Thursday, May 31st, 2012

Happy Thursday, Everyone!


9:00-20am:
Write Discussion Q's
 - Write at least 3 questions:
             - Use grammar and vocab from Unit 4 in at least 1 questions
             - Write questions you want to talk about; this activity is to practice your fluency (speed and smoothness of speaking).
            - Put your name in parentheses after your questions: (Carey)


9:20-40am:
Grammar 8-1 Speaking Practice: Already and Not Yet


9:40-10:30am:
Notes on Grammar 8-2: Present Perfect Continuous to Explain the Present


Photos Speaking/Writing Practice

10:40am-12pm:
Grammar 8-2 Exercises

1-2pm:
Discussion

HOMEWORK:
Reading 8-1: "Three Environmentally Friendly Cities"

MJ, Asami, Kseniya, Osama and Maha will go to Nicole's class
Seri, Ibrahim, Hayfa, Taher and Joe will go to Neal's class

***Because this is a short week, we won't get to grammar 8-3. Don't worry! We will study it next week! :)

Wednesday, May 30th, 2012

Happy Wednesday!

9:00-20am:
Warm-up: Vocab Game

9:20-45am:
"What do you know about Present Perfect?"
Review Present Perfect Simple for Experience (Unspecified Time) and Present Perfect Simple & Continuous for Duration (Length of Unfinished Action).

10:40am-12pm:
Grammar Notes on Grammar 8-1: Present Perfect to Explain the Present.

Start Grammar 8-1: Exercise #1.


1-2pm:
Speaking and Grammar: Speaking Pairs


HOMEWORK:
Finish Grammar 8-1 Exercise 1

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

Happy Tuesday, everyone!

I hope you had a great 3-day weekend!

Today our plan is...

9:00-20am:
Questions


9:20-10:30am:
Unit 4 Quiz!

10:40-11am:
Finish Quiz

When you finish: study vocab! From the list or from the slideshow (I emailed the .pdf to you because it's not on SMRT, yet)!

Our theme this week is "The Environment."

11am-12pm:
Unit Introduction with Speaking & Vocab!

Student One:
      MJ, Kseniya, Maha

Student Two:
     Taher, Joe, Ibrahim

Student Three:
      Osama, Asami, Hayfa

1-2pm:
Listening 8-1: "Saving Energy"


HOMEWORK:
(1) Use 25 vocab words (you choose!). NOT ALL. Write a short short, dialogue or just some sentences. Use 2-3 words per sentence.
(2) Audio Match 3 times

Email your homework to me: carey.jackson@usa-english.com

Friday, May 25th, 2012

Happy Friday, everyone!

Remember, there's no school on Monday because it's Memorial Day. Enjoy your three-day weekend!

Today, our plan is...

9:00-10am:
Announcement

9:10-9:45am:
Vocabulary Game

9:45-10:30am:
Grammar Review WS

10:40-12pm:
Cued Writing Practice

HOMEWORK:
Finish Cued Writing Practice

Thursday, May 24th, 2012

9:00-20am:
Warm-up by writing Discussion Q's!
      - Write at least 3 questions:
             - Use grammar and vocab from Unit 4 in at least 1 questions
             - Write questions you want to talk about; this activity is to practice your fluency (speed and smoothness of speaking).
            - Put your name in parentheses after your questions: (Carey)

9:20-10:30:
Notes on Participial Adjectives and an Exercise!

Participial Adjective writing practice with Flickr's Most Interesting Photos from the Last 7 days.

10:40am-12pm:
Listening 4-2: "Newspapers"

**If we have time:
Share HW Advice
Grammar Review with Speaking: Making Requests and Making Offers

1-2pm:
Discussion with Nicole's class and 1/2 of Neal's class.
Go to Nicole's class.

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

Happy Wednesday! It's hump day!

Our plan for today is...

9:00-20am:
Warm-up with some Speaking and Vocabulary: Questions from Student Three and Student Four.

