for Friday,Jan.31/14

Here are two quizzes about the present perfect

quiz 1, quiz 2.

Thursday, Jan30/14 Lesson Plan

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Present Perfect quiz

GRAMMAR
8-1 Present Perfect Simple: Explaining the Present
Correct Exercise #2.

SPEAKING Lesson

8-4 Deciding the Focus

Examples

LISTENING
8-1 Saving Energy

8-2 Present Perfect Continuous: Explaining the Present
Lesson

SPEAKING

8-6 Photos

Homework for Thursday, Jan30/14

GRAMMAR
8-1 Present Perfect Simple: Explaining the Present
Do Exercise #2.

8-2 Present Perfect Continuous: Explaining the Present

Read the notes.

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Extra Work:
GRAMMAR
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".

Another supplementary exercise to work on: 11 Present Perfect Simple (I have done) or Present Perfect Continuous (I have been doing). Here are the answers.

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Re: Assessment Test  Friday Jan.31, 2014 

Go to your "ME" page. Find the questions (speaking assignment) at the end of the units. Read the information before starting your video.

Open this page which provides information about how to make a YouTube video. Note that you must change your privacy settings to unlisted. For more information on how to answer the questions, click here.
Share your video with me (lesliemillikin@canada-english.com) before 8 pm, Thursday, January 30/14.

Wednesday, Jan29/14 Lesson Plan Unit 8

8-1 Present Perfect Simple: Explaining the Present
Teach
Usually short-term to explain now = Results of finished actions = somebody did something and this is the result = of its recent completion. Class examples.
(Exercise 8-1) - non- smrt 8-1

SPEAKING
8-3


READING
Three Environmentally-Friendly Cities
11:45
Friday's Unit 5-8 Test
Assessment Test Information
How to make a video.

Homework for Wednesday, Jan29/14

GRAMMAR

Unit 1-3 Grammar Have and Have Got
Watch the videos.

Do exercise and correct your answers.

8-1 Present Perfect Simple - Explaining the Present
Read the notes.

STRUCTURE
8-1 One Independent Clause Sentences
Complete the exercise

READING
The vocabulary consists of many vocabulary words.

Homework for Tuesday, Jan.28/14

VOCABULARY
Unit 8 The Environment
Do the exercise 3-20.

GRAMMAR
8-1 Present Perfect Simple - Explaining the Present
Read the notes.

STRUCTURE
8-1 One Independent Clause Sentences
Read the notes.

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Extra (but useful) work
READING
Read and work on this passage: Changes in Town. It shows good use of the present perfect.

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The next assessment test is this Friday Jan.31, 2014 

Exit/Assessment Test Information

As always, the Exit test will have a Speaking part on video. Open this page which provides information about how to make a  YouTube video. Note that you must change your privacy settings to unlisted. For more information on how to answer the questions, click here.

I will give you the questions you must answer on Wednesday. When you are done, share it with me (lesliemillikin@canada-english.com).

Monday, Jan.28/14 Unit 7 Test and Start Unit 8

Pre-test explanation

Open Unit 7 test  
When you make a copy:
1. change the file name to: your name Jan27/14 Unit 7 test
2. Type your name after "Name" on the test.

10:30
Correct parts B and C of the test together. Also type your score for each part.
Your teacher will correct parts A and D.
Share your corrected answers with me: lesliemillikin@canada-english.com

VOCABULARY
Unit 8 The Environment

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More homework for tomorrow
GRAMMAR
8-1 Present Perfect Simple - Explaining the Present
Read the notes.

Homework and Study Material for Monday's Unit 7 Test

WRITING and GRAMMAR

Practice writing all three parts of the verbs from the linked page: Infinitive/Past Tense/past participles.

Prepare for the test by writing a sentence with each verb using it in the correct tense. 

Note that I have changed the examples. Now there are the three tenses you need to use: Present Simple, Past Simple and Present Perfect Simple.

READING
7-1 Two Famous Bands
Do the exercise and share it with me: lesliemillikin@canada-english.com

GRAMMAR
7-4 Grammar Review
Do the exercise and correct your answers.
PPS or PPC? quiz

Friday, Jan.24/14 Lesson Plan

GRAMMAR
Infinitive/Past Tense/past participles.

I will dictate 10 of the verbs on the list. Write all three parts of each verb.

7-2 Present Perfect Simple - Experience
Correct #3: all; #4: all.

SPEAKING
Activity: who has been/had..the longest?

READING
7-1 Two Famous Bands
new words

The Beatles "I Should have Known Better" video;  "Twist and Shout" video
Reading

U2 "I Still Haven' Found what I'm Looking For"video
Reading

Homework for Friday, Jan.24/14

GRAMMAR
7-2 Present Perfect Simple - Experience
Do #3: all; #4: all.

