Tuesday, June 30 Unit 9 Lesson Plan

10:20

Introductions

10:40
VOCABULARY

Definitions, Part of Speech, Pronunciation

Celsius, showers = a short period of rain or snow

Lesson and examples from exercise one . 

Complete the exercise in pairs with one computer per pair.
quiz

Examples from exercise two

Remainder for homework   #1 and #2

*****LUNCH start 11:50, finish 12:50*****

12:50

GRAMMAR
9-1 First Conditional and Time Clauses
Lesson and exercise

First Conditional quiz; Time Clauses quiz She will give (gives is also possible)

2:20 finished

June29/15 Lesson Plan

GRAMMAR - Unit 8
8-3  Participial Adjectives
Lesson
quiz, quiz 2

SPEAKING
Participial Adjectives  exercise.

12:50
WRITING Unit 7
7-2 Using Commas
for homework:
Simple or compound quiz

Extra work

Commas (in Simple and Compound sentences)
Simple or compound quiz
Simple or compound exercise

maybe WRITING Unit 8
8-1 Proofreading

for Friday, June 26

For those of you who want to see all the answers for 8-1 Exercise, check here

More practice
Information and quiz yet and already.
Quiz

There are videos, quizzes and information about the present perfect
on the "Homework" blog postings starting on June 16.

Thursday, June 25 Unit 8 Lesson Plan

warmer
PPS-PPC quiz

GRAMMAR
8-2 Explaining the Present
Correct #2: 4-12;   #3: 3-12

SPEAKING
8-7 Photos

READING
8-1 Four Green Cities
Look through this new vocabulary for the reading

GRAMMAR
8-3 Participial Adjectives
Read the lesson.

*** Update*** Homework for Thursday, June 25

*** Update*** 

June 24 at 10:50 pm

Teacher's email address:

lesliemillikin@canada-english.com

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GRAMMAR
8-2 Explaining the Present
Do #2: 4-12;   #3: 3-12
Adverbs/Prepositions chart - Present Perfect Simple / Continuous

Extra work

WARNING: This video is at a higher level than 120. Word order video - stop watching at 5:59.

Adverbs video - stop watching at 7:45.

Adverbs quiz

Adverbs of frequency rules and quiz

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Open this page for information about how to make a YouTube video.

Note that you must change your privacy settings to unlisted.

Due Thurs., June 25 8 p.m.

General Assessment Test Information

Wednesday, June 24 Unit 8 Lesson Plan

warmer
PPS 7 quiz "I think the waiter has forgotten us."

GRAMMAR

8-1 Present Perfect Simple - Explaining the present
Correct #1: 7-10; #2: 4-10; #3: 5-15.
non-smrt 8-1 and 8-2 Lesson + Exercise
Present Perfect Simple or Present Perfect Continuous from Gr. Spectrum 3

LISTENING
Pre-listening vocabulary- on the board
8-3 Logging in Tasmania

GRAMMAR
8-2 Explaining the Present

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Open this page for information about how to make a YouTube video. 

Note that you must change your privacy settings to unlisted.

Due Thurs., June 25 8 p.m.

General Assessment Test Information

Homework for Wednesday, June 24

GRAMMAR
8-1 Present Perfect Simple - Explaining the present
Do #1: 7-10;  #2: 4-10;  #3: 5-15.

Open this page for information about how to make a YouTube video. 

Note that you must change your privacy settings to unlisted.

Due Thurs., June 25 8 p.m.

General Assessment Test Information

June 23 Unit 8 Lesson Plan

VOCABULARY
Work on the list of Unit 8 words.

SPEAKING
8-2 Vocabulary discussion

GRAMMAR
8-1 Present Perfect Simple - Explaining the present
Present Perfect Simple - "What has he done?" High School Students videoFor reference:  Lesson and exercise
Correct  #4 Work on the others inclass and for homework.

Homework for June 23

VOCABULARY
Study the list of Unit 8 words.

