W4: Vocabulary blog

For today's class, we're going to learn five key terms in Ch4: consumerism, conservation, recycling, business ethics, and personal ethic.

Here are the steps to follow:

1.     What does consumer mean?

2.     What does consumerism mean?

3.     What does conservation mean?

4.     What is the verb of conservation? What does the verb of conservation mean?

5.     What does recycling mean?

6.     Recycling can be parted as “re” + “cycling”. What does “re” mean? Can you give three words which have the same word structure; that is, “re” + “X”? What do those three words mean?

7.     What does ethic/ethics mean?

8.     What do business ethics mean? Give one anecdote about business ethics.

9.     What does personal ethic mean? Give three examples of your personal ethic. 

Online resources:

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Cambridge Dictionaries Online: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

Invest words. com: http://www.investorwords.com/

Respond to TWO students’ blogs. This week, we are going to try a new way of responding. Look into the bottom and find out the students' blogs that you have to respond to. Your job is to make sure the students answer the 9 points above appropriately. When you check their blogs, you’re reviewing and reorganizing what you have learned in today’s online search. In other words, checking your fellow students’ blogs helps not only them but also you. Do not just leave a comment without thoughtfully reading the blogs. You will respond based on the following rules:

1. Does the student answer the 9 points above?

2. If not, help her/him finish her/his vocab blog based on what you have already known.

3. Check the definitions of the key terms. Are they similar to yours? If not, discuss with the student by leaving a comment on her/his blog and decide which definition is correct.

4. What do you think about the student’s personal ethic? Do you agree or disagree? Why?

Before you leave:

1. Send the vocab self-evaluation form to me

2. Leave two comments based on the rules mentioned above. 
3. Respond to your fellow students' comments and revise your blog if needed be. 

PS: If you haven't finished writing the blog, finish it by the end of Wednesday. If you haven't commented on two students' blogs, do it by the end of Thursday. 

Designated responder:
Nui: Pim and Pik
Eye: Ton and First
Mew: Num and Nui
Pat: Pik and First
Ton: Pim, Eye 
First: Ton, Nui, Num
Pim: Eye, Mew
Pik: Pat, Mew
Num: Pat, Eye