Class on 2/27/13

Homework:

1. Write one paragraph:

Discuss something you are willing to change to "fit in" to American Culture.
         OR
Discuss something you are NOT willing to change to "fit in" to American Culture.

2. Build a vocabulary list from the reading: "Cultural Difference: Being on Time"
Remember to use your own words

Class on 2/20/13

Students reviewed common mistakes with 15 original sentences.

Students reviewed differences between Present Tense, Present Progressive and Simple Past Tense


Homework:
1. Write a paragraph that answers one of the following questions:
           What is American Culture?
           What are five aspects that represent American Culture?
            What is the difference between American Culture and American Pop Culture?

2. Study the following verbs for a quiz on Monday:

base/present         Past Tense

1. write                    ____________

2. ____________            won

3. understand            ____________

4. throw                    ____________

5.                               ____________     

6.                               ____________

7.  ____________                     left

8. get                           ____________

9. feel                        ____________

10. brake                   ____________

11.                            ____________

12.                             ____________

13.                              ____________

14.                               ____________

American Popular Culture

Students were asked to make choices that represent American Popular Culture and to foward video clips. Here are selections from our class:

JJN- Wizard of Oz motion picture from the 1930s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=louBM-Mix7s

SG- Lady Gaga's Bad Romance: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qrO4YZeyl0I

ES- Simon Pegg's Comedy Troupe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxUm-2x-2dM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

CC- Journey's song from early 1980s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcjzHMhBtf0

Just a small town girl

living in a lonely world

she took the midnight train going  anywhere.

Just a city boy

born and raised in south Detroit

he took the midnight train going anywhere.

A singer in a smoky room

a smell of wine and cheap perfume

for a smile they can share the night

IG- Seinfeld: The Marine Biologist: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0u8KUgUqprw

AS- Frank Sinatra's New York, New York: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gcxGp-2p5aQ
or  http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xMfz1jlyQrw

Class on 2/13/13

Corrections
Roll
Paragraph rules
"grading" a paragraph
Soup Nazi
Randalls
YouTube for Pop culture

Homework:
Choose a song, video or part of a TV show or movie. Look for a video on YouTube send an email with your link.  Write two sentences about what they say (transcribe some of the dialogue).


Example:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uVqBzP0xdKk



First Scene with Soup Nazi

GEORGE: This line is huge.
JERRY: It's like this all the time.
GEORGE: Isn't that that Bania guy?
JERRY: Oh, no. It is. Just be still.
GEORGE: Whoop! Too late. I think he picked up the scent.
BANIA: Hey, Jerry! I didn't know you liked soup.
JERRY: Hard to believe.
BANIA: This guy makes the best soup in the city, Jerry. The best. You know
what they call him? Soup Nazi.
JERRY: Shhhhh! All right, Bania, I - I'm not letting you cut in line.
BANIA: Why not?
JERRY: Because if he catches us, we'll never be able to get soup again.
BANIA: Okay. Okay.
GEORGE: Medium turkey chili.
JERRY: Medium crab bisque.
GEORGE: I didn't get any bread.
JERRY: Just forget it. Let it go.
GEORGE: Um, excuse me, I - I think you forgot my bread.
SOUP NAZI: Bread -- $2 extra.
GEORGE: $2? But everyone in front of me got free bread.
SOUP NAZI: You want bread?
GEORGE: Yes, please.
SOUP NAZI: $3!
GEORGE: What?
SOUP NAZI: No soup for you! [snaps fingers]


later

ELAINE: I can't believe this!
KRAMER: Well, where's the soup?

ELAINE: Wha -- the Soup Nazi threw me out.

KRAMER: Oh...yeah!

JERRY: What are you gonna get?

SHEILA: I'll decide at the last minute.

JERRY: You better decide, sister. You're on deck. Sheila!

[Soup Nazi pounding on countertop]

JERRY: Uh-oh.

SOUP NAZI: Hey, what is this? You're kissing in my line? Nobody kisses in

my line!

SHEILA: I can kiss anywhere I want to.

SOUP NAZI: You just cost yourself a soup!

SHEILA: How dare you? Come on, Jerry, we're leaving. Jerry?

JERRY: Do I know you?

ELAINE: So, essentially, you chose soup over a woman?

JERRY: It was a bisque.

ELAINE: Yeah. You know what I just realized? Suddenly, George has become

much more normal than you.

JERRY: Really?

ELAINE: Yeah. Come on. I mean, think about it. He's engaged to be married.

Your top priority is soup.

JERRY: Have you tastes the soup?

ELAINE: Yeah. All right. You made the right decision.

JERRY: See, the way I figure it, it's much easier to patch things up with

Sheila than with the Soup Nazi.

Class on 2/11/13

Students had more practice with comparing Present tense (On Sundays I always cook breakfast) and simple past (yesterday I cooked ...)


Quiz # 3


buy
pay
come
get
meet

go
say
send
write
eat
sit

What language do we study in this class?

_______________________________

Homework: study Reader pages with Jobs and Occupations. Study all 32 jobs. Write 15 sentences in present tense using 15 different jobs/professions and 15 different verbs.  

class on 2/6

Class practiced using simple present tense verbs to describe regular activities they engage in during the week. This was the firs use of the class's reader.

Students reported out to the whole class one sentence/activity. The teacher asked at random some other students to repeat what was said while converting the sentence to "He/ She reads to her children" etc.

Review of Quiz #1
Review of Blog, Syllabus and Lab hours

Homework:
1. Write 5 past tense sentences about what you did last week
2. Study the following verbs for a quiz on Monday

buy / bought
come / came
get / got
meet / met
say / said
send / sent
write / wrote
sit / sat

Irregular Past Tense Verbs

begin/began, blow/blew, bring/brought, buy/bought, catch/caught, come/came, do/did, draw/drew, drink/drank, eat/ate, get/got, give/gave, go/went, grow/grew, hear/heard, know/knew, make/made, meet/met, read/read, run/ran, say/said, see/saw, send/sent, sing/sang, sit/sat, sleep/slept, swim/swam,  take/took, throw/threw, write/wrote

become/became, bite/bit, break/broke, choose/chose, drive/drove, fall/fell, feel/felt, fly/flew, fight/fought, find/found, hold/held, hide/hid, hit/hit, keep/kept, leave/left, lose/lost, mean/meant, pay/paid, put/put, quit/quit, shut/shut, sell/sold, spend/spent, speak/spoke, stand/stood, teach/taught, tell/told, win/won, wear/wore

Class on 2/4/13

Students took quiz number one (irregular past tense verbs)
Students practices with two online audio dialogues and comprehension quizzes
Students studied famous Seinfeld script and video for Double Dip.



Students wrote some past tense sentences and shared with partners and then volunteers shared with the whole class.

Paragraph Rules

1. indent
2. same topic or one main idea
3. 4 or 5 (or more!) sentences long
4. introduction (use the words from the question)
5. clear ending (give an opinon or generalize)

Homework:

1. Get Reader (Wednesday is the deadline!)
2. Write a paragraph: What did you do last weekend?
3. Read the paragraph outloud to a friend or family member