HW for 12/16

Hi everyone,

Wow!  The session is almost over, now we just have Monday to review everything.  There is no school on Tuesday, it is a volunteer day in San Francisco.  Then we have the exam on Wednesday and I will give the test no later than 8:45 a.m. because we need time to correct the test together in class before you leave at 12:30.

Please complete the HW packet that I gave to you in class today.  The final exam includes all the information you have learned in the entire book.

Please come to class with any specific questions that you may have because Monday is our day for review.

Have a great weekend, and please study!

HW for 12/12/13

Please write about the weekend, use the prompts on p. 97 in the student book.

Complete pages 75, 76, 77, 78 and 79 in the workbook.

We have finished the book today!  We will review everything tomorrow, 12/12 and Monday 12/16. Tuesday 12/17 we do not have school and the final exam is on 12/18.  Please study and review everything, also bring questions to class.

HW for 12/11

Please complete pages 71, 72, 73 and 74 in the workbook.  Also please review everything and come to school with questions.  Remember the final exam is on Wednesday, 12/18!

HW for 12/10

Hi everyone,

So sorry for posting the HW so late if you were absent today here it is:

Pages 69 and 70 in the WB, corresponding to lesson 8B: quantifiers.

As a reminder, our final exam is on 12/18, a week from this Wednesday.  We have a lot of material to cover before next week, so be on time, pay attention in class, do the homework and study!

See you tomorrow!

HW for 12/9 and have a great weekend

Hi everyone,

You have a lot of HW this weekend because we are starting to prepare for the final exam which is scheduled for 12/18.

Please complete pages 66, 67, 68 in the workbook as well as the handouts for Units 7A, B, C, D and 8A.

Remember meetup.com is a great resource for you to meet new people and to practice speaking more English.  I will create a link for meetup on this blog.

See you on Monday, stay warm!

HW for 12/5

Hi everyone,  I don't have the student book with me... forgive me, I don't know the page number I asked you to prepare for tomorrow, but it is the page that features the Duomo of Milan at the end of Chapter 7.  Also, if you went on the field trip today to hear Handel's Messiah, please write about it on the handout I gave to you in class.  See you tomorrow.  =)

HW 12/4 and field trip to UC Berkeley for classical music

Hi everyone,

Sorry I'm posting the HW late... for tomorrow, make sure you complete Unit 7D in the workbook.

Also, review as much as you can in general and come to class with questions.

Tomorrow we will leave school at 11:10 to go to Hertz Hall on the U.C. Berkeley campus where we will hear Handell's Messiah, a beautiful piece of music.  The concert begins at 12:15 and ends at 1:00 p.m., bring a sandwich to eat before the concert if you like.  We will take a little stroll through the campus that I think you will enjoy.

See you tomorrow! 

HW 12/2/13

Hi everyone,

Enjoy your Thanksgiving weekend!

But please also, review your lessons.  Also, please complete the exercises for 7A in your workbook.

See you Monday - take good care!

HW 11/25

Greetings all,

HW for Monday, 11/25 - complete the work for Chapter 6B also page 50, a review of Unit 5.

Write a story about your favorite food, from your country.  Tell us who introduced you to to this food. Also, give us an ingredient list and explain how to prepare this food.

Have a great weekend, see you Monday.

HW for 11/20

Hi everyone,

Sorry I did not post the HW yesterday... I forgot, please forgive me!

For tomorrow, 11/20:

In the workbook, complete the exercises for 5C and 5D.

(There was no internet connection at the school when we left at 12:30 today, so I couldn't post the homework then and I don't have the book at home, so I don't know the page numbers, but it should be clear which pages you need to complete, there are 4 pages of homework in total.)

Today we began reading Chapter 6A.  If you were absent, please read about the survival scenarios involving the crocodile, the bear and the bull.  We had some good laughs about this in class!

Head's up:

Field trip Wednesday, December 4th to hear Handel's Messiah, at Hertz Hall, at the auditorium of the school of Music on the University of California, Berkeley campus just up the hill a bit.

The concert begins at 12:15, but many people will be in the line because it is a very popular show and it is free, so we will leave the school at 11:15, so we can take a calm walk through the campus and get a seat!

See you tomorrow, stay dry and warm!

