Wednesday, Sept.30 Unit 10 Lesson Plan

10:20
video modals
quiz modals present/future

10:35
GRAMMAR
10-1 Modals of Certainty #1
Correct exercise

11:35
LISTENING
Review some vocabulary words: my example - worst flight -spilled
Pronounce these words:  aisle, right now, and more
10-3 Window or Aisle Seat?
Pre-listening speaking
Listen to and do the exercise for the first conversation only.

1:15
GRAMMAR
Review: Modals - 10-1 and intro to 10- 2 quiz
10-2 Modal Verbs of Certainty #2

Presentation Lesson and exercise

Tuesday,Sept.29 Lesson Plan

Spelling City warm-up

10:30
VOCABULARY
10-1 Travel Presentation
Correct exercise together as a group.

11:00
SPEAKING

10-2 Vocabulary Discussion

11:30

GRAMMAR
10-1 Modal Verbs of Certainty

Lesson and exercise.
Modals of probability quiz

WRITING

9-2 Articles (General and Specific) Review
Correct exercise.
Known/Unknown Nouns "the for 2nd mention" (Ex.23 Azar)

exercise: some in-class work plus homework.

10-2 Articles -Unique People or Things

Lesson and exercise: some in-class work plus homework.

WRITING
A, An, The or No Article
ARTICLE or NO ARTICLE? 1 quiz

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Extra Practice for homework (Optional)

WRITING

This is a dictionary which shows if a noun is countable or uncountable.
Some important rules : A/An or The or No Article? Look at "no article"

READING

 esl-bits Set 2, Travel Books Click on Matching

Monday, Sept.28/15 Lesson Plan

10:20
WRITING
9-2 Articles -2nd part Specific or General Nouns exercise

Singular / Plural (Subject) + (verb) match Basic Rule #3.

11:00
Look over and start Unit 9 Test
Correct Part D,E,F

VOCABULARY
10-1 Travel Presentation
Pronunciation, definitions
Lesson and exercise + h/w

WRITING
9-2 Articles

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more homework for tomorrow:
GRAMMAR
10-1 Modal Verbs of Probability
Read the lesson.

Sept.26 Weekend Study Material

GRAMMAR

Do 9-3 exercise and check your

ANSWERS - Grammar 9-3: Exercise

Practice for Unit 9 Test on Monday, Sept.28

Time Clauses:

information - times clauses
Time clauses, time clauses 2

The First Conditional:
information and quiz - 1st conditional

The Second Conditional:
information - 2nd conditional
2nd conditional, 2nd conditional

The First AND Second Conditional:
1st or 2nd conditional?

Friday, Sept.25 Lesson Plan

warmer
Second Conditional quiz

GRAMMAR
9-2 Second Conditional
Correct

First or Second Conditional quiz, First and Second Conditional quiz

SPEAKING
9-5 Table Speaking
9-7 Opposite of the Truth

WRITING
9-1 Run-On Sentences and Comma Splices

Correct

Thursday, Sept 24 Lesson Plan

DICTATION
Unit 9 Vocabulary

LISTENING
9-1 The Best Weather
Correct exercise.

GRAMMAR
9-2 Second Conditional
Lesson presentation
For reference: Irregular verb list
Practice Second Conditional quiz

WRITING
9-1 Run-On Sentences and Comma Splices


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Wednesday,Sept 23 Lesson Plan

Spelling City - listening and speaking warm-up

VOCABULARY
Correct exercise one.

SPEAKING

9-2 Vocabulary Discussion

LISTENING
9-1 The Best Weather

GRAMMAR
9-1 First Conditional and Time Clauses

Correct exercise. Do #4 in class.

WRITING
9-1 Run-On Sentences & Comma Splices

Tuesday, Sept.22 Unit 9 Lesson Plan

10:20 Introductions

10:40
VOCABULARY

POS chart and quiz
Examples from POS exercise
Remainder for homework.

Unit 9-1 Vocabulary Presentation

Pronunciation, Definitions, Parts of Speech

Lesson and examples from exercise one.
Remainder for homework.

LISTENING
9-1 The Best Weather

*****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 

2:20 finished

Sept.21/15 Lesson Plan

prank video

10:20

WRITING

Unit 2
2-1 Simple Sentences
2-2 Prepositional Phrases
Sentence writing practice - write one sentence with at least two prepositional phrases.

