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Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Ridiculous!

Listening challenge with lots of verb tense changes...

Did you ever forget to say anything really important? Tell us the story!

Who Knew?

What did you want to do when you were fourteen years old? Tell me about a surprise in your life that you didn't predict.

Don't you remember...

What do you want people to remember about you? What is your favorite memory?

Did all the snow melt today?

Write about a memory on a sunny day.

or

Write about a time someone or something made you feel happier.

Sunday, January 29, 2017

WHEN FCPS IS LATE, OUR MORNING CLASS STARTS ON TIME....

If your children are young, don't worry about the time. Come as soon as you can...

(My daughter and my friend are hoping for a snow day on Monday.)

The more you practice, time after time, the better you get. How can I make it more fun to speak English time after time?

Thursday, January 26, 2017

In this song, the singer seems to think that the stars and planets influence her relationship. Do you believe in horoscopes? (People who believe in horoscopes believe that your birth month or year influences your personality. People born in Aquarius or the year of the horse are different than people born in Taurus or the year of the dragon.) What does your horoscope say about you? What do horoscopes say about the upcoming year?

Please describe someone you love. What is he like? What is she like?

How far I'll go...

Practice prepositions and directions

Do you like to travel? Do you think it's good to travel? Tell me about a trip you took far away. Did learning about another culture change some things that you do? Where are the best places to travel to?

Monday, January 23, 2017

Every Day

(Please use two words when you write "every day.")

Tell me about yourself. What do you do every day? What do you love to do?

Friday, January 20, 2017

Inauguration Day

Did you go to the Inauguration? Do you know anyone who did?

Do you have any advice for the incoming president? What should he do?

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Don't Stop

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Where are the best places you went? Where do you want to go?

How long will I...?

Are you married? How long? It'll be 27 years in May for me.

Monday, January 16, 2017

When you tell me that you love me....

Do you like anything in your routine? My husband usually brings me coffee in bed in the morning. My teenage daughter often listens to music when we drive. Watching the news on TV early in the day sometimes makes me sad. I take a dance class once a week. Do you have habits that cheer you up?

Thursday, January 12, 2017

SxS Directions

Monday, January 9, 2017

Class Version

What is your favorite season? Where do you go when you want to see something beautiful?

Sunday, January 8, 2017

Hello!

Hello! Nice to meet you! Tell me about yourself. What is your name? Where are you from? Do you have a job? If yes, what do you do? What was your occupation before you came here? Do you have a big family? Do you like to cook? What do you like to do?

Friday, January 6, 2017

Students Recommend

Duolingo

Voscreen.com (May have to register, but looks free to me)

Ke We En Youtube classes in Korean

GFC Learn Free

English_speaking411 on Instagram

aprende ingles y canta (on TikTok)

I love Lucy

Scooby Doo

Learn American English Online

Isaac's English -- Grammar Explanations in Spanish

English 2 me

https://www.123-ingles.com/ -- Includes illegal audio from our book!! (Ventures)

City Mapper -- Navigation Tool

Pulmuone frozen dumplings at H-Mart

Juan Valdez coffee

Movies/TV- "The Zookeeper"

I love Lucy

Scooby Doo

"Up"

Restaurants

703 Peruvian

Afghan Restaurant

Cafe Rio (Modern Mexican)

Chilcanos Peruvian Resto Bar

Coastal Flats - Atlantic coast US seafood

Coco Rico Arlington

Dona Bessy Pupuseria -- (2018 student said: Good Salvadoran food -- Great pupusas!

2022 student says it's not very good now.)

