12/17

Class on 12/16/14 - No Class on 12/15!

Meet at 6:30 at the First Floor Conference Room at the Redwood City Main Library

1044 Middlefield Road, Redwood City, CA

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Homework: Practice for your Final Oral Presentation

Class on 12/10/14

Students took their Final Written Exam

No Class on 12/15. Class is on 12/16 and at the Redwood City Main Library:

1044 Middlefield Road, Redwood City, CA

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Meet at 6:30 at the First Floor Conference Room

Homework: Practice for your Final Oral Presentation

Class on 12/8/14

Warm up: Students built three lists about Christmas/Holidays/Posadas using an adjective and a noun;

• Typical Sounds
• Typical Smells
• Typical Colors

Workbook pages 99 to 103

Prep for Final Exam Review: workbook 106 through 108

Final Exam Review

Homework: Study for the final exam

Class on 12/3/14

Warm up:

http://www.thetimesinplainenglish.com/wp/president-helps-unauthorized-immigrants/

Silent reading and whole class discussion on above topic.

Workbook pages 93 to 97. Discussions and review of answers.

Paragraph writing:

Students were asked to write one paragraph one of the following topics:

1. Describe a time you were a bystander.
2. Describe a time when you were not a bystander and took action.
3. Describe a childhood memory. Use "I remember when ______________." Make sure your first sentence is short and general. Use colors, sounds and smells to draw a picture with words.

Homework: Workbook- read pages 99 and 100. Answer questions on page 101 (A and B).

Class on 12/1/14

Write a paragraph on one of the following questions:

What did you do for the Thanksgiving holiday (use First, Later, and Finally)?
What did you eat this weekend (use colors, smells and adjectives)?

Workbook:
86 through page 95

Our Remaining 6 Classes:
December 1st
Paragraph and Oral Presentation practice and set up gmail accounts
December 3rd
On line Portfolios, paragraph practice
December 8th
Final Exam preview and practice
December 10th
Final Exam
December 16th Main Library (Redwood City)
Final Oral Presentations
December 17th
Final Exam and Oral Presentation Make-up
Celebration


Homework: workbook- Read pages 93 and 94. Answer questions on p 94 and 95 (A and B)

Class on 11/24/14

Homework: workbook page 86 A and B

Happy Thanksgiving!

See you on 12/1/14

Class on 11/19/14

Homework: Study for the last quiz 

• take    took
• get     got
• find    found
• tell     told
• become became
• begin  began
• keep   kept
• hold   held
• stand  stood
• mean  meant

Warm Up: informal discussion regarding sports

Oral Presentation Practice: Describe your favorite holiday meal

Practice Quiz

Paraphrasing: writing about the main idea

Gandhi page 11:
Gandhi started a new non-violent protest about jobs and clothes.
Gandhi does not want there to be violence.
Gandhi said, "Don't wear British clothes."
Gandhi doesn't want violence at his protests.

Gandhi page 18:
Gandhi started a new cause for the Untouchables.
Gandhi fast meant holy places were open for Untouchables for the first time in 3000 years.
Gandhi began a fast for the rights of Untouchables and all Indians responded to him.
Gandhi fasted and it had a powerful action on Indians.
All Indians fasted with Gandhi for the rights of Untouchables.

Story Telling






Sample:
Oh man, I wish we had some bananas!
Is there one left in the pantry?
No, I ate that one yesterday. Come on let's go buy some bananas.
No way. My van is busted.
I'll fix it and then we can go. I'm jonesing for some plantinos man!
Bang, bang. Whir, whir, socket wrench, socket wrench.
It's not perfect but its ready to go
Crap! Look out its an accident. We'll never get to town.
Oh man! It's our lucky day. Its a delivery truck smashed into that fence. Look that's the driver down there trying to make a phone call.
Quick load the bus.
That's not gonna fit!
Sure it is. Come on. Its full lets drive off!
Crack
Oh no. My bus is broken!
Don't worry your bus was already broken and at least you have bananas!