GRAMMAR
8-1 Present Perfect Simple - Explaining the present
Lesson and exercise 

Complete the exercise #4 only   

Extra Practice
Just /Already /Yet quiz + been or gone (under the first quiz)
video Already and Yet

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

Friday, June 26 is the next assessment test. Read this information:

Assessment Test Information

Monday, June 22 Unit 7 Test and the Start of Unit 8

SPEAKING

Present Perfect Simple or Continuous 7-1 and 7-2

Unit 7 Test
Correct C,D,E,F

GRAMMAR
8-1 Present Perfect Simple - Explaining the present
Lesson and exercise   

VOCABULARY
Study the list of Unit 8 words.

Study Material for Monday, June 22 Unit 7 test

10 Past Simple or Present Perfect (2); ago, since, for - answers to exercise posted before.

Watch, listen and Practice: 

Present perfect rap song
Present perfect video

PPS and PPC quiz

Look at the blog for the past week. 

Practice the links. 

Friday, June 19 Unit 7 Lesson Plan

Billy Joel and Jimmy Fallon

GRAMMAR
7-2 Present Perfect - Experience
Correct #1: 4-8;    #2: 2-6;   #3: 5-12;   #4: 5-12:
Time expressions- Past Simple vs. Present Perfect - chart

SPEAKING
Who has travelled the farthest? non-smrt speaking activity (questions in pps or ppc)

READING
7-1 Two British Bands

pre-reading vocabulary
Twist and Shout
U-2

Homework for Friday, June 19

GRAMMAR
7-2 Present Perfect - Experience
Do #1: 4-8;    #2: 2-6;   #3: 5-12;   #4: 5-12:
Time expressions- Past Simple vs. Present Perfect - chart

Extra (optional = your choice) work
- Time references quiz
- (for, since,ago) Past Simple - Present Perfect exercise  This is a very good exercise! You should do it.
- Past Simple or Present Perfect? quiz

Thursday, June 18 Lesson Plan

dictation
go to VOCABULARY

WRITING
7-1 Subject Verb Agreement - Indefinite Pronouns

Correct the exercise.

GRAMMAR
7-2 Present Perfect - Experience
Lesson and exercise.
Time expressions- Past Simple vs. Present Perfect - chart
Slideshow - part one - view 1-15(We will do part two next week).

Practice the Present Perfect with scenes from TV shows

LISTENING
I've had/been having an accident - exercise

Homework for Thursday, June 18

WRITING
7-1 Subject Verb Agreement - Indefinite Pronouns

Complete the exercise.

GRAMMAR
7-2 Present Perfect - Experience
Read the lesson look at the exercise.

Practice Duration (7-1 Grammar)
Simple past vs Present Perfect Verb Tense Exercise 6 quiz
For and since quiz
Present Perfect or Present Perfect Continuous Exercise 8 quiz

Wednesday, June 17 Unit 7 Lesson Plan

warmer
pps quiz

GRAMMAR
7-1 Present Perfect - Duration
Correct #1: 4-12: #2: 4-10: Do #3 in class

SPEAKING

7-3 Speaking Pairs

WRITING
7-1 Subject Verb Agreement - Indefinite Pronouns

Lesson and exercise

7-2 Using Commas

Lesson and exercise

Homework for Wednesday, June 17

Click on the orange/brown coloured words for links.

GRAMMAR
7-1 Present Perfect - Duration
Do #1: 4-12: #2: 4-10: We will do #3 in class tomorrow.

Watch Present perfect or past simple video. Notice the "clue" words starting at 8:32.

Practice: 

Present perfect or past simple? quiz

Present Perfect Simple and State Verbs Information (also review Unit 2-2)

Present Perfect Simple or Continuous quiz

Tuesday, June 16 Unit 7 Lesson Plan

warmer
Spelling City

VOCABULARY
7-1 Art and Music
Correct exercise c-t.

SPEAKING
7-2 Vocabulary Discussion

LISTENING
7-1 Favourite Artist

GRAMMAR
7-1 Present Perfect - Duration
Lesson and exercise

Homework for Tuesday, June 16

VOCABULARY
7-1 Art and Music
Do exercise c-t.

GRAMMAR
7-1 Present Perfect - Duration
Read the lesson and look at the exercise.

