Responding to a fire

 

Firefighter vocabulary

Do you want to be a firefighter or a emergency medical technician?

My Girl

 

How can you change your mood when you are stressed?

Marry Me....

How did you meet your partner?  (If you want a partner, describe a great partner) 

Are there any habits that make marriage better?

Taking the bus

 

Crossword with six words from today's class

Learning Chocolate vocabulary practice

Say it like this: bus conversation videos

Hajar is right!! Dash buses in Alexandria are all FREE!!

Do you take the bus to school?  How long does it take?

(Driver's License) You said forever, but

 

Learning Chocolate: Practice vocabulary for a driving lesson

Road signs

Is it easy to get a Driver's License in Virginia?  What do you have to do?

You're going to make it!

\Make it - can be create something, but more often make it means "succeed" or get to a destination after many difficulties. 

Gonna is how we say, "going to" for future.  Please write, "going to _______(base verb)" unless you are texting.

This song is from an old TV show.  What are your favorite TV shows?  What are your favorite TV shows in English?

Space Song -- Beach House

 

Describe someone that's on your side, a person who will help you if you ask.

We're talking now

Use present continuous (be -----ing) to talk about NOW

Study and Practice Present Continuous (=Present Progressive) Verb Tense

What are you doing?  What are you wearing?  Are you making dinner tonight?  What are you eating?

Bookstore Shopping (from Randall's Listening Lab)

 

Easy World of English Dictionary: Classroom supplies

Do you need to buy school supplies? Make sure you get your list from the school, not from the store!

Practicing Past Tense

Past tense time marker practice

More examples and practice (if you scroll down below JJ's)

80 Irregular Verbs on Quizlet

Irregular Verb Hangman

LOTS of irregular verb practice

Please describe yourself when you were younger. (Pick a time that will make you happy to write about.)  Where did you live?  What did it look like? What did you do?  What did you like to do?

Things will get better. Keep trying.

Tell me about doing something hard.  Tell me about a time that you felt like stopping, but you didn't stop.  You kept trying until it got better.  You did it!

I Can Love MYSELF better...

 

(Pop music rarely uses good spelling and grammar, but it will help you understand people here.  

Some translations:  kinda - the kind of / 'til - until/ wanna - want to)

Practice reflexive pronouns

Do you buy yourself flowers or chocolate or anything you really like?  What do you buy yourself?  What do you do when you want to treat yourself very well?

Say you won't let go

 

Practice future with "will" and "won't"

Write about something you will do.

Now that I can dance...

 

Summer 2023 Vocabulary

Can you dance?  Can you cook?  Can you fix things?  Can you hear any phrases with can?  Please write the phrases you hear on paper, in an email to me, or in the comments!

  I love to dance, but I can't dance very well.  I can cook pretty well, but I don't like to.  I can't fix things without YouTube.  What can you do?  What do you like to do?  What skills do you admire?

It's you!

 

Write about a person that you like!

I am enchanted to meet you!

 

Hi!  I am Laurie.  I am from the USA. I am an ESOL teacher.  I came to this area in 1990.  I like to talk about my family.  I was an only child so I don't have any brothers or sisters.  I am married, and we have five children.

Please write about yourself. If you can, write about a classmate you met today!