Friday, August 30 Lesson Plan

warmer
Think for a few minutes about your favourite celebrity.

WRITING
In class work: non-smrt 11-1: Write a Paragraph Practice for Test Writing
Use this for your guide:  Writing a Paragraph

READING
Correct  Which Famous People to See
Reasons (answers) - PRIVATE to teacher

GRAMMAR

11-2 Question Tags

Correct  #1: 6-15; #2: done;  #3: 5-15;  #4: conversation - question tags.

SPEAKING
11-8 Assumptions (Question Tags)
LISTENING
11-2: Celebrity Gossip Journalist

STRUCTURE
11-1 Nouns and Verbs
Lesson

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11-3 Phrasal Verbs

We will do this next week with Unit 12.

Homework for Friday, August 30

GRAMMAR

11-2 Question Tags

Do #1: 6-15; #2: done;  #3: 5-15;  #4: complete the conversation using question tags.

11-3 Phrasal Verbs

Read the notes.

WRITING

Concluding Sentences

Write a concluding sentence for the last paragraph (credit cards.)

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Extra work:

Practice Question tags

The next assessment test is Friday, September 6, 2013

Exit/Assessment Test Information

Speaking Video for the Assessment Test Information

If you have made YouTube video before and are confident your video will work for me, then you do not need to send me a practice video. If you have not made a video before, open this page which provides information and an instruction link. Just say hello and email the link to me at lesliemillikin@canada-english.com.

Remember to change your privacy settings to unlisted.

Next Wednesday, I will give you the questions you must answer in your real video.

Thursday, Aug.29 Lesson Plan

Warmer indirect questions 

GRAMMAR
11-2 Question Tags
We Like Animals, Don't We?

LISTENING
11-1 Celebrity Life
Correct the cloze activity.

WRITING
Writing a Paragraph

READING
Which Famous People to See - Click on 'Matching'.
Correct. Be prepared to explain why you chose your answer.

STRUCTURE
11-1 Nouns and Verbs
Lesson

Homework for Thursday, Aug. 29

GRAMMAR
11-2 Question Tags
Read the notes.

LISTENING
11-1 Celebrity Life
Do the cloze activity.

READING
Which Famous People to See - Click on 'Matching'.
Do the reading match. Be prepared to explain why you chose your answer.

STRUCTURE

11-1 Nouns and Verbs

Read the notes.

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Extra work:

Practice indirect questions.

Possessive Pronouns and Adjectives

Wednesday, Aug.28 Lesson Plan

Warmer
Indirect Questions quiz

GRAMMAR

11-1 Indirect Questions
Correct #1: 4-12; #2: 4-12; #3: 4-12; #4: 5-12; #5: 5-12.

SPEAKING

11-3 Speaking Pairs #1 (Indirect Questions)
11-4 Speaking Pairs #2 (Indirect Questions)

9:45

LISTENING
11-1 Celebrity Life
Review Vocabulary and Listen

Exercise

10:45

READING

Which Famous People to See Click on 'Matching'.

eslbits.net website

WRITING
Writing a Paragraph

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more homework for tomorrow
GRAMMAR

11-2 Question Tags

Read the notes.

Homework for Wednesday, Aug.28

GRAMMAR
Finish and check your answers to How to ask Yes/No and Wh questions 
(normal questions)

11-1 Indirect Questions
Do #1: 4-12;   #2: 4-12;  #3: 4-12;  #4: 5-12;  #5: 5-12.

LISTENING
Learn the vocabulary for tomorrow's listening.  11-1 Celebrity Life

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Extra work:
Indirect Questions quiz

Tuesday, August 27, 2013 Lesson Plan

Warmer

Spelling City

VOCABULARY
11-1 Celebrities
Correct 3-20.

SPEAKING

11-2 Celebrities

GRAMMAR
"Normal" Questions Review.
LESSON How to ask Yes/No and Wh questions
EXERCISE How to ask Yes/No and Wh questions 

11-1 Indirect Questions
Lesson

Homework for Tuesday, August 27, 2013

VOCABULARY
11-1 Celebrities
Do 3-20.

GRAMMAR
"Normal" Questions Review.
LESSON How to ask Yes/No and Wh questions - Read this.
EXERCISE How to ask Yes/No and Wh questions - We will work on some of these tomorrow.

11-1 Indirect Questions
Read the notes.