Dona Asucena Pupuseria

Chuys Mexican --TexMex chain

Green Olive Buffet -- Asian buffet on route 1

Guapos

First Watch - Great restaurant for breakfast

Founding Farmers (Tysons) - a little expensive, but very fresh organic food

Guapo's Mexican Restaurant

Han Gang - Good Korean barbecue

Hoa Nghiem Pagoda - Good Vietnamese food

Huascaran Peruvian Restaurant

Istanbul Kitchen - Good Turkish food

Kebabistan - delicious Afghan food at a good price

Los Toltecos

Maggianos Little Italy - Upscale Italian restaurant

Molcajete- Good Mexican food in Woodbridge (Yelp gives it 3 stars)

Nazret - Good Ethiopian food

La Pupusa Loca (Sterling location)

Pisco y Nazca Peruvian food and drinks

Pho Saigon Oi - authentic southern Vietnamese menu

Pupusas Express

9292 Shabu Shabu - Delicious Korean Hotpot restaurant

Sampan Cafe -- Good Chinese food

Texas de Brazil Steakhouse (Fair Oaks Mall)

Olive Garden- US style Italian chain

Victor's Grill and Luzmila's Bolivian Restaurant -- Good restaurants for saltenas.

Shamshiry - Traditional Persian food. Excellent kabobs. (Near Tyson's corner)

Victor Rio

Quincy Market in Boston, MA is a good place to get a Lobster Sandwich

Lima District Restaurant

Doctor

Dr. Lugo - family medicine-speaks Spanish

Auto Repair

Fair Repair Auto Care

Backlick Rd Service Station -4715 Backlick Rd, Annandale, VA 22003

Excellent car repair at a good price -- not always fast -- not open on the weekends. They speak Korean.

Community Car Care

Tools

Makita Tools

Consumer Websites

Consumer Reports -membership organization that tests quality of many things and publishes recommendations. Their magazines and buying guides are available at the library. Their website requires membership, but it's very convenient.

https://us.shein.com/ -- Clothes (based in China)

Community (resources for driving, learning, and living in DC)

Police non-emergency number for Fairfax County -- McLean (703) 556-7750
(703) 691-2131

ACE Classes

FCPS Adult ESOL Test Dates and Locations

Library Conversation Class

GED Information

GED in Spanish

GED Practice Test - GED is a high school equivalency test.

FCPS Adult High School

Print out phone numbers in case of a weather emergency

Metro Maps and Fares (Though using navigate on a smartphone is easier)

Inexpensive things to do near DC

Calendar for things to do with Children

Multilingual FCPS Podcast

Social Media Holidays

Farmer's Markets -- Food sold directly from farms during warm seasons

Grocery Store Sale Ads

Student Recipes

Cooking Enjoyment with Taiba - YouTube channel with recipes by a Plum Center Student!!

Restaurants that some students like

How to do some common line dances

Volunteer Fairfax -- Get work experience, meet people, and practice English by working for NO pay

How can I get my Professional Degree or Qualifications Recognized in the USA?

Report a hate crime or get help after a hate crime (in addition to 911)

Local Driving Schools

Practice Driving Test (Scroll down to Virginia)

DMV Practice Road Signs

Optional Memory Work

What are the names of the eight parts of speech?

Count or Non-Count Quizlet Flashcards (high beginning)

Irregular Past Tense Verbs --

Verbs from Welcome p. 5 in Ventures

Verbs from Unit 3 p. 34 in Ventures,

Verbs from Unit 8 starting at p. 98 in Ventures

Irregular Verbs by frequency

Common Irregular Verbs set 1,

Common Irregular Verbs set 2

Common Irregular Verbs set 3

Common Irregular Verbs set 4

Common Irregular Verbs set 5

Common Irregular Verbs set 6

Irregular Verbs by sound

Irregular Verbs with past forms that rhyme with olive sock and are the same as the past participle

Irregular Verbs with past forms that rhyme with red pepper (Past=past participle form)

Irregular verbs with past forms that rhyme with a cup of mustard (past = past participle form)

Irregular Verbs (base rhymes with white tie) to (Past rhymes with brown cow)

Irregular Verbs with the same past and past participle form

Adjective Order Categories (as taught in advanced levels)
NO SAS-C POMP
NO- Number, Opinion SAS - size, age, shape C - color POMP - pattern, origin, material, purpose

Make or Do Quizlet flashcards (low intermediate)

Stative (non-action verbs not used in progressive/continuous tenses) explanation video

Non-action (stative) Verb List to memorize

Stative Verbs and examples on quizlet

80 Irregular Verbs on Quizlet Flashcards (Intermediate)

BIG list of Irregular Verbs (High Intermediate) The page starts with explanations on verb use. Scroll down to find the groups of irregular verbs.

