Homework Assignment due in class on Friday, Oct. 12

Review the Structure Questions section of your textbook (pages 97-141), and in particular, focus on the skill that you worked on with your partner in class on Friday, Oct. 5th. 

Next, create one original TOEFL-type Structure Question that demonstrates the particular grammar point/skill that you studied with you partner.  Type up your question and print off a copy for class. 

I will collect your typed and printed question in class on Friday, October 12th, and we will use all the questions from the students in the class as part of a grammar review game show activity.

Homework Assignment due in class on Friday, Sept. 28

Use your recent practice TOEFL results (handed back in last Friday's class) to outline a strategy for improving your score on the TOEFL.  To get full credit, you will need to discuss the following:

1. What section(s) of the TOEFL (e.g. Listening Comprehension, Reading Comprehension, etc.) do you do well on? 
2. What section(s) of the TOEFL do you seem to struggle with? 
3. Why do you think you struggle with this section or these sections? (E.g. not enough background knowledge to comprehend reading passages, etc.)
4. What specifically can you do to improve your score on the section or sections that you struggle with?  List at least three specific strategies that you can use to improve your score.

I will not collect your study plans, but I will check them in next Friday's class!

Homework Assignment due in class on Friday, Sept. 21

The negative prefixes, un-, in-, and dis-, are some of the most common. For each of these three negative prefixes, find three words that begin with them.  Then include two synonyms and two antonyms for each word in your list.

Here is an example:

• insane - means not sane
• synonyms:  crazy, irrational
• antonyms: sane, healthy

Homework Assignment due in class on Friday, Sept. 7

Find two synonyms and two antonyms for each of the words in the following word list:

• abroad
• abrupt
• acceptable
• acclaim
• actually
• adverse
• advice
• attractive
• autonomous
• disapproval
• disruptive
• haphazardly
• ideal
• persistent
• wide

Check out www.synonym.com for help finding synonyms and antonyms.

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