Hello, Class! This is Towako from MEL School.
How are you doing?
This week, we practiced both speaking spontaneously and thinking critically about information online.
In ELST, you listened to questions and responded before practicing the conversation in pairs. In Q Skills, we continued exploring misinformation and learned how signal words help readers follow the organization of ideas. We then applied what we had learned to a video about finding reliable information online.
The important question throughout the lesson was: How can we decide whether information is reliable instead of simply accepting what we see online?
See you next week!
Towako
ELST Speaking
B1.1 #1
You listened to the questions and answered them, and then practiced the conversation through pair role-play.
One of the questions was:
Would you like to visit Paris someday?
When speaking, don't worry about creating a perfect answer first. Listen carefully, understand the question, and respond with the English you already have.
The more often you practice responding without preparing a script, the easier it becomes to communicate your ideas naturally.
Q Skills for Success Reading and Writing 2
Unit 1: Communication and Media
Global Skills: Critical Thinking Strategy — Putting Ideas in Order
We learned about signal words and how they help us understand the organization of a text.
Signal words show us how ideas are connected and help us follow the writer's thinking.
In Exercise D, you completed a paragraph using appropriate signal words. You then completed another paragraph using vocabulary from the unit, including:
attention / fake / information / social media / check / headlines / reliable / spread
We also returned to the article and identified examples of misinformation.
At this level, don't focus only on individual sentences. Look for clues that tell you how the writer is organizing and connecting ideas.
Write What You Think
You discussed two questions:
What helps you identify fake news? How do you check information to be sure it is true?
Why do many people believe everything they read online?
You then chose one question and wrote your own response.
This is an important step in academic learning:
Understand the information → Think about it → Form your own idea → Express it clearly
The goal is not simply to repeat what the textbook says. Use what you have learned as evidence and background for your own thinking.
Video: Finding Facts Online
We watched the Unit Video and answered questions about its content.
You first typed your answers in the chat room and then checked them together.
Finally, with your textbooks closed, you wrote a summary of the video.
Writing a summary requires you to decide:
What is the main idea?
Which information is important?
How are the ideas connected?
You don't need to remember every sentence. Focus on understanding the content, organizing the key information, and reconstructing it in your own words.
Lesson Review
Today, we practiced:
responding to questions spontaneously
using signal words to follow the organization of ideas
identifying and thinking critically about misinformation
discussing how to check whether information is reliable
expressing our own ideas based on what we have learned
summarizing information without looking at the original text
As you read more advanced English, keep asking:
What is the main point? How are the ideas connected? What evidence supports them? Can I explain the ideas in my own words?
Great work today! 🌟
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