Friday, February 17, 2017

February 20, 23, 24

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February 20

Criterion C & D - Oral Presentations due

Pitch your theme restaurant idea


Monday Homework:  past simple irregular online exercises
positive sentences: https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simple-past/exercises?04
answering questions: https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simple-past/exercises?02 

Tuesday Homework:  past simple online exercises
write questions in past simple: https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simple-past/exercises?06 
negative sentences: https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simple-past/exercises?05 


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Wednesday Homework:  in, at, on (prepositions) Time
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/structures/prepositions_at_in_on_time.htm 
http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/prepositions-of-time3.html 

February 23
3b Food, fat and fibre
Reading
p. 30 #1 Do the Food Test
         #2 Answer the questions

Countable and uncountable nouns (page 118)

Thursday Homework:  countable and uncountable nouns
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/count1.htm
http://www.learnenglish.de/games/countuncount/CountUncount.html 
http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/countable-and-uncountable-nouns 

February 24
Exploring grammar
a lot of, many, much
   p. 31 #3   Look at the table and answer the questions
            #4 Complete the questions with How much and How many
            #5 Write about your diet
            #6 (not) enough, too much and too many
            #7 Look at the shopping list, write sentences.






Friday, February 10, 2017

February 13, 16, 17

February 13
Group Work - Oral Presentation

Your task is to create a theme restaurant and pitch it to investors as seen in the American show "Restaurant Startup"

Requirements:
    include a visual (poster/infographic), 
    each person needs to speak  (1 1/2 -2  minutes each).

Contestants
1.  Put into groups for  oral presentation
2.  Get into your group and decide what kind of theme restaurant you will create.
3.  Choose a name for your restaurant
4.  Choose a location for your restaurant
5.  Decide on the menu (including ingredients)
6.  Decide on the decor (table, chairs, etc)

Investors
1.  Watch espisodes of Restaurant Startup on Youtube to understand the show
2.  Write questions that can help you when you are asking the contestants questions aobut their restaurant.
3.  Produce a check for $7,500.  to present to the winner. 

Homework:  Scrambled sentences (Monday's homework)
http://www.rong-chang.com/easyread/emx/emx00101.htm
http://www.rong-chang.com/easyread/emx/emx00201.htm


Irregular Verbs (Tuesday's homework)
http://first-english.org/english_learning/english_tenses/simple_past/2/10_simple_past_irregular_verbs.htm
http://first-english.org/english_learning/english_tenses/simple_past/2/11_simple_past_irregular_verbs_exercises.htm

Homework:  Vocabulary  (Wednesday's homework)
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/exercises/wordmatch/1/wordmatch.html
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/exercises/grammar/adjectives/foodadjectives/antonyms/wordmatch.htm

February 16
Continue working on your presentation

Homework:  Countable/Uncountable Nouns (Thursday's Homework)
Exercise - http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-countable-uncountable-nouns.php
Exercise - http://www.agendaweb.org/grammar/countable_uncountable-exercises.html

February 17 
Criterion C & D - Oral Presentations due

Pitch your theme restaurant idea

Saturday, February 4, 2017

February 6, 9, 10

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New Unit - Tasty!

February 6
p. 27 Have a look!

Vocabulary  - Food
p. 27 #1 Match the words
         #2 What other things do you like on your pizza?

Speaking
p. 27 #3 Work in pairs

3a Hard Rock Café
Listening
p. 28 #1 Listen and complete the notes
         #2 Listen again and complete the sentences

Homework:  Likes and Dislikes  http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=3363
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-practice/and-dont

February 9
Exploring grammar
Pronouns:  some..., any..., every...
p. 28 #3 Complete the table
         #4 Do we use any in affirmative sentences?
         #5 Complete the dialogue
p. 29 #6 Complete the pronouns

Homework:  something, someone, somewhere, anything, anyone, anywhere
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/confusing_words/something_anything.htm

February 10
Pronunciation - Silent Vowels
p. 29 #7 Listen and repeat
         #8 Add words 1-4 to the table in exercise 7

Vocabulary - Preparing food:  verbs and adjectives
p. 29 #10 Match the verbs with the adjectives
         #11 Complete the descriptions

Write about your food preferences. 
   I love roast chicken and chips.  I hate . . .