HW for 11/18

Greetings students!

For HW
- please complete 5C in the workbook
- write about your favorite food.  Write about the food and who taught you about it.

HW for 11/14

Hi everyone!

Thank you for working with the American Corpus.  This is a wonderful tool for you as you learn the English language.

For tomorrow please complete pages 42 and 43.

Also bring me any questions you may have about the English language!

See you tomorrow.

HW for tomorrow

Dear students,

1) Please complete pages 40 and 41 in the workbook, chapter 5A.

2) Please get an account with American corpus.  Enter your word 'X' in the word/s slot.  Click on collocates and make sure you have the numbers 4//4.  This way you will get a list of words that collocate with your word 'X.'  Sample:

SEARCH STRING

?

WORD(S)

?

COLLOCATES

0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9     0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9

?

POS LIST

-select-   noun.ALL    verb.ALL    adj.ALL    adv.ALL    --------    neg.ALL    art.ALL    det.ALL    pron.ALL    poss.ALL    prep.ALL    conj.ALL    --------    noun.ALL+    noun.SG    noun.PL    noun.CMN    noun.+PROP    noun.-PROP    --------    verb.BASE    verb.INF    verb.INF/LEX    verb.MODAL    verb.3SG    verb.ED    verb.EN    verb.ING    verb.LEX    verb.[BE]    verb.[DO]    verb.[HAVE]    --------    adj.CMP    adj.SPRL    adv.PRTCL    adv.WH    --------    pron.INDF    pron.PERS    pron.WH    pron.REFL    --------    num.CARD    num.ORD    --------    conj.CRD    conj.SUB    interj    PUNC

No school Monday 11/11, see you on 11/12

Dear students,

Please remember that we are observing Veteran's Day on Monday, 11/7, so there will be no school.

I have graded your midterms so you will receive them back on Tuesday.  Remember that these grades are an indication of your progress so far and you have time to improve your English skills and your scores for the final!

Have a wonderful weekend, see you on Tuesday 11/12.

Midterm tomorrow 11/7 - Ch. 1-4

Students,

As you know the midterm is tomorrow, so please be on time!  We will review for one hour before you take the test.

Study the book and use any resources on the blog that are helpful, for example, the Betty Azar link is a very good one for you to review.  She is super clear when she explains grammar points.

Don't forget to study VOCABULARY as you will be tested on this as well.

See you tomorrow, study and get some good rest!

HW for 11/5 - midterm 11/6

p. 49 - Describe where you live, using the question in a) as a guide.

Review p. 155 - make sure you have memorized all these verbs!

Review 14, 26, 38 and 50 for the midterm.

Come to class with questions about anything in Chapters 1-4.

Midterm on 11/6 - Chapters 1-4

HW 10/31

Hi students!  Not sure who is reading this, maybe only Page ha ha!  Hi Page!

Here is the HW for tomorrow - complete the exercises in the WB for Unit 4C.  Also STUDY page 155 and review the vocabulary for the movie, The Shining which you will watch tomorrow with Daniel's class.

I'm glad we played Scrabble together, it's such a great game.  See you tomorrow!

HW for 10/30

Greetings!
Please complete the HW for section 4B in your workbook.
Read section III of the handout of today about the movie The Shining.
Prepare for the quiz on the verb forms of the irregular verbs on page 155.

See you tomorrow!

HW for 10/29/Short quiz 10/30 announcement/Halloween 10/31

Hello students,

The homework for tomorrow is to complete lesson 4A in the workbook.  Also make sure you are memorizing the verb forms on page 155.  There will be a short quiz on Wednesday 10/30 at 9:00 a.m. on the verb forms on page 155.  I will randomly select 10 verbs from that list to test you on Wednesday, so please begin to memorize those verbs if you haven't already.

Thursday as you know is Halloween.  Daniel in level 3 will be showing the scary movie, The Shining around 9:00 a.m.  After the movie he is offering students to carve pumpkins.   Today in my class no one expressed interest in carving, please let me know if you change your mind and I will tell Daniel.

We will have a short cultural lesson about Halloween tomorrow 10/30 and we will continue working in the student book, lesson 4B.  On 10/31 we will also discuss the movie The Shining, featuring Jack Nicholson.

