alc-english-book-4/lesson-1D.module

$MODULE
FORMAT: 2
TITLE: Lesson 1D: Weekend Activities and Past Tense
DESCRIPTION: Listen to conversations, practice -ED endings, and write dictated sentences.
TARGET_LANG_G: en
HOME_LANG_G: en
VOICE_DEFAULT: aoede | Clear, friendly American English narrator
VOICE: Man1 | achernar | Male
VOICE: Man2 | gacrux | Male
VOICE: Kim | schedar | Female
VOICE: Sam | gacrux | Male

$LESSON Lesson 1D

# --- Figure 1 (Part 1) ----------------------------------------------------
# The tape provides a dialogue that introduces the languages. We use $DIALOGUE 
# for the listening passage without REPEAT.
$DIALOGUE Figure 1: The Languages They Speak
INTRO: Listen to a conversation about the languages these men speak.
INSTRUCTION: Listen to the conversation.

Man1: What languages does Jack speak? {bk04-l1d-f1-01.mp3}
Man2: Oh, he speaks English, Spanish and French. {bk04-l1d-f1-02.mp3}
Man1: Does he speak Russian too? {bk04-l1d-f1-03.mp3}
Man2: Yes, he speaks Russian. And you? {bk04-l1d-f1-04.mp3}
Man1: I speak Spanish and English and Arabic. {bk04-l1d-f1-05.mp3}
Man2: Arabic? {bk04-l1d-f1-06.mp3}
Man1: Yeah, I lived in Egypt for two years. {bk04-l1d-f1-07.mp3}
Man2: Oh, yes. That's right. {bk04-l1d-f1-08.mp3}

# --- Figure 1 (Part 2) ----------------------------------------------------
# The book has 5 blank lines to "Write the languages". To adapt this for mobile,
# we use a $SELECT MULTI activity where the learner identifies all 5 mentioned languages.
$SELECT Figure 1: Identify the Languages
MULTI
INTRO: Which five languages did the speakers mention? Tap all of them.
INSTRUCTION: Tap the five languages.

OPTION: a | English
OPTION: b | Spanish
OPTION: c | French
OPTION: d | German
OPTION: e | Russian
OPTION: f | Arabic
OPTION: g | Chinese

TEMPLATE: Which five languages do the men speak?
ANSWER: a,b,c,e,f

# --- Figure 2 -------------------------------------------------------------
# Paragraph cloze. The book prints a paragraph with blanks. We convert this to 
# a series of exact-match typed $PRODUCE items. The gapped sentence is the TEMPLATE; 
# the full spoken sentence is the RESPONSE (model).
$PRODUCE Figure 2: Mary's Weekends
INPUT: type
CHECK: exact
INTRO: Listen to each sentence about Mary's weekends, and type the missing words.
INSTRUCTION: Type the missing word.

TEMPLATE: Mary ____ weekends.
PROMPT: Mary likes weekends. {bk04-l1d-f2-01.mp3}
RESPONSE: Mary likes weekends.
ACCEPT: likes

TEMPLATE: On Saturdays, she ____ tennis ____ morning.
PROMPT: On Saturdays, she plays tennis all morning. {bk04-l1d-f2-02.mp3}
RESPONSE: On Saturdays, she plays tennis all morning.
ACCEPT: plays, all | plays all

TEMPLATE: Then she goes home and ____ all afternoon ____.
PROMPT: Then she goes home and cleans all afternoon long. {bk04-l1d-f2-03.mp3}
RESPONSE: Then she goes home and cleans all afternoon long.
ACCEPT: cleans, long | cleans long

TEMPLATE: Sometimes on Sundays, she ____ a big meal for her friends.
PROMPT: Sometimes on Sundays, she cooks a big meal for her friends. {bk04-l1d-f2-04.mp3}
RESPONSE: Sometimes on Sundays, she cooks a big meal for her friends.
ACCEPT: cooks

TEMPLATE: Sometimes Mary and her friends go to a ____.
PROMPT: Sometimes Mary and her friends go to a restaurant. {bk04-l1d-f2-05.mp3}
RESPONSE: Sometimes Mary and her friends go to a restaurant.
ACCEPT: restaurant

TEMPLATE: They ____ go to Jim's Restaurant ____.
PROMPT: They like to go to Jim's Restaurant downtown. {bk04-l1d-f2-06.mp3}
RESPONSE: They like to go to Jim's Restaurant downtown.
ACCEPT: like to, downtown | like to downtown

# --- Figure 3 -------------------------------------------------------------
# Vocabulary repeat list for the /i/ sound.
$DIALOGUE Figure 3: The /i/ Sound
INTRO: Listen to the words and repeat them.
INSTRUCTION: Repeat each word.
REPEAT

LINE: speak {bk04-l1d-f3-01.mp3}
LINE: read {bk04-l1d-f3-02.mp3}
LINE: week {bk04-l1d-f3-03.mp3}
LINE: eat {bk04-l1d-f3-04.mp3}
LINE: meat {bk04-l1d-f3-05.mp3}
LINE: clean {bk04-l1d-f3-06.mp3}
LINE: repeat {bk04-l1d-f3-07.mp3}
LINE: leave {bk04-l1d-f3-08.mp3}

# --- Figure 4 -------------------------------------------------------------
# Listen and repeat dialogue. We use the first tape pass for clean, full segments.
$DIALOGUE Figure 4: What do you do on weekends?
INTRO: Listen to the dialogue about weekend sports, then repeat each line.
INSTRUCTION: Repeat the dialogue.
REPEAT

