Goals

Think about your goals for English class!

Practice DO or DOES in questions

Challenging (Difficult) Video and Reading

My goal is to teach you a lot of good English as fast and as pleasantly as I can during the next five weeks.  

What are your goals?  What do you want to talk about and work on in English Class? 

We're starting a marathon, but you can go the distance

 

I really want to make learning English easy and interesting.  What makes English difficult?  How will you get past the challenges? 

You are so beautiful

 

Learning Chocolate: Physical Appearance Hair

Learning Chocolate:  Appearance

What do you look like?  Does anyone in your family look like you?

Now and Then

 

Wow!  New from The Beatles?

Did you ever listen to the Beatles?  What singers did you like when you were in your teens?   

Happy First Day of Summer

 What are you favorite activities in the summer?

Happy Juneteenth

 

My mother grew up in Galveston Texas 
where people had beach parties to celebrate Juneteenth 

throughout the twentieth century.

Juneteenth is new as a federal holiday,
but it's an old celebration of freedom 
even though many people were still enslaved after that date.

Do you celebrate any historical events?  Which ones? How?

A Million Years Ago

 What did you want to do when you were 12?

What did you want to do when you were 17?

What do you want to do now?

Happy Father's Day

https://www.languageguide.org/english/vocabulary/family/

Are you celebrating Father's Day?  What are you doing?  What should a good father do?

I want to dance!

 

What do you want to do this summer?

Are you on vacation?

gonna=going to= will (future tense, not movement)  jalopy=old word for badly maintained car
hop in =get into   have a ball = have fun 'neath=beneath=under "The Mashed Potato"=old dance

Are you enjoying the break?  What are you doing?

If

 

Please send me more pictures!  I particularly want pictures of the food at the party and of Giovanna's gorgeous cakes! I really enjoyed my plate of food after the party.

If you do Duolingo, please read aloud a LOT.  If you try Voscreen, tell me if it costs you money and if you like it.  

The people who created our Color Vowel chart also have pronunciation classes and an app called Blue Canoe.  I think Blue Canoe is probably difficult and expensive, but I'm curious about it.  To get the app or enroll in the online pronunciation classes click here.

Please do not spend a lot of time as you randomly watch videos of ALL THE GRAMMER.  Be strong in  adjective and easier verb tenses:  present, present continuous, future, and past.

Challenging Video: The hardest Part

 

What is the easiest part of English class?

(For me, break time is the easiest.)

What is the hardest part of English class?

(For me, LOTS of vocabulary is the hardest.)

What are you going to do?

wanna = want to

oughta= ought to=visualized ideal (best in my mind)  Everyone ought to use the blog!

Review, expansion, and practice with "going to"

What are you doing tonight?
What are you going to do tomorrow?
What are you going to do this weekend?
Where are you going to go the next time you travel?
What are you going to do next summer?

The Sound of Sunshine

 What makes you feel better when you are stressed?

The One

 

What makes a person "marriage material?"  Describe "the one" for you.  How is "the one" different from the others?

Don't give up on

 

Low Intermediate Grammar that I want you to know before you go to High Intermediate

Write about something you did or learned because you did not give up.

Lovers, Dreamers, and so far

 

Do you remember looking at a rainbow?  Where were you?

Shopping Around

too, very, or so?

Game to practice comparative

Here are some links with some grocery sales.  Most show the sale prices this week, but Walmart is easy to search by product. (Thing you want to buy).  Comparing is easier if you pick something on sale at another store then search for the same thing on the Walmart page.

Aldi's

Amazon Fresh

Lidl

Giant food circular -- pick your store first

Fresh World

Shoppers Food Warehouse

Harris Teeter Specials

H-Mart

Walmart

Target

Wegmans

Food Lion

Amazon

Costco

J and L Green Farms

Farmer's Markets in Northern VA