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Thursday, July 13, 2017

Take me Out to the Baseball Game



Potomac Nationals Schedule (minor league baseball in Woodbridge)

Washington Nationals ("the Nats") Schedule  (Major League -- Washington DC team)

Foghorn Leghorn teaches baseball (Old silly stereotypes of an uneducated southerner teaching a nerdy child baseball)
A fast-but-repetitive song...



(Once upon a time, this program included children's baseball tickets in the prize coupon booklet.)


Do you like to play baseball?  Do your children?  Do you ever watch baseball?  Write about going to a baseball game...

Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Do you want to be a bus driver?

Do you want to work as a bus driver for FCPS?


Do you like to drive?  Did you take a bus to school when you were young?  Where have you gone on field trips?

In my room


Language Guide: Bedroom vocabulary                Language Guide: Vocabulary "Indoors"

Learning Chocolate: bedroom vocabulary      Learning Chocolate: Your bedroom

What's your favorite place in your home?

My favorite place is the sofa by the big window in the living room.

Stalin

http://www.history.com/topics/joseph-stalin/videos  (We watched "fast facts" about Stalin)

Can anyone translate the Ukrainian part of this song for me?  This song was written to remember the deaths in 1944,





Today's story talked about an amazing coincidence -- Boris and Anna visited the same house at the same time on the same day sixty years after they lived there.  Have you ever had an amazing coincidence in your life?  Please write about it!

Monday, July 10, 2017

Love and Marriage














(gimme = give me)

Are you married?  (If yes--) How did you meet your spouse?  What did you wear for your wedding?
What do you need to do to have a great marriage?
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(If no-) Do you want to get married?  (If yes__)  What do you want your future spouse to be like?  Do you have a girlfriend or boyfriend?  (if no...)  What do you like about being single?

Ain't No Sunshine




"Ain't no" is not educated English, but it's common in street English.  It means "there isn't any..."

What is your favorite weather?  What makes you sad?

Love you More than Words Can Say...


Describe someone that you love.