Yesterday we listened to videos about him. Today we read about him. We made a list of key vocabulary and confusing vocabulary. At the end, we used this cloze (fill in the blank) activity to see if we understood all we learned.
We also talked about character. Here and here are 2 lists of character words.
On Monday, we will look at his speech and make our own Dream speeches.
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream . . . I have a dream that one day in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers."
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/martin-luther-kings-i-have-a-dream-speech-best-parts-2015-1#ixzz3PZvokzQu
After recess, we continued to present our peers.
Pronunciation and grammar topics: (click to practice more)
She/he/it + verb-s Ex. She lives
Possessive pronouns (My, your, his, her, its, our, your)
Wow!!! An excellent site for making sounds. It is an app, but you can see it on a computer too.
For example: Click on "manner". Then click on "liquid". You will see /l/ and /r/.
Pronunciation Practice:
Here are the sites I mentioned in class to practice sounds by language background (Thai, Russian, Vietnamese, Spanish)
Language Differences…… See here for practice http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/index-q.htm
See here for common mistakes by background http://www.tedpower.co.uk/phono.html