Week 10 - Yeah! We are almost done!

Please bring your class evaluations!

Bring food and your cameras for one last picture!

I will bring plates, forks, napkins and cups! Also, brownies! What will you bring?

See you tomorrow!

Review Grammar for Grammar Test on Monday!

Here are some websites to help you!

Simple Past Tense

Grammar Practice Quizzes

• Do QUESTION FORMATION Easy and HOW TO SEE AMERICA Medium
• Do WHATS THE CORRECT SEQUENCE? Easy Word Order (Charles Kelly) and Medium Adjective Order (Vera Mello)
• Do WORD CHOICE Easy - don't doesn't, didn't and Medium - on, in, at

Future Tense More Future Tense

More Practice Quizzes

Week 9

Tomorrow: Writing Test

Daily Dairy: Write about a popular job in your country.

More Grammar Practice: Practice 42 page 86 and 87

Write the paragraph on the handout that I gave you. Read and follow the directions.

Week 9

Facts and Figures:

• Review Vocabulary for Unit 5 Work and Leisure
• Unit 5 Test

Get Ready to Write: Page 70 Do Prewriting A and B

More Grammar Practice: Practice 41

For Friday - Daily Dairy: Write about a popular job in your country.

Week 9

Daily Dairy: Write about your bedroom. Use as many adjectives and prepostions as you can.

More Grammar Practice: Practic 40 Page 82-83

Facts and Figures: Finish Lesson 5 - Time Off Page 167-170

Week 9

Facts and Figures: Work Clothes Do Exercise A -D Page 161-164

More Grammar Practice: Practice 38 and 39 Page 78 - 81

Get Ready to Write: Chapter 6 Writing about Places Page 60 and 61

TGIF Day!

Facts and Figures: Finish Family Friendly Companies Page 156 -160

More Grammar Practice: Practice 36 and 37 Even Numbers 2,4,6, 8, 10.....

Daily Dairy: My Progress in English - Use words like Usually, Always, Never, Sometimes, Every day, Never....

Book Club Report #3

Week 8

Get Ready to Write: Test tomorrow over vocabulary in Word Bank on page 54!

Reading Proficiency Test tomorrow.

Facts and Figures: Read Family-Friendly Companies Page 156 and 157

More Grammar Practice: Practice 35 Page 72 and 73

Week 8 Hump Day

Facts and Figures: Salaries Part A,B, C. Pages 151 - 154

More Grammar Practice: Practice 34 Page 70 and 71

Getting Ready to Write: Page 58 Part B. Write on a piece of paper, ready to give to Gail.

Week 8

Tuesday is a holiday - Veteran's Day (no school)

Daily Dairy - Write about your trip to the Museum. If you didn't go to the museum, you can write about a different place that you went to.

Get Ready to Write - Page 56 and 57 Do Prewriting and Writing in your book

Facts and Figures - Continue with Work Hours on Page 148 and 149

TGIF Day! Thank God It is Friday!

Get Ready to Write: Page 55 On Your Own Write on a piece of paper to give to your instructor, Gail!

Grammar Test on Monday: Present Continuous and Present Tense

Book Club Book: Read in your small book and do Book Club Report 2 Bring both of them to class.

Tomorrow is Friday! Don't be late!

Getting Ready to Write: Do Prewriting on Page 54 Exercise A, B, and C in your blue book.

More Grammar Practice: Understand the difference between Simple Present Tense and Present Continuous. Practice 33 on Pages 68 and 69

Facts and Figures: Read Work Hours page 146 and 147. Do Ex. A if you have time.

Reading Proficiency Test Tomorrow!

Adjective Crossword Puzzle for tomorrow!..

More Grammar Practice:

• Memorize spelling of ing form
• Do Practice 32 with Question Formation on Pages 66 and 67

Get Ready to Write:

• Page 53 Exercise A and B in your book
• Page 54 Exercise A - Begin studying the Word Bank

Week 7

More Grammar Practice: Study Present Continuous Practice 31 Memorize spelling of the -ing form!

Facts and Figures: Test tomorrow on Unit 4 - Music

Getting Ready to Write: Write a description of yourself on a piece of paper. Use the adjectives on page 50! Be sure to use the answers about yourself on page 51, too.

Week 7

Facts and Figures: Review Vocabulary and make sure that you understand everything. Test is on Wednesday.

