1.
Academic
Interactions 130
Zachary Shellenberger
adapted from Nikki Mattson

2.
Agenda
 Conversation Starters
 Conversation Starter Info (Section B)
 Classroom Observation Projects
 Listening Exercises and Note-Taking
 Pathways Ch 2. Review
 Return tests

3.
Conversation Starters AI130A
Nowadays, a lot of universities use online classes for
their students. The numbers of online classes have
increased in the last few years. Moreover, many
universities attract people in order to participate in
these classes, and they provide a diploma as a
certification for those who attend the classes and go
through this challenge. I read an article about the
advantages and disadvantages of online classes. The
advantages were about the freedom in choosing the
class’s time and the place where the students would
like to take the classes. However, students can't work
as a group in online classes, or they lose the benefit
of the community with their classmates. What do you
prefer - online or normal classes? And why?
(Online Classes, Mallak)

4.
Conversation Starters AI130B
 As of now, there are no new ones!

5.
Conversation Starters Info:
 Write about a problem/issue in your major
OR concerning another academic interest
 Must include:
 Background info
 Question
 New vocab
 Name and major

6.
Example:
 In chemical engineering, the engineers
always use huge amounts of chemicals.
They need some special things like
pipeline against corrosion or huge
warehouse to store it and special way to
save it because some of them dangers
materials, but there is a problem, which is
all these things are expensive. How do
you think we can fix this problem? How
can we make special and high quality
materials and cheap in the same time?
 (Chemical Engineering, Hassan)

7.
Classroom Observations
 How did they go/are they going?
 Have you run into any problems?
 What is one interesting thing you have
observed?
 For the possibility of full points, the video
must be uploaded to Box by tomorrow
(Tuesday) at midnight at the latest!
 You will need them to make VoiceThread
comments for the next assignment
 Please come talk to me if you have any
concerns about any part of the project.

8.
Listening – pg. 37 – A conversation between
classmates
 Listen to the conversation.
 Complete part A
 Listen to the conversation again.
 Complete part B

9.
Note-taking strategy: the 5 Rs
 Record – write down what you think is important
 Reduce – summarize the record column into
manageable text
 Recite – look only at your notes in the reduce
column, and try to remember the important ideas
that your notes summarize
 Review – review your notes several times in
between the lecture and the test
 Reflect – add personal reflections and thoughts to
make what you learned part of what know

10.
PRACTICE
 1) Watch/listen to the video and write
down important information in the
“Record” column.
 2) Work with a partner to review your
notes and to complete the “Reduce”
column.
 4) Discuss the information with your
partner. What could you write in the
“Reflect” column?

11.
TED Talk Video
 https://www.ted.com/talks/pamela_mey
er_how_to_spot_a_liar

12.
Pathways Ch. 2 Test Review
 What will be on it?
 10 Questions about a conversation
(multiple-choice)
 12 Vocabulary Matching (definitions and
synonyms) (pgs. 24 & 34)
 12 Vocabulary fill-in-the-blank
 8 Relative Pronoun Questions (circle correct
one)
 Word stress (circle stressed syllable)
 Extra credit – more word stress

13.
Word Stress Activity
 Briefly discuss the patterns we talked
about before.
 Together, write down the words below
and mark where the stress is and also the
part of speech; if you know other forms
(verb, adverb, etc.), try to mark the stress
as well.
 entertainment, depend, astrology,
cooperation, desert, present

14.
What should you do?
 Study 20 vocab words from chapter
 Review relative pronouns (that, which, who,
what, where)
 I wonder (that - which – what) the presentation
was about.
 Review stress and stress patterns we discussed
 func-tion
 re-vo-lu-tion
 de-sert
 pre-sent (v.)
 un-i-ver-si-ty
 ec-on-om-ics
 ad-van-tage
 ad-van-tag-eous

15.
Homework
 Write conversation starter on Google Docs
if you have not already done so.
 If you haven’t yet, record and/or upload
your classroom observation presentation
to Box.
 Study for Ch. 2 Test tomorrow!