Monday, November 23, 2009

Monday-what we did in class today

Some of what we covered in class today:
Presentation Practice
Compensation Strategies
When you give a presentation in English, you should use compensation strategies. These are ways to help your audience understand you in case your pronunciation, word use, or grammar are incorrect.
3 Compensation Strategies:
-Write your key words where you audience can see them.
-Start with an introduction that explains your topic.
-Use visual aids: words and pictures for your audience to see.

Eye Contact
You practiced making of eye contact with each person in your audience.

Pattern and Rhythm
You looked at examples of the 5 basic types of patterns:
Random, Regular, Alternating, Flowing, Progressive
You analyzed the print of the zoo by Saul Bass.
You used new pattern words from page 186 to describe the zoo print.
You presented your group's ideas to the class. In your presentation, you used compensation strategies.

The key words you used to talk about the zoo print were:
continuous
repetition
movement
lively
wavy
visual rhythm
motif
pattern
regular
progressive
random
flowing
alternating
combined
element

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