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.

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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