1. What is your item? It is a ______. 2. Write 4 adjectives. It is ______. It is ______. It is ______ It is _______. We will compare: My ______ is ___-er than ___’s ____. COMPUTERS...
Practice by Doing: Deposit practice here Cash a Check Check Your Receipt Pay with Debit Card ATM practice here Grammar: Complete the sentences activity for Money in the Bank Listening practice: Set Up a Banking Account: Listen here. Making a Deposit: Listen here. Make a Withdrawal: Listen here. Shopping for a Sweater: Listen here. I Like That Shirt: Listen here. Pants that Fit: Listen here. Shopping for New Clothes...more difficult...here. Today we will order at restaurants. We will make healthy choices. Which is better? Which is fresher? First practice this conversation: Two friends want to have lunch together. They are really hungry. They go to a restaurant. “Right this way.” The host takes them to a table. They look at the menu. “What would you like to eat?” the server asks. “I would like chicken, French fries and salad,” answers one woman. “I would like fish and rice,” answers the other woman. The waitress brings the food. “I love this food,” the women agree. “My fish is delicious.” “My chicken is scrumptious.” The bus boy clears the empty dishes. The server asks, “Would you like any dessert?” The women agree, “We would like ice cream and coffee, please.” The server brings the cold dessert, the warm beverages, and the expensive bill. (The women ate a lot!) The women enjoy their dessert. They pay the bill and ask for change so they can leave a tip. First, pick a good restaurant. You can choose one you know or look here at Tripadvisor.
Choose: restaurants Choose: city name Choose: type of food by nationality or cost Choose a good review: 4 circles or more Look at the pictures. Look a the menu. What do you think? What would you order? For each section (meal, sides, beverage), make a choice between 2 things that you like. Ex. I am at A Place at the Table in Raleigh. I can order eggs and bacon or chai spiced waffles. I will order the waffles because they are more fragrant and unique than the eggs. I want yogurt with granola. I will get peanut butter and chocolate because it is tastier than fruit. I can order cappuccino or herbal tea. I will order cappuccino because it is richer than tea. What job would you like? What can you do? Comparing things you bought... What did you buy? Why did you buy it? When can you use it? Was it on sale? We can use adjectives to compare. Here is some practice. Here is more practice.
Here are pictures to practice your words. Here is a story about a realtor. Here is a sad story about a man in an apartment. He doesn't have enough money. Read the story. Listen to the story. Try the sentences activity. Then try to complete the "cloze" activity at the bottom of the page. Here is a story about a woman. She has 3 roommates. She is not happy. Read the story. Listen to the story. Then try the sentences at the bottom of the page. Then try the cloze activity. Here is a story about a man. He has too much stuff. He needs to move to a smaller apartment. He won't have enough room. Read. Listen. Then try to make the sentences. For the first half of the class, we will write a thank you letter. We will review our comparative sentences. For the second half of class, we will use computers. Comparative practice online: *Positive, comparative, superlative practice here. More practice is here. A little more difficult here. Only superlatives here. Read and talk with your partner. Complete "sentences" at the bottom of the page. This is an easy story. Picking a Color for the House *This is a story about shopping. Buying a Couch This story is about a garden. A Beautiful Garden This is a longer story. My Family House Practice with prepositions: Video explanation For and to difference To - For practice More practice Another practice
Look HERE to see the most expensive house in the world! You can listen to the story below.
