Let's Go Fly a Kite

 

How do you recommend I make this class better?

What was your favorite activity when you were a child?

Let's go!

Let's have fun!  What are you going to do today?

Let's Get LOUD!

Gotta ______(base verb) is an informal way to express "have got to ______(base verb) 

which means must ____ or have to _____.
Ain't nobody is an informal way to say, "there isn't anybody that"

What do you have to do this weekend?  What do you want to do?

Our House

This song pronounces vase as olive-sock vase -- that's British English.

In the US, we say gray-day vase.

House Vocabulary Practice with Learning Chocolate (cupboard and cabinet are interchangeable words -.not for top and bottom.)

Language Guide House Vocabulary

Learning Chocolate: Kitchen 1

Kitchen Vocabulary from Language Guide

Kitchen 2

What do you like about your home?  What don't you like?  What do you plan to change?

Home Repair--More Vocabulary

House Vocabulary from Languageguide.org

http://www.languageguide.org/english/vocabulary/kitchen/

http://www.languageguide.org/english/vocabulary/kitchen2/

http://www.languageguide.org/english/vocabulary/bathroom/

http://www.languageguide.org/english/vocabulary/bathroom2/

http://www.languageguide.org/english/vocabulary/utility-room/

This next video is way too fast and silly, but it uses class vocabulary!

http://www.learningchocolate.com/content/tools-1

http://www.learningchocolate.com/content/tools-2

A handyman can fix many things.  Do you have any household problems that could use a handyman?  Did you ever fix something?  What did you fix?

Calling your landlord when the dryer doesn't work

A landlord or landlady is the owner of a property that someone rents.  They should pay for any big repairs.  The renter changes light bulbs and keeps things clean.

Vocabulary Practice with Learning Chocolate

Who can you call when you are the home owner?  

Did you ever fix something using YouTube videos for instruction?

Did you ever call a landlord or a landlady?  Why?

Bad Landlord

 

Blight is a disease that suddenly kills many plants.  Urban blight is bad condition homes that make a neighborhood feel unsafe.

Did you ever have a bad landlord?  What did you do?