California Dreamin

Are you traveling this summer?  What are your dream goals?  How can you get them?

So Happy Together!

Practice Using Pronouns

I've been very happy with my spring class!  What makes you happy?

Like a Bridge Over Troubled Water

What do you do to help your friends?  What makes you feel better when you are stressed? 

Up, Up and Away

Balloon Tours in Central Virginia (More than a 45 minute drive out there-check distances)

Blue Ridge Hot Air Balloon Tours

http://www.balloonsunlimited.com/

Blue Ridge Ballooning

Skyline Hot Air Balloons

Skydiving from an airplane

Have you ever ridden in a balloon?

Horses

Horseback Riding near Fairfax County

Brenda is going to camp on Chincoteague Island.  Chincoteague is famous for the wild pony swim and auction that happens every year.  This year it will be on July 25, 2018.  Some people say the ponies came from a Spanish ship that was supposed to take the ponies to Peru.  Other people say the ponies belonged to pirates that secretly kept them there.  The pony swim was an annual custom long before the USA became the USA.

Did you ever ride a horse?  Do you like to ride horses?

Dancing....

Progressive (or continuous) tenses -- be + ______ing are always for action in progress.  The action continues after the time you talk about.  Use them when your action is NOT FINISHED. 

Past progressive is commonly used to tell stories in the past.  I was sleeping when the phone rang.  She was doing her homework when the book fell on her toe.  We were riding the bus when we met.  I was talking while they were studying.

What were you doing during the world cup game on Sunday?

What were you doing during the thunderstorm?  Were you worried?

I hope...

Do you have any hopes or dreams for any children in your life?  (Nieces, nephews, grandchildren, cousins, or actually your children?

I will return

I hope to return this summer, but many of my students plan to travel instead of taking English.  If you like the class, please tell people to come and sign up.  Will you return this summer?

Winter

Are there any places or seasons that remind you of your dad?  I honestly think of mine at Costco or the shopping mall....

Are you like (similar to) your dad?

The cat in the cradle = a string game parents used to play with children

Nursery rhymes are silly poems that we often teach toddlers.

Nursery Rhyme: Little Boy Blue

Nursery Rhyme-- Hey Diddle Diddle

I look like my mom, but I act more like my dad.  My dad did curriculum design for ESOL.  He loved his job, and I love mine too.  He liked to travel, and I do too.  He loved to read, and I do too.

My dad was a busy man who often worked two jobs, but he still had time for me.  We were lucky.  He ate with me, watched TV with me, took me shopping, and traveled with me.

Are you similar to your dad?  How?  Did you spend have the opportunity to spend time with your dad?  What did you do with him?

If

Don't worry about today's reading test.  If I get the results soon, I will tell you.

Don't worry about your level placement.   You improved a lot.  I saw that you improved a lot.  The levels are big and  the divide between them a bit arbitrary.  I keep people in LI if I think they can learn best there, but I never repeat everything exactly the same way.  Levels are a tool so that you can learn as fast as possible with (hopefully) very little frustration.

What do you want to learn this week?

Eid

Are you celebrating tonight?  What are you doing?

Tell me about yourself (in a job interview)

Volunteering -- working for NO $$$-- can give you practice in English, new friends, and connections that can help you get a job when you finish your English classes.  Religious organizations -- churches, mosques, temples, and synagogues -- can often connect you to volunteer opportunities.

Another place to find volunteer work is Volunteer Fairfax

.Tell me about yourself!  (You don't have to subscribe, but if you do, tell me if it helps you a lot!)

What's up with the "voter's" signs at Pimmit Today?

A primary is an early election to help determine who will be on the ballot for a later big election.  Today is a primary.   Although the USA has a number of political parties, most elected candidates are either Democrat or Republican.  In Virginia, you don't have to belong to a political party to vote in the party's primary.  Some Virginia Voters vote in the primary for the least-objectionable candidate in the opposition's party.

Is voting allowed in your country?  Is voting required in your country?  Do you think elections are usually honest?

4-leaf clover

words start around :35

If you found a four-leaf clover, what did you do with it?  (Janice dried, pressed, and laminated hers.)  Did you ever find something else that's supposed to be good luck?

The End of the World...

What makes you feel better when you are sad or stressed?  Do you like to do routine things?  Do you like to avoid routine things?  Do you cook?  Do you watch movies?

Listen and Repeat-- Past tense practice

When were those days?

Do you have happy memories of a certain age or time of your life?  Tell me about a happy time in your life.

GO CAPS!

Most of the words you don't know in this video  are names of players.  "Cut someone slack" is excuse them for relaxing or not doing their work. 

The biggest offense to me in this video is the spelling.  The homonyms are horrible.  "Witch" should be "Which."   Cuz is text-spelling for "because."  "Crake" is not a word, it should be "crack."  "Tare" should be "tear" as in rip paper, not the eye liquid when you cry.  Last, it's the STANLEY cup, not the Stanly.

Same video without the words, but with pictures that make it easier to understand...

Are you watching the game?  Do you like hockey?  What sports and teams do you watch?