Enchanted to Meet You!

I am happy to meet you!  I like that many of you speak so well!  Write about yourself.  

What's your name?  Where are you from?  Do you live near the school now?  Do you like to talk about your family?  If so, please write about them.  Do you have a pet?  Do you like to cook?   Do you work?  What do you do?  Did you work before?  What did you do?  Do you want to travel?  Where do you want to go?

Who did you meet today?

Welcome to English Class

 Welcome to English Class!  

I post songs and questions.

Please write answers to some of the questions in the comments or on paper to turn in.

Please listen to songs. When I post a song you like, repeat listening to it until you can sing it.

Help me find good songs.

I also put many links to any website that looks helpful for our level.

On a phone, you need to go to the bottom of the page, and press "view web version" 

then click on a picture to see and use the links. 

 I usually update the class vocabulary on Quizlet after class.

If you love a helpful website, please tell me about it.

What's your name? What do you like to do?  

Nice to meet you!

 

Tell me about yourself!

What are you like?

What do you like?

That's My Goal

Why do you want to learn English?  What are your goals?  What will you do when your English is excellent?

Please write about another goal that you are happy that you got.

Happy Easter!

Many people in the USA celebrate Easter today.

Non-Christians as well as Christians  celebrate Easter by dying hard-boiled eggs * or buying plastic eggs, putting candy in, and having an Easter Egg hunt.  When I was a child, adults usually hid the eggs.  A long time ago, kids had races and tried to roll uncooked eggs across a field without breaking them. One popular public Easter egg roll is usually at the White House.

*Easter eggs are often boiled for ten minutes.  Vinegar is often added to the water and to the dye cups.  Most people use food coloring or an egg dying kit.  I like to use icing dye in blue, red, and yellow.  My kids mixed the colors.

Families often get together to eat.

Easter is a holiday when Christians remember that Christ rose from the dead. 

Some churches say, "Resurrection Sunday."

Many churches usually start their service with this hymn:

Did you celebrate Easter?  Do you celebrate Resurrection Sunday?  How?

Do you want to practice?

The most important thing you can do to improve English is use English -- talk to people, read, listen, and write English.

I like to teach Grammar because if you use it well, it's an excellent short cut.  If you catch the rule with the grammar pattern, you can immediately understand how to say 10,000 things correctly.  Also, advanced classes usually use grammar rules, and understanding basic grammar ideas and how to use grammar with lots of examples to learn a language makes those classes easy rather than incomprehensible.

• Try to remember grammar rules, but don't get mad when they don't work 100%.
• Make tons of your own examples from the rule, and ask a native speaker if they are correct.
• Repeat correct useful phrases a LOT

Can you find any grammar mistakes in this grammar song?

Some people in our class got an excellent grammar education before this class.  Some never had a chance to learn grammar before. Here are links for some of grammar you should master before going to high intermediate.  If you want grammar practice, try these links.

Can you name the parts of speech?

Simple Present

Present Continuous=Present Progressive

Simple Present vs. Present Continuous

future with will

future with going to

Simple Past

Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

Old Fashioned Pronoun Use

Challenge: Adjective Order

Memory work:  80 Common Irregular Verbs 

Irregular Verbs - A variety of little-by-little lists, songs, and games to help you remember  

Non Count Nouns

Common expressions with Make or do

Happy Eid al Fitr

There are more than three million Muslim people in the USA, and tonight is an important holiday.  Eid al Fitr marks the end of Ramadan.

 PBS -- Eid al Fitr

Do you celebrate Eid a Fitr?  (If yes, is this information correct?)  What do you do?  Did you prepare any good food?  What did you cook?  What did you eat?