Class on 11/17/14

Warm Up: TPR, Simon Says

Practice Quiz

• take    took
• get     got
• find    found
• tell     told
• become became
• begin  began
• keep   kept
• hold   held
• stand  stood
• mean  meant

Practice Paragraph: Describe an ideal weekend

Gandhi: reading analysis
last paragraph page 4: in your own words
He liked the ideas that he read about and it encouraged him to change his life.

Work with a partner and write 5 important facts about Gandhi. Be ready to share some with the class. Sample student work:
Gandhi wants to do something big for India.
Gandhi wanted to change India for good.
Gandhi went on hunger strike to get Muslims and Hindus to stop fighting.
His great ideas will live for ever.
Gandhi wanted to change the rules but he wanted to change people's mentality too.
The British don't leave India when the Indians thought they would.
Gandhi fought for equality in laws and rights for indians.
Gandhi organized a famous march to take salt from the sea.
Gandhi stood for non-violent protest.
India wins independence but Hindus and Muslims can't agree. Gandhi did not want to divide the country.

Storytelling:

Workbook:

Preview discussion regarding Final Exam: simple past tense spelling, paragraph writing, Gandhi multiple choice.

Preview discussion regarding Final Oral Presentations.

Homework: workbook pages 82 and 83 - A, B and C.

Class on 11/12/14

Warm Up:

Last Past Tense Verbs:

ate

bought

brought

came

caught

chose

cooked

did

drank

drove

felt

flew

fought

grew

had

heard

knew

learned

left

made

met

moved

played

prayed

ran

said

sang

sat

saw

sent

slept

spoke

talked

thought

visited

walked

watched

went

woke

won

wore

wrote

50 Most Common Irregular Verbs

http://www.thetimesinplainenglish.com/wp/

"The President wants to reform immigration but the Republicans don't want changes."
"The House of Representative and the President have different opinions about immigration."
The President wants to put pressure on Congress to act."

Homework: Read p 79 and 80 in the workbook. Complete A and B on p 80 and 81.

No Class on 11/10/14

No Class on 11/10/14 in honor of Veteran's Day.

Class on 11/5/14

Homework: workbook pages 67 and 68: A , B, and C

Warm Up:

Class Surveys: Students chose one of the categories below and surveyed all students. They recorded there data in a table.

1. What is your favorite dessert?
2. What do you do for exercise?      Sergio
3. What time do you go to bed?
4. What town do you live in?         Justine
5. What do you usually eat for breakfast?
6. What do you usually eat for lunch?    Freddy
7. What do you usually eat for dinner?
8. Do you like peanut butter?
9. Do you like pickles?
10. Do you like hamburgers?
11. Do you like Chinese food?
12. Do you like Japanese food?
13. Do you like Italian food?
14. What kind of music do you like?    Omar
15. What is your favorite movie?        Luis
16. What do you like to watch on TV?     Eduardo
17. What do you do to relax?
18. Do you celebrate Thanksgiving?      Mynor

Paragraph practice Quiz

What did you do last weekend?
How do you celebrate Thanksgiving (or Christmas)?
Describe your favorite breakfast.


Review Homework:

Read through reading (workbook p 63 and 64). Create your own summary sentences for each paragraph.

Students read selected paragraphs from their Gandhi textbooks and wrote summary sentences in their own words.

Whole class listened to and read the lyrics of:
OF MONSTERS AND MEN LYRICS   "Little Talks"

Hey! Hey! Hey!
I don't like walking around this old and empty house
So hold my hand, I'll walk with you, my dear
[Video version:] The stairs creak as you sleep, it's keeping me awake
[Live version:] The stairs creak as I sleep, it's keeping me awake
It's the house telling you to close your eyes

And some days I can't even dress myself
It's killing me to see you this way

'Cause though the truth may vary
This ship will carry our bodies safe to shore

Hey! Hey! Hey!