See you tomorrow!

HW for Monday 10/28

• p. 37 in the textbook:  Imagine you are going to stay with Mrs. Sanders.  Answer her letter using your own information.  Write three paragraphs, follow the instructions on the bottom of page. 37.
• p. 30, complete 1, 2 and 3
• Read p. 40, the article Zara.  Please be prepared to answer comprehension questions about the article.
• Review everything!

Remember there is no school tomorrow, Friday 10/24.

Have a wonderful weekend, see you on Monday!

HW for 10/23/13

We have just completed Unit 3D.  For homework please complete p. 28 and 29.

See you tomorrow.

HW for Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013

Dear Students,

My apologies for posting the HW late...

We have completed unit 3C in the textbook, so please complete the HW for 3C in the workbook.

If you live far away and rely on BART to get to school, perhaps you can take a bus to school?  If not, I hope you are checking the blog to stay current on what we are working on in class.

See you in class tomorrow and have a wonderful evening!

Advance English Academy - WELCOME

Dear students in the Low-Intermediate class at Advance English Academy in Berkeley - WELCOME to my student blog for English language learning.

The first thing I would like all of you to do is to become familiar with the use of the American Corpus, otherwise known as COCA.  You can see it on the right banner.  Everyone, please register for COCA, it is free and it is a fabulous tool for anyone interested in the English language, students, teachers, linguists, anyone!

Today in class we examined the use of the prepositions (PREP) 'in,' 'on' and 'at.'

This is what I did to get my results:

Under DISPLAY - click LIST

under COLLOCATES (words that live near each other) type in [nn*] for nouns (N)

for the numbers I checked 0 in the L column and 2 in the R column.

Then I clicked SEARCH.

The POS stands for parts of speech.  If you click on this it will give you all the codes for POS, [nn*] for all nouns, [v*] for all verbs, [j*] for all adjectives, etc.

Because I forgot to remind you that I would give you a test tomorrow,  I will give you one on Monday instead.

See you tomorrow and please bring me your questions.

Denise

Subbing

Hey ho

Subbing at ELS this week, through Friday!  Yay!

104 session ended!

Congratulations to all who passed and good luck to all of you.  I may see you around before leaving to Mexico June 12th.

Hope you enjoyed your weekend - remember to attend class, to be on time, pay attention, do your homework and study with your classmates!

I'm sending all of you my love!

HW for 5/21 - FINAL this Thursday 5/23

Hi everyone,

As you know, Andrew will be your sub tomorrow.

The hw for tomorrow is to review pages 16, 17, 37 and 71 - these are vocabulary pages.
Also review all grammar points, the final is this Thursday!

Grammar points this session - SSP 104

Unit 1
✔Past continuous and simple past

✔Question words: who, what, where

✔was going to


Unit 2
MODAL VERBS - (MODALS)
✔must, might & can't
✔ must vs. should

✔common phrasal verbs
(ask 'someone' out, get rid of, run away)

Unit 3
✔comparisons with as

✔used to and would


Unit 4
✔noun clauses


Unit 5
✔PAST MODALS
   must have, may have, might have


Unit 6
✔causal verbs
   make, have, let, help, get

✔passive causative


Unit 7
✔real conditional

so sorry no hw post - look at unit 4

sorry for not posting the hw for Monday - we started unit 4
new topic:
the noun clause

the noun clause always has a subject and a verb.

ex.:

I don t know                   if/whether                   the food is yummy or not.

I wonder                         how                             they are doing?

I'd like to know              where                          the awesome Chinese restaurant is.

I know                           (that)                            it is good.

Quiz #2 tomorrow

USED TO  /  WOULD pages 39-42
CAUSATIVE VERBS pages 79-81
PASSIVE CAUSATIVE page 87


Click on the page above for an explanation of USED TO  /  WOULD especially if you were absent!

HW 5/16

Review p. 39, 'used to', do Ex. 7, p.40
Review p.41, 'would'

Review vocabulary p. 46

Review passive causatives

I got the walls painted.

