Class on 4/29/09

Warm up: practice a story about your week where you were doing something but you were interrupted. Use past present, past present and then (wham!) a simple past tense action interrupts.

Verbal Phrases Pages 107, 108, and 109

Homework:

Textbook Page 109 #2, page 110 #3 and 4.

Turn in a draft of one of your paragraphs

Class on 4/27/09

Writing exercise on Present Progressive, and Past Progressive with simple past interruptions.  

Teacher led discussion regarding paragraph requirements: indent first line, stay on topic, last sentence is very important (often echoes the 1st sentence) and needs to sound like an ending.

Class discussion regarding the Outline for the remainder of the semester:

Various homework

2 Quizes

1 Test

3 Final paragraphs (you can choose from the 4-5 assigned in class)

1 Presentation to represent American Popular Culture

Work with Verb Phrases textbook pages 105 and 106.

Homework: Textbook Pages 106-107

                       Workbook page 45 #4, pages 46-47#1 and #2

CLASS CANCELLED

Garth has a flat tire.

Class on 4/20/09

The corrected test #1 was handed to all students. Final questions answered. Those exact irregular simple past verbs will be repeated on the final. 

Current grades were demonstrated discussed. 

Reflexive and Reciprocal Pronouns were previewed. Reflexive pronouns are more internal. Reciprocal are more external (but to like things/people)

Homework: Textbook- P 99-100 #4

                       Workbook P 43-44 #1 and 2

                       

CLASS ON 4/15/09

Homework: workbook p 40-42 # 2, 3, and 4

Also a paragraph about how to make English fun for you. 

Class on 4/13/09

Test #1

Students reviewed corrected home work. Students were asked to study corrections and report 2 things that they learned. 7 students were asked to report back to the whole class one thing that they learned. 

Students were also asked the following: Think about the how you use English. Is it ever fun? Or is it always a lot of work? How can you do more fun things while using English? How can you have fun speaking English?

American Popular Culture example was presented. 

Seinfeld and Double Dipping. 

Whole class viewed a video clip of the now classic scene. The link to the clip and the text are below.

Homework: Finish paragraph about making English fun (see questions above). Read textbook pages 73 to 75. Complete exercise #1 on page 76.

George Double dips

Text below:
Timmy:		What are you doing?
George Costanza:		What?
Timmy:		Did, did you just double dip that chip?
George Costanza:		Excuse me?
Timmy:		You double dipped a chip!
George Costanza:		Double dipped? What, what, what are you talking about?
Timmy:		You dipped a chip. You took a bite. And you dipped again.
George Costanza:		So?
Timmy:		That's like putting your whole mouth right in the dip. From now on, when you take a chip, just take one dip and end it.
George Costanza:		Well, I'm sorry, Timmy, but I don't dip that way.
Timmy:		Oh, you don't, huh?
George Costanza:		You dip the way you want to dip. I'll dip the way I want to dip.
		[George grabs another chip, dips it, takes a bite and begins to reach for the dip as Timmy grabs his hand.]
Timmy:		Gimme the chip!

Class on 4/1/09

"pop quiz" - Quiz # 4 on future tense

Review of Test #1

Pop Culture Example Presentation: M.I.A. Paper Planes

Homework: Study for Test #1