There's an old voice in my head that's holding me back
Well tell her that I miss our little talks
Soon it will be over and buried with our past
We used to play outside when we were young
And full of life and full of love.

[Video version:] Some days I don't know if I am wrong or right
[Live version:] Some days I feel like I'm wrong when I'm right
Your mind is playing tricks on you, my dear

'Cause though the truth may vary
This ship will carry our bodies safe to shore

Hey!
Don't listen to a word I say
Hey!
The screams all sound the same
Hey!

Though the truth may vary
This ship will carry our bodies safe to shore

Hey!
Hey!

You're gone, gone, gone away
I watched you disappear
All that's left is the ghost of you.
Now we're torn, torn, torn apart,
There's nothing we can do
Just let me go we'll meet again soon
Now wait, wait, wait for me
Please hang around
I'll see you when I fall asleep

Hey!
Don't listen to a word I say
Hey!
The screams all sound the same
Hey!
Though the truth may vary
This ship will carry our bodies safe to shore

Don't listen to a word I say
Hey!
The screams all sound the same
Hey!

Though the truth may vary
This ship will carry our bodies safe to shore

Though the truth may vary
This ship will carry our bodies safe to shore

Though the truth may vary
This ship will carry our bodies safe to shore

11/3/14

Warm up: Tell an action story about the weekend. Try to use First, Second, Next, Then, Last, Suddenly and Finally.

     On Saturday we moved a large Afghan rug from one room to another. First we had to clean up all the boxes of junk in our room. These boxes were "waiting" to be put in the attic and those lazy boxes just wouldn't go in there by themselves. Second we had to clean the carpet. It had a lot of dog hair and dust! Then we had to lift the bed and boxsprings up. It was hard to do because our bedroom is basically an attic room so part of the ceiling is very low. Finally we got the bed up agains the wall and dragged the rug out and down the stairs. It took half a day but now the rug is clean and down stairs.

Quiz #4

Stories: Students wrote about one of the following pictures. They tried to tell a funny story.

Oral Presentations: a typically breakfast, my favorite breakfast or a story of your choice.

Collection and review of homework (workbook p 59 and 60)

Whole class read pages 63 and 64.

Homework: read pages 65 and 66. Complete A and B on pages 66 and 67.

Class on 10/29/14

Warm Up: TPR

Survey one student:

• What was a typical breakfast when you were young?
• What did you eat this morning?
• What is your favorite breakfast? Describe in detail including colors, smells, taste. 

Practice Quiz

Collect Homework: 4 sentences from Chapter 8

Whole class reading of Chapter 8

Review Workbook

• Read in pairs p56 and 57 
• Whole class answer questions on p58

Homework: Workbook part B page 59 and part C page 60
                    Study new verbs for practice quiz on Monday

Class on 10/27/14

Warm Up: Survey 4 students on the following questions. Write done each name and their answers:

• Do you celebrate Halloween? 
• What is your favorite dessert?
• What is your favorite non-Latino food?

New verb list:
catch        caught
come        came 
hear         heard
know        knew
meet         met
run           ran
say            said
send         sent 
sit              sat
choose      chose
feel           felt
speak       spoke

50 Most Common Irregular Verbs


Homework: Read Gandhi Chapter 8. Write 4 sentences in your own words. 

Class on 10/20/14

Warm Up:
Students wrote 5 sentences about what they did last weekend. Students could not use the following verbs: went, ate, cooked, worked. Students shared a sentence or two with the whole class while the instructor built a list of unique verbs used.

Collection of homework and review of workbook pages 52, and 53

Return of corrected work including Quiz number Three

Chapter 7 of Gandhi; Class reading and analysis


Homework: write 6 original sentences about Chapter 7. 

Class on 10/22/14

Warm Up:

Write a paragraph. Your first sentence should finish the following phrase, "I remember the first time I saw..." Make sure you include one color, one description of a sound and one smell.

