Good morning, class! I hope you are having a nice breakfast. And I hope you can join us at 10:30 on Remind.
For now, here is a reading exercise about a family of painters.
See you soon!
Kurt
Friday, April 24, 2020
Friday, April 17, 2020
Saturday is here again!
Hello class! I hope you are well.
Please put your name on this attendance form
I hope you can join us to chat and study a little on Saturday, April 18 at 10:30 AM. We will be on the Remind app. If you need the code to join the class, email me here:
Today we are going to study using "going to" to talk about the future. Here is a story from our book to get us started. I suggest you read it once, then read while you listen, then read along with the audio.
The Fortune Teller
After you read the story a few times, try this exercise.
And this is a great video made by some students. I'm not sure what school they are from.
I will put more exercises here later this afternoon.
Please put your name on this attendance form
I hope you can join us to chat and study a little on Saturday, April 18 at 10:30 AM. We will be on the Remind app. If you need the code to join the class, email me here:
Today we are going to study using "going to" to talk about the future. Here is a story from our book to get us started. I suggest you read it once, then read while you listen, then read along with the audio.
The Fortune Teller
After you read the story a few times, try this exercise.
And this is a great video made by some students. I'm not sure what school they are from.
I will put more exercises here later this afternoon.
Friday, April 10, 2020
Another shelter-in-place weekend!
Good morning everyone! I hope you are well and finding
ways to enjoy staying in your home.
I hope you can join us to chat a little at around 10:30
on the Remind app. If you are not on Remind, email me here, and I will give you
a code to join our class:
These are some past tense verbs we are going to work with today. Remember, click "Listen in browser" or on the arrow. DON'T click on "Play on SoundCloud."
1.
I got up.
2.
I took a shower.
3.
You had breakfast.
4.
You read the
newspaper.
5.
She did exercises.
6.
She ate lunch.
7.
He drove to the
supermarket.
8.
He bought groceries.
9.
They made dinner.
10.
They wrote a letter.
11.
We saw a movie.
12.
We went to sleep.
If you want translations, you can look here:
Now here is a story from Side-By-Side book 1. It’s on page 154. You can listen as you read. Remember, click "Listen in
browser" or on the arrow. DON'T click on "Play on SoundCloud."
LATE FOR WORK
Victor usually gets up at 7 AM. He does his morning
exercises for 20 minutes. He takes a long shower. He has a big breakfast. And
he leaves for work at 8:00. He usually drives his car to work and gets there at
8:30.
This morning, however, he didn’t get up at 7 AM. He got up
at 6:30. He didn’t do his morning exercises for 20 minutes. He did them for
only 5 minutes. He didn’t take a long shower. He took a very quick shower. He
didn’t have a big breakfast. He had a very small breakfast. He didn’t leave for
work at 8:00. He left for work at 7:00.
Victor didn’t drive his car to work this morning. He
drove it to the repair shop. Then he walked a mile to the train station, and he
waited for the train for 15 minutes. After he got off the train, he walked half
a mile to his office.
Even though Victor got up early and rushed out of the
house this morning, he didn’t get to work on time. He got there 45 minutes
late. When his supervisor saw him she got angry, and she shouted at him for 5
minutes. Poor Victor! He really tried to get to work on time this morning.
Friday, April 3, 2020
Let's start to study again!
That was a very strange spring break, but I hope you
found a way to make it interesting and enjoyable.
For me the spring break was pretty good. I took a lot of
walks. I walked up to the top of Potrero Hill a few times. Of course, I stayed six
feet away from other people.
I also had a lot of meetings with other teachers. We are
all learning new technology. These meetings were not face-to-face meetings.
They were meetings on Zoom. Do you use Zoom? Zoom is a video calling application
for your phone or computer. It is similar to Facetime. Maybe we will try Zoom
in one of our classes in the future.
What else did I do? Well, I texted my friends a lot. And my
wife and met with our friends on Zoom a few times. That was fun!
I also cooked a lot more than I usually do. I cooked
spaghetti for my wife and me a couple of times. I made tostadas for us once.
One of our friends got the coronavirus. That was very
scary. She was in the hospital for a few days, but now she is home, and she is
doing better, so we are very happy about that!
. .. . . . .
How about you? How was your spring break? Were you busy?
Were you bored? Did you work or did you stay home? Did you talk to friends? Did
you watch a lot of TV? Did you go to the market? Were you worried?
I hope you can join us at 10:30 AM on Saturday, April 4
on the Remind app.
Click this link and you can find a translation of all of that.
I want to practice a lot with the past tense of the verb "Be" today. Here are some videos and exercises.
1. The Was and Were Song
2. Was and Were practice (English with Jennifer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfVO3yFM1VE
3. Exercise: Was and Were with pronouns
4. Past tense conversations (Side-By-Side)
5. Was/were and wasn’t/weren’t exercise
I hope you enjoy those videos and exercises. And I hope to chat with you at 10:30 on Remind!
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