Easy ESOL-- Low Intermediate at Plum & Pimmit

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

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.

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

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

Monday, January 13, 2014

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.