Share your story with a partner.

re write with the correct punctuation and capitals:

i remember the last time I saw my friend muu he was japanese and we met him in the city of Oaxaca about a year later he came to visit us in santa cruz and that weekend we also took him to San Francisco he was not shy or quiet he was very funny and liked to make a lot of jokes I remember that I wanted him to try typical “american” food so we went to a delicatessen that I loved he thought the sourdough roll was too hard I remember him joking that it hurt his teeth I remember too the dark red of the golden gate bridge and he fun we had in the city he and I spoke only spanish together and people would look at him and think that I was speaking japanese it has been about fifteen years since I have seen him

Oral presentation practice.

Read aloud Chapter 7 of Gandhi

Workbook page 54 and 55


Home work: Read 56 and 57. Complete answers on p 58.



Paragraph from above with corrections:
I remember the last time I saw my friend Muu. He was Japanese and we met him in the city of Oaxaca. About a year later he came to visit us in Santa Cruz and that weekend we also took him to San Francisco. He was not shy or quiet. He was very funny and liked to make a lot of jokes. I remember that I wanted him to try typical “American” food so we went to a delicatessen that I loved. He thought the sourdough roll was too hard. I remember him joking that it hurt his teeth. I remember too the dark red of the Golden Gate bridge and the fun we had in the city. He and I spoke only Spanish together and people would look at him and think that I was speaking Japanese. It has been about fifteen years since I have seen him.

Class on 10/15/14

Warm up: Students were asked to talk with a partner about: "What fun things have you done in the past week (no matter how small)?

Paragraphs

Homework turn in:

Quiz

Homework Return

Read a story from New York Times.  New York Times: In Plain English

Write 4 sentences about your news story:

• Change the title into your own words
• In your own words answer: Where does the story take place?
• How much does the story effect you? 
• Copy one important quote

Homework: Read Page 52 in the workbook and answer questions on page 53.

Class on 10/13/14

Warm up
Where did you go? How did you get there? What did you see. When did you return?

Use one of these sites to find and copy a short joke. Choose carefully and be prepared to read to a partner and the whole class:

• English Club Jokes
• TESL Journal Jokes
• Stickyball Jokes

Examples:

Q: What do you call a pig with three eyes?
A: A piiig.

Q: What goes Oh, Oh, Oh?
A: Santa Claus walking backwards.

---

Q: What do elephants have that no other animal has? 
A: Baby elephants.

Two cows are standing in a field.
One says to the other "Are you worried about Mad Cow Disease?"
The other one says "No, It doesn't worry me, I'm a horse!" 

Q: What do you call a boomerang that won't come back? 
A: A stick.

Why couldn't Cinderella be a good soccer player? 

She lost her shoe, she ran away from the ball, and her coach was a pumpkin.


Patient: "Doctor, I think I'm suffering from memory loss."
Doctor: "Have you ever had it before?"

Why was the baby ant so confused?

Because all his uncles were aunts.

Doctor: "What's wrong with your brother?" 

Boy: "He thinks he's a chicken."
Doctor: "Really? How long has he thought this?"
Boy: "Three years."
Doctor: "Three years!"
Boy: "We would have brought him in sooner, but we needed the eggs."

Or write one of your own!

Practice reading your joke to a partner. Read it two or three times. Listen for rhythms.

Quiz (delayed due to poor attendance). 

Collect last Gandhi homework


begin/began, blow/blew, catch/caught, come/came, do/did, draw/drew, drink/drank, , get/got, give/gave, hear/heard, know/knew, make/made, meet/met, read/read, run/ran, say/said, send/sent, sing/sang, sit/sat, sleep/slept, swim/swam, throw/threw, write/wrote

Homework: Read Gandhi Chapter 6. Write 6 sentences about the chapter. 2 Sentences can be quotes (a sentence that you copied using "quote marks." 4 sentences must be in your own words. Study for quiz!

Class on 10/8/14

 


Students wrote sentences and stories about the above photos and shared them in pairs and in the whole class.

