April 28th, 2014 Article

Here is the article for class!
• http://www.thetimesinplainenglish.com/wp/defying-the-united-states-government/


Vocabulary words:

• anarchy — absence of law
• civil disobedience — people disobeying the government
• disparaging — to describe something as unimportant, weak, bad (adjective of disparage)
• firestorm — an intense or violent response
• graze — for animals to feed on grass
• militia — an armed force of citizens
• patriot — someone who loves and supports their country
• protest — a display of disapproval
• withdrew — to take back, to remove, to turn away (past tense of withdraw)

Class 4/9/14

Warm up:

List of common English suffixes:

Answers to p37 section B:

class on 4/7/14

Here is the practice quiz everyone took; study carefully and be ready for the real quiz!

HOMEWORK:
* Read page 36 in the Student Book
* Answer questions page 37 A 1-4 on paper

4/2/14

Homework: write 15 sentences using the 15 participles below. Use the website below to help you. Each sentence can start with "Before" or use "by the time" in the middle of the sentence.

Warm up: Practiced and finished examples of Past Perfect.

Whole class and pair practice with pronunciation of Past Perfect. The students then volunteered past participles for a list

A list of "difficult" irregular Past Participles:

1. borne
2. brought
3. caught
4. known
5. sung
6. thrown
7. bitten
8. swum
9. slept
10. written
11. ridden
12. laid
13. sunk
14. risen
15. shaken

Review this good resource:

http://www.learnamericanenglishonline.com/Yellow%20Level/Y17%20Past%20Participles.html

 Homework: workbook page 17 and 18. Study past perfect in the student book

Verb	Past	Past Participle		Verb	Past	Past Participle
bear	bore	borne		lie	lay	lain
become	became	become		lose	lost	lost
begin	began	begun		ride	rode	ridden
bite	bit	bitten		ring	rang	rung
break	broke	broken		rise	rose	risen
bring	brought	brought		run	ran	run
catch	caught	caught		say	said	said
choose	chose	chosen		see	saw	seen
come	came	come		set	set	set
do	did	done		shake	shook	shaken
drink	drank	drunk		sing	sang	sung
drive	drove	driven		sink	sank or sunk	sunk
eat	ate	eaten		sit	sat	sat
fall	fell	fallen		sleep	slept	slept
feel	felt	felt		speak	spoke	spoken
fly	flew	flown		steal	stole	stolen
freeze	froze	frozen		swim	swam	swum
get	got	got or gotten		take	took	taken
go	went	gone		throw	threw	thrown
know	knew	known		wear	wore	worn
lay	laid	laid		win	won	won
lead	led	led		write	wrote	written
lend	lent	lent		hear	heard	heard
grow	grew	grown

Class on 3/26/14

Warm up: go to www.englishlearner.com explore the "beginner" options

Work with a partner. Go to one of these sites:

• cnn.com
• npr.org
• http://www.thetimesinplainenglish.com/wp/
• Choose one story together

Partners have to write one sentence for each prompt below:

• Title: "How Russia's Annexation Of Crimea Could Hurt Its Economy"
• Source: Our story came from NPR.
• Where: The story takes place in Russia
• Who: The Russian people could be impacted by international embargos.
• What: Russia has invaded and taken part of Ukraine. Many countries are upset or angry. The laws they are passing will hurt the Russian economy and Russian people's wallets.

Whole class review of "Volunteering While in School"
and previous homework

Whole class Presentation Graphing to help summarize and pair work

Homework: find a new, news story (in CNN, NPR etc.) Use the example below but with detail from your story: Then practice talking about your news story.

Title: "How Russia's Annexation Of Crimea Could Hurt Its Economy"

Source: Our story came from NPR.

Where: The story takes place in Russia

Who: The Russian people could be impacted by international embargos.

What: Russia has invaded and taken part of Ukraine. Many countries are upset or angry. The laws they are passing will hurt the Russian economy and Russian people's wallets.

 

Class on 3/24/14

Warm Up: Teacher wrote a table with 5 categories of adjectives
Students wrote 5 sentences to describe themselves using the lists. Example: "I am Mexican. I am catholic. I am hardworking and honest. I am generation X.

Whole class review of page 13 and 14.

Class demonstration of Venn Diagram

Student Groups: What did you do last Saturday?

Homework: Read page 28 and 29 in the Student book. Look up words in the dictionary. Write out answers for 1 through 5 on page 29 on a separate piece of paper to turn in.