**Title:** Enhancing Writing and Comprehension Skills through Cityscape Exploration
**Attendance:**
– Absent: I die, Aliyah, Ahmad, Noa Sel, Jian-Chuan Li, Anelia, Niamatua, Jebek, Rascal D, Aytel Kun
– Present: Sanjar, Aydana, Kushvakshah, Cheng Shilu, Yidan, Nursultan, Ruslan
**Topics Covered:**
1. **Developing Writing Skills:**
– Process paragraph writing: outlining, writing topic sentences, supporting details, and thesis statements.
– Peer review process.
– Introduction to opinion-based academic writing.
2. **Understanding Landscapes and Cities:**
– Analyzing and describing a picture of a natural landscape and its potential effects on the people living there.
– Personal opinions on wanting to live in a place like the one in the picture.
– Discussion and understanding of the city of Seattle, its nature, and its modernity.
– Reading and understanding a descriptive text about Seattle.
3. **Vocabulary Expansion:**
– Vocabulary discussion: words like “glacier,” “pioneer,” “per capita,” “lumberjack,” “hard-pressed,” and “shimmer.”
4. **Reading and Creative Writing Exercises:**
– Reading comprehension exercise: True or false exercise about a text discussing Seattle.
– Creative writing exercise: Students were asked to describe a city they like.
5. **City Analysis:**
– Discussion about reasons why people like cities, focusing on four categories: attractions, opportunities, cost of living, and people.
– Introduction of vocabulary words related to each category.
**Actionable Items:**
1. **Writing Skills Improvement:**
– Students should continue practicing outlining and developing strong topic sentences and supporting details.
– Students should engage in more peer review activities to improve their writing skills.
– Students should start focusing on expressing their opinions in academic writing.
2. **Understanding Landscapes and Cities:**
– Further discussion on how natural landscapes can affect the lifestyles of people living there.
– More practice on pronunciation, particularly with the word “Seattle.”
3. **Reading Comprehension:**
– Review reading comprehension strategies.
4. **Future Task:**
– Students will be writing a paragraph about a city they like and the reasons why they like it.
**Homework:**
– On page 112, students need to complete exercise two, parts A and B.
– For part A, students are required to add at least two new words in each of the four categories: attractions, opportunities, cost of living, and people.
– Students need to write five sentences using different words from the chart to describe a city they like and explain why they like it.