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Monday, Feb. 3 --

You were always on my mind

Practice Simple Present

Practice Vocabulary

Ventures Level 2 blue Around Town

Old Classic Train song ---

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Please take some time to try some of the links you can use to practice.  You can do these at home.  They don't cost any more money.  I hope you enjoy these.

Practice More Class Vocabulary on Quizlet

What's your name?  Where are you from?  Describe the place you came from or a place that you often travel to now.

We have school on time today! (Morning Students)

Please come as soon as you can.  Our children are two hours late, but we have school at 9:00AM!

What can you do?

Morning students:  Can you remember these words?  Can you help me type good vocabulary words into "quizlet?"  Are you good at keyboarding?

Click here to study and practice prepositions and directions

Tell me about yourself.  Tell me about your family.  Tell me about a place you like.  Tell me about what you like to do.  What can you do?

Non-count nouns

Today, we talked about non-count nouns.  Non-count nouns don't have a singular (1) and plural (2+) form.  They are hard to count.  They include liquids (water, milk, coffee, wine...), particular substances (sand, salt, pepper, sugar, flour), gasses (air, smoke, oxygen...) and groups that contain unlike things (fruit, money, furniture...)

Non-count nouns take singular forms of verbs, but use "some" -- There's some money in his wallet.  There's some juice in the refrigerator.

Use "much" with non-count nouns, but "many" with count nouns.  There isn't much time, but there are many people.

Use "a little" with non-count nouns, but "a few" with count nouns.  There's a little milk.  There are a few bananas.


Click Here to Memorize Some Non-Count "uncountable" nouns

Crazy facts in American English:

Vegetables are count, but fruit is non-count.  (Only the word "fruit"--bananas, apples, oranges, kiwi, pears etc. are count)
Money is non-count, but stars are count.
Beans are count, but rice is non-count.

Great to Meet You!

We had a small morning class on Friday.  I really enjoyed meeting you.  We interviewed each other about children, music, and sports.  We started talking about goals.  We practiced future with "going to."

Tell me about yourself.  Where are you from?  What do you like to do?  Do you travel a lot?  What do you need to say/do in English?

Morning Class Starts Tomorrow--Friday, January 24!

We have class tomorrow at 9:00!  Our children have a two-hour delay, but we don't.  If you need to stay with your kids, don't worry.  Come as soon as you can.  It's better to be late than never.

NO SCHOOL WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22

There's NO SCHOOL on Thursday, January 23 as well as Wednesday, January 22, 2013 because of the snowy weather.

My children's favorite "No School Tomorrow" celebration song:

Lyrics to print and read while you listen to the video (above)



Do you enjoy the snow?  This song is for you ---

The next video is for people who don't like it so cold...

Morning Students -- No School Today! Enjoy the snow!

Today was supposed to be the first day of school for my Pimmit students.  It's not.  It's a snow day.  Hope you have a nice relaxing day.

Goals!

Tonight at Plum, we talked about goals!  You did a good job in setting goals.

Many lyrics videos have English mistakes.  In this video, Thats should be That's.  Ive should be I've.

For grammar, we practiced using "want to," "need to," "going to" and "will."

All of these are followed by a base verb-- no s, ing, ed....keep it simple.

I want to go to bed.  He wants to read.  They want to talk.

I need to eat.  She needs to sleep.  We need to clean our house.

I'm going to see you Wednesday.  He's going to fix that car.  They're going to travel.

I will use your goals to plan the class.  She will come to every class.  They will cook persian food.

We talked about Martin Luther King Jr.

I have a dream speech with subtitles

Good Job Plum Students!

I really enjoyed having you in class tonight.  We talked, listened, and wrote.  We went fast, and you were great.  Good job!  Next class, we're going to be in Room 122.  It's a bigger room inside!

(picture from last session...)

What are common irregular nouns?

Practice some irregular plural nouns

Some vocabulary-- checked shirts  Photos of checked shirts,  necklaces necklaces, team pictures of soccer teams, 

Your homework is to think about your goals for English class.  Think about first small steps.  Do you want to focus on speaking, listening, reading, or writing?

I also want you to write about a place.  Describe a place.

Where are your favorite places to go?  When and where do you most need to speak English?

First Day

This video is about a young girl's feelings on the first day of class.  It's rather fast for this level.  I recommend printing the lyrics and following along.

Printable Lyrics to Laura's "First Day"

The  next video has the lyrics as part of the video.

This next video is the one we did in class.  The paper I gave you has proper English spellings.  Many teens write "gonna" to mean "going to," but I want you to write "going to."  "Cuz" is very new text-speak for "because."  "'Cause" is also extremely informal for "because," but it's got a longer history.

freaked out --go crazy

get down--dance

Plum End of Class Party -- December 2013

                 

The Mom Song

Many common things we say to our children, sung very, very fast with subtitles