Class Assignments: We started to look at the present perfect continuous. It has 3 parts: have/has + been + ----ing:
Some verbs have irregular spelling:
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Class Assignments:
First, students got in groups to do our last superlative adverb exercise. They had to see who speaks the most loudly, who walks across the room the most quickly, who pretends to cry the most believably.....--all the while practicing the superlative adverb form, spelling, and I hope, meaning.
Then we took our 5th test! Class Assignments: Today was a very different day. We practiced superlative adverbs on the board for the first 15 minutes. Then, I sent my students to room 1 to practice English on Side by Side on the computers in room 1. In my class, I showed ESL 1 students a website I've been developing for the last couple years.
If you'd like to review level 1 grammar and vocabulary, you can go to my site (#1 above). Any lesson with an orange title is open to anyone. Otherwise, to do all 100 lessons you'll need to register. It's free. But without registration, I can't see how the students are doing. I won't know if my lessons are too hard, too easy, or just right. If you need help registering, I'd be happy to help you after class. We finished the reading comprehension for Sniff. On Tuesday (there's no school Monday), we'll take our test on superlative adverbs and the story Sniff. Finally, I showed students another cool website to practice English. This one is called EnglishCentral (#3 above). You can watch videos and see the captions. Click on a word you don't know to see the definition and get the pronunciation. It also checks your pronunciation if you connect your microphone to the program! Finally, like lyricstraining, you can watch and listen and then type the missing words! Give it a try. If you're having problems, let me know and I'll do what I can to help you. Class Assignments: We will take our test on Tuesday. Monday is a holiday so there'll be no school. Tomorrow we'll continue to practice superlative adverbs and review the story to prepare, but for those of you who have missed many classes, you won't pass the test if you don't take some of your own time and effort into catching up with the rest of us.
Class Assignments: Today, we looked at a cool website where you can watch videos and listen to music to learn English. Go to the website (#1 above), choose language: English, look for Easy songs. You can just listen and read if you want. To do that click on the microphone that says karaoke. If you want to practice your listening and spelling, click on the practice. I recommend you try easy first. The song and video will start, then there will be a word missing. Type the letters from what you hear. If you can't do it, click the right arrow on the bottom right to skip. If you click the left arrow, it will re-play the last line. Each time you get it right you get more points! Have fun and let me and the other students know if it worked, didn't work, was too hard, was just right.....Hopefully, it's something you can do a few times a week during the summer to keep progressing in your English.
We did a writing exercise with superlative adverbs. We took 3 groups and looked at who did something the most: Americans--Guatemalans---Chinese: wake up--early: I think Guatemalans wake up the earliest. Then we practiced our superlative dialogue with cards. Tell me honestly, how do I drive?----Honestly, you drive the most carefully of everyone I know. Last, we read our story Sniff, but with a new technique: read and respond. After each sentence, you stop and share an opinion, reaction, thought, or question with the group! Class Assignments: We did the superlative adverb practice 1 (see #1 above). Then I did a dictation of the questions with the superlative adverbs. Students wrote answers for themselves. Then in groups, they talked about these unique experiences.
Finally, we played a game where I gave an action and adverb to a student (walk slowly), they had to do it in front of the class, and the others had to guess what the action and adverb were!! It was a lot of fun. Class Assignments: We read the story Sniff and went over the words students had problems pronouncing. It's a good idea to practice them again at home for 5-10 minutes so that the correct pronunciation stays in your long-term memory.
We did an adverb spelling review exercise. These rules we studied at the beginning of the class. The hardest rule is when an adjective ends with 'le'. That is when we erase the 'e', and only then: simple--simply. If a word ends with 'e' only, that's not reason to erase it: nice--nicely, active--actively, intense--intensely. We followed that with a speaking exercise to practice the meaning and form of the superlative adverbs: A: Tell me honestly, how do I ______________________? (any action) B: Honestly, you _____________________________(any action) the most ___________________ly of everyone I know. Example: A: Tell me honestly. How do I drive? B: Honestly, you drive the most carefully of everyone I know. Of course, we need to remember the exceptions that are actually used the most in everyday life. They don't use the word 'most' nor do they use 'ly': the hardest, the fastest, the earliest, the latest, the best, the worst. A: Tell me honestly, how do I cook? B: Honestly, you cook the best of everyone I know. Last, we did a speaking game where we had to ask questions to lead a student to say a hidden word. We'll do it again more tomorrow. Today, we read our new story and went over words that weren't in our glossary.
Students then did a speaking game where partners invented a story about something they did together. The other students asked them questions. At the end of class, we reviewed the spelling rules for adverbs. These rules we saw before at the beginning of the semester, so hopefully it'll be an easy review. Please practice the Quizlet: Sniff Practice over the weekend. Class Assignments: We started class by looking at superlative adverbs. We use them to describe when someone does an action the most ______ly of everyone.
She speaks the most loudly in the class. Mark drives the most safely. Kids learn the most easily. But today we focused on the Most Common superlative adverbs which are also the irregulars. They're irregular because we never use the word 'most' or '____ly':
Samuel works the hardest in our family. Jim drives the fastest. Bakers wake up the earliest of any job. My son always goes to bed the latest in our family. Class Assignments: We reviewed our test today. Special congratulations go to Maricela who got a 97%! Job well done, Maricela.
We started to look at the new vocabulary for our next story, Sniff. If you missed class, you should read the words and start to practice the flashcards on Quizlet. Most students had to take the CASAS test the last hour of class. |
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