Happy Halloween! Trick or Treat Customs

Introducing Halloween for ESL

Rules and Customs for Trick or Treating

                                            

  Video: Tips for fun Jack O Lanterns

Do you enjoy Halloween?  What do you do?

http://www.elcivics.com/halloween.html

Halloween Vocabulary

Halloween Vocabulary Matching Game from www.esolcourses!

Halloween reading and gap-fill

You are my Sunshine!

 Dance that Ha taught at break time in 2023 (Instruction at 3:12)

My best friend loved this song because her parents sang it as a lullaby.  Did your parents have an "I love you song" for you?  My mother sang the Riddle Song as an I-love-you lullaby.  After I got the picture book with the lyrics, I sang A-you're adorable. 

Do you have a favorite love song?  What is it?

Yesterday Once More

Practice Using Simple Past Tense when something happened one time and finished

Practice Using Irregular Verbs

Some songs always bring back memories.   This song reminds me of ice skating in the 70's with my babysitter -- a young man who wanted to be a magician.  He always found the quarters for the hot chocolate vending machine behind my ear!  The ice rink played this song a lot.  (Shah la la la, shing a ling a ling, whoa oh oh don't have any meaning, but people often sang those sounds in the 50s)

Do you have any memories with this song?  What songs make you think of certain times in the past?

If you love her,

 This video is challenging, but you can do the fill-in-the-blank worksheet!  Repeat as many times as you need.

Describe a person (or people) that you love.  What do they do every day?

The time of our lives

"Let's have the time of our lives"  means let's have the most fun ever.

Write about a time you had fun! Where did you go?  What did you do?

Can you use "Let's _____(base verb)" to suggest fun activities?

Let's Stay Together

Did you ever get back together with an ex?  Did it work out well?

Are there any little things couples should do to make it easy to stay together no matter what?  What are they?

Home Repair--More Vocabulary

😅New Vocabulary Set (Includes relevant words from the old set)

House Vocabulary from Languageguide.org

http://www.languageguide.org/english/vocabulary/kitchen/

http://www.languageguide.org/english/vocabulary/kitchen2/

http://www.languageguide.org/english/vocabulary/bathroom/

http://www.languageguide.org/english/vocabulary/bathroom2/

http://www.languageguide.org/english/vocabulary/utility-room/

http://www.learningchocolate.com/content/tools-1

http://www.learningchocolate.com/content/tools-2

A handyman can fix many things.  Do you have any needs that could use a handyman?  Did you ever fix something?  What did you fix?

Why don't you...?

I'm losing my mind just a little means that I feel a little crazy.

We often say, "why don't you..." to suggest something.  It looks like a question, but it's really a nice way to advise or command.  Why don't you meet me in the middle?  means "Let's compromise."

What do you ask people to do?  Can you use, "Why don't you?"

Example:  When I ask my son to take out the trash, I can say "Why don't you take out the trash?"

When I ask my daughter to make a salad, I can say, "Why don't you make a salad?"

When I ask my husband to call me, I can say, "Why don't you call me after work?

Calling your landlord when the dryer doesn't work

A landlord or landlady is the owner of a property that someone rents.  They should pay for any big repairs.  The renter changes light bulbs and keeps things clean.

Vocabulary Practice with Learning Chocolate

Who can you call when you are the home owner?  

Did you ever fix something using YouTube videos for instruction?

Did you ever call a landlord or a landlady?  Why?

Fix You

  I won't try to fix you, but I will try to teach you to fix English mistakes!!  I want to fix this video by adding apostrophes!

Fix usually means repair.  A mechanic fixes cars. A plumber unclogs drains and fixes pipes. We also use fix to mean make when cooking.  My grandmother fixed dinner and served it at 6:00 every night.  She liked to fix roast beef, chicken, or soup.

What can you fix?

Survive

"Survive" means live when it's difficult to live.  It can also mean barely live.  In the next song, "Don't just survive" means do more than barely live, try to live well.

Texting English to formal English: "Tryna" = "is trying to."  "Gonna" ="is going to" "Gotta" = "have got to = must"

 Do you have any favorite books or movies about survival?  Write about it!!

White Tie I

 

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day ! We HAVE SCHOOL MONDAY! (Children don't.)

Government offices, banks, and libraries usually close today.  Restaurants and stores usually don't.  They are often crowded with people who don't have to work!  Sometimes, they offer good deals.

Sometimes schools close, sometimes they don't.

For 2024, our children don't have school, but we do.

Knowing that Native Americans were here before the English colonists and naming a few North American tribes is on the citizenship exam.  Most common tribes named include: ▪ Cherokee ▪ Navajo ▪ Sioux ▪ Chippewa ▪ Choctaw ▪ Pueblo ▪ Apache ▪ Iroquois ▪ Creek ▪ Blackfeet ▪ Seminole ▪ Cheyenne ▪ Arawak ▪ Shawnee ▪ Mohegan ▪ Huron ▪ Oneida ▪ Lakota ▪ Crow ▪ Teton ▪ Hopi ▪ Inuit

Please write anything you know about any indigenous groups in the Americas.  

Also, as a student recently told me, do you think it is wrong to judge historic people by today's values?  

Patience

 

Do you hate when people tell you to be patient? I do!

English often takes time.  Thank you for working hard.  Please help me make the class good for you.

Write about a time when your patience worked for you.

Pronouncing blue moon words.

 

Blue moon is a category on the color vowel chart invented by K. Taylor and S. Thompson

When did you move to this area?  What do you like to do here?  

Who do you think about when you see the moon? 

Pronouncing "a cup of mustard"

 "A cup of mustard" is from the color vowel chart made by K. Taylor and S. Thompson

What word do you know that use this sound?  Are they easy for you to say?

What do you have to do?

 

What do you have to do? What do your family members have to do?

No School Today!

Today, schools are out for Rosh Hashana. the Jewish New Year! 

May you have a good, sweet and peaceful year!

What is your favorite New Year tradition?  Do you make resolutions or set goals?

Money can't buy me love

 

("Correct" English:  Say you don't need no any diamond rings)

What are some good things that you can't buy?  What are some good things that you can buy?