Hello!

Yesterday we spent most of the time preparing the Design for Change project. Students had to prepare their part for the presentation.

Later we recorded everone in the group presenting their parts. Everybody did it well.

HOMEWORK

We must practice a little more the Present Simple, which is the tense we use to talk about routines.
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=513 Go to the link, do the 1st Exercise: listening and matching the sentence with the picture.

Then, read the text  about Ben and do the 1st Exercise after the text: Put the sentences together.

Hello!

Yesterday most students had done their homework but there was a bit of confusion about how to do it. So finally some students had drawn lost of clocks but had not written down the time in the clock.

Oh well! You are all learning how to tell the time, I have no doubt.

Besides checking homework, which took quite a while, we did some of the exercises in the book. Students had to complete some questions and answers about Molly' routine. Most students did quite well.

Remember,  we use the Present Simple to talk about routines, actions we do everyday or often. To ask questions in the Present Simple we use an auxiliary verb: do. When we talk about one person who is not part of the conversation (3rd Person Singular) we use does, not do.
To make a questions we use

First:                                                           do                 or                  does
Second: subject (or person)                    I/you             or        he/she/Name: Mary
Third:  verb                                    Ex:    get up, go, have, sleep

The question:  do you go ...?        or       does he/she go...?

That's easy, isn't it?

After completing the exercises students wrote 5 things they do everyday and the time when they do those things. Example: I get up at half past seven.
Then, they interviewed a partner: What do you do first? and wrote down the information:

get up    7: 30

When they were finished the whole group got together again and they asked other students:

What does X (Pablo, David, etc.) do first?
and the student answered:
X gets up at half past seven. (with the -s at the end of the verb)

HOMEWORK

Put these words in the correct order to form sentences;

1. get/I/at/7/up/o'clock 

2. I/a/at/shower/have/o'clock/8

3. breakfast/at/he/has/half/past/8 

4. goes/school/to/she/at/o'clock/9 

5. has/she/lunch/at/o'clock/12

6. past/half/3/home/I/go/at 

7. dinner/have/I/o'clock/5/at 

8. bed/I/to/at/go/o'clock/9 

 

Ask a question for each sentence. Examples: 1. What time do you get up?

4. What time does she go to school?

    

Hello crazy boys and only girl!

Yesterday students read their homework, which was a list of birthdays. I am glad to say that children in this group don't have any problem using the possessive as in

My mother's birthday...

I guess it is because you have got used to it while being very young. That's great!

Later on the teacher explained how to tell the time and then students completed a worksheet full of clocks. We still need to practice a little more with the minutes.

Remember: Minutes first:

20 to
20 past
10 past 
5 to
25 to
25 past
Etc.

Once again we practiced the Present Simple. This is the tense we use when we talk about things that we do everyday. This time we talked about Molly and what she does everyday (from Monday to Friday, because weekends are different).
Remember how to make the Present Simple?
Example
I go                                       Do I go?                                                  I don't' go
You go                                 Do you go?                                             You don't go
he/she/it goes             Does he/she/it go?             He/she/it doesn't go
we go                                    Do we go?                                              We don't go
you go                                   Do you go?                                            You don't go
they go                                  Do they go?                                           They don't go

Positive                                Questions                                              Negative                                        

Well, students picked up the trick pretty quick. They asked and answer questions about Molly's routine.
Questions:What time does Molly get up?

Answers: Molly gets up at half past seven.

HOMEWORK

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=7689

Here is a site to practice the time. You can watch the video to remember. Then do Exercise 1. Draw the right clock in your notebook.
Exercise 2: 

It's ten o'clock.  It's half past ten.  It's a quarter past ten.  It's a quarter to ten.	It's one past eight.  It's five past eight.  It's five to eight.  It's eight o'clock.	It's half past nine.  It's twenty past nine.  It's twenty-five past nine.  It's a quarter to five.
It's ten to nine.   It's a quarter to two.   It's two past nine.   It's ten past nine.	It's twenty to nine.  It's twenty past eight.  It's twenty past nine.  It's twenty-five to nine.	It's half past eight.  It's twenty to six.  It's eight o'clock.  It's a quarter past eight.
It's five o'clock.  It's eleven to five.  It's five past five.  It's five to five.	It's nine to one.  It's a quarter past one.  It's a quarter to one.  It's a quarter to twelve.	It's twenty o'clock.  It's eleven o'clock.  It's twelve o'clock.  It's half past one.
It's fifty to six.  It's a quarter to six.  It's a quarter past six.  It's a quarter past five.	It's seven past one.  It's twenty-five to one.  It's twenty-five past two.  It's twenty-five past one.	It's five past ten.   It's ten to one.   It's one past ten.  It's ten past twelve.

Write numbers for the clocks: from left to right: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Do only 6 clocks and write the time in your notebook.

Exercise 3: Do the column of clocks on the right.

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.