Students took a practice quiz on simple past tense verbs

Whole class: the instructor reviewed the answers for the latest homework.

Students read Gandhi, Chapter 4. Students were asked to find the best quote for small sections. 

Yesterday by the Beatles

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday

Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be
There's a shadow hanging over me.
Oh, yesterday came suddenly

Why she had to go I don't know she wouldn't say
I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh, I believe in yesterday

Why she had to go I don't know she wouldn't say
I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh, I believe in yesterday
Mm mm mm mm mm mm mm

Homework: Page 26 of the Gandhi book: Section 7 (write three sentences for A and B) and 8 (write the whole sentence with only the correct option).
Study for Past Tense Quiz

Class on 10/6/14

Whole class warm Up: Students brainstormed adjectives to describe food: delicious, greasy, salty tender etc..

Students wrote four sentences about what they ate for breakfast or what they wish they had eaten this morning.

Whole group discussion on Food and Culture. Each student's answer was placed in a table: American foods, neutral foods or typically Latino. The class discussed what happens to the habits

Students practiced oral presentations on what they ate this morning or on a typical or favorite breakfast.

Students reviewed corrected paragraph and re-wrote to correct errors. Students also practiced in pairs reading their homework sentences out loud.

Whole class: students contributed their best sentences to a list of sentences that capture the big ideas of the chapter.

Whole Class: read and discussed workbook essay on page 43.

Homework: Complete answers on page 44 and 45 sections A and B

Class on 10/1/14

Student brainstormed 77 verbs with their past tense spellings. Students then choose 10 verbs to study:

1. prayed
2. sang
3. thought
4. learned
5. won
6. saw
7. flew
8. wore
9. left
10. did

Students played a diversity game:

Diversity Exploration Instructions

1. If a classmate can answer a question, ask him/her to sign the box
2. Each person can answer only one question on your sheet
3. You can sign your own name to one box
4. You will have 10 minutes to get as many signatures as possible
5. Remember: this is a fun exercise designed to explore diversity, not a competition!

Students wrote a past tense paragraph about Tuesday. All students started with the following sentence: "It was a terrible (terrific or typical) Tuesday."

Workbook. Pages 39 and 40

Homework: Read Gandhi: Chapter Three pages 7 to 10. Write 6 sentences in your own words about what happened in this part of his life.

Class on 9/29/14

Warm Up

Where are you from?

How old are you?

When where you born?

Where do you work?

How do you get to ...?

What do you think about


Whole class work on the creating your own sentences that express the main idea of a paragraph. Students learned to summarize with their own words. 

Homework: Read Ghandi pages 4 to 6. Write 6 sentences in your own words. Edit later to see if all sentences are about the main ideas in the reading. Cross out the weakest 2 sentences. You need 4 sentences total. 

Class on 9/24/14

Warm up
Javier (the class slammer) led the whole class in a fake quiz to practice our latest simple past tense verbs.

Quiz #2

TPR

Students wrote three sentences about their activities yesterday. They read all three sentences to the whole class. Whole class activity: Students then reviewed/wrote the rules for paragraphs. Then students wrote independently a paragraph about yesterday. Students then worked in pairs to present their ideas. They did not read their paragraphs but tried to remember the images and speak with out reading.

Students reviewed as a whole class the presentation rules and then did formal presentations about yesterday.

Whole class review of Chapter one of Gandhi. Students shared the sentences that they thought were important and would make good quotes. Class discussed difference between quoting and using their own words. Students then wrote two sentences in their own words about Gandhi.

Homework: read page 34, 35 and 36. Complete exercises on pages 35, 36 and 37 

Class on 9/22/14

Warm Up:
Students constructed past tense sentences using the simple pictures on the board.

Students discussion of Empathy and Sympathy: whole class watched a video
Empathy video


Students took a practice quiz on past tense verbs from last week:

Students reviewed past work and made corrections;

Whole class discussion of Tuesday Field Trip to Cañada College Campus.