WRITING
Unit 3
Simple or compound quiz

3-1 Compound Sentences

3-2 Transition Words and Phrases

Helen Keller in-class sentence work

Simple or compound exercise

Study Unit 9 Vocabulary for Tuesday.

***UPDATE*** Thursday, Sept.17 Unit 8 Lesson Plan

***UPDATE***

ANSWERS - Reading 8-1: Exercise 

Slide show lesson

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10:30
test comments

Open your Unit 7 test from Monday and read the corrections or comments I have made.

10:40

Study Unit 8 vocabulary

Dictation - 3 sentences 

11:00
GRAMMAR

Adverbs/Prepositions - PPS / C table

On the board, draw circles to represent activities (active) - dynamic... in progress projects in progress.
Correct homework from non-smrt 8-1 and 8-2 Lesson + Exercise

8-1 Explaining the Present #2

maybe
Presentation  start on page 6  Present Perfect Continuous: Explaining the Present 

GRAMMAR
8-3 Participial Adjectives

READING
8-1 Four Green Cities
Vocabulary for reading.

***UPDATE*** Wednesday,Sept.16 Unit 8 Lesson Plan

***UPDATE***

GRAMMAR
non-smrt 8-1 and 8-2 Lesson + Exercise 
Look at the PPS side of the above lesson and then do this
verb tense 7 quiz "I think the waiter has forgotten us." (mostly Present Perfect Simple)

Look at the PPC side of the lesson and then do this
verb tense 9 quiz "It has been raining all week." (mostly Present Perfect Continuous)

Practice
Making Present Perfect Continuous quiz 1, quiz 2

Just /Already /Yet quiz 

Been

Been or gone information
Has gone to vs. Has been to information

READING

Changes in Town. This shows good use of the present perfect simple.

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10:20
Present Perfect Simple - "What has he done?" High School Students video

GRAMMAR

8-1 Present Perfect Simple - Explaining the present
Correct homework.

SPEAKING

8-3 Speaking Pairs

11:40
GRAMMAR
8-2 Explaining the Present #2
non-smrt 8-1 and 8-2 Lesson + Exercise
From: Present Perfect Simple or Present Perfect Continuous - Gr. Spectrum 3

READING
Learn this new vocabulary for tomorrow's reading.

***UPDATE*** Tuesday, Sept.15 Unit 8 Lesson Plan

***UPDATE***
still already yet anymore quiz  

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The next assessment test is this Friday, Sept.18

Look through:

Exit/Assessment Test Information

You will be given the questions to answer in your video this afternoon

before the end of the class.
Make a video any way you want and send the link to me:
lesliemillikin@canada-english.com
or
follow the instructions on
this page
about how to make a YouTube video.
(Note that you must change your privacy settings to UNLISTED.)

10:30
Practice Parts of Speech - Definitions and quiz

VOCABULARY
Correct homework.

SPEAKING
8-2 Vocabulary discussion

11:35
GRAMMAR
Present Perfect Simple - "What has he done?" High School Students video

8-1 Present Perfect Simple - Explaining the present #1

Lesson and 1st exercise
2nd exercise

1:40
WRITING Unit 7
7-1 Subject Verb Agreement - Indefinite Pronouns

Correct the exercise.

2:05 Assign Speaking video

Monday, Sept14 Unit 7 test and Start of Unit 8

10:20
pre-test review
Word transformation mini-lesson and practice
Articles in general quiz

11:00
Unit 7 Test

VOCABULARY
Unit presentation

LISTENING
8-1 Saving Energy

WRITING  Unit 7
7-1 Subject Verb Agreement - Indefinite Pronouns

For extra practice:
Upper Intermediate lesson on word formation

***UPDATE*** Friday, Sept.11 Unit 7 Lesson Plan

***UPDATE***

Answers 7-2 #4 Exercise: present perfect simple or past simple

Present Perfect) vs Present Perfect Continuous tutorial - Exercise 7

PPS and PPC quiz

10:20

LISTENING

7-1 Favourite Artist

10:45
GRAMMAR
7-2 Present Perfect - Experience
Have collocation video
Correct exercises 1,2,3.
Do #4 in-class exercise.
for reference: Time expressions- Past Simple vs. Present Perfect - chart

