Lullabies and baby vocabulary

 What calms you down when you are angry or stressed?  How do you calm down babies?


Language Guide: baby vocabulary

Language Guide: toys and playground equipment

Learning Chocolate: baby equipment (although a CRADLE rocks. A crib is a baby bed that doesn't move.)

Lullabies:

Brahms is really common here for baby toys, but I suspect that most of us don't know the words.

I often sang this next one -- just the first verse.  I learned it as "see" rather than "have."

I don't know anyone personally who sang the next one, 

but I think most people here know at least some of it.  

My mother sang this next song as a lullaby for me.  Instead of a ring with no end, it was a story with no end because it was the "story of our love."  The movie "Animal House" showed me that many people

don't like it the way that I did.

I think every child in the USA learns this next lullaby.  I have NO idea how it became popular.

The next lullaby is Christian-flavored, although my friend who always sang it isn't christian.

Do you sing lullabies?  What do you like to sing?

Are you shopping today?

 

Where did you go shopping?  Did you find any good deals?

Better

 Now that your English is getting much better, what do you want to talk about?

Thanksgiving Vocabulary Quiz

 

Freeeeeeeeee to be sad

I want you to say, "It doesn't cost much" rather than "It don't..."

Stronger

A syllable is a part of a word with one vowel sound.  

The number of sounds is more important than the number of vowels.

A silent e is never a syllable.

Ed is always a syllable even if we don't pronounce it as another syllable.

(We only pronounce "ed" like another syllable after a last letter = T or D)

Children's Video that practices breaking words into syllables

If you understand which syllable is stronger, your pronunciation will be better.

Study and practice using comparative adjectives

Do you do anything to get stronger?  What do you do? I lift weights twice a week, but I'm still not very strong.

You don't have to...

 

What did you have to do yesterday?  What do you have to do tomorrow?  Is there anything you used to do that you don't have to do anymore?

"Don't have to" is NOT "must not"

Note:  We rarely use "mustn't" in US English.  Spell out the not.

Please write about two things you must not do and two things you don't have to do.