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List of topics and content from Winter cycle 2020
List of topics and content from Winter cycle 2020
How the census helps my community
Unit 4: Around town/Volunteering
review of unit + real life examples + games
Looking for volunteer jobs in NYC
Describing volunteer responsibilities
Describing a sequence of events
Describing repeated actions in the past and present
Asking about volunteer activities
https://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/volunteer-nypl
Unit 3 final review and writing project
Question vs statement pronunciation.
check previous cycle on Indirect Questions
kahoot: on indirect question formation
Kahoot: Should/Shouldn't vs. Have to/ Don't have to
What causes you stress? How can we cope or relieve it?
Class two: Groups and class activities
Board pics are like these Buddhist Sand paintings, unless we use the website:
Welcome to your POS spreadsheets!
Don't forget these useful tools:
Selecting: Drag your finger or your mouse over text
These tools can help you build your spreadsheet fast!
Today we will meet each other and learn to use this website.
See the class by class page for a course overview
See the documents page for the policies of the class
What do you do? (= what is your job)
What do you do in your free time?
• Say your name and then your hobby or something you like.
• Act it out • It will help us all remember your name
Sign in with your gmail or make a new gmail account
Post your picture (use the + icon at the top)
Share the pictures with your classmates
https://www.nypl.org/library-card
https://www.nypl.org/locations/dongan-hills
Use the above search bar to look up any library location, or click here.
The following elective classes are available at the Saint George Branch:
Students can bring lunch to all of the events EXCEPT the computer lab.
List of topics and content from Fall 2019
List of topics and content from Fall 2019
Goose chase for as many names as we can get!
Local: Staten Island Government
Thanksgiving (This is just a reminder that we're off)
https://create.kahoot.it/details/new-york-state-facts/c5b54198-360e-4278-9e07-8434c2117f3f
Tourism in NY State! It's a beautiful state up there!
Home maintenance and renovation:
A Kahoot on renting an apartment
Check out this phenomenon that is sweeping the nation!
Modals, meaning and polite, or not so polite, requests
Board pics: the conditional system:
There are usually two clauses in each conditional sentence:
If... (this is always dependent)
(then)... (an independent clause)... also called the result.
(not to be confused with the voice)
Interesting examples of passive:
How does their food have to be eaten?
How does their hair have to be washed?
How is exercise done, when there is no gravity?
Something is done to you by someone else. The subject is not the agent, but the patient.
We use the passive to obscure the agent and to focus on the subject and what was done to them.
Who did this? Who cares? We focus on the act and on the subject (here Jesus).
brain lateralization is a nominalization (see the photo)
NASA Astronauts Conduct the First All-Female Spacewalk
Use these for your spreadsheet!
Noun clauses (with that and other words)
That is the most common starter for noun clauses...
Game for practicing noun clauses.
NewsELA.com for reading in class and out!
What are the rules of English? What happens when everyone breaks them all the time?
See how grammar is just fashion...
And why me is ok as a subject (at least in spoken English...
Watch the videos on the video page.
past participles: been, lived = adjectives
(for more practice with principle parts, click here)
Also, research the use and meaning of the Present Perfect!
Today we will meet each other and learn to use this website.
See the class by class page for a course overview
See the documents page for the policies of the class
What do you do? (= what is your job)
What do you do in your free time?
• Say your name and then your hobby or something you like.
• Act it out • It will help us all remember your name
Sign in with your gmail or make a new gmail account
Post your picture (use the + icon at the top)
Share the pictures with your classmates
Board pics are like these Buddhist Sand paintings, unless we use the website:
This includes lessons from a level on class at Saint George Center.
Board pics from this week... and last (sorry for the delay)
Remember, board pics are like these Buddhist Sand paintings, unless we use the website:
Remember gerunds and infinities (scroll down we covered this).
Week 3: Hobbies, questions, gerunds and infinities
Above: Last week (8/10) we talked about
the 2 kinds of questions in English:
For more see here: Transit Talk: Question Formation
So this week we looked at a specific question:
What do you like to do/what does (he, she, it) _______ like to do?
Here are some easier explanations:
Gerund: -ing form of verb = noun
Infinitive: to + base form = noun, but sometimes adverb or adjective; often used for purpose...
When to choose: you'll have to google that! Gerunds vs. infinitives in English
We talked about the parts of speech when one student asked about the word |volunteer|.
This word can be a noun, verb, or adjective!
8/ 17 Week 3: Summer and Free time
Reading and pronunciation video
Writing exercises and practice
Editing and talking about our writing
Week 2: Free time In the house
Review of site and remembering each other
Vocabulary: hobbies and chores
Read and match Listening activities
Games and talking about hobbies
How often do you like to ___________?
Reviewing the simple (one word) present tense
Today we will meet each other and learn to use this website.
See the class by class page for a course overview
See the documents page for the policies of the class
What do you do in your free time?
PREVIOUS UNITS (FROM EARLIER IN THE SUMMER BELOW)
while shows two things happening at the same time:
when also shows that two things happened at the same time:
Class 8, Topic three: Daily living
Reading and writing about daily routines
We talked about and practiced questions:
The rooms of the house and what we are doing in them and what we are doing to clean them:
Class 7, Topic three: Daily Living
Description: Things that we do inside:
vocabulary of chores and family
(yes/no questions and wh- questions: what are they doing?)
Did you post your homework or write it in a notebook?
fill in the letter/ write about your family and friends.
Reviewing games for this unit.
...make and answer Yes/No questions in the simple present (with does/doesn't)?
....give short answers with does/ doesn’t?
... read and write about jobs?
Guess the jobs that need help!
Using do/ making simple present questions:
Vocabulary in action (+ question formation)
There are two types of questions in English:
The question starts with a question word and have more information for answers.
Questions about Jobs and Work:
Does and doesn't in questions and short answers.
Vocabulary/picture dictionary of jobs and job activities.
What is your job? (What do you do?)
Do/Does: What does a _________________ do?
and talked about phone numbers a bit:
Shopping practically vs. fashion: class 3
writing practice and reviewing games from Ventures Basic Unit 7
Count and Noncount (or uncountable):
Google Sites
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