9:20-40am:
HW Q's, Finish Reading

9:40-10:30:
Review Grammar from yesterday with:
Speaking Pairs: Modal of Obligation


10:40am-12pm:
Notes on Grammar 4-2: Modals of Permission  and practice Exercise

Notes Grammar 4-3: Making Requests and Offers

1-2pm:
Finish Grammar 4-3 and practice Exercises



HOMEWORK:
Giving Advice
- Click on the link above
- Open your student number
        Student One: MJ, Taher, Joe
        Student Two: Asami, Osama
        Student Three: Hayfa, Maha
        Student Four: Wanderson, Kseniya, Ibrahim
- Write advice for each of the situations given. Use modals of Obligation, Lack of Obligation, Prohibition and Advice. Email your answers to Carey. We will use these in class tomorrow, so make sure you finish before class!

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

It's Tuesday!

Here's our plan for the day:

9:00-20am:
Warm-up with some Speaking and Vocab: Questions from Student One and Student Two. (DON'T go on to Students three and four; we will answer those Q's tomorrow)


9:20-40am:
HW Questions

9:40-10:30am:
Notes on Grammar 4-1: Modals of Obligation and Advice.



10:40am-12pm:

Start Grammar 4-1 Exercises.

1-2pm:

Reading 4-1: "William Shakespeare"

HOMEWORK:
(1) Finish Grammar 4-1, Exercise 3
(2) Answer Jun's survey

Monday, May 21st, 2012

Happy  Monday, everyone!

Here's our plan for the day...

9:00-25am:
Questions, Feedback from Carey, Announcements
Conversation Club is tonight at 5:30pm at the Riverpark Square Food Court (downtown mall, third floor)! You get 5 extra credit points if you attend!


9:30 - 11am: 
Unit 6 Quiz

*If you finish early, start studying vocabulary with the list + examples or slideshow with examples, definitions and pictures. Sometimes the slideshow is show online -- let me if you want me to email you a .pdf copy.


11am-12pm:
Speaking: Intro

Start: Listening 4-1: "Online Reading" - Unit 4 Vocab

1-2pm:
Listening 4-1: "Online Reading"

Comprehension Exercise 1
Comprehension Exercise 2


For this week:
We're going back in time! In the first half of the quarter, our class studied Units 1, 2, 3, 7, and 5 (many students needed to study Present Perfect (Unit 7) if they wanted to move up). In the second half of the quarter, we are studying Unit 6, 4, 8, 9, and 10. Unit 8 will be a review and new information about Present Perfect.

HOMEWORK:
(1) Do Audio Match three times. Try to repeat each word to practice your pronunciation.
Take a screenshot and email it to me or take a picture on your phone and show it to me in class.
(2) Write a short story, dialogue, or just some sentences using all of the vocab from Unit 4. Try to use 2-3 words per sentence.

Email your homework to Carey or bring it the next day. Email is better because the sooner your send it, the sooner I can get it back to you!

Friday, May 18th, 2012

9:00-20am:
Return paragraphs; talk about copying from the text (plagiarism)

9:20-50am:
Vocab Review Game

9:50-10:30am:
Cued Writing - Type and email it to me, or write and bring it to me on Monday!
Here is the example Cued Writing we did in class. (If you weren't here)

10:40-12pm:
Continue Writing Practice (I can't get the google doc to work, so check your email!)


Grammar Review with error correction and fill-in-the-blank

HOMEWORK:
- Finish cued writing.

- NOT required: Grammar Review WS. Here are the answers. Check your WS and if you have questions, I will answer them on Monday.

Thursday, May 17th, 2012

Happy Thursday!

Today our plan is...

9:00-30am:
Warm up by writing some questions for discussion with Neal and half of Scott's class. Type at least 3 questions into our Discussion Q's document.

When you finish, answer a few q's about the short reading from Grammar 6-2 Exercise 4.

9:30-10:00am:
HW Q's - Grammar 6-2 and Class Policies

10:00-15am:
Finish Reading

10:15-30am:
Notes on Grammar 6-3: "Verbs + Indirect Object + Infinitive"

10:40-12:00pm:
Finish Grammar Notes.

Do some Exercises for Grammar 6-3.

If we have time... a Vocab game.

1-2pm:
Discussion in Neal's room with Neal's class and half of Scott's.


HOMEWORK:
Grammar 6-3:  #1 and #3

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

Happy Wednesday! (Or "hump day"!)

Today, our plan is...

9:00-30am:

Warm-up with a Speaking/Grammar exercise with questions from "What makes you...?" and "How do you feel about...?"

9:30-45am:
Go over HW questions.

9:45-10:30am:
Grammar Notes on Infinitives.

