Class 28 Feb, 2016

Feb 29, 2016  2:39 PM

A beautiful and very warm day.  I wore sandals today!

 

AGENDA ITEMS

 

1 Alphabet – spelling dictation

 

2 Grammar – pronouns

 

3 Review and rewrite papers

 

NOTES

 

Vocabulary

Alphabet – spelling dictation

I will say the words and I will spell them.  Write the letters for each word when I spell the words.

 

Help

Site

Sight

Learn

Lean

Might

Scent

Sent

Simple

Trade

Tried

Made

Make

Cry

Die

Stay

Maybe

Ear

Earn

 

• We need to practice i and e

• Bingo?

Grammar – pronouns

 

1). Personal Pronouns

Pronouns can be:

• Subjects – I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they

• Direct objects – me, you, him, her, it, us, you, them

• Indirect objects – the same as Direct objects

 

In this context an “object” is a thing or person, an item – a noun.

 

• Subjects are the topic of the sentence.  A subject is something or someone that is doing the action, the verb.

• Example: I drive fast.

• The subject is “I”

 

• Direct object is the person or thing that the verb is acting on.

• Example: I drive the car fast.

• The direct object is “the car”.  I drive it fast.

 

Finish Indirect Objects next Monday. 

• Indirect objects tell us about the person or thing that benefits from the action of the verb.

• Example: I bought a car for her.  Or: I bought her a car.

• The Indirect object is “her”.  The direct object is “car”.

• I bought a car.  I did not buy her.  

• She received the benefit of the verb “bought”.

 

2). Do in questions and negative statements

• Use Do or Does to form questions.  “Do” changes with the subject in questions, the verb is in the base form and does not change.
• Use Don’t or Doesn’t to make verbs negative.  Again, “Do” changes with the subject, the verb is in the base form.

Examples:

Does he like vegetables?  NOT Does he likes vegetables?

No, he doesn’t like vegetables.  NOT No, he doesn’t likes vegetables.

Homework

J and L reviewed and rewrote their summaries from the articles they read last week or their papers.  They will write them correctly online Wednesday.

 

ACTION ITEMS

 

[ ] Buy dry erase markers

 

[ ] Create exercises for subjects and direct objects online

 

[ ] Chapter and worksheets for personal pronouns

 

 

Adverbs and Adj. with exercises

#Adjectives and #Adverbs

Introduction

Adjectives such as beautiful, nice, and red describe nouns. Adverbs such as quickly, badly, or warmly describe verbs. This page will explain the differences between them, and show you how to make adverbs from adjectives.

1. Using adjectives and adverbs

Adjective	Adverb	Example
beautiful		Ann is beautiful.
	beautifully	Ann sings beautifully.
warm		The room is warm.
	warmly	Joe smiles warmly.
slow		The car is slow.
	slowly	Ann drives slowly.

2. Making adverbs from adjectives

Adverbs are usually made from adjectives by adding -LY. These are the rules:

Adjective ending in…	How to make the adverb	Examples
y	Change Y to I and add -LY	heavy – heavily happy – happily lazy – lazily
[anything else]	Just add -LY	warm – warmly nice – nicely loud – loudly

There are some important exceptions:

Adjective	Adverb
good	well
late	late (“Lately” means recently. It is not the adverb from “late”.)
early	early
fast	fast
hard	hard (“Hardly” means not much. It is not the adverb from “hard”.)

When you are sure that you understand the lesson, you can continue with the exercise.

Continue with the exercise

Source:http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/elc/studyzone/200/grammar/adjadv.htm

Class 4feb, 2015

It is grey and chilly today.  Full class – Y and G.  I will not have time for all of this!  Index cards. Print/Copy story. Add links to this post.

Chat of course, use Grammar exercises.

Grammar

Simple Present and weather words.

• Tell us about the weather today.
• Example: Today it is/the weather is cold and gray.

Simple Past and sequence using first, then, after that.  Or ordinal numbers?

• Something they did
• Topics – at work , class Monday or cooked
• Ss give a time and context, when where then…On Monday in class, last week at workwe did “Today” i.e. this morning…Today, I got up at 6:30 am. Then, I took a shower. After that, I got dressed.
• 3 steps only

We did “Today” i.e. this morning…Today, I got up at 6:30 am.  Then, I took a shower.  After that, I got dressed.

Simple Future/maybe Continuous? – ask Ss to tell us basic/simple something they will do.

• Simple review – add Will to verb, maybe – add Will Be for Continuous
• When?  Next week, tomorrow, etc.
• Give example using time words above
• Ss do

Next week, I will go to class. G

Next week, I will get a manicure and pedicure.  Y!

Dictation of questions:  What are you doing?  (And I forgot the others)

Reading

• Passage: Visit the Park
• Ss i.d. Unknown words and write them down.
• Identify words – vocab Get the words from Y next class!
• Read aloud – Ss
• Review passage for comprehension.
• I.d. tense of story and what indicates the tense? Ask for Present Tense of verb they picked to indicate Past Tense.
• Summary – retell story: title, what story is about.

Start here next class:

• Write words on cards
• Ss retell story using cards – title, what story is about, retell.

Computer Lab

Next Class:  Go to my quiz site Practice Your English: quiz on Visit the Park for comprehension.

Notes: Future

Do verbs: teach, get, take

Basic questions

• What are you doing? Past and future.
• How did you do that?
• What does that mean?
• Why did you do that?
• Where are you going?  Past and future

Class 4feb, 2015 was originally published on Notes for Class