Monday, April 30, 2012

Homework

for Tuesday, May 1

GRAMMAR
5.1 Future Decisions and Plans
Read the notes and watch the video.

VOCABULARY
Do the Unit exercise 3-20


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Friday, April 27, 2012

Test Information and Study Material

for Monday, April 30

Unit 4 Test will be about Grammar 4.4 Participial Adjectives only!

Do the homework assigned on Thursday and make sure you understand all of the participial adjectives in 4.4 Notes. Also, practice by using the website posted on Thursday's blog.


For another good site to practice participial adjectives, click here -
On this page, participial adjectives are called Participle Modifiers   -ed / -ing
This link is very good, and it has some high level words.
You might be able to improve your vocabulary.


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Thursday, April 26, 2012

HOMEWORK, ANSWERS, AND STUDY MATERIAL

GRAMMAR
4.4 Participial Adjectives
Do 5-12.
Note: The Unit 4 test on Monday, April 30, will be only about participial adjectives.
For practice using participial adjectives, click here -

Click here for ANSWERS to "21 Obligation: must, have to, mustn't, don't have to"

STRUCTURE
4.3 Definite and Indefinite Articles - Things in General
Do 3-10.

Click here for ANSWERS to Azar handout on Definite and Indefinite Articles






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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Homework

for Wednesday, April 25

GRAMMAR
4.1 Modal Verbs of Obligation and Advice
Do #1 4-12;  #2 5-12;  #3 5-12.
Note that I posted the pictures we studied today on the previous blog.

4.2 Modals and Permission
Read the notes and watch the video.

Paper Handout - 21 Obligation: must, have to, mustn't, don't have to
Do A, B, C, and D.

STRUCTURE
4.1 Known or Unknown Nouns
Do 3-8
4.2 Unique Nouns
Read


Paper handout on definite and indefinite articles from Azar
Do exercises 21, 22, 23, 24, pages 332-335
This does not have to be done until Thursday.


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Illustrations - Must or Have to

Modal Verbs of Obligation and Advice
PICTURES illustrating:
must, have to, mustn't, don't have to, click and click

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Monday, April 23, 2012

Homework

for Tuesday, April 24

GRAMMAR
4.1 Modal verbs of Obligation and Advice
Read the notes and watch the videos.

VOCABULARY
Do the unit exercise: 2-20

STRUCTURE
4.1 Known and Unknown Nouns
Read



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Unit 3 test

https://docs.google.com/a/canada-english.com/document/d/1vVpRaiimR_9Kzhi89d4ca7CvHQRIg63lzs05-i9AdmQ/edit

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Sunday, April 22, 2012

STUDY for Monday, April 23 Unit 3 Test

for Monday, April 23

Study for Unit 3 test.

Websites to practice the passive:
click
click
click
Note: The passive voice is used in all tenses, so most of the information online and in books presents it this way.

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Thursday, April 19, 2012

Homework

for Friday, April 20

GRAMMAR
3.4 Past Passive
Do #1 4-10;   #2 3-10.

For extra notes (42-3) on the passive click here -
(sorry about the poor quality)

For questions using information from the above page, click here -
(you can type on this page)

STRUCTURE
3.3 Complex Sentences
Read

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Homework

for Thursday, April 19

GRAMMAR
3.3 Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect
Do #1 4-10;  #2 4-10
3.4 Past Passive
Read the notes and watch the video.

To practice the Past Perfect online, click here

STRUCTURE
3.1 Simple Sentences- Do 3-6
3.2 Compound Sentences- Read
3.3 Complex Sentences- Read




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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Homework

for Wednesday, April 18

GRAMMAR
3.2 Past Perfect
Do #1 3-8;  #2 3-8;  #3 3-8;  #4 3-8.

Interactive online practice for yesterday's homework and today's lesson:
To practice the past simple or past continuous, click here
To practice ed endings, click here and here.

STRUCTURE
3.1 Simple Sentences
Read

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Listening - A Holiday in Florida

Past Simple or Continuous

https://docs.google.com/a/canada-english.com/document/d/18-iVWYwE_ME-iLzIT3rEZwSzusNtoPbsiCJzCL4X2Tg/edit

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Monday, April 16, 2012

Homework

for Tuesday, April 17

GRAMMAR
2.1 Past Simple and Past Continuous
Do #1 4-10;  #2 3-12;  #3 3-10; #4 4-8.
2.2 Past Perfect
Read the notes and watch the video.

