This is funny. The only computer that links properly to last week's homework is mine. I tried to copy and paste but it didn't work. How strange!


Yesterday we reviewed actions and we used the Present Continuous: he is smiling, they are cooking, she is running. We played a game to reinforce students' learning.

Later we started a new unit. This is easy because it is about months and dates and we say the date in every lesson and everybody knows the months already.
Students asked each other when is their birthday and then wrote is on a piece of paper. They grabbed a paper and said:

Whose birthday is September 8th (for example)? And the student whose birthday is September 8th had to say: It's my birthday.

We also practiced the ordinal numbers. Here they are:

First (1st)
Second (2nd)
Third (3rd)
Fourth (4th)
Fifth (5th)
Sixth (6th)

The rest of the numbers are just like the regular number but they have -th at the end.

But when we get to 21 we repeat the pattern again.

Twenty first (21st)
Twenty second (22nd)
Twenty third (23rd)
Twenty fourth (24th)
Twenty fifth (25th)

And finally the last day of the months that have 31 days is:

Thirty first (31st)

FOR DANIEL, WHO IS HAVING DARKRED AS A GUEST THIS WEEK

You must make up (invent) a friend for Darkred. You mus write:

His or her name: Example: his name is Groovy.
Age:  Example: He is 5 years old.
Looks:  Example: He is big and fat. He has green eyes and curly blue hair. He has beautiful yellow wings.
Clothes: Example:  He is wearing green shorts and a purple scarf.
Sports: Example: He likes swimming and flying.

HOMEWORK 
Ask 5 people to tell you when is their birthday. Your mother, your father, your grandma, etc.

Then write:example: My grandma's birthday is on May 6th.

Hello boys and girls,

I'm sorry I couldn't be there last Monday. I know you had a nice class, though and finished all that work I had left for you.

HOMEWORK: go to this link to a worksheet.http://www.eslkidslab.com/worksheets/set3/actions/actions%20what%20are%20they%20doing.pdf

Write the sentences in your notebook. In the first sentence you must start the sentence saying the boy or  the girl or the children or the man or the woman. 

Example: The boy is flying a kite.

The second sentence stars with a pronoun: it, he, she, they.

Example: He  is flying a kite.

Yesterday everybody was in class again. And we continued talking about friends and describing them.

We are still learning some of the questions. Remember, if you want to know if somebody is tall or short, if they have long hair or short hair, blue eyes or brown eyes, the question you must ask is:

What does he/she look like?

or

What does Jimmy look like?

or

What does your mother look like?

And if you want to know about somebody's clothes ( trousers, shirt, dress, sweater, etc.) you must ask:

What is he/she wearing?

or

What's Jimmy wearing?

or

What is your mother wearing?

HOMEWORK
Describe 4 people in your family.
Example
My sister is short and a little heavy.
She has got short gray hair and brown eyes.
Now she is wearing a black T-shirt and a red skirt.

Hello ! I´m glad you had a nice vacation. So did I.

Yesterday we reviewed vocabulary to describe people. There were words that students had forgotten: bold, beard, pony tail, pig tails, braids. But they remembered most of them.

Later we started a new unit in the book. It is about friends and we practiced describing and talking about our fiends. First we listened to a description of George. Students had to put what they heard in the right order. That is a good exercise: students just need to relax and fill in the boxes they can, they don´t need to get nervous thinking about what they could´t understand because eventually they will understand. 
Then, students drew a picture of one of their best friends and wrote down a list of things about him/her.

Example:

Name: Lenny

Age:   8

Looks: short and thin, curly brown hair and green eyes.

Clothes: white T-Shirt and jeans.

Sport: basketball.

Next, they had a conversation with a partner. They asked the questions:

1. Who is your best friend?
2. How old is he/she?
3. What does he/she look like?
4. What is he/she wearing?
5. What sport does he play?

Answers (Example)
1. My best friend is Lenny.
2. He is eight.
3. He is short and thin and he has got curly brown hair and green eyes.
4. He is wearing a white T-Shirt and jeans.
5. He plays basketball.

HOMEWORK
Do the exercise on the website: http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=736  
Then choose 3 children in the exercise and answer the questions:
1. Who is your best friend?
2. How old is he/she?
3. What does he/she look like?
4. What is he/she wearing?
5. What sport does he play?

You need to make up (invent) some of the answers.

Hi!

Next week is our last week before the holidays. These holidays are called Easter Holidays though nowadays they call them Spring Holidays, because Easter is a Christian celebration, while spring is a universal celebration.



One thing they do to celebrate Easter or the Spring Holiday is decorate eggs.

For HOMEWORK you can watch this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P09FiCLhd1Q

Now, say 3 things we can do to decorate an Easter egg.

Everybody had made a description of the place where they live. They read it aloud and I must say their descriptions were well done.

Yesterday we started a new unit. It's about our family and describing them and other people.

The first questions students had to answer was:

How many people are in your family?
  And they had to answer something like this example:

We are four: my mother, my father, my sister and I.

We listened to a boy called Sam talk about his family. He has a tween sister. His tween sister looks like him, but she has long hair and he has short hair. He also has a baby brother with big ears and a small nose.

We also need to learn how to describe people. We practiced describing people last year. And some students remembered a lot.

We studied some adjectives:

Tall, medium height, short, heavy, medium weight, thin. 

Pretty, ugly, handsome, dark, fair. 

To talk about hair: long, short, straight, wavy, curly, black, brown, blond or fair, red.

To talk about ears and nose: small, big.

HOMEWORK

Go to this link:http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=7824

In the first part you see 6 pictures. To make a sentence you need to use have got or has got for some of them and is or are for the other ones. Make the sentences.
  Example: A girl has got long hair.
A dog is small.
Then complete Exercises 1 and 2.

Hello!

Has your house or flat got a balcony?  Is there a garden outside your house? Has it got a basement?

Most students in this group live in a flat with 1 or more balconies. One of them lives on the third floor, another one lives on the second floor.

We read about 2 boys - Paul and John - and 2 girls - Mary and Sally. We read about where they live: in a city or in a village; in a flat or in a house; what their house or flat is like: has it got a balcony? A basement? A garden?

Students read each one a paragraph - they did a very good job - then they filled in a table with the details about each child. Later we had a contest between two teams. They had to ask the other team questions:

Does Mary live in a house?

The other team had to answer quickly:

Yes, she does. Or No, she doesn't, she lives in a flat.

Has Mary got a balcony?

No, she hasn't, she has a garden.


HOMEWORK

Write about the place where you live:

Example

I live in a house in a village. My house is big. It has got three (3) bedrooms. The bedrooms are upstairs. 
Downstairs there is a kitchen, a living room, a dining room, a study and a bathroom. 
There is a basement. There are toys and bikes in the basement. There is also a garden with flowers and trees. My brother and I play in the garden. There isn't a balcony, but there are many windows.