Get Ready to Write: Finish p. 30 and Do Page 31, 32, and 33 up to Prewriting.

Bring your USB Flash Drive to class tomorrow.

Tomorrow is Halloween!

Wear or bring a costume to class! You will get 10 extra points!

Facts and Figures: Do Word Study, page 133-136 Exercises a,b,c,d.

Get Ready to Write: Do Page 29 and 30 Finish #2 at the top of Page 29. Do Exercise A and B

Daily Dairy: Write about music from your country.

Week 6

Facts and Figures: Read about Latin Music and Salsa Page 128-132

Get Ready to Write: Page 27 & 28 Do exercise B

Daily Dairy: Write about your favorite music.

Week 6

Facts and Figures: Read about Country-Western Music Pages 123-127

Daily Dairy: Write about your activities. Choose from the Word Bank on Page 25 in Get Ready to Write.

More Grammar Practice: Practice 30 on Page 62 and 63

Week 6 - Monday!

More Grammar Practice - Review spelling of singular and plural - Memorize Practice 15

Facts and Figures: Read about Rock and Roll, Pages 118 - 122

Daily Dairy: Write about what you see and think about Halloween.

TGIF Day!

More Grammar Practice: Practice 15 Regular Noun Plurals Page 32-33

Book Club Report #1: Read your book and do the report. Bring both to class.

Practice Proununciation from my blog:

Review for Grammar tomorrow!

Last Midterm Test tomorrow! Good luck! Study Hard!

Week 5 - Midterm Week

Facts and Figures: Finish Blues and Jazz Page 116 - 117

More Grammar Practice: Review all Practices from Practice 1 to 25 - pages 1-53

Test Schedule:

• Reading Proficiency Test Tomorrow, Thursday
• Grammar Test on Friday

Facts and Figures

Finish Music and Behavior Exercise d, e, and f.
Start Blues and Jazz Pag 113- 115 Exercises a & b

Finish Paragraph 3 Draft 2 - My Family Send to Gail at gclaas@sccc.ctc.edu email or bring print to class!

Week 5 - Midterm Week!

Facts and Figures:

• Start Unit 4 Lesson 1 Pages 108-111
• Do Exercises a, b, d, and e

Sentence Corrections: Handout

Friday:

• Reading Test - Midterm -Review Vocabulary and comprehension in Facts and Figures book. Also review grammar!

Read your small book!

• Answer questions 2 and 3

Go to Good Exercises on this website.

• Click on Bill Gates.
• Read the story.
• Answer questions 1-7

Get Ready to Write

• Finish Prewriting exercies B, C, and D on Page 19 and 20 about My Best Friend
• Write Draft 1 on paper or computer.

Facts and Figures Unit 2 Test tomorrow!

Daily Dairy - Write about your favorite restaurant in your country! Where is it? Why do you like it? What is good about the food? What is good about the service? I have your blue book, except for Somkiat, Dogan, Evan, Rachel, Yu Chen and Ruby, so you should practice writing about your favorite restaurant on another piece of paper. Then, tomorrow when I give you your Daily Dairy back to you, you can copy your story about your favorite restaurant into your Daily Dairy.

Facts and Figures Unit 2 - Review for test tomorrow! Make sure your understand everything in the Unit.

Wednesday is Hump Day!

Get Ready to Write: Page 18 and 19 Conjuntions Do Ex. A and C

More Grammar Practice: Practice 23 and 24 pages 48 - 51

Facts and Figures: Activity Page and Dictionary Page pages 66-68

Vocabulary Test tomorrow!

Facts and Figures:

• Review vocabulary Words in Unit 2
• On Line review words in Glossary- Unit 2 and Flashcards Unit 2
• Do Word Study on Pages 61 - 63

Daily Dairy: Write about your favorite teacher in your home country or Seattle. Tell why you like/liked him or her. How does or did he or she help you?

Welcome to Week 4

Grammar Test tomorrow! Review:

• More Grammar Practice - Practices 6, 9-11
• Get Ready to Write - subject Pronouns Page 13 and Possessive Adjectives Page 14

Facts and Figures:

• Finish Lesson 5 How Do Many Hearing-Impaired People Talk? Page 56 - 60

Daily Dairy:

• Write about your weekend. What did you do? Where did you go? How did you get there? When did you go? Try to use the past tense.

Bring USB for lab at 1pm.

Week 3 - TGIF Day!