VOCABULARY
Do the Unit exercise: 2-20


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Friday, April 13, 2012

Homework/Study Material for Unit 2 Test

for Monday, April 16


GRAMMAR
2.3 State and Dynamic Verbs
Do #1 6-15;   #2 7-10;   #3 6-20. Use the answer page to correct.
Unit 2 Grammar Review
Do #1 all;   #2 all;   #3 all;   #4 all. Use the answer page to correct.


Use these interactive websites to study the grammar from Unit 2.
Present and Past Tenses and Non-Continuous Verbs, click here:
English Action and State Verbs, click here:


STRUCTURE
2.5 Correct a Paragraph
Do the exercise and check it with the answer page.




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Thursday, April 12, 2012

Homework

for Friday, April 13

GRAMMAR
2.2 Present Continuous
Do #1 8-15;   #2 8-15;   #3 8-10.
2.3 State and Dynamic Verbs
Read the notes and watch the video.

STRUCTURE
2.1 Simple Sentences - complete
2.2 Punctuation - complete
2.3 Fragments - read
2.4 Run-on Sentences - read


READING
2.1 Real Estate Blog (homework from yesterday)
Share your homework with me.

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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Homework

for Thursday, April 12

GRAMMAR
for the new students:
2.2 Present Continuous
Read the notes and watch the video.

READING
2.1 Real Estate Blog
Read the home descriptions and answer the questions.


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Renting an apartment

Click to open the script

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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Homework

for Wednesday, April 11

GRAMMAR
2.1 Present Simple
Do #1 4-18;  #2 4-12;  #3 5-20;  #4 5-20.
2.2 Present Continuous
Read the notes and watch the video.

VOCABULARY
Do the Unit exercise.


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PM1 Bruno Mars

The Lazy Song
http://lyricstraining.com/play/8974/bruno_mars/the_lazy_song_studio

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Thursday, April 5, 2012

Homework and Test Writing Assignment

for Tuesday, April 10

To study for Unit One Test on Tuesday:

GRAMMAR
1.2 Questions
Complete the exercise and check your work using the answer page.
Grammar Review
Do the assignment and correct your own answers.

WRITING / STRUCTURE
Click on this link for information on the test writing assignment.

To see all the structure sections, go to the Table of Contents or click on this link.

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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Homework

for Thursday, April 5

GRAMMAR
smrt 1.1 Three Kinds of Verbs
Do #1 7-9;   #2 2-4;   #3 3-7.

smrt 1.2 Questions
Read the notes and watch the video.

STRUCTURE
blog Exercises on Paragraph Writing
Writing a topic sentence: do 2-5
Recognizing supporting sentences: do 2
Irrelevant sentences: read
Concluding sentences: read


smrt 1.3 Concluding Sentences
Read


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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Homework

for Wednesday, April 4

GRAMMAR
smrt 1.0 Introduction
Do #3 6-9; #4 2-3.

smrt 1.1 Three kinds of verbs
Read the notes and watch the videos.



STRUCTURE (Writing)
smrt 1.2 Supporting Sentences - Read


blog Exercises on Paragraph Writing
Click here or use what you opened from the blog this morning.
1A. Choosing Topic Sentences - Do 1-5
B. Supporting Sentences - Read


Note: Do not share your homework with me unless I ask you to.
Save it in your documents and we will correct it in class.




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Writing a Paragraph

https://docs.google.com/a/canada-english.com/document/d/141Am4kNVrevyu37ba5_AdYleHceniwCZmJk6gGq-Ap0/edit

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Unit 1 Pictures of Vocabulary

http://www.scribd.com/doc/61381109/Unit1Vocab

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Monday, April 2, 2012

Homework

for Tuesday, April 3

GRAMMAR
1.0 Introduction
Read the notes.
1.1 Three Kinds of Verbs
Read the notes and watch the video.

VOCABULARY
Do Unit 1 exercise 3-20

STRUCTURE
1.1 Topic Sentences
Read the notes.

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