Class on 10/30/19

Homework: 
Choose a favorite dish, meal or even sandwich and write a simple recipe. 
Read workbook pages 63 to 66

Class on 10/28/19

Students wrote simple past tense about the healthy and unhealthy things they ate over the weekend. Students shared in pairs and then built list of English verbs that are used in the process of cooking.

Later the whole class built a list, compared actions and identified cooking verbs that are considered healthy. Frying vs grilling for example.

Quiz #5  on page 52

Workbook pages 53 to 55.

Homework:
Read pages 56 & 57
Study for Quiz #6 (on the reading above)

Class on 10/23/19

Review and comparison of Simple Past and Present Tense: What did you do on Tuesday vs What do you do on Tuesdays?

Discussion on last Monday evening's event at Cañada College.

Practice Quiz on Page 43.

Review of workbook pages 44 through 47

Homework: Read workbook pages 50, 51 and 52. There will be a quiz on page 52. 

Choose ten vocabulary words in the reading and write your own definition. It is okay to use a dictionary but don't copy. Write short definitions in your own words. 

Class on 10/21/19 MEET AT CAÑADA

There is a special event at Canada College. It is a presentation about special programs and career paths at our college. Please meet at 6:30 at the main theater (Building Three) on the map.

Please remember to buy a parking pass ($3.00). Call or text me if you need help on Monday. 

https://canadacollege.edu/about/campusmap.php

Homework:

Read pages 43. Complete page 44 A and 45  B. 

Class on 10/9/19 --Remember no Class on Monday 10/14/19--

Code Talkers During World War II

Pratice Quiz from reading on pages 35 and 36

1. This essay is about what language?

Navajo!

2. Why was it such an effective/good code?

No one knew it. Only the Navajo people.  Also 10 pronunciations for

each vowel. There were no code books.

3. What were ships named after? Fish and Whales etc.

4. Why did code talkers memorize everything? So if you get captured

 there was not book to steal!

How many generations back until your relatives

spoke something other than Spanish?

Student 1      Maya   4 generations ago

Garth            Norwegian 4 generations

Student 2      French 4 generations

Student 3      Masawa  1 generation

Student 4      German 5 generations

Garth's great, great, great, great , great grandfather was

Noah Webster (author of the first American dictionary- Websters's Dictionary.

Homework:

Workbook pages 36, 37 and 38

Write down everything that happens in one dream.

Keep a notebook by your bed.

Listen to one song in English. Look up the words on line.

 (you can watch youtube videos with subtitles).

No Class on Monday 10/14/19!

Class on 10/7/19

What do you always dream about? What are you doing in your dreams? Students wrote about their dreams.


Quiz #4 on pages 23 and 24 "Who Moved My Cheese?"

1. Name one of the Characters in the book.
2. The characters are either people or what other animal?
3. What do the humans do when the cheese is gone?
4. Name one lesson that the original book is trying to teach us.

Homework: Workbook pages 28 and 29

Class on 10/2/19

Warm Up practice Past Progressive (with simple past tense).

1. I was washing the dishes when the lights went out.
2. I was driving when the police raced by.
3. I was talking to my brother, and I flashed back to when he was little. 

Introduction to Present Progressive
You are on the telephone and your friend asks you, "What are you doing?"

1. I am watching a movie.
2. I am making dinner.
3. I am folding clothes.

Review of Quiz #2

First Home Oral Presentations

Homework: Study Pages 23 and 24
                    Read the article 3 times
                    Write 10 definitions on words you want to understand better

Class on 9/30/19

In Class:

1. Simple Past Tense Warm Up Exercise
2. Introduction to Past Progress
3. Pop quiz on page 18 Reading assignment
4. Workbook page 19
5. My First House presentation practice in groups of three. 
6. Quick Walk Up and Eye Contact Exercise (for oral presentations). 

Homework: Pages 20, 21 and 22. Also find someone new to and describe your First Home. Go for 2 minutes and try not to read your notes but just talk from memory.