11:35

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

***UPDATE*** Thursday, Sept.10 Unit 7 Lesson Plan

***UPDATE*** 

Past Simple or Present Perfect? quiz

Present Perfect or Present Perfect Continuous Exercise 8 quiz

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

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10:20

pre-grammar warmer
Present perfect or past simple? quiz  Simple past vs Present Perfect Verb Tense Exercise 6 quiz

Watch parts of the Present perfect or past simple video. start at 8:32. Notice the "clue" words. What are they?

GRAMMAR
7-1 Present Perfect - Duration
Correct exercise

SPEAKING
7- 3 Speaking Pairs

LISTENING
7-1 Favourite Artist

12:50
7-2 Present Perfect - Experience
Lesson and exercise.
Practice the Present Perfect with scenes from TV shows

Time expressions- Past Simple vs. Present Perfect - chart

***UPDATE*** Wednesday, Sept.9 Unit 7 Lesson Plan

***UPDATE***

Extra Pracice:
Simple past vs Present Perfect Verb Tense Exercise 6 quiz

For and since quiz

Present Perfect Simple or Continuous quiz

Present Perfect or Present Perfect Continuous Exercise 8 quiz

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

(for, since,ago) Past Simple - Present Perfect exercise 

 This is a very good exercise! You should do it.

7-2 Present Perfect - Experience

Read the lesson look at the exercise.

10:20
VOCABULARY
7-1 Art and Music Presentation
Correct the exercise: c-t

SPEAKING
7-2 Vocabulary Discussion

LISTENING
7-1 Favourite Artist

GRAMMAR
7-1 Present Perfect - Duration ... cont'd
First,

Board review / student notes
7-1 Duration - Present Perfect Simple + Present Perfect Continuous

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

Lesson start at for "things that have happened for a very long time" and for "things that have been happening for a very short time"
Exercise.

Tuesday, Sept8/15 Unit 6 Test and the Start of Unit 7

Unit 6 test
Correct.

12:50
VOCABULARY
7-1 Art and Music Presentation
Exercise

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

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For homework:

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

Friday, Sept.4 Unit 6 Lesson Plan

warmer
gerund/infinitive quiz

GRAMMAR
6-3 Verbs + object + to + Infinitive
Correct #1: 5-8; #2: 5-8; #3: 4-15.

Speaking 6.3 Verb + Object + to + Infinitive

READING
6-1 The Sedin Twins

***UPDATE***Thursday, Sept.3 Unit 6 Lesson Plan

***UPDATE***

Practice Verbs + object + to + infinitive quiz

Gerund or Infinitive quiz 2

10:20

study Unit 6 vocabulary
Dictation

GRAMMAR
6-2 Verbs + to + Infinitive
Correct #1: 8-10; #2: 8-10; #3: 8-10;

#4: complete in class

SPEAKING
6-7 Infinitive Discussion

GRAMMAR
6-2 Verbs + Object + to + Infinitive
Lesson and exercise


Extra Practice

Verb + Object + Infinitive (to) verb video (watch the first 1/3)
Direct Object of a Verb Information
Gerund or Infinitive? quiz 1

***UPDATE*** Wednesday, Sept.2 Unit 6 Lesson Plan

***UPDATE*** 

Extra Word Patterns Practice

Gerund or infinitive? quiz
Gerund or infinitive? quiz 2
Gerunds quiz
For extra grammar practice, do this prepositions quiz.

10:20
warmers
subject gerunds
Go + gerund examples
team sports pictures; individual sports pictures

GRAMMAR
6-1 Gerunds
Correct exercise

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

Interactive practice for optional homework

37 Things You'll Regret
(if you do not do these thing when you're young)
- examples of gerunds as subjects or objects

Tuesday, Sept.1 Unit 6 Lesson Plan

VOCABULARY
6-1 World Sports
Unit Six vocabulary presentation

Correct exercise #c-t.

SPEAKING

6-2 Vocabulary  Discussion

LISTENING
6-1 Favourite Sports

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

6-1 Gerunds

Lesson and exercise