Make or Do

5 Minute English Make or Do Video

Make or Do game

Make or Do expressions on Quizlet

Very similar quizlet cards with the make or do on the back

Make or Do on easyesolgrammar.com

What do you like to make?  What do you like to do?

Paradise

Simple Past Practice

What does paradise look like for you?  Do you love beaches or mountains or forests?  Tell me about a time you felt like you were in paradise.

Set Fire to the Rain

Practice Irregular Verbs

Help!

Did you hear any interesting stories about helping in class today?  How do you like to help people?  Who helps you?  What can help students remember information?  How much help should we give teenagers?  Should we require young people to help society?

It's going to take some time

Practice future with going to

That's My Goal

study ad abbreviations

Please write about a time you got your goal.

Please write about your goals after you learn English.

For my future truck drivers....

I'm happy if you're going to be a truck-driving woman as well.  

Truck drivers with their CDL license often have more opportunities and better pay.  

There's a lot of truck specific vocabulary on the CDL test.

Randy's Road dog general knowledge for the CDL flashcards

Jean Peter's CDL prep flashcards

Smoran's CDL General Knowledge

CDL Practice Tests

Free Driving Test -- be prepared to close a LOT of advertisements

Do you like to drive?  Tell me about learning to drive.  How old were you?  Who taught you?  What did you drive?

Do you want to be a billionaire?

Can you find any bad spellings and grammar in this video?

What will (does) your life look like when (since) you are successful?

Like a bridge over troubled water...

Practice Simple Present with "will"

Who do you turn to when life is difficult?  Who turns to you when life is rough?  How can we comfort friends and ease their worries?

so beautiful....

Who did you talk about when you talked about beautiful people today?  What does your beautiful person look like?  If you want to share a picture or video to my gmail, I'd like that.

Something I need

What do you need?

Whenever

What do you do whenever you can?  (whenever you can = as often as you can)
 What do you think about whenever you think about time with your best friend?

What's new in your life?

Describe someone or something that's new in your life.

What a wonderful world!!

action vs. non-action verbs -- which sentences are correct?

Write about a time you are happy because the world around you is beautiful.  Where were you?  What did you do?

I like the way....

We often say "I like the way you ______" for procedures.  What procedures are really different in the USA than in your previous home?

Happy Columbus Day! No School on Monday!!

Do you understand most of the video?

This next video is super fast and silly -- obviously meant to help teens remember historic explorers-- but it's repetitive.  I hope it's good for my students who need to hear and understand fast English.

Schools, government offices, banks, and libraries close for Columbus Day.  Restaurants and stores usually don't.  They are often crowded with people who don't have to work!  Sometimes, they offer good deals for Columbus Day.

Advertisements that may include Columbus Day bargains:

List of Columbus Day sales at Tyson's Corner

Living Social Ads

Sales at Fair Oaks Mall

Potomac Mills Sales
Springfield Town Center Sales

Are you having a good weekend?  Are you going to go shopping?  

What do you mean?

I mean for you to understand how to use simple present tense with frequency adverbs!


Link to the frequency adverb Side by Side Video from class

No- advertisement link to video "What do you mean"

Answers to worksheets from Thursday, Oct. 6

have vs. have S x S Video

SxS I'm crying because I'm sad. I always cry when I'm sad

Simple Present -- More explanation, examples, and practice

What do you do when you have time off?  What do you do when you are happy?

Hello

Hello!  Tell me about yourself.  What do you look like?  Do you have a big family?  What do you do every week?

Present Tense Monkey Game

Pirate Game

Practice Spelling Colors  (Use your mouse to exchange the letters.  Click on "picture" to learn which color.  The game includes burgundy and turquoise)

Practice talking about his family -- then practice for yours!

You're Beautiful

Safeshare link to "You're Beautiful" video

Can you write about your first crush?  A crush is pre-teen or teenaged love for an older person who is not available.  Can you write about a beautiful person in your life?

Chores

Listen and pronounce the names of some chores

Chore Word Find

Kids Exercise Video "Do Your Chores"-- juvenile, but catchy

What chores do you do every day?  Are there any chores you avoid?  What chores do you rarely have to do?

We are family

Practice family words

Game: Drag the names to the relationship (scroll down)

Practice adjective order -- beyond size, color, pattern

Do you have a big family?  Do you live with your family?  What makes your family different from other families? What do you like to do with your family?  Do you have any friends that are like family to you?