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Extra READING practice about celebrities:

The Party

Monday, August 26, 2013 Unit 10 Test and Starting Unit 11

Review and Warm up:

"So/Neither do I"
Modals of Probability

Unit 10 Test

Correct the test

SPEAKING
Celebrities Introduction

VOCABULARY
11-1 Celebrities
Do the exercise.

GRAMMAR
"Normal" Questions Review.
LESSON How to ask Yes/No and Wh questions - Read this.
EXERCISE How to ask Yes/No and Wh questions - We will work on some of these tomorrow.

11-1 Indirect Questions
Read the notes

Extra Practice  

Information on So/Neither do I

So/Neither do I interactive quiz

Extra Practice

Modals of Probability (with continuous tenses

Practice modals verbs of probability in the present, future, and past.

Practice modals verbs of probability in the past.

Extra practice GRAMMAR- optional homework

Answers to "20 Probability: must, can't, could, may, might". This was homework assigned Monday.

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Extra practice work READING -optional homework

esl-bits Set 2, Matching Travel Books

Practice present and future modals with this quiz.

Monday, August 19, 2013

The Canadian College of English Language

Extra practice work READING -optional homework

Look at pictures explained with modals of probability in the present and future.

Work on this pdf page for extra modal practice.

Friday, Aug.16 Lesson Plan

Warmer
Articles Play basketball

STRUCTURE
9-2 Unique Nouns
Correct 4-12

9-3 Things in General

Lesson

Do this interactive reading exercise. It is about articles. It is a "fable", usually for children.
Belling the Cat --- The Nurse and the Wolf - Click on "CAT" at the top of the page.

GRAMMAR

9-2 Second Conditional
Correct #1: 3-12;  #2: 4-10;  #3: 5-15;  #4: 5-10.

SPEAKING

9-8 Questions (First and Second Conditionals)

LISTENING

9-1 Weather Lesson

Correct the questions. I will post the answers for you to check your homework.

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Note you should do 9-3 First or Second Conditional for homework this weekend. 

I will post the answers for you to check.

Study the grammar, structure, and vocabulary for Unit 9 test on Monday.
Check the blog this weekend for internet quizzes, etc.

Reminder

I will be on vacation next week. 

Your substitute teacher teacher will be Lydia Leung.

I will return on Monday, August 26.

Homework for Friday, Aug.16

GRAMMAR
9-2 Second Conditional
Do #1: 3-12;  #2: 4-10;  #3: 5-15;  #4: 5-10.
Practice the second conditional.

Practice the difference between the first and second conditionals with this quiz.

LISTENING

9-1 Weather Lesson

Answer the questions.

Announcement

I will be on vacation next week. 

Your substitute teacher teacher will be Lydia Leung.

I will return on Monday, August 26.

Thursday, Aug.15 Lesson Plan

8:30
Warmer

Time clauses

GRAMMAR
Introduction - Songs that use the second conditional video
9-2 Second Conditional
Lesson

LISTENING
9-2

10:30
READING
9-1 Incredible Weather
Vocabulary
ZigZag reading

STRUCTURE
9-2 Unique Nouns
Correct

maybe:
9-3 Things in General

Homework for Thursday, Aug.15

GRAMMAR

9-2 Second Conditional 

Read the notes.

READING

9-1 Incredible Weather
Learn this vocabulary for the reading.

Do this interactive reading exercise. It is about articles. It is a "fable", usually for children.
Belling the Cat --- The Nurse and the Wolf  - Click on "CAT" at the top of the page.

STRUCTURE

Definite and Indefinite Articles
9-2 Unique Nouns (Review of Unit 4)
Do 4-12
9-3 Things in General (Review of Unit 4)

Read the notes.

Extra internet activities:
Practice the first conditional.

Practice time clauses.

Wednesday, Aug.14 Lesson Plan

Warmer

First Conditional

9-1 First Conditional and Time Clauses

Correct #1: 4-12;  #2: 5-10;  #3: 3-15;  #4: 4-10

SPEAKING

9-3 Speaking Pairs (First Conditional)

STRUCTURE

Definite and Indefinite Articles: a/an, some, the: ILLUSTRATIONS
9-1 Known or Unknown Nouns (Review of Unit 4)

9-1 Unique Nouns (Review of Unit 4)

READING
9-1 Incredible Weather
New vocabulary for the reading.

Homework for Wednesday, Aug.14

GRAMMAR

9-1 First Conditional and Time Clauses
Do #1: 4-12;  #2: 5-10;  #3: 3-15;  #4: 4-10.
Practice Time Clauses In this quiz, you will see two other present tenses used (present continuous, present perfect).
Practice the First Conditional

Watch this video on the First Conditional. It gives much more information than we studied in class.

