The Marshall Plan Listening and Writing

The official crest of the Marshall Plan

The homework for tomorrow is: section 9/10 from lesson 3 in the TOEFL skills book.

For next Monday: Complete the listening sections and the questions, complete and previous homework (essays from last week, the reading section from yesterday), and the essay from today's lesson on the Marshall Plan.

If you have any questions, let me know.

The lesson plan for today is here.

The vocabulary list for next week is here.

For anyone who is interested in finding out more about American football, here's a link with an explanation of the basic elements.

And here's a classic clip from the Blues Brothers, one of the greatest films ever set in Chicago. If you haven't seen it, go out and rent it this weekend, you won't be disappointed.

The Marshall Plan Reading and Speaking

Political poster from the late 1940s in support of the Marshall Plan

If anyone wants more information about the Marshall Plan, check out this article from How Stuff Works.

Here are the class notes from today.

We'll have a vocabulary test next week on the words from the Large Hadron Collider lessons. Here is the list of all the vocabulary terms that will be on the test. Definitions are included in the lesson plans from last week.

Email me if you have any questions.

12/1/10 - A Christmas Carol Reading and Speaking

Oscar the grouch - a modern day Scrooge

Hey everybody up in Glenview, hope class went well today. Let me know if you have any questions from the lesson.

Here is the lesson from today, including the vocabulary definitions.

For anyone is who has more questions about the Large Hadron Collider, here is a website that answers most of the major questions about the machine.

Finally, if anyone checked out the website yesterday and couldn't access the class notes, I fixed the link and the link to the vocabulary test answer sheet.

Take it easy everybody, and remember....