Causative Verbs

Students!  I will be absent tomorrow.  You will have a sub.  Please be on time and please be respectful to your teacher! =)

HW fortomorrow

Ex. C pages 80, 81

Memorize the following verbs:

Forbid, forgive, break, weave, choose, mistake

Also remember these terms:

Infinitive verb:    to weave
Base form:            weave
S. past:                   wove
Past participle:      woven
Present participle: weaving

Tomorrow you will be learning the Passive Causative construction.

HW for May 8, 2013

1. Read pages 27-28 - A hermit's guide to Yellowstone - Getting away from them all

Answer the T or F questions on pages 28 and 29.

Make sure you understand the following:

• getting away from it all   = leaving 'something or someone' behind
• off-season = low season  ≠ high season.  Ex.: Cost of travel is cheaper during off season.  Most people travel during high season.
• get off the beaten track = to go on the track that most people do not go on. 
• strategies = tactics
• take the road most traveled = take the road most people take

2. Ex. 2, p. 66
3. Ex. 3, p. 67

Complete Exercise C on p. 74

HW for Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Hi everyone, here is the hw:

Review pages 19-23 - MUST, MIGHT, CAN'T               - Logical conclusions - logical guesses
                                                   MAY

                                      MUST and SHOULD               - MUST - obligation / SHOULD - advice

Complete exercise 4, page 23
                             5, page 24.  

Review pages 108-109 - review, review, review
                                 

HW for Monday, May 6 / Also reminder: MIDTERM EXAM next week, Friday, May 10th.

1. Read page 13

The topic:   STRESS - Definition from the Learner Dictionary on the blog:

stress  /strs/  n. [C;U] -es 1 mental or physical strain or difficulty caused by pressure: She is full of stress, because her boss gives her too much work. 2 strength given or put on s.t.:In our family, the stress is on a good education. 
v. [T] -es 1 to give strength to: Her husband stressed the idea that she should change jobs and relax more. 2 to cause pressure: Lifting these boxes has stressed my back.

Thesaurus: stress n.1 tension, anxiety 2 the emphasis, focus, insistence.
v.1 to emphasize, insist on s.t. 2 to strain.



2. Write a 3-5 sentence paragraph about stress and how you handle it.

Title of your paragraph:
What stresses me out

 'something' stresses 'somebody' out is a phrasal verb:


From the Corpus dictionary (on the blog):

stress somebody out 

phrasal verb

to make someone so worried or nervous that they cannot relax:

Studying for exams always stresses me out.

I get stressed out when......

I cope with my stress by ....... (V+ing)

Example:  I get stressed out when my students do not come to school or when they do not understand the lesson.  If I stay positive and try to be a better teacher, hopefully all of my students will attend, they will understand, they will learn and they will succeed!

3. Review the verbs on page 108-109


MIDTERM EXAM next week on Friday so please, please come to class, be on time, pay attention, ask questions, make sure you understand what we are working on!  The blog is here to help you.

Reminder: CLASS is in 4203 on Monday.

Have a great weekend.

Quiz #1 tomorrow, beginning at 9:00 a.m.

Dear students, our first quiz is tomorrow.  It is not hard, just make sure you review Unit 1, that is your homework.  Also go to pages 108-109 to study these verbs.  If you were absent, please come to class anyway and try to take the test, you will probably do well.

Quiz begins at 9:00 and ends at 9:15, it is short.

Quiz #1
1- Difference between a GERUND and a PRESENT PARTICIPLE
2- Definition of TENSE and ASPECT
3- Difference between simple past and past continuous with fill in the blanks  - UNIT 1
4- WHO, WHAT, WHERE
5- Identify TRANSITIVE and INTRANSITIVE VERBS
6- Phrasal verb: to ask someone out, to get rid of, to run away
7- Review pages 108-109, especially:

BE           WAS/WERE         BEEN
DO           DID                       DONE
GO          WENT                  GONE
HAVE      HAD                     HAD
SAY         SAID                    SAID

Happy May Day and HW for May 2 - QUIZ #1 Friday 9:00 a.m.

HW:
Ex. 4, p. 5
Ex. 7, p. 9

Quiz #1 - Friday - 9:00 sharp = 9:00 on the dot = exactly at 9:00 so of course be an early bird!

