Typical day at the Summer Language Program

Level 3 Student: Day 7

7:15    Wake-up

7:30    Breakfast (choice of cold cereals, toast, pancakes, bacon, orange juice, and other beverages)

8:00    Classes Begin

            Lexical focus:      Modals of prediction, inference, advisability
                                       Conditionals - past, present, future
                                       Hypothetical expressions - real and unreal situations in past, present, future
                                       Modal perfect and past perfect tenses
                                       Review past progressive tense

10:00  Break (coffee, tea with chocolate chip cookies)

10:30  Lecture:    Effective learning styles - Jerry Salvador

11:00  Language Laboratory:    CD-ROM interactive grammar exercise
                                                Pronunciation h, wh, f
                                                Short and long vowels with voiced/ unvoiced final consonants

12:00  Lunch (Pizza-choice of hawaiian or vegetarian, green salad, minestrone soup, fruit and juice
           or milk)

1:00  Reading/Writing:    Reading comprehension - "The 800th Lifetime" (Alvin Toffler Future
                                                                              Shock)

                                      Review role of past tense in journal narratives

2:30  Communications:    Rules of debate - The Oxford model

3:10  Break

3:30  Students will alternate between the following activities (groups of 10):

                  Sailing - Chris Blondeau & Jerry Salvador
                  Pottery - Christina Brown & Arthur Brendon
                  Kayaking - Andrea Salvador
                  Race Rocks - Gary Fletcher
Gary Fletcher and students on trip to Race Rocks

5:30  Dinner (Barbecue Chicken or vegetarian lasagna, roast potatoes, rice, vegetables, buns, juice
         or milk, and ice cream and cake for desert)

7:00   ESL Choir
          Teacher:  Michelle Brigitte
          Grease Lightning

8:00  Evening lecture: Dr. Peter Gardiner "Economic dynamics of the Pacific Rim"

9:00  Cookie and drink break with housefellows Geoffrey and Lilian Tendyebwa

The rest of the evening is spent doing homework, relaxing, sending email or calling home, etc.

On clear evenings, students will be able to visit the Pearson College Astronomical Observatory with Jean Godin.


Comet seen from Pearson College Observatory
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