Happy Indigenous Peoples Day ! We HAVE SCHOOL MONDAY! (Children don't.)

Government offices, banks, and libraries usually close today.  Restaurants and stores usually don't.  They are often crowded with people who don't have to work!  Sometimes, they offer good deals.

Sometimes schools close, sometimes they don't.

For 2025, our children don't have school, but we do.

Knowing that Native Americans were here before the English colonists and naming a few North American tribes is on the citizenship exam.  Most common tribes named include: ▪ Cherokee ▪ Navajo ▪ Sioux ▪ Chippewa ▪ Choctaw ▪ Pueblo ▪ Apache ▪ Iroquois ▪ Creek ▪ Blackfeet ▪ Seminole ▪ Cheyenne ▪ Arawak ▪ Shawnee ▪ Mohegan ▪ Huron ▪ Oneida ▪ Lakota ▪ Crow ▪ Teton ▪ Hopi ▪ Inuit

Did you celebrate Columbus Day or Indigenous People's Day?

What did you do?

What did you wear?

I should probably go to bed...

 

Challenge Reading: 3 ways to Health

Practice should ___(base verb) and shouldn't ____(base verb)

Today's Kahoot

What time should you go to bed?  What time do you go to bed?  What time did you go to bed last night? What do you like to do at night?  How much sleep do you usually get?

Common Health Problems/At the doctor's

Language Guide-- The body

Inside a body vocabulary (language guide)

The digestive system (language guide)

language guide: medicine

Vocabulary:  Common Health Problems on Learning Chocolate

Vocabulary:  Internal Body Parts

How often do you go to the doctor?  Do you have a good doctor here?  How is the experience at the doctor different here?

Ellii on Should and other common modals

Modals are helping verbs.  They are never used in continuous tenses and they have their own way to do past tense.

Should I put more grammar on the class website?  Should we do less grammar in class?

Getting Chores Done

 What are you doing today?  What chores are you going to do this weekend?  Do you want this dog?

 What is this dog doing?

Learning Chocolate: cleaning tools

Learning Chocolate: Chores around the house

Many Make or Do Expressions

Listening: Chore Wars

What chores did you do today?  Do you like to listen to music when you do housework?  

Describe a chore that makes your life happier.

Everybody needs somebody

 It's totally crazy, but in English everybody, everyone, and everything use singular 3rd person verbs -- just like he, she, or it.  Think of everybody (or everyone or everything)  as one big group (it)...

Everybody needs water.

Everyone tries to live well.

Everything is getting better.

Everybody Needs Somebody -- same song, but easier to follow lyrics. No capital I's...

In formal English, we write "Everything is going to be all right."

What things are important for everybody?  What does everybody need to do?

Nobody knows

 Nobody and no-one also use that third person singular verb

that often needs an s just like verbs after  he, she, & it

Nobody is there.

Nobody works like he does.

No-one understands except you.

What do you want people to see and understand?