Quiz #1
1- Difference between a GERUND and a PRESENT PARTICIPLE
2- Definition of TENSE and ASPECT
3- Difference between simple past and past continuous with fill in the blanks
4- WHO, WHAT, WHERE
5-  was going to
6- Identify TRANSITIVE and INTRANSITIVE VERBS
7- Phrasal verb: to ask someone out, to get rid of, to run away, to make up
6- Pages 108-109 - review these verb forms, you should know many of them like the back of your hand!

We will discuss in class tomorrow how many of the verbs on page 108-109 you should be prepared for for the quiz on Friday.  This is the beginning of the list, we will add more verbs tomorrow:

Most common irregular verbs:
BE           WAS/WERE         BEEN
DO           DID                       DONE
GO          WENT                  GONE
HAVE      HAD                     HAD
SAY         SAID                    SAID

Welcome SSP 104 and HW

Welcome to all my SSP 104 students!
First:

HW: Read page 7 and answer questions on page 8, Exercise 5.

Second:
As you know, this is an INTENSIVE English language course, so to succeed you must always:


- be on time, be an early bird
- have pencil YES!
- have a notebook YES INDEED!
- stay positive, smiling is awesome!

SUPER IMPORTANT:

DO your HW every day
STUDY every day

♥ pages 108-109 - new love page ♥  168 IRREGULAR VERBS ♥


Grammar points this session - SSP 104

Unit 1

✔Past continuous and simple past

✔Question words: who, what, where

was going to


Unit 2

MODAL VERBS - (MODALS)

must, might & can't

must vs. should

common phrasal verbs
(started - ask 'someone' out, get rid of, run away)

Unit 3

comparisons with as

used to and would


Unit 4

noun clauses


Unit 5

PAST MODALS

must have, may have, might have


Unit 6

causal verbs
make, have, let, help, get

passive causative


Unit 7

real conditional

Final exam

Dearest students,

First of all - thank you for a great session.  It has been my pleasure to work with you for the last few weeks.

For tomorrow, please review whatever you feel you need to be more sure of.

Rest well tonight and come to class at 8:30 if you want to ask me any questions and to warm up for the exam.

Remember: ANSWER THE QUESTIONS YOU KNOW RIGHT AWAY.  THEN GO BACK TO ANSWER THE ONES YOU ARE NOT SO SURE OF.  What matters is how many you get right.
Some questions are easier than others.

See you in the morning, do NOT be late - I cannot stop the test.

Also if you're considering buying the bamboo fork, knife, spoon, chopsticks I have created a new link on the blog for Whole Foods Market.

Notes of today - important vocabulary for you to KNOW

-What’s on your mind? What are you thinking?

-By the way So…..

-Can’t stand something. I hate something

-Level with someone - to talk clearly and honestly -serious talk

-right away immediately, now

-down in the dumps (for people only)


to be down in the dumps - something is wrong

to seem like you’re down in the dumps

to look like you’re down in the dumps


-To pay your dues  - to have worked hard for something, now you deserve a reward

to get better -

- from a sickness  .  I had a cold, but I got better!  =)

- at a talent             I have been teaching language for many years, I think I got better at teaching!

MODAL verbs

have, had better  - necessity
We’d better go we must go

We’d better get back to class, our teacher will mark us late if we don’t go right away.

-To balance the checkbook - make sure the numbers are correct!

-I haven’t seen you FOR days (for a few days), weeks (for a few weeks)
It means, I haven't seen you in some time.

-To feel sick as a dog - to feel terrible
-To work as hard as a dog - to work hard

-That’s too bad -  that’s not good

Do you mind doing something? Is it OK if ….
Do you mind being quiet? Please be quiet
Do you mind if I open the window Is it OK if I open the window

-Remedy medicine, therapy

-I’m coming down with something - I’m getting sick

-Something costs an arm and a leg - It is very expensive

To end up ---- somewhere
doing something

To end up ---- somewhere to go somewhere you weren’t expecting

To end up doing something - to do something you weren’t expecting

HW for April 23 - Final exam this Thursday

HW for April 23

1- Review the entire book (all the pages!).  Come to class with a least one question.

2- Write a paragraph using

Simple present
Present continuous
Simple past
Present perfect
Present perfect continuous

Describe your life
Ex:
I am from France.  (Present). I'm studying .....

I lived in .....

I have studied ....