STRUCTURE
9-1 Known or Unknown Nouns (Review)
Read the notes.
In preparation for this week's structure, study this page: A/An or The or No Article?

READING
9-1 Incredible Weather
Learn this new vocabulary for the reading.

Tuesday, Aug.13 Lesson Plan

Warmer

Spelling City

VOCABULARY
9-1 The Weather
Correct the unit exercise.

SPEAKING

9-1 Vocabulary

LISTENING

9-1 The Best Weather

9-1 First Conditional and Time Clauses

Lesson

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More homework for tomorrow:

STRUCTURE

9-1 Known or Unknown Nouns (Review)

Read the notes.

Homework for Tuesday, August 13, 2013

GRAMMAR

9-1 First Conditional and Time Clauses

Read the notes.

VOCABULARY

9-1  The Weather

Do the unit exercise.

Weekend Study Material

STRUCTURE 

8-3: One Independent Clause and One Dependent Clause example answers.

GRAMMAR

11 Present perfect simple (I have done) or present perfect continuous (I have been doing) answers

Speaking Video

Open this page for information on how to make a YouTube video.
Remember that you must change your privacy settings to unlisted.
Make your video by answering the questions accessed through your 'me' page (at the end of the Unit numbers)


Hints:

• try to make your video three minutes long. But if you need more time to answer, that is okay.
• prepare (think about what you will say) before starting the video
• use your best grammar and pronunciation
• try to use the vocabulary, structure and grammar learned in units 4 - 8. 
• make it sound like you are answering questions from an audience. But you will have to read the questions yourself.
• be professional
• speak loudly
• DO NOT READ YOUR ANSWERS. IT IS VERY EASY FOR ME TO KNOW IF YOU ARE READING.
• E-mail the link to me (lesliemillikin@canada-english.com
• This is due Sunday, 7 pm.
• If you have it ready sooner, please send it to me.

Friday, August 9 Lesson Plan

Warmer
I think the waiter...

GRAMMAR
8-2 Present Perfect Continuous: Explaining the Present
Correct #1: 4-10; #2: 4-12; #3: 6-10.

SPEAKING
8-6 Photos

READING
8-1 Three Environmentally-Friendly Cities

8-3: Participial Adjectives
We will continue this in a later unit.

STRUCTURE AND WRITING
8-2 Two Independent Clause Sentences
Lesson and in-class work.

8-3 One Independent and One Dependent Clause Sentences

Lesson and in-class work. (if time)

Questions to answer for your speaking video. Your teacher will instruct you how to get the questions.


Subject-Verb Agreement

Homework for Friday, Aug. 9

GRAMMAR

8-2 Present Perfect Continuous: Explaining the Present

Do #1: 4-10;  #2: 4-12;  #3: 6-10.

Here is another supplementary exercise to work on: 11 Present Perfect Simple (I have done) or Present Perfect Continuous (I have been doing). The answers will be posted tomorrow.

STRUCTURE

8-1 Simple Sentences - One Independent Clause Sentences

Do 2-5
Write a paragraph as instructed. Share your work with me.(lesliemillikin@canada-english.com)

8-2 Two Independent Clause Sentences
Read the notes.

8-3 One Independent and One Dependent Clause Sentences
Read the notes.

Extra Work

Watch this video, especially the last half about the Present Perfect Continuous (Progressive)

PPS/PPC quiz

If you have a lot of problems with the PPC, study this page. There are quizzes at the bottom, but some of them are higher level English.

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Speaking Video for Monday's Assessment Test

If you have made YouTube video before and are confident your video will work for me, then you do not need to send me a practice video. If you have not made a video before, open this page which provides information and an instruction link. Just say hello and email the link to me at lesliemillikin@canada-english.com.

Remember to change your privacy settings to unlisted.

Tomorrow, I will give you the questions you must answer in your real video.

Thursday, August 8 Lesson Plan

Warmer

GRAMMAR

8-2 Present Perfect Continuous: Explaining the Present

Lesson Teacher's Page

GRAMMAR/LISTENING
Present Perfect Simple vs Present Perfect Continuous

STRUCTURE

8-1 Simple Sentences - One Independent Clause Sentences

Lesson

Grammar 8-3: Participial Adjectives
Lesson

Talk about the assessment test.

Homework for Thursday, August 8

STRUCTURE

8-1 Simple Sentences

Read the notes.

