CLASSWARE TEACHERS NOTES

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Overview of Passages, Second Edition Classware
Passages, Second Edition Classware allows you to present Passages Students Book material
in the classroom in a lively and interactive way. It is designed to be used with all types of
interactive whiteboards or with just a projector and a computer.
You can use Classware to zoom in on a section of a page, play audio selections without
having to use a separate CD player, display scripts while students listen, and link to online
dictionaries and interactive activities. The software also has numerous features that enable
you to manipulate the material in the Students Books. There are simple electronic tools for
adding text to a page, highlighting text, drawing lines or circles, erasing, and concealing text
or images. You can easily attach files of your own supplemental activities and materials,
such as a photo from a Web site, a favorite handout, or a Microsoft PowerPoint

slideshow,
to a specific page. You can save all of your work, including annotations and attachments, as
a session and return to it at any time. Previously saved sessions can be updated and then
saved again. Please see the Classware Users Guide for more information about using the
various Classware tools and functions.
We hope that you will use the Teachers Notes to explore the many ways that Classware can
bring a new level of flexibility and interactivity to the Passages classroom. The following
pages contain examples from an actual Passages, Second Edition unit, Students Book 1,
Unit 10. For each skill, you will find suggestions for using the tools available to you in
Classware. Not every available tool will be demonstrated on every page, but the examples
are intended to give you some fresh ideas for utilizing Classware with the rest of the
Passages, Second Edition series.
Tips for Classroom Implementation
Classroom set-up and management
Consider how you will prepare the classroom or classrooms in which you will be using
Classware. What method of projection will you use? Will all students be able to see the
projected image from where they sit? Do you have an external speaker system so all students
can hear the audio selections? Will you have to set up a laptop, television monitor, projection
screen, or LCD projector every time you want to use Classware? Setting up the equipment
will take extra time, but you can have students help you set it up. They will appreciate the
responsibility and the opportunity to gain new technical skills as they learn English.
What should students do with their copies of the students book while you are using
Classware with them? The answer is up to you. You can have students open or close their
books just as they would when studying without Classware, but remember that Classware is
great for focusing students attention on a particular part of a page or lesson. You may want
to ask students to close their books at certain points in the lesson to ensure you have their
full attention.
Student participation
Another way to focus students attention is to give them the opportunity to direct the lesson
or to take control at the computer when responding to a question or exercise. You can ask
for volunteers who will use the mouse to highlight a vocabulary word, draw a line from a
word to an image, play audio selections, or circle a correct answer. This type of interaction
can even be turned into a friendly competition, with students on different teams taking turns
using the mouse and earning points for correct answers.
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Starting Point
Passages, Second Edition Students Book 1, Unit 10, p. 80.
The Starting Point introduces the topic and presents new grammar and vocabulary in both
formal and conversational contexts. It activates students prior knowledge and gets them
talking right away.
Open Classware for Passages, Second Edition and click on the Expand control panel
icon to view the Table of Contents. Scroll down the list of units and click on Unit 10
to navigate to p. 80, Everyday annoyances.
Exercise A: After calling attention to the Starting Point, use the Zoom tool to focus on
the first image. To use the Zoom tool, click on the icon and then in one of the outlined
areas that appear on the page. The outlined area will fill the screen. To zoom in even further,
click on Zoom and fit to screen and drag the cursor to outline the area to zoom in on
for one of the images. The individual image will fill the screen.
Ask a student to read the comment below the picture. Then ask the class if they agree or
disagree. After eliciting several comments about the first image, continue to use the Zoom
tool to move through the remaining three images and elicit comments.
Exercise B: Now click on Zoom out to view all four images at once. Students may work in
groups to discuss the question Would you complain, or would you be quietly annoyed? After
five or ten minutes, have a student from each group tell the class about the groups discussion.
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Listening and Speaking
Passages, Second Edition Students Book 1, Unit 10, p. 80.
Listening activities with prelistenings and postlistenings help students develop skills such
as listening for main ideas and details, making inferences, and note taking. Speaking
activities include discussions, surveys, quizzes, role plays, and more.
Open Classware for Passages, Second Edition and click on the Expand control panel
icon to view the Table of Contents. Scroll down the list of units and click on Unit 10
to navigate to p. 80, It really irks me!
Use the Zoom tool to focus the students attention on the Listening and Speaking task.
Exercise A: Tell the students they will be listening to Jane and Kyle talk about irritating
situations. Have them listen for what is bothering each person.
Click on the Arrow and then on the Audio CD icon to start the Audio player.
Once the Audio player appears, click on Play to begin listening
to the conversation. When the conversation reaches the end, it will automatically reset to
the beginning. The audio can be interrupted by clicking Pause , or restarted by clicking
Play .