I have been X-ing for / since

----

Review the whole book - come to school with questions.

HW for Monday, April 22nd and REVIEW EVERYTHING

Write 10 sentences for Monday.
1 - What do you like to do?  I like +gerund
2- Use the present perfect in a sentence
3-10 - use SOME of the new vocabulary of today - the gas station, the restaurant, the movie and theater

In addition:
REVIEW ALL GRAMMATICAL CONCEPTS WE HAVE LEARNED THIS SESSION.  Come to class with questions if you have any.  I will review anything that is not clear for you.

Grammatical concepts, session 4/2-4/26-2013

Unit 1 Modal verbs ✔should should not / shouldn't

                              ✔can cannot /can't

                              ✔could could not / couldn't

Unit 2 Modal verbs ✔had better had better not

✔Count and non-count nouns
✔Quantifiers, some, a few, several, many, much, any

Unit 3 ✔Verb + gerund ( most common verbs + gerund)
          ✔So, neither

Unit 4 Modal verbs ✔have to/has to
                              ✔be able to


Unit 5 Grammatical tenses: ✔present perfect

                                        ✔ simple past

                                       ✔ present perfect continuous


Unit 6  ✔Tag questions

            ✔Modal verbs may might will

Unit 7 ✔Passive voice - past, present, future / questions and answers

HW for Friday, April 18th and some ADVICE

MAYBE or MAY/MIGHT

Please complete
Ex. 6, page. 81

ADVICE:

1- Do not worry so much about quiz #2 - if your grade was not awesome, it's ok.  Remember, I am going to look at ALL of your grades, if you did the homework, if you are in class, if you are on time, if you are participating in the class. So please NO more absences and please be on time.  See you ALL tomorrow.  =)

2- Please review the irregular verb list on page 101 - you should do this EVERY DAY, the irregular verb list for level 104 is much longer!  You should know ALL of these verbs by heart by now.  Thank you to Khalil for finding a very good youtube that will help you with this.  I made a link on the blog, please use this.  Good job Khalil!

HW for Thursday, April 18th

During the review session at 4:00 p.m. I assigned some homework. 

Please do ex. 2 on  p. 30 and 31.  Review of VERB + GERUNDS 

Christina, Sultan, Andy, Taka and James -I need your help - I forgot what the other homework assignment was!!!  Please write in the comments below what the second assignment was so the others will know too.

Thank you for the hot chocolate and the chocolate!  =)

April 18th - class at 8:30 for quiz retake

Hello my dear students,

Please come to class at 8:30 tomorrow, Thursday, April 18th,  IF you want to retake the quiz for a better score. 

Quiz Wednesday, April 17th - 9:00 a.m.

Wednesday April 17th - QUIZ - 9:00 a.m.

• active and passive voice
• Verbs + Gerund      learn the rest of the verbs -
       p. 29: enjoy, mind, postpone, put off, keep, keep on, discuss
• so - neither  p. 36
• modals:                have to/has to               had better            be able to / can

All students, but especially those who missed class ... review 

page 36 - so and neither.  

Briefly:

SO   - Use this in a reply to show that you or someone else does or feels the same thing.

VERB - TO BE                            TO BE

I am a student.                             So am I.

I am reading.                                So am I.

VERB - TO HAVE                        TO HAVE
(USED AS AN AUXILIARY V)

I have been there.                        So have I.

I have been going there.               So have I.

MODAL VERBS                           MODAL VERBS

I can speak French.                     So can I.

I will be studying later.                 So will I.

ANY OTHER VERB                     DO/DOES    DID

I like San Francisco.                   So do I.

I go to the library every day.        So do I.

NEITHER   Use this in a reply to show that you or someone else does or feels the same thing with a negative statement.

VERB  - TO BE                         TO BE

I'm not a pilot.                            Neither am I.

I'm not in love.                           Neither am I.

I'm not having lunch.                  Neither am I.

TO HAVE                                TO HAVE

(USED AS AN AUXILIARY V)

I haven't decided.                     Neither have I.

I haven't been there.                 Neither have I.

MODALS                                 MODALS

I can't go.                                 Neither can I.

I won't do that.                          Neither will I.

