Today’s Agenda
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Attendance
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Quiz4- compound sentences
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Continue descriptive writing- writing from
homework
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Prepare for paragraph tomorrow
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Begin adverb clauses
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Listening fun
Wednesday
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Test2 – descriptive paragraph
Thursday
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Midterm recs – first half of class
Friday
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Midterm recs- other half of the class
Monday, June 2
First day of reg for summer term.
I am scheduled to teach P1 EF5 in the summer. This could
change.
Descriptive writing-
Homework- Write a descriptive paragraph
Difficult- very challenging, extremely, exceptionally hard
-descriptive words
A big challenge is vocabulary.
Active and passive vocabulary
English thinking? Not translating from another language.
Chocolate is a pick-me-up.
Coffee is a pick-me-up.
Did you use a thesaurus?
-gives synonyms and antonyms
whisper(v)
mouth the words(v) She mouthed the word ‘Yes.”
Listening game
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spread the pictures out
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Read the desc paragraphs out loud.
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Listen. Big ears.
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Guess what picture the reader is talking about.
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Listening Fun
1.
What is it called when the action of a film is
slowed down?
slow motion,
slo-mo
2.
Every spring, the leaves on an evergreen tree
turn green. True or false?
3.
Does a translucent object block some light,
all light, or no light?
transparent,
translucent, opaque
4.
What adjective describes a person from Peru?
Peruvian,
Chinese, Iranian, Canadian, Spanish, etc.
5.
On what continent do Colombians, Brazilians,
and Peruvians live?
South America
6.
During a storm, do you see lightning before or
after you hear thunder?
speed of
light, speed of sound
7.
Multiply 100 by 100.
10000
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Prepare for paragraph tomorrow
Test2 – descriptive paragraph
-at least 150 words
-doublespace
-indent
-full name and class
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I will put a picture on the screen. You can brainstorm vocabulary
about it.
Write a nice paragraph describing what is in the picture. You
can describe the whole picture of focus on one area of it.
Example pictures
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