Homework For This Week

Your assignments for this week (due by Oct. 16) are as follows:

Write 10 sentences comparing current news items with possibly different, unreal outcomes. Use conditional tenses (see p. 48 in your book for a review). You and your partner should have 10 sentences per pair; when you have your sentences, post them to your blog. (If you weren't in class, you'll have to do the 10 alone). Here are three examples we had in class:

"Yesterday Costa Rica lost a soccer game against Peru. If Costa Rica had better players, they might have won."

"Miners in Chile are trapped in a cave. If there were an earthquake, they miners could die there or never get out."

"Last night there was a 5.9-magnitude earthquake in Costa Rica, but no one was hurt. If the earthquake had been stronger, people could have been injured."

Remember, you need 10 events that happened, as well as 10 possibly different outcomes. If you have any questions, please ask me.

Your second homework assignment is to finish any blog entries or homework from previous weeks. If you are behind on any posts or responding to any comments, now is your chance to get caught up.

Finally, don't forget to bring Halloween Candy for the younger kids next week. If you forget, they will not enjoy sweet, sweet candy but instead choke on bitter, bitter tears of sadness. Let's not let that happen.

Good luck, and see you next week!