GRAMMAR

8-2 Present Perfect Continuous: Explaining the Present

Read the notes.

Check your answers to 9 Past Simple (I ate) or Present Perfect (I have eaten).

Extra Work

Do this excellent quiz: Already and Yet (Present Simple or Present Perfect Simple). You need to scroll down until you see "Practice: Expecting a Baby".

Read and work on this passage: Simple Past / Present Perfect . It shows good use of the present perfect.
Read and work on this passage: Changes in Town. It also shows good use of the present perfect.

Extra, extra work
Study this tense chart. Progressive = continuous

Wednesday, August 7 Lesson Plan

Warmer

Spelling City

VOCABULARY
8-1 Correct 3-20.

SPEAKING
8-1 The Environment (Vocabulary)

8-1 Present Perfect Simple: Explaining the Present

Do in-class work on Part C Past Simple "I ate" or Present Perfect "I have eaten"

Correct

Exercise 1: Correct a few with the teacher. Compare your own page to the answer page.

Exercise 2: Correct a few with the teacher. Compare your answers with a partner: 

#1: 4-10; #2: 4-10; #3: 5-15.

SPEAKING

8-2 Speaking Pairs (Present Perfect Simple: Finished Actions)

LISTENING
8-1 Saving Energy

Homework for Wednesday, August 7, 2013

GRAMMAR

8-1 Present Perfect Simple: Explaining the Present
Do Exercise 1: complete the chart; Exercise 2 - #1: 4-10;  #2: 4-10;   #3: 5-15.

VOCABULARY
8-1 Lesson

Do 3-20.

Optional Homework:
Past Simple "I ate" or Present Perfect "I have eaten"
Answers will be posted tomorrow.

Monday, August 6, 2013 Lesson Plan

Unit 7 test

Correct the test.

GRAMMAR
Overview: Quick Review of Unit 7 + a Look at Unit 8

8-1 Present Perfect Simple: Explaining the Present

Usually short-term to explain now = Results of finished actions = sb did sth and this is the result = of its recent completion
(Exercise 1) 8-1: Pres Perf Simple: Explaining the Present  

VOCABULARY
8-1 Lesson and exercise

NOTICE

The Assessment test has been changed to Monday, August 12.

Friday, Aug.2 Lesson Plan

Listening Warmer

Determiners: Some of..., all of...., etc.

STRUCTURE
7-2 Noun Quantifiers
Correct 2-12.

7-3 Non-count Nouns
Lesson
Writing practice
A Busy Street Scene

GRAMMAR
7-1 Present Perfect Simple - Experience
Correct #1: 2-8; #2: 4-6; #3: 3-12; #4: 3-12.
Time Expressions

SPEAKING

7-7 Have you or did you?

READING
7-1 Two Famous Bands
Vocabulary

Homework for Friday, Aug.2

GRAMMAR
7-1 Present Perfect Simple - Experience
Do #1: 2-8;  #2: 4-6;  #3: 3-12;   #4: 3-12.
This chart will help you with the homework - Time Expressions

STRUCTURE
7-2 Noun Quantifiers
Do 2-12.

Here are some websites to practice noun quantifiers:   1 ,  2 ,  3 ,  4 .

7-3 Non-count Nouns
Read the notes.

READING

7-1 Two Famous Bands

Make sure you know these words for tomorrow's reading.

The next assessment test is Friday, August 9, 2013

Exit/Assessment Test Information

As always, the Exit test will have a Speaking part. This means you may need to practice making a YouTube video and sharing it with me (lesliemillikin@canada-english.com).

This is to make sure you know how. All you need to do is say hello. Do not forget how to do this for your real speaking video. Note that you must change your privacy settings to unlisted. No one else will see it but me. If you have done this a few times before and are confident your video will work for me, then you do not need to send me a practice video.

Open this page which provides information and an instruction link.

I will give you the questions you must answer next week.

Thursday, August 1 Lesson Plan

Present perfect vs past simple warmer

GRAMMAR
7-1 Present Perfect Simple - Experience
Lesson
Time Expressions

LISTENING
7-2 Favourite Music

STRUCTURE
7-1 Singular and Plural Verbs

Part1 Singular verb exercise: Correct 6-10
Part2 Plural verb exercise: Correct 4-6
Part3 Singular and plural verb exercise: Correct 3-12

7-2 Noun Quantifiers
Lesson
7-3 Non-count Nouns
Read the notes.

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