Exercise B: Tell the students they will listen to the conversations again to answer the
questions. Start the conversations once more by clicking Play on the Audio player.
Students may work in pairs or small groups to discuss the questions. After five minutes,
have a student from each group tell the class about the groups discussion.
To review the script with the class, click on Script at the top right corner of the
Audio player.
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Grammar
Passages, Second Edition Students Book 1, Unit 10, p. 81.
Grammar activities present the target grammar and help students notice and use the
grammar in a personalized context.
Open Classware for Passages, Second Edition and click on the Expand control panel
icon to view the Table of Contents. Scroll down the list of units and click on Unit 10
to navigate to p. 81, Relative clauses and noun clauses.
Use the Zoom tool to focus the students attention on the grammar rule. Read, or have
a student read, the explanations aloud.
Exercise A: Use the Left arrow to move back one page to the Starting Point. Use the
Zoom tool to focus on each of the four images and then elicit student responses to the
questions Which clauses are relative clauses? and Which are noun clauses?
Optional enhancement: Prior to the lesson, use the Text box tool to place the correct
answers on each of the images.
Blank page preparation
Step 1: Click on the Text box tool and then click on the first image. A text box with
blue shading will appear on the image.
Step 2: Now that the blue shading is visible, you can type in the text box. For example,
type Relative clause in the text box. Then hide this text by clicking the arrow
to close the text box.
Create text boxes with the correct answers to the questions about the clauses
underneath each of the four images, and move them to the left of each image
by clicking on and then dragging them. You can click on and drag text boxes
to any location.
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Step 3: After students respond, click on the arrow to open the text box and reveal the
correct answers, and confirm student responses.
Remember: Save the version of the page with the text boxes youve created as a new
session, since you will want to use the text boxes again the next time you teach this
page. Save the session using the File drop-down menu and then selecting Save
session .
Exercise B: Use the Zoom tool to focus the students attention on the sentences.
Instruct students to complete the sentences with their own opinions and to discuss them
with a partner. After suitable discussion, select students or student pairs to read their
responses to the entire class. As students give their responses, use the Text box tool
to place a text box on the page in the appropriate location for each sentence, and type
the student responses in the text box. It is not necessary to save the student responses,
as you will want to have empty text boxes the next time you work with this page.
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Vocabulary
Passages, Second Edition Students Book 1, Unit 10, p. 81.
Vocabulary activities present vocabulary from the unit and emphasize word-building by
teaching phrasal verbs, prefixes and suffixes, and collocations.
Open Classware for Passages, Second Edition and click on the Expand control panel
icon to view the Table of Contents. Scroll down the list of units and click on Unit 10
to navigate to p. 81, That drives me up the wall!
Exercise A: Use the Zoom tool to focus the students attention on the table of Verbs and
Phrases. Use the Pen tool to check the verbs and the phrases that go together. Expand
the Pen tool by clicking on its lower right corner to choose the color.
Have students call out the correct collocations for the first verb, drive, and put a colored
check mark next to each phrase. Use different colors to check the phrases that belong with
get and make.
Exercise B: Use the Zoom tool to focus the students attention on the Group Work.
Students may work in pairs or small groups. After ten minutes, select groups to volunteer
responses. Use the Text box tool to place a text box on the page, and type in the student
responses. It is not necessary to save these student responses.
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Discussion
Passages, Second Edition Students Book 1, Unit 10, p. 82.
Discussion activities include surveys, quizzes, and role plays that use the target grammar
and vocabulary in personalized tasks. Discussion exercises include ways to help the
students start and end a conversation. They also offer students useful discourse expressions
to aid their conversational skills.
Open Classware for Passages, Second Edition and click on the Expand control panel
icon to view the Table of Contents. Scroll down the list of units and click on Unit 10
to navigate to p. 82, Polite complaints.
Exercise A: Use the Zoom tool to focus the students attention on the images and
statements. Read, or ask students to read, the statements aloud. Tell students which kind of
complainer you are, based on the captions below the pictures.
Prior to the lesson, you can attach a blank page from the File drop-down
menu , and place four text boxes on the blank page. You will write the names of
each type of complainer in the text boxes and, as students describe themselves, you will
type their names into the appropriate text boxes.
Blank page preparation
Step 1: Select Attach a blank page by clicking on the File drop-down
menu . The cursor will change to the Paper clip icon . Move the icon to
an area near the discussion and click. A Blank page attachment indicator will
appear on the page at that location.
Step 2: Click on the Blank page attachment indicator . Use the Text box tool to place
the text boxes on the blank page, and move them to the desired locations. Label
each text box with the appropriate complainer label.