ALL OTHER VERBS                  DO/DOES      DID

I don't have a cat.                      Neither do I.

I don't like eating beef.               Neither do I.

I don't live in Los Angeles.          Neither does she.

I didn't go to the party.               Neither did we.

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I hope this helps.  Please try to come to class every day.  We still have to learn the modals may, might and must and tag questions as well as some important vocabulary before the end of the session.  See you soon.

Schedule for Tuesday and Wednesday this week, April 16 and 17 - QUIZ ON WEDNESDAY!

Hello students - here is our schedule for today.  We have a lot to learn, so BE ON TIME, PLEASE!!!

Tuesday April 16th -

1. Quick review of ACTIVE and PASSIVE voice - Chapter 7     p. 87-93  - 

         Formula  -

         OBJECT becomes new SUBJECT    /     TO BE  +     main verb in the PAST PARTICIPLE

                                                                       (same tense                                   (p. 101)

                                                                        as active verb sentence)

      Example:

      The children ate the cookies.  (ACTIVE)

      The cookies   were     eaten      by the children.  (PASSIVE)
                          TO BE    PP of
                                         main verb

Passive voice focuses on the original OBJECT, and less on the original SUBJECT.

•            Check HW
•            in class do ex. 3 p. 94-95
•            receive PASSIVE handout for practice (already gave to Sultan, Turki, Khalil, Taka,                           Ayman, James)

• 2. Review MODALS
• have to/has to    -     NECESSITY
• had better          -     NECESSITY
• be able to = can -    ABILITY

3. Chapter 3 - Verbs + Gerunds - learn the rest of the verbs -
     p. 29: enjoy, mind, postpone, put off, keep, keep on, discuss

Ex. :  I enjoy walking.
         They postponed traveling.
         He keeps talking loudly!

4.  Introduction:   SO - NEITHER p. 36   VERY IMPORTANT NEW CONCEPT!

Wednesday April 17th - QUIZ

• active and passive voice
• Verbs + Gerund
• so - neither
• modals:                have to/has to               had better            be able to / can

HW for April 16, 2013

ACTIVE and PASSIVE VOICE

We use active sentences much more than passive sentences, but you should know what a passive sentence looks like and how to form one.

Please review pages 89-90.

Complete exercise 1 on page 91,
ex. 2, page 92
and complete the Grammar in Context, pages 92-93.

Also review and memorize as many verbs as you can on page 101.

For ex:  sit       sat         sat
             read    read       read
             catch  caught    caught

etc. etc. etc.  there are MANY VERBS TO KNOW!

Sunday fun in SF

Hi guys,

Just found out about this - not sure if I can go, but if you're in the city (that is how SF is called by all SF Bay residents!) go check it out!  No cars and lots of fun to be had!

http://www.sundaystreetssf.com/sunday-streets-returns-to-the-mission-on-sunday-april-14/

Yay!

HW for Monday April 15, 2013

New modals:   HAVE TO - necessity
                        AM ABLE TO = CAN

Examples:

HAVE TO - NECESSITY

I have to pass level 103 before I can take level 104.

He really has to apologize for being rude.
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AM ABLE TO = CAN - ABILITY

I am able to sing Portuguese songs from Brazil.

He is able to climb Half Dome in Yosemite, he is an experienced mountain climber.

H  O  M  E  W  O  R  K 

• Please complete 

                           Ex. 7 on p. 46
                           Ex. 8 on p. 47
                           Ex. 5 on p. 44

• Review  all irregular verbs on p. 101.  Memorize 10 more!

Have a great weekend.  Everyone passed the midterm exam, I am a happy teacher!

You should remember these verbs too!

base form	past	past participle
be	was, were	been
become	became	become
begin	began	begun
bring	brought	brought
buy	bought	bought
come	came	come
cost	cost	cost
cut	cut	cut
do	did	done
drink	drank	drunk
eat	ate	eaten
forget	forgot	forgotten
get	got	gotten
give	gave	given
go	went	gone
have	had	had
hurt	hurt	hurt
know	knew	known
make	made	made
meet	met	met
pay	paid	paid
put	put	put
read	read	read
sing	sang	sung
sit	sat	sat
sleep	slept	slept
think	thought	thought
understand	understood	understood
write	wrote	written