Review of last homework and pages 26 and 27

Students studied the following Song and its lyrics

ARCTIC MONKEYS LYRICS

"Do I Wanna Know?"

Have you got colour in your cheeks?
Do you ever get that fear that you can't shift
The type that sticks around like something in your teeth?
Are there some aces up your sleeve?
Have you no idea that you're in deep?
I dreamt about you nearly every night this week
How many secrets can you keep?
'Cause there's this tune I found that makes me think of you somehow and I play it on repeat
Until I fall asleep
Spilling drinks on my settee

(Do I wanna know)
If this feeling flows both ways?
(Sad to see you go)
Was sort of hoping that you'd stay
(Baby we both know)
That the nights were mainly made for saying things that you can't say tomorrow day

Crawling back to you

Ever thought of calling when you've had a few?
'Cause I always do
Maybe I'm too busy being yours to fall for somebody new
Now I've thought it through

Crawling back to you

So have you got the guts?
Been wondering if your heart's still open and if so I wanna know what time it shuts
Simmer down and pucker up
I'm sorry to interrupt. It's just I'm constantly on the cusp of trying to kiss you
I don't know if you feel the same as I do
But we could be together if you wanted to

(Do I wanna know?)
If this feeling flows both ways?
(Sad to see you go)
Was sort of hoping that you'd stay
(Baby we both know)
That the nights were mainly made for saying things that you can't say tomorrow day

Crawling back to you (crawling back to you)

Ever thought of calling when you've had a few? (you've had a few)
'Cause I always do ('cause I always do)
Maybe I'm too (maybe I'm too busy) busy being yours to fall for somebody new
Now I've thought it through

Crawling back to you

(Do I wanna know?)
If this feeling flows both ways?
(Sad to see you go)
Was sort of hoping that you'd stay
(Baby we both know)
That the nights were mainly made for saying things that you can't say tomorrow day

(Do I wanna know?)
Too busy being yours to fall
(Sad to see you go)
Ever thought of calling darling?
(Do I wanna know?)
Do you want me crawling back to you?

Homework:

Read the Introduction and Chapter One of Gandhi: pages iv, 1 and 2: Copy three great/important sentences. 

Class on 9/15/14

Warm Up

How do you exercise. Students wrote a list of the healthy exercises that they participate in.

Students Completed a chart on adjectives to describe people:


Students wrote 5 sentences about last Sunday. They interviewed 4 students and collected 4 actions from each. Students read out loud their answers to the whole class.

Students selected 10 past tense verbs to study

1. fought
2. bought
3. brought
4. grew
5. wrote
6. woke
7. slept
8. watched 
9. drank
10. moved

Homework: Study the new verbs above. Read Page 23 and 24: Who Moved My Cheese. Answer questions on page 24 and 25. 

Class on 9/8/14

Warm up: TPR

6 New Interview Questions: Students interviewed, took notes, and reported out answers to the whole class.

1. What is your full name? 
2. What is one of your nicknames? (the funnier the better)
3. What is your favorite food? Use Adjectives and be specific!
4. What food(s) do you hate?
5. What did you want to grow up to be (profession) when you were little?
6. What is something about you that people find surprising?

Students practiced Oral Presentations;

"Good Evening,

My name is ________________. I love to eat _________________. I hate _________( another food). Thank you."

Students took a quiz

Whole Class read page 18 in the workbook

Whole Class reviewed Paragraph Rules:
1. Indent!
2. General introduction (not specific)
3. Focus!! One theme, idea.
4. Punctuation, capitals and spelling
5. Give it an ending (Finally, At last, In the end, - Opinion or Summary

Homework: 

Take your interview and change it into a paragraph. Include the most interesting information that you learned. The first sentence should be:
         "I interviewed ______________. " 

Homework due 9/8/14

Homework:

Write ten simple past tense sentences. 

Study the ten past tense verbs (from above). 

Worksheet questions from Canine Companions reading.