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Welcome to MyAcademicConnectionsLab!
The activities in the online lab are designed to support and extend the Academic Connections program. Original activities in
MyAcademicConnectionsLab offer practice with the academic skills and language concepts that are the focus of each student
book unit.
This course planner will help you utilize MyAcademicConnectionsLab activities to best achieve your teaching objectives in each
unit.
---The MyAcademicConnectionsLab team
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Checkpoint
Test
Instructor-graded activity
Activity with multimedia (audio, video)
Practice (activities not reported to
Gradebook)
Discussion
Preview
1.1.1 Vocabulary Check
Extra Practice Vocabulary Game
1.1.2 Key Words
1.1.3 Key Words: Practice
1.1.4 Comprehension
1.1.5 Discussion
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Homework: MyACLab
Tip!
For guidance on hiding content and assigning activities, see the
MyAcademicConnectionsLab User's Guide or howto videos on
www.MyAcademicConnectionsLab.com
Students should complete the Vocabulary Check online for homework before
coming to class. Students have until 11:59 PM on the day an activity is
assigned to complete it, after which the activity shows as past due.
Preview
1.1.1 Vocabulary Check
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Overview
Tip!
You can remind students of pending
assignments by using the Notes feature on
the MyACLab calendar.
MyACLab activities
Vocabulary Check assesses students
knowledge of important vocabulary in the
readings and lectures.
Key Words allows students to hear the
key words and sample sentences.
Key Words: Practice checks students
knowledge of the key words
Comprehension confirms students
understanding of the short reading or
listening selection in the Preview section.
Discussion Board allows students to
exchange ideas and opinions about a
question related to the unit topic.
Preview
Previewing the Academic
Content
Previewing the Academic
Skills Focus
Homework: MyACLab
Preview
1.1.2 Key Words
1.1.3 Key Words: Practice
1.1.4 Comprehension
1.1.5 Discussion
Building Academic
Reading (or Listening)
Skills
1.2.1 Vocabulary Check
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Overview
Homework: MyACLab
Building Academic
Reading (or Listening)
Skills
1.2.2 Key Words
1.2.3 Key Words: Practice
1.2.4 Reading Activity 1
1.2.5 Reading Activity 2
1.2.6 Reading Activity 3
1.2.7 Reading Activity 4
MyACLab activities
Reading/Listening Activity 1 is a
global look at the reading (or lecture),
emphasizing comprehension of the main
ideas.
Reading/Listening Activities 2-4 are
varied, and generally more focused,
including comprehension, vocabulary, and
academic skills work.
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Overview
Review student results in the MyACLab
gradebook.
MyACLab activities
Reading/Listening Activity 5 asks
students to write a short response that
brings together information from the
reading/listening selection.
Checkpoints check students' mastery of
the section's academic skill, and can be
given in a computer-graded or teachergraded version.
Review student results in the MyACLab
gradebook.
Focused Reading/Listening
Homework: MyACLab
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Overview
Review student results in the MyACLab
gradebook.
MyACLab activities
The Grammar Check focuses on a
grammar point that students need to
complete the Integrated Writing/Speaking
task.
Comprehension confirms students
understanding of the short reading or
listening selection in Section 4.
The Writing/Speaking Strategy gives
extra practice students need to complete
the Integrated Writing/Speaking task.
Focused Listening/Reading
Homework: MyACLab
1.3.8 Listening Activity 5
1.3.9 Checkpoint 2 OR
1.3.10 Checkpoint 2
[Open Response]
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Overview
Review student results in the MyACLab
gradebook.
Homework: MyACLab
MyLab activities
The Internet Activity expands
students' knowledge of the topic and
develops new vocabulary.
The Academic Words Puzzle
reinforces academic vocabulary from
the unit.
Expansion
1.5.1 Internet Activity
1.5.2 Academic Words
Puzzle
Course Assessments
In class version
Printable pdf versions of the
tests are found in the MyACLab
Teacher Resources folder, along
with the audioscript, answer
key, and .mp3 audio files.
Tip!
Integrated Writing/Speaking
Task
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