Early practice for Friday's class and Monday's test:
Infinitive/Past Tense/past participles.  I will dictate 10 of the verbs on the list. You will need to write all three parts of each verb.

READING

7-1 Two Famous Bands
Study these words for tomorrow's reading.

Thursday, Jan.23/14 Lesson Plan - Unit 7

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PPS and PPC click quiz

GRAMMAR

7-2 Present Perfect Simple - Experience

Continue Wednesday's lesson: 

click Video
Correct exercise #1: 3 - 8

Time expressions chart

SPEAKING
7-7 Have You or Did You? (Present Perfect Simple: Experience)

Homework for Thursday, Jan.23/14

GRAMMAR
7-2 Present Perfect Simple - Experience
Do #1: 3 - 8. We will continue with the lesson and exercise tomorrow.

Practice

PDF page exercise about for and since. 

Note the first and third page are blank. Check your answers.

PPS or PPC - Duration (7-1) quiz

Past simple, PPS or PPC - Duration and Experience (7-1 and 7-2) quiz

Wed.Jan22/14 Lesson Plan Unit 7

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for and since

GRAMMAR
7-1 Present Perfect - Duration
Correct #1: 5-15; #2: 5-10; #3: 3-15.

SPEAKING
7-3 Speaking Pairs (Present Perfect: Duration)

LISTENING

7-1 Favourite Artist

GRAMMAR
7-2 Present Perfect Simple - Experience

Lesson

Homework for Wednesday, Jan22/14

GRAMMAR
7-1 Present Perfect - Duration
Do #1: 5-15;  #2: 5-10;  #3: 3-15.
Practice the present perfect versus the past simple - quiz

GRAMMAR
7-2 Present Perfect - Experience

Read the notes.

Tuesday, Jan.21/14 Lesson Plan Unit 7

8:30

Spelling City

VOCABULARY
7-1 Art and Music
Correct exercise 3-20.

SPEAKING

7-2 Art and Music

9: 45

GRAMMAR
Overview of Unit 7 and Unit 8

 - Both units focus on different uses of the Present Perfect.

10:30

Start Unit 7 

GRAMMAR

7-1 Present Perfect - Duration

Lesson

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More homework for tomorrow:

GRAMMAR

7-1 Present Perfect - Experience

Read the notes. 

Homework for Tuesday, Jan.21/14

VOCABULARY
7-1 Art and Music
Do exercise 3-20.

GRAMMAR
7-1 Present Perfect - Duration
Read the notes.

Monday, Jan.20/14 Lesson Plan

8:35
Unit 6 Test

Share your test when you are finished: lesliemillikin@canada-english.com

All tests must be shared before 10:10.

10:30

Students - re-open your test.
Correct parts A, B, C, D.

GRAMMAR
Overview of Unit 7 and Unit 8 - Both units focus on different uses of the Present Perfect.

VOCABULARY
7-1 Art and Music
Pronunciation
Exercise

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More homework for tomorrow:
7-1 Present Perfect - Duration
Read the notes.

Homework and Study Material for Monday's Unit 6 Test

WRITING
Practice writing sentences using verb patterns. You will be asked to do this on Unit 6 test.

Note: You should open the above link because I changed a few things.

GRAMMAR

6-4 Grammar Review

Do the exercise and check your answers.

Work on this (6-3 grammar) quiz: verb + object + to + infinitive

Read these examples of  Object Gerunds: 

"When you are old, you will regret not traveling when you had the chance."

37 Things You’ll Regret When You’re Old

VOCABULARY

Do exercise #2 and check your answers.

READING
6-1 "The Sedin Twins"

Do #3: 8-11 and check your answers.

LISTENING

6-1 Admirable Athletes  (We listened to this on Wednesday. I assigned the questions for homework.) Check your answers.

Friday, Jan 17/14 Lesson Plan

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Spelling City

Audio word match 

VOCABULARY

Unit 6 Dictation

GRAMMAR
verb + object + to + infinitive
6-3 Verbs + Object + To + Infinitive
Correct #1: 5-8; #2: 6-9; #3: 7-15.

READING
6-1 "The Sedin Twins" new words

WRITING
Practice writing sentences using verb patterns. Use words from this week's vocabulary.

11:55
Examples of Gerunds (mostly Objects)
37 Things You’ll Regret When You’re Old

Homework for Friday, Jan. 17/14

GRAMMAR
6-3 Verbs + Object + To + Infinitive
Do #1: 5-8;  #2: 6-9;  #3: 7-15.

Practice verb + object + infinitive

6-1, 6-2, 6-3 grammar  Note: This quiz has some new words and one new pattern we do not study in 120.

READING
Study these words for "The Sedin Twins".