Practice spelling furniture here. Practice house vocabulary here. Here are some explanations of comparatives and superlatives. Here is great practice for comparatives and superlatives. Everyday we meet new friends. Today I say hi to Wail. I hope you like learning English. This lesson will help you make good choices when you shop for your wife. :) Today we learned about comparing things we buy. What is nicer? What is more expensive? What is better? You can practice comparative adjectives here. Another practice is here. One more page to practice is here. Tomorrow we will shop more. We will practice how to compare more than 2 things. We will find the BEST sales, the BEST discounts, and the NICEST things. Today we talked about the earthquake in Mexico and the hurricane in Puerto Rico. -We used the past tense for what happened. -We used "There is...There are..." and "There was...There were" to describe the situations. There is no electricity in Puerto Rico. There is a lot of danger in Mexico. There is a lot of rain in Puerto Rico. There is no electricity in many areas. There was electricity yesterday. There was a volcanic eruption also. There are many destroyed houses. There are many destroyed buildings. - Today we practiced describing people more. We started an activity about a Silver Alert for missing people. We will complete the activity on Monday. Here are more sentences so you can practice: What does he/she look like? He/she... is tall / average height/ short. is heavy / average weight/ thin. has long / shoulder-length / short hair. has black / brown / red / blond / gray hair. is bald. has brown / blue / hazel / black / green eyes. wears glasses / contacts / braces. wears a hat / earrings / a necklace / a bracelet / a ring. has a mustache / a beard. has a piercing / a tattoo. School supplies are on sale. What does your child need for school? Let's learn about school supplies. Practice vocabulary here. Here is another list. Practice sentences here. Here is a quizlet to practice. You can listen to the pronunciation if you click on the speaker icon. You can practice spelling, listening, and remembering the words. Now look for your child's school supply list... ....go to the school's website. ....Use the search box to find "school supply list" ....Choose the list you need. There is an example below. After you find your list, you can shop online for good prices.
Here is an example from 2nd grade. 3 hardcover composition notebooks (“marble” cover) 4 plain colored (red, blue, green , yellow), 2-pocket PLASTIC folders without prongs 1 packs wide-ruled notebook paper 2 boxes tissues 4 glue sticks 5 boxes of 24 crayons (preferably Crayola) 4 dry erase markers 8 large pink pearl erasers 24 #2 pencils (Ticonderoga) 1 box Ziploc sandwich size baggies 2 containers of Clorox disinfectant wipes Next you can look for sales online. Search different stores to practice your vocabulary. Pick your favorite stores. Type the supply in the search box. Find the price. Target Staples Office Depot Walmart Where do you shop? As you find prices, compare them. Which store has the cheapest price? Which has the most expensive price? Which is the best store? Which is the worst store? Leave a comment below about your shopping. What did you buy? (I bought...) Where did you buy it? (I bought it at...) How much did it cost? (It cost...) For example... I bought Crayola colored pencils. I bought them at Staples. They cost $.97 (97 cents). or I bought Crayola colored pencils at Staples for 97 cents. Happy shopping! Vacation time means you have more time to cook.
Here are some activities to help you. Recipes are directions to make a type of food. Recipes use ingredients. Here are some popular ingredients: Fruits & Vegetables Various foods These are words that can be counted like an apple or a banana and words like rice and beans that cannot be counted. Spices and herbs are here and here. Recipes give directions with measurements and special actions. Cooking verbs here and here. Now practice what you learned here. Study and practice more here. Cooking utensils here. Cooking packages here. Find a recipe in English and try to make it. Strawberries are on sale at Aldi's so here are 2 recipes you can try. Summer officially began on Wednesday, June 21
It will end on Friday, September 22 So let's talk about summer and the seasons. Let's talk about extremes... Summer is the hottest season. The days are the longest. It is the most humid. It is the sunniest. The sun is the closest to our part of the earth. Are the vacations the best? We are using the superlative to compare 3 or more things. (Here is a list with many examples.) You can practice the superlative forms of adjectives here:
After the soccer game, my son came home with the filthiest uniform I had ever seen. Let's talk about summer... Start with an easy word search. Can you find all of the words? Do you know what they mean? Look up any words you don't know. Now look at these pictures. The vowels (a-e-i-o-u) are missing. Can you complete each word? Now read them out loud. Here are some summer flashcards. You can play a game with them. Practice the dialogue on the page. Let's write about summer... Now you have some vocabulary. Google "summer". Click on "images". You will see many different pictures of summer. Pick a picture and write sentences about it. For example, water many people swimming playing surfboards sand There are many people in the water. There are 2 surfboards. The water is very clear. The sand is yellow. We used the resources tab, then clicked on live binder to find information about health.
We used eslblogs.waketech.edu On the right, click on Ventures Arcade. We practiced Unit 10 and the unit on health. |
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