Class on 8/25/14

Question:

What color was Garth's shirt?


Class Practiced writing and reading simple autobiographical sentences.

Students read through and asked questions regarding the class syllabus.

Students read a simple paragraph about the instructors weekend. Then the class analyzed the paragraph and wrote 4 rules for paragraphs. Then students tried to use those rules and the model paragraph to write their own paragraph about the weekend.

Homework:
Go to the blog and answer the question (above). Email me the answer (email address is on your syllabus). 

Welcome to Cañada College's ESL 911
I am your teacher Garth Bunse

This blog is designed for you. After each class there is a summary of activities and clear directions on what to do for the homework. Also there are important links located on the upper right side.

Our books this semester will look like this: 

Class on 5/21/14

Make up Oral Presentations, Make up Final Exams and "Exit Interviews" with Students

Celebration!

Click here to see or print our class photo (thanks Philippe)!

http://www.nick15.com/esl911/

Dear Students,

Thanks to all of you for being such motivated and engaged students. I had a great semester! Good luck with your studies, career and life.

Garth

5/14/14

Students took a practice test, reviewed all answers and took home test as a study guide.


Final Exam will be 5/19/14. Study!

Class on 5/12/14

Students Gave Their Final Oral Presentations

Class on 5/5/14. Cinco de Mayo!

Homeworkh: read page 58, student book Just make sure to study the article. Use a dictionary to look up words u want to understand better.

Class on 4/28/14

Warm Up:  Students described a " Mystery Place" (a room where they live). They could not use certain key works and instead had to use senses and other specific vocabulary to describe it.

P 52 and 53 in the student workbook


Students read an article about Ranchers in Nevada:




Homework: 
Read the article on Page 56 of the Student Book. Choose one of the questions on the top of page 57 and write one paragraph to answer it. Remember to use the words from the question in your introductory sentence.