1. Academic Interactions 130
IECP
Spring 2015
Nikki Mattson

2. Agenda
• Upcoming test announcement
• Week 3 task – Conversation andTutoring Partners
• Distribute interview partners
• Asking follow-up questions (practice)
• Describing charts

3. Next Test = 3/5
• Test = Unit 3 (not Unit 5 as the syllabus indicates)

4. Week 3 Conversation Partner
Update

5. Interview Partners!
• Distribute partner table
• APLNG 493 student partners will likely interview
you after you interview them.You don’t need to
record that part for our class.

6. Asking Follow-up Questions
• handout

7. Describing Data
• Why?
– Common activity in many university classes
– Useful life skill for describing economic trends, fashion
trends, etc.
– IELTS skill

8. Pre-test
Key: letters indicate months of the year. The product that is being
described is bottled water.
Write one sentence to describe the imports and one sentence to describe the exports.

9. Data Description Phrases
• Climbed steadily
• Fell steadily
• Steep rise
• Slight dip
• Fluctuated wildly
• Fluctuated slightly
• Plunged
• Rose steadily
• Declined slightly
• Remained steady
• Increased
dramatically
• Fell dramatically
• Were stable
• Declined gradually

10. Describing Data Activity
• Goal: Match the charts to their corrosponding
descriptions.
• Process:
– Divide the written descriptions among the group members.
– Place the graphs in the middle of the group
– Take turns reading a description aloud while the other group members listen and
look at the graphs to choose the one that matches the description
– After all of the descriptions and charts have been matched, double check the
matches to make sure that they are matched correctly.
– We will check your matches as a group after the activity

14. Data Description Review
• Climbed steadily
• Fell steadily
• Steep rise
• Slight dip
• Fluctuated wildly
• Fluctuated slightly
• Plunged
• Rose steadily
• Declined slightly
• Remained steady
• Increased
dramatically
• Fell dramatically
• Were stable
• Declined gradually

15. Describing Data
• Try it out! (bottled water sales)
• Climbed steadily
• Fell steadily
• Steep rise
• Slight dip
• Fluctuated wildly
• Fluctuated slightly
• Plunged
• Rose steadily
• Declined slightly
• Remained steady
• Increased dramatically
• Fell dramatically
• Were stable
• Declined gradually

16. Practice
• petroleum sales • Climbed steadily
• Fell steadily
• Steep rise
• Slight dip
• Fluctuated wildly
• Fluctuated slightly
• Plunged
• Rose steadily
• Declined slightly
• Remained steady
• Increased dramatically
• Fell dramatically
• Were stable
• Declined gradually

17. HW
• Email your interview partner sometime soon to set a
date and time
• Bring a draft of interview questions to class on Monday
• PSU ObservationVoicethread comment(s) Due by 2/27
at midnight
• Tutoring and Conversation Partnership recording and
reflection due (3/1) (Meeting 2)