Friday, October 30, 2015

Weekend Study Material for Unit 2 Test - Monday, Nov.2/15


Study and Practice:

GRAMMAR
Read and do: "3 Present Simple or Present Continuous". Note this is a PDF page. You will need to use a new blank page. Check your answers.
Present Simple or Continuous quiz

GRAMMAR
2-3 State and Dynamic Verbs
State verbs Lesson (Information)
English action and state verbs quiz (halfway through the page)
state/dynamic verb quiz
Study this information which shows the difference between the Present Simple and Present Continuous (Progressive)

Look through this past week's blog. Try some of the activities/quizzes/videos.

Refresh your page to see if there are any updates.




Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Wednesday, Oct28 Unit 2

warmer
Signal words quiz
GRAMMAR
2-1 Present Simple and Continuous  - Lessson continued
Correct Exercise #3
Do in-class on the remainder

LISTENING
Pre-listening question: What is your dream house?
2-2 My Dream House

READING
pre-listening warm-up
2-1 Real Estate Agent Blog

GRAMMAR
2-2 State and Dynamic Verbs


Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Tuesday, Oct.26 Unit 2

VOCABULARY
Unit 2 Housing Picture Vocabulary
Correct Exercise One

SPEAKING
2-2 Vocabulary Discussion

GRAMMAR
2-1 Present Simple and Continuous
Lesson presentation and Exercise

if time:
LISTENING
Pre-listening question: What is your dream house?
2-2 My Dream House

Quizzes and other non-smrt work (optional):USE of the Present Simple - Practice:
1. Repeated actions: habits, routine - quiz
2. Facts or generalizations quiz regularity quiz
3. Scheduled Events in the Near Future quiz

Monday, October 26, 2015

Monday, Oct.26 Unit 1 Test and Start of Unit 2

Review of auxiliary verbs quiz

GRAMMAR
1-3 Have and Have Got
Complete the lesson and do some of the exercise in class.
Have and Have got information
Have and Have Got - Quiz

Unit 1 test

1:15
WRITING
Complete Writing a Paragraph - the RED System Lesson - Concluding Sentences

Start Unit 2- Housing
2-1 Pictures Vocabulary
Lesson
Exercise: Do a few examples and the rest will be homework.

Friday, October 23, 2015

Friday, Oct23 Unit 1 Lesson Plan

warmer
Question Formation - quiz

GRAMMAR
1-2 Questions
Correct exercise.

SPEAKING

GRAMMAR
1-3 Have and Have Got



Thursday, October 22, 2015

*UPDATE** Thursday, Oct.22 Unit 1 Lesson Plan



Watch how to make questions slide show.
Practice choosing the correct auxiliary verb in questions quiz 9.
for more advanced students: Assorted Questions quiz


Auxiliary verbs quiz 1quiz 2

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10:20
Unit 1 Dictation

10:30
warmer review
NOTE: The first thing to do is find the main verb.
Auxiliary verb practice: quiz 1, quiz 4, maybe quiz 7
For reference Irregular Verb List

GRAMMAR
1-2 Questions
Lesson and exercise
Use to help teach subject and object
Practice Question Formation - quiz

12:50
WRITING
Paragraph Form information
warm-up exercise
continue with Writing a Paragraph - the RED System Lesson

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Wednesday, Oct.21 Unit 1 Lesson Plan

10:20
VOCABULARY
1-1 Health and Body
Correct Exercise One.

LISTENING
1-1 Stay in Shape

GRAMMAR
1-1 Three Kinds of Verbs
Correct exercise
Verb tense forms

SPEAKING
1-4 Positives and Negatives

1:45
WRITING
Writing a Paragraph - the RED System Lesson

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Tues.Oct.20 Unit 1 Lesson Plan


10:20
VOCABULARY
1-1 Vocabulary Health and Body
Pronunciation, Parts of Speech, Definitions
(Old) Slide Show Presentation.
Exercise #1 Do a couple of examples. The remainder will be for homework.

LISTENING
1-1 Stay in Shape
Pre-listening discussion

11:35
GRAMMAR
1-1 Three Kinds of Verbs
Watch a few minutes of this video about auxiliary verbs. (To advance your English verb knowledge, continue to watch the video at home.)
Lesson presentation. Exercise - Do a couple of examples. Do the remainder and watch the video for homework.

1:45
WRITING
Writing a Paragraph - the RED System Lesson


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practice work (optional homework):
You may need to use this: Irregular Verb List
Auxiliary verb practice: quiz 1, quiz 4, quiz 7

READING (optional - your choice)"Can a Healthy Lifestyle Alter your Genes?"
Read the article (click on Exercise 12) and do the quiz for comprehension

Monday, October 19, 2015

Oct.19 Review

10:20

Complex Sentence Punctuation quiz
Clause or phrase quiz


REVIEW  (Note that I will also be explaining clauses in these exercises.)
WRITING
7-2 Using Commas - Listing, Linking, Introducing
maybe 8-1 Proofreading
9-1 Run-On Sentences and Comma Splices
10-1 Cause and Effect Linking Words - Consequently, since, so, therefore
11-2 Contrast Linking Words  Extra information


VOCABULARY
Parts of speech definitions  find different one
Parts of Speech quiz


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for homework
VOCABULARY
1-1 Vocabulary Health and Body
Study the words

Friday, October 9, 2015

Friday, Oct.9 Unit 11 Lesson Plan

warmer activity
quiz

10:45
GRAMMAR
11-2 Question Tags
Pre-correction Listening:
We Like Animals, Don't We? listening/grammar
Correct #1, #3, #4.