Verbs only followed by infinitives or gerunds quizlet flashcards (high intermediate +)

Advanced Level List of Non-count nouns

Click on the blue links for a LOT of advanced level partitives -- partitives are ways to make non-count nouns countable. Containers and measurable quantities are partitives

Advanced Phrasal Verb Dictionary -- Memorize only little bits at a time. These are particularly good for preparing for the NVCC Placement test (Advanced)

Advanced -- More Idioms!!

OLD VOCABULARY QUIZLET LINKS

1 Vocabulary for Winter 2023

2 Vocabulary Winter 2023 Low Intermediate at Plum set 2

3 Vocabulary for Winter 2023 Low Intermediate at Plum set 3

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Set 4 Fall 2022 Low Intermediate at Plum Center

Set 3 Fall 2022 Low Intermediate at Plum Class Vocabulary

Set 2 Fall 2022 Low Intermediate at Plum

Fall 2022 Low Intermediate at Plum Vocabulary

Unit 7 Study Stack

4 LI at Plum Fall 2022 Vocabulary Set 4

Autumn 2019 Low Intermediate at Plum (AM) vocabulary set 3

Autumn 2019 Low Intermediate Set 2

Autumn 2019 Low Intermediate at Plum Vocabulary

Summer 2019 LI ESOL Class Vocabulary Set 1

Spring 2019 LI ESOL at Plum set 5

Spring 2019 LI ESOL at Plum set 4

Spring 2019 morning at Plum Vocabulary Set 3

Spri ng 2019 Class Vocabulary Set 2

Spring 2019 Class Vocabulary Set 1 Winter 2019 Class Vocabulary Set 4

Winter 2019 Class Vocabulary Set 3

Winter 2019 Class Vocabulary Set 2

Winter 2019 Class Vocabulary Set 1

Fall 2018 Class Vocabulary set 1

Summer 2018 Vocabulary

Summer 2018 Irregular Verbs Set 1

Winter 2018 at Pimmit Set 3 (Includes many words from set 2)

Winter 2018 at Pimmit Set 2

Winter 2018 Vocabulary at Pimmit
AM Autumn 2017 Low Intermediate at Pimmit Set 4 (Work)
AM Autumn 2017 Low Intermediate at Pimmit Set 3 (health)
AM Autumn 2017 Low Intermediate at Pimmit set 2
AM Autumn 2017 Low Intermediate at Pimmit

PM Autumn 2017 Low Intermediate at Plum

Summer 2017 Vocabulary set 1

AM Vocabulary Set 4 -- Cars, Police Stop, Directions, Health
AM Vocabulary (Spring 2017 Pimmit LI) set 3 (Past, Parties, & Work)
AM Low Intermediate at Pimmit Spring 2017 -- Set 2 -- Comparisons AM Pimmit Low Intermediate Vocabulary on Quizlet 1 for Spring 2017 (V2 School, goals, and skills)

PM Low Intermediate at Plum vocabulary on Quizlet I Spring 2017

Thursday, January 5, 2017

Reading with Children

or using kids' sites to improve reading and spelling

can/can't song

Starfall -- Phonics and Reading

Unite Books

PBS Super Readers!

Tumblebooks

Read and Recognise the word game (Good for listening too!)

Parts of Speech Game with a Gorilla

Literacy Games

World Book Early World of Reading (ID & password = fairfax)

Monkey game; complete sentences with irregular verbs

Spelling

Practice Spelling Phonetics

Singular and Plural Nouns

Study Stack: common adjectives

Chart: Spelling when you add -ing

Quiz: which plural noun is correctly spelled?

Spell Colors by Moving the Letters to the Correct Order

Play Hangman on www.ego4u.com

Phonics explanations on The Learning Nook (Designed for teachers of children.)