Daily Dairy - Write about your best friend. Name? What do you like to do together? Fun? Instant Message? Live?

MOre Grammar Practice - Practice 22 page 46-47 Tuesday next week Test

Facts and Figures

• Finish How Can a Plant Kill and do the exercies to page 55.
• Review Vocabulary words in Unit 2

Facts and Figures

Read "How Can a Plant Kill?" Pages 51-55

More Grammar Practice: Practice 21 Pages 44 and 45

Daily Dairy: Look for the mistakes in your writing and try to correct them.

Hump Day!

Get Ready to Write: Page 14 Write about your family.

Facts and Figures:

• Finish Why Do People Laugh Exercise d,e, & f Pages 44-45
• Start Why is the Sea Salty Read Pages 46-48 do Exercise a & b

More Grammar Practice: Practice 20 Pages 42-43

Week 3 Day 2

Facts and Figures:

• Finish "yawning" Exercise e & f Page 40
• Begin " Why do People Laugh" Read Pages 41-44, Do Ex. a-c

Welcome to Week 3!

Daily Dairy - Write about your favorite sport! Tell me when you do it. How often? Equipment?

Ready to Write - Page 14 and 15 About your family.

Facts and Figures - Start Unit 2 - Read Lesson 1 page 36, 37 and do Exercise A and B.

Bring USB for lab at 1:00.

Decorate your paragraph folder!

Get Ready to Write: Page 11 and 12 Make a family tree. Understand the vocabulary!

More Grammar Practice: Practice 19 Page 40 and 41 Using Articles like a, an and the

Daily Dairy: My Hometown in my Country - Tell us about your hometown where you live. What is it like? Big? Small? Many factories? Beautiful trees? No trees? Different from Seattle? Similar to Seattle?

Test day tomorrow!

Daily Dairy - Write about the ocean, fishing, something to do with water, lake, pond, swimming, anything that you want about water.....
Facts and Figures - Finish Unit 1 Review Sheet - Study vocabulary for test!
More Grammar Practice - Do Practice 17 and 18 Pages 34 - 37

Everybody's here!

Practice Typing on line!

Daily Diary - What do you think about animals? Pet? Zoo? Reading Book Camels, Dolphin?

More Grammar Practice - Practice 15 and 16 Pages 32 - 35.

Facts and Figures - Word Study Pages 25 -27

Yeah! It's Tuesday!

More Grammar Practice: Practice14 Page 30 and 31

Facts and Figures: Read The Dopohin on page 20-24 and do the exercises. No Test on Wednesday. The test will be on Friday!

Welcome really good students to Week 2!

Get Ready to Write - Do Exercise B on pages 7 and 8

Facts and Figures - The Hippopotamus pages 15 - 19

More Grammar Practice - Practice 11 and 12 pages 24-27

Bring your USB Drive to class.

Yeah! TGIF! It's Friday!

More Grammar Practice: Practice 9, Page 20-21 Simple Present Tense and Practice 13, Wh- Questions withthe simple Present Tense Pages 28-29

Daily Dairy - You can choose to write about any topic you want to. Your Choice. You could write about your classes, both your rwg1 and slg1 classes.

Facts and Figures: Read Lesson 3 "The Polar Bear" Pages 10-14 Next week, Wednesday, we will have a vocabulary test Lessons 1-4.

About 2 hours of homework

Daily Dairy - Tell about what you like to do in your free time! Write the date on your paper.

Worksheet - Finish the worksheet. Interview anyone that you want to. Job can be future job.

More Grammar Practice - Practice 5 and 6

Facts and Figures - Read "The Camel" Do Pages 6-9 Exercise A and E

Daily Diary - Grammar

Daily Dairy - Tell me about your hometown in your country.

More Grammar Practice - Practice 3 and 4 Pages 8-11

Facts and Figures - Lesson 1 Pages 3 -5 Do A-E

Daily Journal and Grammar

Daily Journal - Write about where you live. Tell about your living situation. Tell who you speak English with and who helps you with English.

More Grammar Pracice - Practice 1 and 2 page 4-7

Welcome to our class!

Buy your books!

Write one page in your blue book - Daily Dairy!
Introduce yourself. Tell about why you like to study English. What you hope your job will be in the future! What you like to do in your free time! Favorite music! Favorite Movie star! Sports!

Fill out Needs Assessment! Bring to class tomorrow!