Trees (In honor of Arbor Day-- April 30)

Class Vocabulary 

Can you find the spelling mistake?

I need to meet each of you individually.  Please check your email -- I just sent you a new better link to sign up for conferences.  

I like that this song uses can and want to.  I don't like the rhythm with can.  The spelling mistake -- stading -- standing. 

I love to take walks in the forest.   I often go to Lake Accotink or Green Springs Park.  Sometimes, we go to Great Falls or Prince William Forest Park.

Did you ever plant trees?  Do you like to walk in the forest?  Where do you like to go?

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

 

Halloween 2020

 The Today Show's recommendations on making trick or treating safe...

Halloween Vocabulary

Did you take your children to go trick or treating?  Was it fun?

Challenge Listening: How to learn languages

 

What are some fun ways to practice English?

Happy International Friendship Day!!

 

Nurses talk about their friendship and their life during COVID 19

Learning Chocolate -- Vocabualary Practice activities for describing  people

Describe some new friends.  What do they look like?  What do you like best about them?

Must as speculation

Many ESOL textbooks teach using must and have to for necessity

In common speech, however, we often use must when we make a logical guess.

Look how fast his English is improving! He must take English class!

Look how slow the internet is.  There must be a lot of people on it.

Wow!  He has very big arms.  He must lift weights.

In all of these examples, must means I guess from logic, NOT it is necessary.

The grammar must ______(base verb) stays the same

I love the next song to illustrate must because when the singer sees the girl, he makes a logical guess.

She's so pretty that she must have a boyfriend.

When the girl talks, she expresses necessity.  

She  feels it is necessary to have a boyfriend when she goes out.

The chorus uses the same words.

Look around.  What logical guesses can you make from your observations?  Use "must!"

June 13 is National Weed your garden day.

Weeds are plants that are growing where you don't want the plant to grow.

Weed/weeding is also the action of pulling unwanted plants up by their roots.

Some people call marijuana, "weed."

Poison means it will make your sick or hurt.  Poison Ivy gives me a nasty rash.

Challenge Listening

I pull out poison ivy, virginia creeper, and pokeweed almost every day this time of year.

Do you have a garden?  What are you growing?