Driving Vocabulary & Road Signs!

 

Practice road signs on Quizlet!

Language Guide: Car parts -- Learn and try the listening test!

ESL Fast- Vocabulary and expressions

Do you have your Virginia driver's license yet?  Was it difficult to get?  What did you study?  

Can you give advice for someone studying for the driving test?

Are you a good driver?  What are some things that bad drivers do?

Who is it?

 

How many times do you need to listen before you know who he is talking about?

Challenging Listening for Earth Day

This conversation is difficult for our level.  The grandfather talks about how things were when he was young.  I do not agree that his generation was better for the environment!  That generation used leaded gas in their cars and asbestos insulation in their houses.  People smoked cigarettes, pipes and cigars everywhere. They didn't worry about factory smoke or factory emissions and they didn't try to conserve water.

Do you worry about the environment?  Do you try to have a small "carbon footprint?"  Do you remember  different ways of doing things that were good for the environment?

Write about helping the environment.

or

Write about things you used to do, but you don't do now.  How did you change your habits?

You Look Wonderful!

 

What do you wear when you want to look wonderful?

Lean on Me

 Talk about a friend.  Describe that person.  Tell me about a time you helped your friend or your friend helped you.

How Did you Know?

SxS video past

S x S video  (was were)

Listen and practice speaking the most common regular past tense verbs (Press the speaker icon next to past tense to hear them)

Simple Past Grammar Explanation and Practice

When did you first fall in love?

Video: When professional basketball players fell in love with basketball

Write about the time you first met a friend.  Where were you? How old were you?

 What did your friend look like?

To Be Loved

 

Write about a time that you felt loved.

Challenge Listening: Take on me

 

Write about starting a new job or doing something difficult.

It's you! We're starting something new!

 

Thank you for coming to class!  Please help make the class comfortable and fun while we work hard to remember so many things in this difficult language!

Describe a person that you like.

Happy Sibling Day!

 

My Sister and I starts at 2:00

Describe your siblings.  If you are an only child, write about a childhood friend.  I don't have any brothers or sisters, but I have friends that feel like family.

What do they look like?  What did you like to do together?  How often do you talk to them now?

My Sister

Video from side by side!!

(The sister section starts at 1:59)

Peopel =people

jumping the gun=going too soon or too fast 

(Gun here is a starting gun for a race, not a gun to kill people)

go out on a limb = take a risk

(Do something that may be good or may hurt.)

Do you have any sisters?  Does your sister look like you?  What does your sister look like?

Did you play with your sister when you were a child?  What did you like to do?

There will be days like this

 There'll = there will

What makes a day a good day?  Do you have routines that make you happy?  Write about planning a good day or write about a good day you had in the past.

Baby don't hurt me...

 It's up to you = You can make the decision (or do an action) for both of us.

"Don't hurt me any more" sounds more educated ("correct") than "Don't hurt me no more."

Describe someone you love.  What do you like to do together? (G-rated answers please!)

Happy Eid al Fitr

There are more than three million Muslim people in the USA, and tonight is an important holiday.  Eid al Fitr marks the end of Ramadan.

 PBS -- Eid al Fitr

Do you celebrate Eid a Fitr?  (If yes, is this information correct?)  What do you do?  Did you prepare any good food?  What did you cook?  What did you eat?

I have a dream (song by Abba)

When you dream good daydreams about the future, what does it look like?

Eclipse of the Heart

 Gonna = is going to = we're talking about a future plan

Write about something you liked in the past, but you don't like now.   (Example: I liked Cream Soda when I was a child, but I don't like it now.  It's too sweet.)

Did you see the eclipse?

 

My friend gave me a pair of eclipse glasses.  I really enjoyed watching the eclipse!

I watched it next to Trailer 4 at Plum Center!  I went camping in North Carolina to see the 2017 eclipse.

Did you see the eclipse?  
Where did you get your eclipse glasses?

Did you ever see an eclipse before?

Nice to meet you!

 

Who did you meet today?  Where are they from?

What a wonderful world

Wonderful, pretty, and smart are adjectives.  Adjectives describe people, places, things or ideas.


Did you see anything beautiful today?  What did you see?

Do you have children?  Do you watch any children grow?  Write about a child.

Don't Cry Over Prom Dress Prices (if you have a daughter that needs a prom dress, stop by Centreville HS this weekend)

For many young people in the USA, high school prom is the only formal dance they ever attend. 

Used dresses are much cheaper than new dresses.  

You may also find a good free dress at Centreville High School tomorrow or this weekend.

Kids that are willing to make and wear duct tape clothes can win the

Stuck-at-Prom Scholarship -- Grand Prize winners get $15,000, runner ups $1,000.

Did you go to a formal dance in High School?  Would you let your child go to prom?