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Remember: Save the page youve created as a new session, since you will want to use it
again the next time you teach this page. Save the session by using the File drop-down
menu and then selecting Save session .
During the lesson: Click on the Blank page attachment indicator and the saved page will
appear. Click in the text boxes to add names as students respond. If you dont resave the
session, the next time you click on the Blank page attachment indicator , you will only
see the four labeled text boxes.
Exercise B: Use the Zoom tool to focus the students attention on the situations.
Students may work in pairs or small groups to discuss the situations. After five minutes,
have a student from each group tell the class about the groups discussion.
Use the Text box tool to place a text box on the page in the appropriate location, and
type the student responses in the text box. It is not necessary to save the student responses
as a session in this case as you will want to have empty text boxes the next time you work
with this page.
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Writing
Passages, Second Edition Students Book 1, Unit 10, p. 83.
Writing activities build academic writing skills step-by-step. They offer a process approach
and give clear models for each writing task.
Open Classware for Passages, Second Edition and click on the Expand control panel
icon to view the Table of Contents. Scroll down the list of units and click on Unit 10
to navigate to p. 83, Letters of complaint.
Exercise A: Use the Zoom tool to focus the students attention on the list of six points
describing an effective letter of complaint and on the letter itself. First zoom in only on the
list to explain each point. Then zoom in only on the letter and select a student or students to
read it aloud.
Optional enhancement 1: Prior to the lesson, use the Text box tool to place text boxes
with the correct descriptor numbers next to the white boxes on the letter for descriptors
26. Close the text boxes and save the session by using the File drop-down menu
and then selecting Save session . During the lesson, confirm that a student
response is correct or incorrect by opening the text box at the appropriate time to reveal the
correct descriptor number.
List of descriptors hidden, letter revealed.
Optional enhancement 2: As a check for comprehension, use the Hide icon to cover
the list of six descriptors of an effective letter of complaint as the students look at the letter
once more. Instruct a student to read one of the highlighted sections (now numbered 16)
and name the function that it serves. (I would like to receive a new Metro MP3 player
to explain exactly what you want:) Use the Show icon to reveal the hidden list as
appropriate. Flip back and forth between the letter and the list of descriptors by clicking on
Hide/Show .
Exercise B: Use the Zoom tool to focus the students attention on the directions
or the situations.
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Reading
Passages, Second Edition Students Book 1, Unit 10, p. 87.
Reading activities present a variety of text types, practice a range of reading skills, and
promote discussion and critical thinking.
Open Classware for Passages, Second Edition and click on the Expand control panel
icon to view the Table of Contents. Scroll down the list of units and click on Unit 10
to navigate to p. 87, Consumer watchdogs.
Exercise A: Use the Zoom tool to focus the students attention on the instructions above
the reading selection. Elicit three or more things that could go wrong for a bride before her
wedding. As students respond, use the Text box tool to record their responses, or have
students type their responses into the text boxes themselves. Create a separate text box for
each response. Close the text boxes and move them to the side of the page so they wont
obstruct the text.
Use the Zoom tool to focus the students attention on the reading selection itself. After
reading and discussing the article about the wedding shop, open each previously created
text box to see if the student ideas that were suggested before the reading were mentioned
in the reading selection.
Exercise B: Use the Zoom tool to focus the students attention on the four events listed
(a, b, c, and d). Elicit student responses.
Optional enhancement 1: Prior to the lesson, use the Text box tool to place four text
boxes on the page next to the events listed. Type the correct answers in the text box next
to the corresponding event and close the text boxes. After students respond, open the text
boxes to reveal the correct answers.
Optional enhancement 2: Prior to the lesson, use the Text box tool to place four text
boxes on the page next to the events listed. Type the entire sentence describing one of the
events into the first text box. Repeat for each event so that the four sentences are displayed,
one sentence per text box. Ask a student to arrange the sentences in order by dragging the
text boxes into the correct sequence.
Exercise C: Use the Zoom tool to focus the students attention on the two questions.
Elicit student responses.
Optional enhancement 1: Prior to the lesson, use the Text box tool to place two text
boxes on the page next to exercise C. In one text box, type The Davises will change.
and in the other, type The Davises wont change. Save the session by using the File
drop-down menu and then selecting Save session .
During the lesson, open the text boxes and add the names of students to the appropriate text
boxes according to their responses. Dont save the session, so the names typed in the text
boxes will not be saved.
Optional enhancement 2: When students start to respond to question 2 in exercise C, use
the Text box tool to place a text box on the page. Type, or have the students type, their
responses in the text box.