Monday, June 15 Unit 6 Test and the Start of Unit 7

Unit 6 test
Correct parts A, B, C, D, E. I will correct part F Sentence Fragments.

12:50
VOCABULARY
7-1 Art and Music
Exercise

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

7-1 Present Perfect - Duration
Lesson and exercise.

Friday, June 12 Unit 6 Lesson Plan

GRAMMAR
6-3 Verb + Object + to + Infinitive
Correct #1: 6-8;  #2: 5-8;   #3: 6-15.

Speaking 6.3 Verb + Object + to + Infinitive

11:10
WRITING
6-1 Sentence Fragments
Lesson and exercise continued

More information

Homework for Friday, June 12

GRAMMAR
6-3 Verb  + Object + to + Infinitive
Do #1: 6-8;  #2: 5-8;  #3: 6-15.

Study and practice:
Direct Object of a Verb Information
Verb + Object + to + Infinitive quiz 1, quiz 2

practice from esl-bits.net:
READING
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.

Thursday, June 11 Unit 6 Lesson Plan

10:20
Dictation

10:50
GRAMMAR
Gerund or Infinitive  quiz

6-2 Verb + to + Infinitive

Correct: #1: 5-10;  #2: 5-10;  #3: 5-10; #4: all.
remember, forget, try, stop quiz

SPEAKING
6-7 Infinitive Discussion

12:50
GRAMMAR
6-3 Verbs + Object + to + Infinitive
Verb + Object + Infinitive (to) verb video (watch the first 1/3)
Lesson and exercise

1:40
WRITING
6-1 Sentence Fragments
Lesson and exercise.

Homework for Thursday, June 11

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

Gerund or Infinitive quiz

Gerund or Infinitive  quiz
remember, forget, try, stop quiz

Wednesday, June 10 Unit 6 Lesson Plan

subject gerunds quiz

GRAMMAR
Common mistakes - recommend and suggest
6-1 Gerunds
Correct Exercise #1: 5-10; #2: 5-10;  #3: 5-10;  #4: 5-10.

SPEAKING
6-3 What makes you...? practice subject gerunds

6-5 Gerund Speaking Pairs practice object gerunds

6-6 Tell me about....  practice questions using prepositions and answering with object gerunds

GRAMMAR
6-2 Verb + to + Infinitive

Lesson and exercise

WRITING

6-1 Sentence Fragments

Lesson and exercise

Homework for Wednesday, June 10

click on the coloured links

GRAMMAR
6-1 Gerunds
Do Exercise #1: 5-10; Exercise #2: 5-10; Exercise #3 5-10; Exercise #4: 5-10.

Interactive practice

subject gerunds
37 Things You'll Regret (if you do not do them when you're young) - examples of gerunds as subjects or objects
Go + gerund examples

Tuesday, June 9 Lesson Plan

10:20
Attendance

10:25
Spelling City

VOCABULARY
6-1 World Sports
for referenceUnit Six vocabulary Slide show
Correct Exercise c-t

SPEAKING
6-2 Vocabulary Discussion

LISTENING
6-1 Favourite Sports

GRAMMAR
6-1 Gerunds
Lesson - Presentation  SKIP some examples.
Exercise #1:   -10; Exercise #2:  -10;  Exercise #3   -10; Exercise #4:   -12.

Mon., June 8 Unit 5 Test and the Start of Unit 6

Review

Comparative adjectives online exercise
Word forms

10:30
Unit 5 test, Part A (unit 5 test)

11:30
Correct test

12:50
VOCABULARY
6-1 World Sports
Unit Six vocabulary Slide show
Pronunciation, definitions, parts of speech
Exercise #1  - 20.

GRAMMAR
Overview 6-1, 6-2, 6-3

6-1 Gerunds
Read the lesson and watch the video.

Lesson Plan Friday, June 5/15

announcement -
Do not leave your computer in the classroom without asking a friend to watch it.

 GRAMMAR
5-3 Adjectives

Correct #1: 5-12; #2: 6-15

SPEAKING
5-6 Crazy Comparisons

WRITING
Complex Sentences clauses and phrases
5-1 Complex Sentences
Lesson
Exercise Part Two
Correct when, while, as, before, after, until, as, since, because

Show quiz to do when studying for Unit 5 test.  Students - look at this past week's blog for links (in bold, orange/brown colour) to practice.