10:40-11:40am:
Grammar Exercises

1-2pm:
Reading 6-1: "The Sedin Twins"


HOMEWORK:
Grammar 6-2: Exercises 3 and 4
**Exercise 4 is a short reading. I will have a few questions for you about the reading at the beginning of class.
Read Class Policies. Write down any questions you have. We will have a Q & A section tomorrow.

Tuesday, May 15th, 2012

Happy Tuesday everyone!

Our plan for today is...

9-10:30:

Warm-up with Vocab Game

Finish Listening 6-2 "Favorite Sports" (If you want to listen again at home, you can listen on SMRT here.)

10:40-12pm:

Start Grammar Notes on Gerunds!

1-2pm:

Continue Grammar and Exercises.

HOMEWORK:

- Exercises #3 and #4 - email to me at carey.jackson@usa-english.com!

Monday, May 14th, 2012

Hi Everyone!

Welcome to 120 if you're new!

Today we're going to start Unit 6! The topic is World Sports and the grammar is Gerunds and Infinitives.

Tomorrow, we will go over class rules!

We're going to start with an intro activity and Listening 6-2: Favorite Sports.

HOMEWORK:
- Study the Vocabulary (we'll do an activity with it in the morning):
       - List
       - Slideshow

- DO Audio Match three times. Send Carey a screen shot or take a picture with your phone.

Monday, May 14th, 2012

Conferences!

During Conferences, you can:

Study Vocab and Grammar for:
              - 120
              - 125
              - Play a game

1-2pm: New (or old) Class

2:11-3:15pm: PM Class

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

It's Michigan Day!

Have fun on the test! :p

Tuesday, May 8th, 2012

Happy Tuesday!

We'll continue review today...

We're going to use some of Flickr's "Most Interesting" Photos from the last 7 days for some writing & vocab practice.

Monday, May 7th, 2012

Happy Monday everyone!

This week is Mid-Term week...

Monday: Review Units 1-3

Tuesday: Review Units 5 & 7

Wednesday: Michigan Test

Thursday: SMRT Grammar Mid-term

Friday: SMRT Vocab Mid-term


Next Monday, we will have one-on-one conferences and you will go to your new class if you move up!

Friday, May 4th, 2012

Happy Friday!


Today our plan is...

9 - 10:30am:

Vocabulary Review Game

Start Adverbs

10:40 - 12pm:
Finish Adverb notes!

Adverb Exercises.


No Homework! Just start studying for the Mid-term:

Unit1

Unit 2

Unit 3

Unit 5

Unit 7

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

Happy Thursday!

Our plan for today is...

9:00-10:30am:

Hello from Jim!

Writing Discussion questions. Type all of your questions into our Shared Document.

Future Practice with Speaking Pairs.

Start Adjective Notes and Exercises.

10:40am -12pm:
Finish with Adjectives.

HOMEWORK:
Adjective Exercise #2

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

Happy Wednesday!

Today, our plan is...

9:00 - 10:30am:
Speaking: Making Plans

Start Future Notes: Making Predictions

Some Future: Making Predictions Exercises


10:40am - 12pm:
Listening 5-2: "Fashion Magazines"

1 -2pm:
SCEL school project!

HOMEWORK:
Write one or two paragraphs about your week next week.
   Use:
                 "will + BV" two times (Facts about the future, Opinions about the future and Decisions made at   the moment of speaking)
                  "Be going to + BV" two times (Opinions/Guesses about the future and Plans made some time before speaking.
                  Present Continuous ("Be + Ving") one time for the future (Plans made some time before speaking that you are 95-100% sure about)

**If you can't think of anything to write, use your "Making Plan" Caller/Receiver sheet and pretend you're doing those things

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

Happy Tuesday and May 1st everyone!

Today our plan....

9 - 10:30am:
Vocab and Speaking for Fashion!

Start Grammar Notes for Future: Making Decisions and Plans

10:40am-12pm:

Some Exercises with Future:  Making Decisions and Plans

1- 2pm:
Listening 5-2: "Is Fashion Important?"


NO HW tonight! -- try to get your second (or third) English Outside of Class to me!

And ... want pictures and definitions for vocab? The vocab slideshow is here!

**If you were late to the 1-2pm class and missed checking the second half of Grammar Exercise 5-1, you can find the answers here.