Class on 9/18/13

Warm Up:

Students wrote two sentences and then shared with the whole class:

For breakfast I ate....
For breakfast I didn't eat...

Whole class discussion; countable and non-countable with topic of food items.

Whole class discussion: Do you eat an American breakfast or is your typical breakfast from your own background or country?

I hate...
I love...
Students wrote 5 sentences for each and shared two with the whole class.

Whole class discussion of the English flexibility of using "hate" and "love" for a wide spectrum or important and unimportant themes and from the formal to the informal

Students reviewed the paragraph rules and were told to be very specific and to use their own life experiences.

Homework:
 Read pages 13, 14 and 15
Write a final paragraph about living in the US and use one of the following intro sentences:

     Living in America has changed the way I think about time.
     Living in America has not changed the way I think about time.