Class on 2/17/15

Warm Up: 
Describe your weekend: What did it look like. What did you do or see

• Brainstorm adjectives
• Review Simple past tense
• Talk to one partner
• Be ready to report to the whole class on your partner's activity

Homework Collection and Review: 

Oral Presentation Practice (practice uncomfortably long eye contact). Topic what do you like to do for yourself (ideally just for you) on the weekend.

New Workbook Reading and Exercises: Read aloud - whole class page 18 and pairs discussed on of the questions on page 19

Paragraph Rules
and whole class review of 1-4 on page 20

Homework: Read Chapter One of La Linea- Write on paper ten adjectives for Miguel.

Class on 2/12/15

Warm Up: Survey seven students. Ask them to list three foods they do not like.

                  Be prepared to report out.


Writing exercise: 
1. Study the pictures below and build a list of appropriate adjectives. Share with a partner.
2. Write ten sentences (use at least 5 adjectives) to describe an early school you attended. Read aloud with a partner


Workbook exercises

Review song lyrics and listen to a contemporary pop song.

Homework: Email 10 sentences describing your first school. Use adjectives and specific descriptions. Read p 16 in the workbook and write out answers on paper (use whole sentences) for A and B on page 17

Class on 2/10/15

Warm Up: What do you do to relieve stress? Talk to at least five classmates. Record names and activities or techniques.

Writing Feedback: typical errors and corrections

Hand write corrections: Email your corrected copy as part of homework.

Oral Presentation Practice: Describe what you had for dinner.

Homework review: teacher demonstrates correct procedure for workbook exercises

Homework: Workbook: page 13. A and B: write out whole answers.

Listen (and read along) to Milky Chance's song:

Stolen Dance  by Milky Chance

I want you by my side

So that I never feel alone again

They've always been so kind

But now they've brought you away from me

I hope they didn't get your mind

Your heart is too strong, anyway

We need to fetch back the time

They have stolen from us

[2x:]

I want you

We can bring it on the floor

Never danced like this before

We don't talk about it

Dancing on, do the boogie all night long

Stoned in paradise

Shouldn't talk about it

Shouldn't talk about it

Coldest winter for me

No sun is shining anymore

The only thing I feel is pain

Caused by absence of you

Suspense controlling my mind

I cannot find the way out of here

I want you by my side

So that I never feel alone again

[2x:]

I want you

We can bring it on the floor

Never danced like this before

We don't talk about it

Dancing on, do the boogie all night long

Stoned in paradise

Shouldn't talk about it

Shouldn't talk about it

[2x:]

I want you

We can bring it on the floor

Never danced like this before

We don't talk about it

Dancing on, do the boogie all night long

Stoned in paradise

Shouldn't talk about it

Shouldn't talk about it

Class on 2/5/15

Warm Up: What did you eat for breakfast?

• Brainstorm common action verbs
• Whole group practice pronunciation
• Write 4 sentences
• Interview another student
• Keep notes.
• Report out to whole group

Presentation Rules Review: What will you work on?

Description Exercises:

• Adjective Brainstorm. 
• Write 6 sentences about this picture:

• Write 6  sentences about the first place you remember living. Use two colors and describe a taste or smell
• The air smelled like fresh cut grass.
• The building was solid but decaying. The white layer at the base of the house was stained.

Workbook Exercises

Homework: Workbook: Read pages 10 and 11-  Pixar and Steve Jobs. Answer questions: Part A and B on pages 12 and 13.

Optional: Search and listen to Stolen Dance  by Milky Chance

Class on 2/3/15

Warm up; What was your very first job?
                 How old were you?
                 Where was it?
                 What did you have to do (describe in detail)?
Students wrote notes for themselves and then conducted interviews in pairs. Volunteers reported to the whole class

Quiz

Oral Presentation Practice:


Homework: From the Workbook- Read pages 3 to 5. Write answers in workbook from page 5 Part A and B and also pages 6 and 7 Part A.

Class on 1/29/15

Class is cancelled. Your professor is very sick. See you all on Tuesday, February 3rd.

Class on 1/27/15

Warm Up: Examples of generosity- Report out on your partner
Class Interviews
      Full name, birth town and country, first job you ever had or  describe your favorite dinner.
Paragraph Discussion
     Common Errors:

• our
• are
• there    position place 
• their    plural third person possessive adjective
• they're   they are 
• was
• were
• it is
• it's   contraction of it is
• its    second person singular possessive adjective 
• cuz
• because
• I come from
• I go to
• I was born
• Talk to
• I moved to the United States. I moved to the U.S.  I moved to America (be careful of tone). 'merica!
• I have been living here [here to stay!]     vs   I lived here [you are back to visit]

Re-reading Out loud pages 3 through 5

Teacher

Pairs

Importance of failure and making mistakes

Homework: Study the Past Tense Forms below for a Practice Quiz on Thursday. Write a paragraph about your family on paper (if you missed class on 1/22). 

Rank	Base Form	Past Tense Form	Past Participle
1	say	said	said
2	make	made	made
3	go	went	gone
4	take	took	taken
5	come	came	come
6	see	saw	seen
7	know	knew	known
8	get	got	got/gotten (US)
9	give	gave	given
10	find	found	found
11	think	thought	thought
12	tell	told	told
13	become	became	become
14	show	showed	shown
15	leave	left	left
16	feel	felt	felt
17	put	put	put
18	bring	brought	brought
19	begin	began	begun
20	keep	kept	kept
21	hold	held	held
22	write	wrote	written
23	stand	stood	stood
24	hear	heard	heard
25	let	let	let
26	mean	meant	meant
27	set	set	set
28	meet	met	met
29	run	ran	run
30	pay	paid	paid
31	sit	sat	sat
32	speak	spoke	spoken
33	lie	lay	lain
34	lead	led	led
35	read	read	read
36	grow	grew	grown
37	lose	lost	lost
38	fall	fell	fallen
39	send	sent	sent
40	build	built	built
41	understand	understood	understood
42	draw	drew	drawn
43	break	broke	broken
44	spend	spent	spent
45	cut	cut	cut
46	rise	rose	risen
47	drive	drove	driven
48	buy	bought	bought
49	wear	wore	worn
50	choose	chose	chosen