 videos and learnt 100 new words)
- ex. 7 word formation (strategies, parts of speech, prefixes/suffixes, number - singular/plural)
- hd 2 word formation (specialisations in geography: -er (cartographer), -ist (environmentalist), -ian (politician)
- watching a video A day at work: GIS analyst

HOMEWORK:

- watch a weekly video for your journal
- ex. 6 a,b in hd 1 (make questions, answer, summarise in writing)
- watch GIS analyst again, do extra challenge task 

- remember to find 3 sources for your poster presentation and upload into homework vaults (see week 1 for more info and odevzdávárny)

Lesson log, Wednesday 10:00

- shared videos
- shared topics and sources
- did ex. 3, 4a,b,c, 7 in hd 1
- talked about exams

HOMEWORK:

- watch a video for your journal, process new vocab (quizlet? mindmap? glossary?)
- ex. 6 in hd 1 

- a quizlet set for revising today's vocab and for your inspiration (you might want to create quizlet sets for your journal videos)

Lesson log, Wednesday 12:00

- shared journal videos
- shared topics and who's going to work with whom
- checked HW (hd 1 ex. 4c, 5)
- finished hd1 (word formation)
- started hd2 (word formation - geo specialisations)

HOMEWORK:

- watch a video of your choice for your journal and process new vocab (write it down, make a mindmap, draw pictures...whatever suits your learning style)
- ex. 6 in hd1

- find at least three sources for your poster presentation, write a short summary (annotation) for each (is the source reliable? why? is it relevant to your topic? why? who's the author? where did you find the source - link, publication data (if it's a book); upload it in odevzdávárny (see week 1) by March 2