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I had students test themselves to see how many preposition combinations they've memorized so far, and how many more they need to learn. It seems like the average is about 12 more to learn! That's great. You have this weekend to learn those last ones.
Then we played a game to see how many ideas a group could generate. Students complain about what? --Studying, buying the book, making cards, dirty bathrooms....etc. The idea here is to practice with real ideas so you remember the preposition combination (complain about) and to use a gerund after the preposition (complain about buying). Finally, we did a dictation practicing 3 comma rules.
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I had students come up to the board and write sentences where they circled the prepositions and marked the beginning and end of prepositional phrases. Then, students did the Comma Rule 3 worksheet.
Students read Fat Frank out loud in groups. Then students read it out loud in class. We reviewed the pronunciation of the words from Fat Frank.
Students played the guessing game to practice those words. We reviewed identifying prepositional phrases. Students practiced the preposition combinations in groups! You've got to work on these everyday so you have them memorized!!! Class Assignments: Today, we spent the first hour looking at prepositional phrases. This is important to know to help us learn Comma Rule 3.
Students got in groups of 3 and played a game to memorize the preposition combinations. Class Assignments:
Students got in groups and talked about their weekend. One student was the leader who was to remember which topic they spent the most time talking about.
Next, students practiced the preposition combinations with their partner. If you haven't made your cards and started studying at home, you're very late. The next test will be with us shortly; you don't have time to avoid memorizing these verbs. Students did exercise 5 on page 23 of the workbook with their partner. I introduced the vocabulary for Fat Frank. Class Assignments:
I checked students' homework. 15 students completed it the first night!! Lilian finished work at 1 in the morning, got home, and made her cards at 2 a.m.! That is heroic! Bravo! Congratulations to Susan, Tigist, Soon Joo, Victoria Rivas, Brenda, Lilian, Lucy, Victorio, Franklin, Judith, Celestino, Elza, Carlos, Alicia, and Glendis!! Everyone else, bring them in tomorrow.
Next, students did the vocabulary exercise below the glossary of new words for preposition combinations. We did a speaking exercise where students responded to questions all related to food and diets. We started our new story about one of the fattest men in America and his story about how he almost lost his life. Class Assignments:
We started to looking at preposition combinations. These must be memorized! Please see page 19 of the workbook for the complete list. Be sure to put the verb on one side and the preposition on the other: worry (on one side), about (on the other).
We also need to understand what all the words mean. Many might be new for you. I've passed out a glossary for students. We did a student-to-student dictation to help see more examples of what these new words mean. Students did a speaking exercise where they had to speak for 1 minute without stopping about something they really like and something they're really upset about. Class Assignments: We did a final exercise on the quotes. I wrote a quote in one form, and students wrote it in the second form.
We did a quick Correct The Mistake exercise in the 1st Conditional. Then, students took our 3rd test. Class Assignments: We started class by doing the Body Art reading comprehension exercise.
We practiced the 1st conditional in groups with students speaking sentences using 'if' in the middle. Students did another 1st conditional worksheet. We did an exercise to practice both quote rules. No School On Monday! Test on Tuesday! Class Assignments: We practiced more using the quote rules when you start with the dialogue. If you missed class, be sure to download and try the exercise at home.
We practiced a speaking exercise where students finished a first conditional sentence with their own idea: If I feel sick, (I'll go to the doctor, I won't go to work, I'll take medicine). Then the next student repeats what the 1st student said, "If he feels sick, he'll go to the doctor." We'll continue this exercise on Friday. We've been studying the 1st conditional for a while now. However, I've given you exercises that only asked you to complete one verb of the sentence. We reviewed the future and simple present positive and negative, to help prepare you better. Today, we did an exercise where you had to complete both verbs. It was hard for most students. Remember: the verb directly after 'if', no matter where 'if' is--at the beginning or the middle, will be in the simple present. |
Teacher BruceI teach ESL at Manual Arts Service Center in Mid-City Los Angeles. Archives
September 2017
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