[TCA-T2]ESL, English ...

Specific Expectations: 

• Use a wide variety of conversational expressions to negotiate spoken interactions of all types 
  
• Use a wide variety of vocabulary acquisition strategies to enrich and extend vocabulary 
  
• Locate information from a wide variety of print and electronic resources
  
• Extract information for an independent research project from a wide variety of resources
  
• Write complex texts to convey information and ideas for academic purposes using a wide variety of forms 
  
• Use a wide variety of connecting devices and transition words and phrases to show relationships between ideas and information in linked sentences and paragraphs. 
  
• Select and use the prewriting strategies most appropriate for the purpose to generate vocabulary and develop and organize ideas for writing 
  

Learning Goals:

• Work with a small group of classmates to complete an activity 
  
• Understand the meaning of everyday idioms
  
• Use idioms appropriately to describe a person
• Create citations for sources used in information text
  
• Write an information text about the history of tea, using research information
• Choose the best features to use in information text