Class on 3/19/14

Homework: P 13 and 14 in the Workbook

Class on 3/17/14

Warm Up: Students individually responded to questions about the St Patrick's holiday.

Discussion of Race Vs Ethnicity?
     Whole class discussion defining what is race and what is Ethnicity. Students defined culture by the following:
Language
traditions
food
clothing
religion

Students ranked what aspects they could give up most easily (1) or could never give up (5).

Review of Paragraph rules:

Quiz # 3
 buy/bought, grow/grew, hear/heard, know/knew, make/made,  send/sent, become/became, bite/bit, choose/chose, fly/flew, fight/fought,   mean/meant,  speak/spoke, stand/stood, wear/wore

Write a paragraph: What did you do on Sunday?

Student book: Review of pages 10 and 11 in the homework book 


Homework: Listen to Audio track #4 and complete page 12 in the Homework Book.

Class on 3/12/14

Warm up: What is one thing you do every morning?
  Students listened and reported a classmates answer in present tense third person and answer for themselves. Next student repeated

Student read their paragraphs (from previous Homework) to each other in pairs. They reported back to their partner the things they did. They paraphrased. Then they worked together and with teachers to find and write one good quote from each. 

Practice Quiz # 3

 buy/bought, grow/grew, hear/heard, know/knew, make/made,  send/sent, become/became, bite/bit, choose/chose, fly/flew, fight/fought,   mean/meant,  speak/spoke, stand/stood, wear/wore


Studetents (whole class and pairs) practice vocabulary and describing their qualities: Student book page 20 and 21



Homework: Workbook pages 10 and 11
                    Study verbs above for Quiz #3

Class on 3/10/14

Warm Up:
Students Created silly, unreal statements (with past tense)

• I sold my kidney for an ipad.
• I slept in the pool last night.
• I saw a dinosaur yesterday.
• Some people sleepwalk. I eat in my sleep.
• I won the Lotto last Saturday.
• I peed in the asile of the supermarket.
• Saturday I swam in the air. I did 40 laps.
• I sailed a boat down Broadway.
• I went to the moon in my Ford-Chevy combo.
• I drove my car into the ocean last night.
• I ate a whole dinosaur for lunch yesterday. It's a special diet that all the movie stars are
• following.
• My friend took my memories out of my head and sold them on the black market. She got $4.50.
• She also has a kidney to sell you if you are interested.
• I live on the moon. I am waiting for Francisco to come pick me up and take me to class.
• I drink blood but only on Sundays.
• I played football under the house.
• I walked to my job in Santa Clara. I made it in 15 minutes.
• Last night I read a book to my cat and dog. They laughed the whole time.
• I drank beer in the morning because my soccer team lost.
• I spoke to with my dog about my job. He gave me good advice.
• I fought with Michael Jackson. He fights dirty.
• I flew an airplane to Japan.
• I ate Soylent Green.
• I took a bath with chocolate.
• My brother wants to be superman and jump off the roof.
• I made tacos with elephant meat that I shot on safari.
• I don't want any police in Redwood city.
• I ate my dog. He was super tasty with black beans.
• Friday night I bought an airplane for my mom because she wants
• to come visit me. She piloted the airplane and flew to California
• on Saturday Morning.

Students studied new list of irregular Past tense verbs

begin/began, blow/blew, bring/brought, buy/bought, catch/caught, come/came, do/did, draw/drew, drink/drank, eat/ate, get/got, give/gave, go/went, grow/grew, hear/heard, know/knew, make/made, meet/met, read/read, run/ran, say/said, see/saw, send/sent, sing/sang, sit/sat, sleep/slept, swim/swam,  take/took, throw/threw, write/wrote

become/became, bite/bit, break/broke, choose/chose, drive/drove, fall/fell, feel/felt, fly/flew, fight/fought, find/found, hold/held, hide/hid, hit/hit, keep/kept, leave/left, lose/lost, mean/meant, pay/paid, put/put, quit/quit, shut/shut, sell/sold, spend/spent, speak/spoke, stand/stood, teach/taught, tell/told, win/won, wear/wore

Students selected 20 from above


http://www.thetimesinplainenglish.com/wp/the-life-of-a-payday-borrower/

http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/03/10/parents-love-their-phones-tablets-even-during-meals-with-kids/

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/09/living/genius-hour-education-schools/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Homework: write a paragraph about what you did last weekend. Practice reading it out loud

Class on 3/3/14

Reminder: No Class on 3/5/14

Warm Up: Students stated one activity they do for exercise.
Some students were quizzed about others and responded with third person conjugations of the same verb=
                   "I run in the park." changes to   "She runs in the park."

for the last Homework on news stories most students copied text from the story. We must learn how

Example paragraph
        I went running on Saturday night. I don't usually go running at night. I turned down a street that I don't usually run on. Then all of a sudden I heard a sound. Bam! My toe hit a bump in the sidewalk. I heard the smack of my hands as they hit the concrete. I was on the ground. There was no sound. My dog whined and I immediately felt embarrassed. Then I understood that I had really fallen hard onto the sidewalk. I got up. My hands were dirty but not bloody. My knees were stinging. I turned around and started to limp home. 

Paraphrases (in your own words) from student (in pairs):

1. Garth was running and fell.
2. Garth runs and falls.
3. Garth fell to the ground.
4. Garth ran and hurt himself.
5. He fell.
6. He ran, bumped and fell.
7. Garth fell down.
8. He tumbled and injured himself.
9. Garth fell down very hard.
10. Garth had a small accident.
11. Garth exercised and got hurt.

Students practiced looking for Quotes 

He "started to limp home."
He was "dirty but not bloody."
He fell and"hit the concrete."
He fell "hard onto the sidewalk."

In Class sample reading

http://www.thetimesinplainenglish.com/wp/how-to-stay-healthy-read-nutrition-labels/

Paraphrases (in your own words):
The FDA approved nutrition fact labels.
The FDA is changing to new nutrition labels.
The children are obese because of sugar.
The FDA renews food labels.
The FDA changes to more visible food labels.
The FDA is thinking about sugar levels.
The FDA provides better information for consumers.
The FDA is changing nutrition levels in food.

Main idea. Paraphrasing Self-Confidence"

Self-confidence is trust in yourself.
Self-confidence is being your brave self.
Self-confidence is trusting yourself to solve anything.
Self-confidence is believing in yourself.

Homework: Student book- finish reading page 16 and complete page 17.

Class on 2/26/14

Warm up

Students took Quiz #2
Spelling words and paragraph about last Sunday

Whole class Student book pages 11, 12 and 13.

Homework: Workbook pages 4 and 5

Class on 2/19/14

Warm Up: 10 ways to answer the question: How are you? Students wrote unique answers and then during role call they had to listen and give a answer that had not been used previously.

Review of the 100 most commonly used words. Students analyzed and studied and then took a practice quiz. The words were:

which
would
their
English
were
been
people
make
first
go
have

Discussion of homework procedures and best practices to learn. Go above and beyond. Listen to the CD that came with your book!

Discussion of ID and Tours of Cañada College.

Review of pages 2 and 3 in the Workbook:

Students read silently page 8 of the Student Book and the whole class answered questions on the top of page 9.

Homework: 

1. Finish Page 9 of the Student Book
2. Read current news stories. Pick one story and write the title of the news story on the top of the page. Then write a paragraph about it. Make sure you answer: What is the story about? Who, where, why?