Welcome to ESOL Study!

Using English is the best way to improve your English! Please sing with the songs and write comments.

Please suggest songs and topics you like.

If you are using a phone, you need to scroll down and press "view web version" to find links to the vocabulary and grammar exercises.

If your phone translates this blog, please set your phone to use English. The instructions are here.

Click on the picture of the book to find the link to class vocabulary!

If you want me to explain any English topic to you on here, please comment or text to tell me.

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Happy First Day of Spring!!

I think my cousin in Maryland made this snowman today....


Please print this list of phone numbers and websites to use in case of typical storm emergencies.

Be careful on the roads!  If you are comfortable driving in snow and have four-wheel drive and sleds or skis, you may want to check out Fairfax County places to sled or ski

Are you enjoying the snow?  What are you doing?

Poetry Day















Do you like poetry?  Who is your favorite poet?

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Last Day of Class!!

Thank you so much for the beautiful card, the delicious food, the amazing planter, the beautiful bouquet, the chocolate, the candle, the coffee mug, the necklace, the amazing memories....

THANK YOU!














What about this class surprised you?  (besides Nelson who is in another class....)  What is your favorite memory?  Did you get any good pictures to add to our shared "students" album?  Can you put some delicious recipes on google docs and share them with me?  How can I make the next class better?

Happy!

Happy International Day of Happiness!!



What makes you happy?

Thursday, March 15, 2018

So today is the Ides of March...

and the USA's National Latin exam.  Really.


History: Who was Julius Ceaser?

Do you like Shakespeare?  Did you ever see or read a translation of "Julius Ceaser?"  "Et tu, Brute" isn't English, but you will still hear it from English-speaking people who want to let someone know that they see betrayal.  What plays do you like?

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Happy Pi Day!


Wasn't Qi amazing?  He remembers a LOT of digits!!





Do you have any good pie recipes?  What is your favorite kind of pie?

Happy WHITE DAY!!


Happy White Day!!  Are you giving or receiving any gifts today?  What?

Don't stop now!!


Please keep coming and working.  It's not over yet...



Learning English is difficult and takes a lot of time, but you are doing a good job.
I understood all your speeches on Wednesday -- WOW!!

My curriculum is designed for students to study for one year -- three sessions -- before they move up to the next level.  Some people can move up after one session, but they usually have great listening skills and they often had a good English grammar education before they came to my class.
I often keep really excellent students for a second session so they have the opportunity to learn more vocabulary and topics that we didn't do in this session.
  
Please don't compare yourself to other students, and 
please register to come back and keep improving!!

Monday, March 12, 2018

Be Prepared to Teach Adults Tomorrow!! (If you didn't teach us yesterday!!)




What are you going to teach us?  What are the most important things that you teach your children?  What did you learn from a child?  What did you learn from a classmate?

Friday, March 9, 2018

Did you enjoy going to the Newseum?

http://www.newseum.org/



What did you see?  What did you like?  What didn't you like?  Did you learn anything?

Monday, March 5, 2018

Can you do this?


Can you find 3 English grammar or spelling problems in the next video?  



Grammar Practice with "can"





What could you do when you were a child?  What can you do now?  What do you like to do?

Thursday, March 1, 2018