Homework for Friday, June 5

WRITING

5-1 Complex Sentences

Part Two: Write a complex sentence with each of these words:

when, while, as, before, after, until, as, since, because


GRAMMAR
5-3 Adjectives
Do #1: 5-12; #2: 6-15
Read this information on linking verbs
Practice quizzes
comparative adjectives, linking verbs with adjectives, and linking verbs

Thursday, June 4 Lesson Plan Unit 5

10:20
Study unit 5 vocabulary -10 minutes maximum

10:40
VOCABULARY
Dictation Exercise One

GRAMMAR
Future forms will

5-2 Facts and Predictions
Correct 6-14. will and be going to quiz

SPEAKING
5-2 Facts and Predictions

GRAMMAR
5-3 Adjectives
Lesson

WRITING

Complex Sentences clauses and phrases
5-1 Complex Sentences
Lesson
Exercise

Examples of students' Complex Sentences

Homework for Thursday, June 4/15

GRAMMAR

5-2 Facts and Predictions
Do 6-14.

will - future or going to - future quiz

5-1 grammar: be going to video

Wednesday, June 3 Unit 5 Lesson Plan

warmer
Future forms be going to, present continuous, present simple

GRAMMAR

5-1 Future Decisions and Plans

Lesson 

Exercise  Correct 5-15.

LISTENING

5-1 Fashion Magazines

Listening exercise

WRITING

Complex Sentences clauses and phrases
5-1 Complex Sentences
Lesson
Exercise Part one Correct 4,5,6.

GRAMMAR

5-2 Facts and Predictions
Lesson and exercise

Homework for Wednesday, June 3

WRITING
5-1 Complex Sentences
Lesson
Exercise Part one Do 4,5,6.

Practice:

Complex Sentence information and quiz (at the end)

Simple, Compound, Complex Sentence quiz
Complex Sentence Punctuation quiz
Examples of students' Complex Sentences

GRAMMAR
5-1 Future Decisions and Plans
Lesson 
Exercise  Do 5-15.

Practice:

Future Forms quiz

Will or be going to quiz
Present Continuous (Future) quiz

GRAMMAR

5-2 Facts and Predictions
Read the lesson and watch the video.


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Open your email and follow the link. Complete the sentences and return as instructed.

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Lesson Plan Tuesday, June 2 Unit 5

10:20

Introductions

10:30  
Spelling City listening/speaking/vocabulary

10:40
VOCABULARY
5-1 Vocabulary
Correct Exercise One: 3-20.
Correct Exercise Two: 2-8.
for reference Slideshow

11:10
SPEAKING
5-2 Vocabulary Discussion

11:30
LISTENING
5-1 Fashion Magazines
Listening exercise
Do Exercise #1 for homework. Share with me -
lesliemillikin@canada-english.com
Due (Deadline) - Thursday, June 4.

12:50
GRAMMAR
5-1 Future Decisions and Plans
Lesson and exercise  In-class examples to #5

1:20
WRITING
5-1 Complex Sentences
Lesson and exercise

Homework for Tuesday, June 2

VOCABULARY
5-1 Vocabulary
Slide show
Do exercise One 2 -20.
Do exercise Two 2-8.

GRAMMAR
5-1 Future Decisions and Plans
Read the lesson and watch the video.

Monday, June 1 Review Miscellaneous Grammar and Start Unit 5

Miscellaneous
Parts of Speech - Chart - Definitions
Exercise
quiz 1 quiz 2
Word Order - Sentence Structure and video (first half)....

word formations quiz
VOCABULARY
5-1 Vocabulary
Slide show
Pronunciation, definition, part of speech
Exercise #1: -20.
NOTE: If you are moving to 125, you should study the 125 Vocabulary for your class tomorrow.

SPEAKING
5-2 Vocabulary Discussion

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More homework for tomorrow:
GRAMMAR
5-1 Future Decisions and Plans
Read the lesson and watch the video.