List of common prepositions

Thursday, Jan. 16/14 Lesson Plan

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Gerund     OR     Verb+to+Infinitive

GRAMMAR
6-2 Verb + to + Infinitive
Correct #1: 5-10; #2: 6-10; #3: 5-10; #4: paragraphs.

SPEAKING
6-7 Infinitive Discussion

WRITING
Four types of sentences

GRAMMAR

6-3 Verbs + Object + To + Infinitive

Lesson

LISTENING
6-1 Admirable Athletes

Correct

Homework for Thursday, Jan.16/14

GRAMMAR
6-2 Verb + to + Infinitive
Do #1: 5-10;  #2: 6-10;  #3: 5-10;  #4: complete the paragraph.
Practice: Gerund or Infinitive? quiz 1, quiz 2, quiz 3

LISTENING
6-1 Admirable Athletes
Do the exercise.

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READING (Optional)
practice from esl-bits.net:
Sports Centre Membership Information
Go to "Details" (Set 5).
Read the information and do the quiz. This is good practice for the Reading part of the Assessment test.

Wednesday, Jan.15/14 Lesson Plan

Unit 5 Tests

Find and open the g-mail I sent you. 

Change your wrong answers to the correct ones.

9:00

GRAMMAR review (and correction - )

This quiz has 6-2 grammar, but it will help you learn 6-1 (gerunds) better. 

Also, it might help you understand 6-2 when we study it today.

9:25

SPEAKING

6-3 What makes you... ?
6-5 Gerund Speaking Pairs

10:30

GRAMMAR

6-2 Verb + to + Infinitive

Lesson

LISTENING

6-1 Admirable Athletes

Homework for Wednesday

GRAMMAR
6-1 Gerunds
Re-read the lesson and the homework we corrected today. 

Study the 35 words which are followed by a gerund. Try to memorize them.
 

Tuesday, Jan.14/14 Lesson Plan

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Spelling City

VOCABULARY
6-1 World Sports
Correct  #3-20

SPEAKING

6-2 World Sports (Vocabulary)

GRAMMAR
6-1 Gerunds
Correct  #1: 5-10, #2: 5-10; #3: 5-12.  #4 in class work

SPEAKING

6-3 What makes you... ?

Homework for Tuesday, Jan.14/14

GRAMMAR
6-1 Gerunds
Do #1: 5-10, #2: 5-10; #3: 5-12. We will do #4 in class tomorrow.

VOCABULARY
6-1 World Sports
Do the exercise: #3-20

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Extra practice:
Interactive practice - gerund form, subject gerunds

Picture of team sports and team sport words including gerunds
Picture of winter sports and sports words, including gerunds

Picture of individual sports and sports words, including gerunds
Picture of water sports and water sport words, including gerunds

Monday, Jan.13/14 - Unit 5 Test and Start of Unit 6

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Future forms

Unit 5
Test
Complete your test before 10:00 am.

SPEAKING
6-1 Introduction (World Sports)

VOCABULARY
6-1 Slide Show

Exercise 

GRAMMAR
Overview of 6-1, 6-2, 6-3
6-1 Gerunds
- as subjects of verbs
- as objects of verbs
- as objects of prepositions

Weekend Study Material for Monday's Unit 5 Test

GRAMMAR
5-5 Review
Do the exercises and check your answers.

Work on the links on the blog from this past week.

Practice 
1) Adjectives or Adverbs quiz.
2) Word Order - Position of Adverbs video.
Note: This video is only to help you get a better idea about adverbs. Some of it is a higher level = 125, so I suggest that you do not watch the last half. For example, she talks about changing word order for emphasis and negative adverbs. We did not learn this in 120, so do not use it on Monday's test.

Friday, Jan,19/14 Lesson Plan

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adverbs

GRAMMAR
5-4 Adverbs
Correct  #2: 6-12; #3: 6-16.
Extra information - Types of Adverbs


READING
5-1 Clothing of the Future
 Vocabulary

STRUCTURE
5-2 Questions
Correct 1-10.

5-3 Indefinite Pronouns

Lesson

Homework for Friday, Jan.10/14

GRAMMAR
5-4 Adverbs
Do #2: 6-12;  #3: 6-16.

List of common adverbs in categories
Adverbs of frequency 

STRUCTURE
5-2 Questions

Do 1-10.

READING
Study these new words for tomorrow's reading.

"Clothing of the Future"

Thursday, Jan.9/14 Lesson Plan

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Linking verbs click
Note: the "ordinary" verb = dynamic (action)

GRAMMAR
5-3 Adjectives
Correct #1: 6-12; #2: 6-15.

SPEAKING
5-8 Crazy Comparisons
Example: Cable TV and Shopping

"Cable TV is better than shopping because it is not as exhausting as shopping."The other player has to make a similar sentence explaining why his/her (their) noun is better. "No, shopping is better than cable TV because it is not as boring as cable TV."