Kim: What do you do on weekends? {bk04-l1d-f4-01.mp3}
Sam: I play or watch sports. {bk04-l1d-f4-02.mp3}
Kim: What sports do you like? {bk04-l1d-f4-03.mp3}
Sam: I like to watch basketball and football. {bk04-l1d-f4-04.mp3}
LINE: I like to play tennis. {bk04-l1d-f4-05.mp3}
Kim: I like to play tennis, too. {bk04-l1d-f4-06.mp3}
LINE: Do you want to play this weekend? {bk04-l1d-f4-07.mp3}
Sam: All right. {bk04-l1d-f4-08.mp3}

# --- Figure 5 -------------------------------------------------------------
# Yes/No listening task with visual context. The PROMPT is the spoken question, 
# and the TEMPLATE holds the read-only time cue printed in the book.
# Item 3's question was missing from the ASR transcript (quiet audio) but IS on
# the tape — recovered via Gemini transcription of the 55-61s region.
$SELECT Figure 5: Yes or No?
INTRO: Look at the picture and the time, then listen to the question. Tap Yes or No.
INSTRUCTION: Tap Yes or No.
OPTION: a | Yes.
OPTION: b | No.

EXAMPLE
TEMPLATE: (last night) {page_022_001.jpg}
PROMPT: Did Carl watch a basketball game last night? {bk04-l1d-f5-ex.mp3}
ANSWER: a

TEMPLATE: (yesterday afternoon) {page_022_002.jpg}
PROMPT: Did Blake and Pam visit friends yesterday afternoon? {bk04-l1d-f5-01.mp3}
ANSWER: b

TEMPLATE: (yesterday morning) {page_022_003.jpg}
PROMPT: Did the students study in class yesterday morning? {bk04-l1d-f5-02.mp3}
ANSWER: a

TEMPLATE: (two days ago) {page_022_004.jpg}
PROMPT: Did Kate and Betty play tennis two days ago? {bk04-l1d-f5-03.mp3}
ANSWER: b

TEMPLATE: (yesterday after school) {page_023_001.jpg}
PROMPT: Did they play soccer yesterday after school? {bk04-l1d-f5-04.mp3}
ANSWER: b

TEMPLATE: (this morning) {page_023_002.jpg}
PROMPT: Did Jack shave this morning? {bk04-l1d-f5-05.mp3}
ANSWER: a

TEMPLATE: (yesterday) {page_023_003.jpg}
PROMPT: Did the children play ball yesterday? {bk04-l1d-f5-06.mp3}
ANSWER: b

TEMPLATE: (last week) {page_023_004.jpg}
PROMPT: Did Tom and Jack play tennis last week? {bk04-l1d-f5-07.mp3}
ANSWER: a

# --- Figure 6 -------------------------------------------------------------
# Sound discrimination for -ED endings. Since the words are printed in the book,
# we use SHOW_PROMPT so the stimulus is visible.
$SELECT Figure 6: -ED Endings
INTRO: Listen to the past tense verbs. Decide if the -ED ending sounds like the D in "played", the T in "worked", or the ID in "wanted".
INSTRUCTION: Tap the sound of the -ED ending.
SHOW_PROMPT

OPTION: a | /d/ sound (played)
OPTION: b | /t/ sound (worked)
OPTION: c | /ɪd/ sound (wanted)

EXAMPLE
PROMPT: opened {bk04-l1d-f6-ex1.mp3}
ANSWER: a

EXAMPLE
PROMPT: corrected {bk04-l1d-f6-ex2.mp3}
ANSWER: c

PROMPT: studied {bk04-l1d-f6-01.mp3}
ANSWER: a

PROMPT: visited {bk04-l1d-f6-02.mp3}
ANSWER: c

PROMPT: shaved {bk04-l1d-f6-03.mp3}
ANSWER: a

PROMPT: asked {bk04-l1d-f6-04.mp3}
ANSWER: b

PROMPT: ended {bk04-l1d-f6-05.mp3}
ANSWER: c

PROMPT: worked {bk04-l1d-f6-06.mp3}
ANSWER: b

PROMPT: looked {bk04-l1d-f6-07.mp3}
ANSWER: b

PROMPT: reviewed {bk04-l1d-f6-08.mp3}
ANSWER: a

PROMPT: selected {bk04-l1d-f6-09.mp3}
ANSWER: c

PROMPT: listened {bk04-l1d-f6-10.mp3}
ANSWER: a

# --- Figure 7 -------------------------------------------------------------
# Sentence dictation. The PROMPT contains the spoken sentence; since it's 
# dictation, the text is hidden by default and the learner types the RESPONSE.
$PRODUCE Figure 7: Dictation
INPUT: type
CHECK: exact
INTRO: Listen to the sentence and type exactly what you hear.
INSTRUCTION: Type the sentence you hear.

PROMPT: He visited his friends in New York last year. {bk04-l1d-f7-01.mp3}
RESPONSE: He visited his friends in New York last year.

PROMPT: The students ask the teacher questions in the morning. {bk04-l1d-f7-02.mp3}
RESPONSE: The students ask the teacher questions in the morning.

PROMPT: She takes a different bus every day. {bk04-l1d-f7-03.mp3}
RESPONSE: She takes a different bus every day.

PROMPT: Don't watch television before nine o'clock. {bk04-l1d-f7-04.mp3}
RESPONSE: Don't watch television before nine o'clock.
ACCEPT: Do not watch television before nine o'clock.

PROMPT: Where was your brother five years ago? {bk04-l1d-f7-05.mp3}
RESPONSE: Where was your brother five years ago?

PROMPT: He's hungry and wants to eat a snack. {bk04-l1d-f7-06.mp3}
RESPONSE: He's hungry and wants to eat a snack.
ACCEPT: He is hungry and wants to eat a snack.