-Teacher reorients students to the topic of the week.

-Teacher asks students to offer their ideas about the ratings systems’ criteria.

 

 

 

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TEACHER:  And we’re gonna start the Word Generation. What are we doing for Word Generation this week? What’s the topic?

STUDENT:  Ratings, DVDs.

TEACHER:  Rating systems. Anybody else? What’s the topic today?

TEACHER:  Wait, can I have one person?

STUDENT:  Is rating systems necessary?

TEACHER:  Are rating systems necessary. Okay.

STUDENT:  Like PG and rated R and stuff.

TEACHER:  Okay. Uh, anything else? Anybody else wanna add to what the topic of the week is for Word Generation?

STUDENT:  [inaudible] ratings be fair for children and parents, to pick for them what movies [inaudible]

TEACHER:  And— and what is it they’re rating about the movies?

STUDENT:  Like, just.

TEACHER:  Eh, yeah. What kind of things? What kind of things?

STUDENT:  Like “SC,” I’m just gonna say that.

TEACHER:  Okay. What kind of topics are they rating?

STUDENT:  Sexual content and…

STUDENT:  I just said that.

STUDENT:  …violence.

TEACHER:  And violence, okay. Sexual content and violence. All right. Our topic today is gonna ask—

 

 

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