9:50
LISTENING
5-2 Is Fashion Important?


GRAMMAR
5-4 Adverbs
Lesson

11:50
STRUCTURE
5-1 Some, Any, and No

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More homework for tomorrow:

READING

Study these new words

Homework for Thursday, Jan.9/14

GRAMMAR
5-3 Adjectives
Do #1: 6-12;  #2: 6-15.
Practice comparative adjectives click 1

Linking verbs with adjectives click 2
Linking verbs click 3

5-4 Adverbs
Read the notes and watch the video.


STRUCTURE
5-1 Some, Any, and No
5-2 Questions
5-3  Indefinite Pronouns
Read the notes.

Wednesday, Jan.8/14 Lesson Plan

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(5-1 grammar)
quiz 1 will or going to + quiz 2 will or present continuous

Do a few examples from each quiz.

GRAMMAR
5-2 Making Predictions
Correct #1: 5-14

SPEAKING

5-5 Speaking Pairs

10:30
VOCABULARY

Correct Exercise #2

LISTENING

non-smrt  - Shoes

Vocabulary   +    Exercise

5-3 Adjectives
Lesson

Homework for Wednesday, Jan.8/14

VOCABULARY
Do Exercise #2

GRAMMAR
5-2 Making Predictions
Do #1: 5-14

Quiz 1 - Will or going to click 1

Quiz 2 - Present Continuous and Will click 2
Quiz 3 - All future forms 1 click 3
Quiz 4 - All future forms 2 click 4 

5-3 Adjectives

Read the notes and watch the video.

Tuesday, Jan 6/14 Lesson Plan

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Spelling City (go to unit 5 vocabulary)

VOCABULARY
Correct Exercise #1:3-20

SPEAKING

5-2 Vocabulary (Fashion)

VOCABULARY
Dictation

GRAMMAR
5-1 Future Decisions and Plans
Correct #1: 6-15

10:30

Assessment test results -

Look at my comments on your evaluations. 

Writing:"Writing Examples" and "Write a Paragraph"  Think about what errors you made.

GRAMMAR
5-2 Making Predictions
Lesson 

Homework for Tuesday, Jan 6/14

VOCABULARY
Do Exercise #1:3-20

GRAMMAR
5-1 Future Decisions and Plans
Watch the video. Do #1:6-15

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More Homework for tomorrow
GRAMMAR
5-2 Making Predictions
Read the notes and watch the video







The Canadian College of English Language

Lesson Plan, Monday, Jan.5/14

SPEAKING
5-1 Fashion (Unit Intro)

VOCABULARY
Slide show.
Some in-class work on Exercise #1 and #2

LISTENING
5-1: Fashion Magazines

GRAMMAR
5-1 Future Decisions and Plans
Lesson

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More Homework for tomorrow
GRAMMAR
5-2 Making Predictions
Read the notes.







The Canadian College of English Language

Friday, Jan.3/14 smrt120 class - Afternoon

STRUCTURE
4-1 Known or Unknown Nouns
smrt Exercise
Azar Ex.19 pages 330-331
Azar Ex.23 pages 333-334


4-2 Unique Nouns
smrt Exercise
Azar Ex.21,22 pages 332,333
Basketball - articles: a/an the (no article) quiz
Caught Cheating with Sexy Girl prank video

4-3 Things in General
smrt Exercise
Azar Ex.20 pages 331
practice quiz

Information about when to use the or no article for name of places, etc.

Just for fun:
FUNNY WATERBED VIDEO

Homework and Study Material for Friday, Jan. 3/14

GRAMMAR 

4-2 Modals and Permission
Do the exercise and check your answers.
4-3: Making Offers and Requests 

Do the exercise and check your answers.

Modals- Permission and Requests quiz

Making Offers Using Modals - Information

How to study for tomorrow's assessment test:

- Look at your Unit tests and assignments. Notice your errors.

- Use the blog to review Units 1,2,3,4. Go back to December 2, 2013.

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Friday, January 3 Assessment Test 

Be here before 8:30 am.

The video deadline is 8 p.m., tonight: Thursday, Jan.2/14.

If you haven't done your video yet, get your speaking assignment from your "me" page. You must answer the questions in a YouTube video. This page provides information about how to make a video. Do not forget to change your privacy settings to unlisted.

Thursday, January 2, 2014

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Shakespeare's Biography video

READING
4-1 William Shakespeare

In-class and group work.
Practise reading for the Assessment Test  

WRITING

Paragraph Writing,  what it looks like: form,  the parts of a paragraph, practice
4-1 Writing: Interesting Book

Topic: What is an interesting book you think everybody should read?
In-class practice.

GRAMMAR
4-2 Modals and Permission

Lesson and in-class work
4-3 Requests and Offers
Lesson and in-class work