Move your clock one hour forward!

Chatty teacher challenge....

EL Civics- 

Don't Cry Over Prom Dress Prices (if you have a daughter that needs a prom dress, go to 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, and they are often very beautiful.  

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

My daughter entered it (I bought $60 of duct tape), but she didn't win anything.  

My children already went to prom, 

but I still click the link to see all the duct tape dresses.

Did you go to a formal dance in High School?  

Did your child go to prom? 

Would you let your child go to prom?

Happy Grammar Day!

 

Grammar is something to try to remember and use. Practice making  and speaking many, many examples.

These links go to the grammar for Low Intermediate.  Please tell me if a link doesn’t work.

  

Parts of Speech -- http://easyesolgrammar.blogspot.com/2014/02/parts-of-speech.html

Present Continuous (also called present progressive) --http://easyesolgrammar.blogspot.com/2014/10/present-continuouspresent-progressive.html

Simple Present

http://easyesolgrammar.blogspot.com/2014/02/simple-present.html

Simple Past

http://easyesolgrammar.blogspot.com/2014/02/simple-past.html

Memorize and Practice Using Irregular Verbs

Future with will

http://easyesolgrammar.blogspot.com/2014/05/simple-future-with-will.html

Future with going to

http://easyesolgrammar.blogspot.com/2014/01/future-with-going-to.html

Pronouns

http://easyesolgrammar.blogspot.com/search?q=pronouns

Count/non-count

http://easyesolgrammar.blogspot.com/2014/02/count-non-count.html

Prepositions of time

http://easyesolgrammar.blogspot.com/2014/02/prepositions-of-time.html

Pronouns (short substitute for a noun)

subject and  object pronouns

When to use her vs. hers

Use Indefinite Pronouns:  someone vs. anyone, everyone, no one

Comparing 2 things (comparative) or 3+ things (superlative)

http://easyesolgrammar.blogspot.com/2014/02/comparative-adjectives-comparing.html

Adjective Order http://easyesolgrammar.blogspot.com/2014/02/order-of-adjectives.html

(Adjective order is usually taught at a high advanced level, but our book introduces the basics of it.  Some of the exercises are HARD!)

But you NEVER... (Practice routines and "how often...")

Practice Frequency Adverbs...

Quiz: Click on the words to put them in the sentence in the correct order. Make a mistake? Click in the box to start over.

Examples of how long vs. how often by the BBC.

What do you always do?  What do you never do?  What do you rarely do?

Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras Webquest

Gap Fill "Take me to the Mardi Gras" --- 

Lyric Video-- Mardi Gras Mambo

Do you like parades?  Did you ever go to a Carnival or Mardi Gras Celebration?  

(Please write about it!)  Do you ever eat pancakes on "Fat Tuesday?"  Are you going to a pancake supper tonight?

Battle of Adwa

Ethiopia is the only African country to never be colonized by Europe

because they won the battle of Adwa when they beat Italy.

It's now a holiday - celebrated this year on March 2.

Happy Compliment Day!

 I like the second formula (for men) better than "OMG."  It's good for women too.

Please don't say, "I like the way that you smell" if the person is not wearing perfume, cologne or a scented lotion.  It's not okay in my culture unless you have been romantically involved for a while.  Complimenting eyes or a smile is also romantic.

What's the best compliment that you ever heard?  Do people often compliment each other in other countries?  Yes?  Which country?  No?  Why?