Irregular Verbs Hangman

Fast Spelling Game

Catch the Letter to Spell the Word Game

Spelling Quizzes -- Check by looking at the Top

Study Stack: Words with a silent gh

Pronunciation

Introduction to the Color Vowel System - Video

Color Vowel Chart Video

English Club Minimal Pairs

Wordhelp text to speech (type the word, then press the button to hear it)

Practice common phrases (collocations) - Oxford Dictionary

Easy World of English Pronunciation

linguasorb: List of most common regular past tense verbs with sound

Youglish

Stressed syllables

Sounds of English

Minimal pair: green tea ee vs. silver pin i

Pronuncing R vs. L

Pronouncing V vs. W with Rachel

Pronouncing V vs. W with Ceema. (Ceema has an Indian English accent, but her Vs and Ws are perfect for American English too.)

Rachel's American English Pronunciation Guide

Rachel's English-- Commonly misspronounced words

https://www.idealist.org/en/

Practice soft and hard g on Learning Chocolate

Practice a voiced th on Learning Chocolate

ch vs sh

Practice Words that Begin with "H"

Practice pronouncing OUGH

Because OUGH has many pronunciations, we like to laugh about it.
Comedy routine OUGH with I Love Lucy and Fun Challenge: ough poem

I want to become a US Citizen

Citizenship Website

Ben's Guide to Government (kid's guide to US Government)

Video of a Naturalization Interview (5:12)

Hogar Immigrant Services -- legal advice and citizenship classes

Just Neighbors -- Legal Advice and Services

Grammar

Ventures Arcade (our level is blue 2)

Grammar I want you to know before you go to High Intermediate

Easy ESOL Grammar

Venture Kahoots!

University of Victoria Explanations and Quizzes

Quiz on Adjective Order

Learn English Feel Good Grammar Quizzes

3 Fall 2024 vocabulary set 3

Ad Abbreviations on Quizlet

Irregular verbs -- learn and practice

Road signs

Yard work words

Video with vocabulary about household chores

Vocabulary and Spelling for Medical Reports

Ailments (Things wrong with a body or with health)

Irregular Verbs (Most common -- Small group 1)(More under memory work)

Computer Terms

(Old vocabulary sets are available under optional memory work-->)

American Football Terms

English for my Job -- restaurant words and conversations

Language Guide -- Learn new words and press audio for quizzes

Learning Chocolate -- Learn and practice LOTS of words

Easy World of English Picture Dictionary

freerice.com

Make or Do on Quizlet (pick the make/do)

Make or Do on Quizlet (old one -- expressions and definitions)

Is it Count or Non-count?

Prepositions on Quizlet

Learn English Today Idiom Dictionary

Idiom Practice

Phrasal Verb Dictionary

Irregular Plurals (on quizlet)

80 Irregular Verbs (Quizlet set)

Listening & Reading

ESLfast.com -- Dialogs Spoken Slowly

Listen and Read easy stories with rong-chang.com

Spotlight--Slowly Read English Videos

Video with good dialogs

English Listening at Voscreen (needs free sign up for subscription)

CASAS (reading test) Practice

Dialogs for listening and reading (says it's for beginners, but sounds a little fast

Easy English -- Learn English on the street video series

Chrome Tools -- How to use Google chrome to make any English reading into listening

Listen a Minute (British accent)

Reading with Marshall Adult Education

"Learn English Feel Good" Listen and take the quiz

Listen and Read Along with manythings and VOA.org

VOA- Video Course Let's Learn English (The first videos are too easy for us, but they get to our level quickly)

Voscreen

News in levels

Randall's Listening Lab

Side by Side Videos (conversations that demonstrate good grammar)

CASAS Examples (starts on page 6)

English Today DVD Program

Type the Word You Hear -- Speedy Speller Game

Real English--Interviews with people with different accents including British

Listen and Read to Prepare for the Citizenship Test

Citizenship Interview example starts at 5:12

Lyrics Game -- Listen and type in the missing words

Short Stories to Listen and Read

CNN 10 News (A pun is a joke made by using homonyms or the same word with different meaning)

Voice of America -- Listen while you read news articles

Culturegrams (type fairfax in both boxes to get in) Read and listen to articles about countries

What do you mean?

Do you have trouble making decisions? Tell me about a decision that made you happy or tell me about a situation when you thought you understood something, but you were wrong.

Set Fire to the Rain

Describe someone you love.