Day 2- Message Units Part 1

Class Today:

• Attendance
• Are you in the right class?
• Are you registered?
• Warm-Up
• Interview each other. Then introduce each other to the class. 
• Questions:
• What is your full name?
• What is your preferred name?
• Where is your hometown?
• If you could be doing anything right now, what would it be? 
• (not sleeping or studying!)
• Teacher and Culture Discussion
• What are Message Units/Thought Groups?
• Explanation
• Look at this handout
• First listen to me read them. 
• Then repeat after me.  
• Listen again and note when I pause. 
• Now practice in pairs with this handout

Homework: 
1. Read pgs. 12-13 in Communicate.
2. Make a shared box folder called your netid ESL 506. 

Next Class: Continue Message Units, Body Language, Syllabus Terminology