Sandra Banke

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CALL for Level 3 (evening) — Thursday, April 30, 2026

Agenda

1. Review the purpose of CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) class

2.  Review my website & the location of the homework and audio pages

3. Computer vocabulary & terms for this class — Review the Keyboard & talk more about the Computer

4. Online exercises

a)  Practice with polite requests <– This is a “live” worksheet.  You need to finish all of the exercises before you can check your answers at the bottom (FINISH, then CHECK ANSWERS).

b)  Questions, affirmative & negative simple present <– This page has many exercises to choose from.  When you finish an exercise, please check your answers and repeat the exercise.  Then click the back arrow (<–) or close the tab (for some pages), and select another exercise to try.

c)  BE verb or do/does

  1. Do / does / am / is / are – 1
  2. To do / to be – short answers 1
  3. Do / does / am / is / are – 2
  4. To do / to be – short answers 2

d)  Must and have to <– This page has many exercises to choose from.  When you finish an exercise, please check your answers and repeat the exercise.  Then click the back arrow (<–) or close the tab (for some pages), and select another exercise to try. **PLEASE skip #2, #3 and #18.**

5.  Videos

Note:  You need headphones. 

  • Cutting Edge Basic “Can I help?”  Note: This video is on D2L, so you need your myPCC username and password.  Watch from timepoints 0:00 to 2:33. Pause the video and repeat some of the questions for speaking & pronunciation practice.
  • Cutting Edge Basic “Asking for Help” Note: This video is on D2L, so you need your myPCC username and password.   Watch from timepoints 5:46 to 8:05. Pause the video and repeat some of the questions for speaking & pronunciation practice.
  • How to Make Polite Requests at Work | English Conversation Skills Note:  This video is on Youtube, so you need to SKIPS ADS. This video introduces some more advanced, but still very common, ways to ask for help at work.  It gives a lot of good examples.

6.  Reading options

a)  Polite question examples and other helpful phrases <– Scroll down to TABLE OF CONTENTS for a list of topics.  There are no exercises — just examples.

b)  Reading: News articles about Oregon <– Click here for articles about interesting things in Oregon.  All the articles have audio and exercises.  Click on “Contents” on the left and select an article to read & listen to. (See image below.)

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