Welcome to the Level 3 Course Web Page!

 English level 3 is the sixth course in an eight-level programme

offered to members of the United Nations community in New York.

"It's not that I'm so smart - it's just that I stay with studies longer."                                                                                                         --Albert Einstein

The Intensive Listening Class Original Picture Dictionary

The 'A picture is worth a thousand words' Dictionary-created by participants of UN English 6, spring 2006

What have we studied this week?  Take a look at this week's study schedule below:

Study schedule 2006
Week 1  theme 2 Jan—5 Jan	Getting to know one another and our learning goals · Introductions: interviews to get to know your classmates  Story: “The Birthday Present” · Retell and then rewrite the story using the key words
Week 2   theme 8 Jan—12 Jan	Read the Story “Going to the City”, Retell the story using the key words. Then write the story. Write the story one time suing the present tense, and one time using the past tense Reading on the origin of the expression,”New York City is the Big Apple” Listening exercise: World Link, page 3: listen to the story about neighbours and do the exercise Homework: Write about your neighbours—in your native town or city (or in anther place you have lived) or in New York City. Are neighbours the same o different in the two places? Write a description of a neighbour you have now or had in the past.
Week 3   theme 15 Jan—19 Jan	Special class on exploring web sites http://www.unepd.org/linkspage.htm Choose a site to explore. You may want to start with "Dave's ESL Cafe" and take a quiz of your choice: http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/quiz/ · Homework: Write composition about a web site you've explored (  Internet sites in the hand-out )
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	Read hand-out, "What is your leaning style?" and do discussion activity with student next to you · Readings on learning styles and making a personal vocabulary file · Homework: Write definitions/sentences and choose a picture for your assigned vocabulary words · Composition: Explain what "type" of learner ("visual", "auditory" or "kinetic") you think you are. Explain which kinds of activities help you learn language and remember new words Talking about things we are good at doing, avoid doing, can't stand doing · Do exercise with gerunds/infinitives p. 68 · Read/listen to Sean's letter to his grandmother, p. 68 · Do exercise 2 and 3, p. 69 · See hand-out on verbs followed by gerunds, prepositions and expressions followed by gerunds · Homework: Do exercise 1, p. 70, Read 'Language Review, p. 71) · exercise 3. p. 71 Homework: Headway Read "Sean Grandmother's Reply" letter, p.70 Fill in the missing verbs in their correct form (as gerunds of infinitives)