Welcome back to the ESL Center!

Today:

1. Intro to ESL 403 homepage2. Register for Exercise Central

3. Workshop: formatting paragraphs

1. Open Internet Explorer

2. Use the ESL Center website to open the ESL 403 lab webpage.

3. Look around ESL 403 site •Open Portfolio Checklist/Gradesheet, editing worksheet, etc.

ESL 403 Website Introduction

ESL 403 Exercise CentralESL 403 Exercise Central

1. Do the exercise numbers from on your appropriate day

2. If you finish early, find some other exercises on Exercise Central to do, but NOT next week’s assignments. Work until the class time is finished. You cannot leave early. You cannot do other homework. You cannot sleep or just watch the computer screen.

ESL 403 Exercise CentralESL 403 Exercise Central

Tip: Do not speed through them or finish too early!

ESL 403 Exercise CentralESL 403 Exercise Central

#793: Plural Nouns---------------------------------------------Basic Grammar

↓ Nouns

↓Plural Nouns

↓#793: Plural Nouns

Practice Exercise Central (Do Ex. # 793)

Practice Exercise Central (Do Ex. # 793)

Proper format of a paragraphProper format of a paragraph

1.Name, class & date at top right2.Double space3.Font size: 124.Indented (use the Tab key above

Caps Lock)5.Title: Centered, important words

capitalized

The last page of your syllabus shows a paragraph with correct format. Take it out now.

What’s wrong with the paragraph?

1. Open the sample paragraph from the homepage.

2. Decide what is wrong with the formatting.

3. Fix the formatting on your laptop.

• Do you know how to do a word count?

4. The staff will walk around and answer questions

5. In 5 minutes, you will check your work.

6. Save it to your flash drive as “well_formatted_paragph”

When you are typing your paragraphs this semester, if you

forget how to format properly, please look at your syllabus and/or

ask the ESL 403 staff.

Any questions?