11:35
Announcement
Tuesday's unit test and Friday's Assessment Test

On the weekend, refresh the blog.
Work on this past week's quizzes, etc.
Refer to any other information on the posting

Thursday, October 8, 2015

***UPDATE*** Thursday, Oct. 8 Unit 11 Lesson Plan



Look at this additional information on question tags.
Practice question tags quiz 1, quiz 2.

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10:20
VOCABULARY
Dictation Unit 11

GRAMMAR
11-1 Indirect Questions
Correct exercise

SPEAKING
11-4 Speaking Pairs #1

GRAMMAR
11-2 Question Tags
Lesson and exercise

WRITING
11-2 Contrasting Linking Verbs
Correct exercise

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Wed.,Oct.7 Unit 11 Lesson Plan

warmer
Indirect Questions quiz

10:30
GRAMMAR
11-1 Indirect Questions
Continue lesson.
Before doing examples in the exercise, focus on If -
Go to the middle of the web page to 'Yes / no' questions with tenses that use 'do / does / did' and Using 'if' or 'whether':
Scan the examples in the exercise. Note which ones use "if".
Continue with the rest.
Do #2: -j;   #3: -j;   #4: -j for homework.

11:20
SPEAKING
11-4 Speaking Pairs #1

11:35
LISTENING
11-2 Celebrity Life
Correct exercise two.

1:20
WRITING
11-2 Contrasting Linking Verbs
Paragraph video

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

**UPDATE** Tuesday, Oct.6 Unit 11 Lesson Plan

***UPDATE***

Read/Practice/Watch
Using "if" and "whether" in indirect questions information
Indirect questions quiz


Watch Indirect questions from Wh-questions video
Indirect Questions quiz 2


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10:20
warmer
Spelling City listening, speaking and vocabulary exercise
NOTE: at home practice - click above and click on Spelling test.

VOCABULARY
11-1 Correct exercise one: d - t.

SPEAKING
11-2 Vocabulary Discussion

LISTENING
11-1 Celebrity Life
These people were asked this question:
Would you like to be?
... a politician? a pro-athlete? a movie star? or a musician?

12:50
pre-Grammar Question formation quiz
GRAMMAR
11-1 Indirect Questions
Lesson Presentation and exercise

Extra practice to do at home
subject-verb agreement quiz
Advanced subject-verb agreement quiz

Monday, October 5, 2015

Monday, Oct5 Unit 10 Test and the Start of Unit 11

warmer
So/Neither do I

10:30
Pre-test SPEAKING
10-6 Agreeing and Disagreeing (So / Neither Do I)
10-7 Agreeing and Disagreeing (So / Neither Do I)

10:45
Instructions
Unit 10 test

11:40
Stop test
maybe:
Correct test D, E.

L U N C H

12:50
VOCABULARY
Presentation and exercise.

WRITING
11-1 Subject-verb Agreement


Friday, October 2, 2015

***Weekend UPDATE*** Friday, Oct.2 Unit 10 Lesson Plan

***UPATE***
the or no article quiz
Do: Modals of Probability lesson and exercise. Check your answers
Practice quizzes posted during the week.

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10:20
warmer
Basketball - articles: a/an the (no article)

WRITING
10-2 Articles
Correct a few.
Proper nouns / Article or No Article?
Share this homework with me: lesliemillikin@canada-english.com

GRAMMAR
10-3 So / Neither Do I
Correct exercise. Do part of #3 and #4 as a class.

SPEAKING
10-8 Agreeing and Disagreeing -only do half.

On the weekend, refresh the blog 
(from your ME page) 
for an update.
lessons, videos, quizzes

Thursday, October 1, 2015

***UPDATE***Thursday Oct.1 Unit 10 Lesson Plan

***UPDATE***

NEW
Watch
So/Neither do I television clips video  
Start after the animation.

Practice 

"So, too, either, neither"simple quiz
Watch this video.

Modal Verbs of Probability (all probability modals) quiz
Modals quiz

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10:20
LISTENING
Pre-listening and Pronunciation
Vocabulary words (new)

10:35
10-3 Window or Aisle Seat?
Pre-listening Speaking
Listening and exercise

11:15
GRAMMAR
10-2 Modal Verbs of Certainty #2 Presentation 
Correct exercise. Do #3 in-class

12:50
So / Neither Do I
Lesson on the board
Listening/Grammar Headway Gr.10.3 So/Neither do I

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Extra practice
Past modals quiz