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, Oct28 Unit 2

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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, 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, 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, Oct23 Unit 1 Lesson Plan

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Question Formation - quiz

GRAMMAR
1-2 Questions
Correct exercise.

SPEAKING

GRAMMAR

1-3 Have and Have Got

*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 1, quiz 2

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10:20
Unit 1 Dictation

10:30

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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, 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

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

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, Oct.9 Unit 11 Lesson Plan

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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

***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

Wed.,Oct.7 Unit 11 Lesson Plan

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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

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

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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

***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
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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

***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