End of the Year

Here's a photo from our last day of class. Thanks to EVERYONE for the great celebration.

See you in 2014!
Liz

Week 14 - The Gifts AND Nelson Mandela

Vocabulary & Spelling - Practice the new words. (You can register with Quizlet if you want, but it's not necessary.)

The story we read this week is based on a famous story called "The Gift of the Magi" by O.Henry.  you can find another version here

Also, here's the Breaking News website with the articles about Nelson Mandela.

Week 13 - Medicine from your Kitchen

Vocabulary & Spelling - Practice the new words. (You can register with Quizlet if you want, but it's not necessary.)

Grammar - Used To - Try the quiz here.  Then click here for Ventures, choose book 3 at the top, then Unit 4.  You'll find two practice exercises

Week 12 - Two Beneficial Plants

Vocabulary & Spelling - Practice the new words. (You can register with Quizlet if you want, but it's not necessary.)

Grammar - Present Perfect - using lately and recently. Click the link here, then choose book 3 at the top, then Unit 4.  You'll find two practice exercises with Present Perfect.

Week 11 - Thanksgiving

Vocabulary & Spelling - Practice the new words. (You can register with Quizlet if you want, but it's not necessary.)

Grammar - Making Questions. This explanation page is short and sweet, with lots of exercises to help you practice.  Try them all!

CASAS Reading test practice

Here are the practice questions.  Click the link below and choose your level...  LOW intermediate or HIGH intermediate.

FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS to open it on your computer at home...

http://www.seminolestate.edu/adult-ed/els/pett/reading-tests

Week 10 - Meet the Neighbors!

Vocabulary & Spelling - Practice the new words. (You can register with Quizlet if you want, but it's not necessary.)

Grammar - Using Adverbs - enough & too.   Click the link here, then choose book 3 at the top, then Unit 3.  You'll find two practice exercises with Adverbs of Degree - enough & too.   

Also here's a short lesson with enough and too.  Then try the quiz.

Week 9 - Neighborhood Watch

Vocabulary & Spelling - Practice the new words. (You can register with Quizlet if you want, but it's not necessary.)

Grammar - Because or Because of? Click the link here, then choose book 3 at the top, then Unit 3.  You'll find two practice exercises with because and because of.   Then try this quiz.

Week 8 - Filling out an Accident Report

Vocabulary & Spelling - Practice the new words. (You can register with Quizlet if you want, but it's not necessary.)

Grammar - Questions with FUTURE.  Try this one with WILL.

** Past Tense Pronunciation of -ed**   We talked about this in class.  It won't be on your test, but you might be interested...

• PAST -ED pronunciation - examples
• PAST -ED pronunciation - practice
• PAST -ED pronunciation - quiz

Week 7 - Reporting a Crime or Emergency

Vocabulary & Spelling - Practice the new words. (You can register with Quizlet if you want, but it's not necessary.)

Grammar - Future time!  Practice with WILL  and BE GOING TO.

Need more information about Future? This page is very detailed and has many practice exercises at the bottom.

Week 6 - Be a Good Listener

Vocabulary & Spelling - Practice the new words. (You can register with Quizlet if you want, but it's not necessary.)

Grammar - Present Perfect with Ever or Never...? Click the link here, then choose book 3, then Unit 2, and you'll find 2 exercises to practice Present Perfect with EVER.

Then try this exercise.  You have to put the sentences in the correct order.

Week 5 - Strategies for Learning English

Vocabulary & Spelling - Practice the new words.  (You can register with Quizlet if you want, but it's not necessary.)

Grammar - Present Perfect with How Long...? Click the link here, then choose book 3, then Unit 2, and you'll find 2 exercises to practice Present Perfect.

Present Perfect:  Here's some more information about how to make the Present Perfect correctly.  Remember to try the exercises here and here when you finish.

Where We're From...

Our Classmates

Map Legend: 6%, 17 of 263 Territories

 More than 3 students 

 1-3 students 

There's at least one person in our class from each of the highlighted countries. Do you know who they are?

If your country is not shown here, please tell me and I can add it easily!

© worldmapmaker.com | Travel Insurance

Week 4 - Your Color Type

Vocabulary & Spelling - Practice the new words.  (You can register with Quizlet if you want, but it's not necessary.)

Grammar - Verbs followed by Gerunds... Click the link here, then choose book 3, then Unit 1, and you'll find 2 exercises to practice Gerunds.

Week 3 - Your Personality and Your Job

Vocabulary & Spelling - Practice the new words.  (You can register with Quizlet if you want, but it's not necessary.)

Grammar - Making Comparisons... Click the link here, then choose book 3, then Unit 1, and you'll find 2 exercises to practice Comparisons.

Week 2 - Origins of Names

Vocabulary & Spelling - Practice the new words.  (You can register with Quizlet if you want, but it's not necessary.)

Grammar - Parts of Speech - Read about the parts of speech and examples.   Then try this quiz with Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs. 

Order of Adjectives - Which adjective should go first?  The rules are complicated.  This website explains it and then you can try two exercises to practice.  Don't worry, this WON'T be on our test!

Week 1 - Class Information & Welcome!

Vocabulary & Spelling - Practice the new words for week 1.  (You can register with Quizlet if you want, but it's not necessary.)

Grammar - Try this game to see if you can remember the phrasal verbs we saw in the ESL Student Guide.

Fall ESL Classes will begin on TUES, Sept 3rd

Good news!  The ESL classes at West City have been expanded.  We'll now have an evening ESL class for students with intermediate/advanced skills.

Monday to Thursday ESL classes start at 8:30 am  - 3 separate levels - Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced

FRIDAY ESL computer lab class - all levels in one classroom -  8:30 to 11:00 am

EVENING Intermediate/Advanced ESL - Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:00 to 9:00 pm


See you next week!
Liz

Summer 3 - Could you do me a favor?

Vocabulary and Spelling - Here's our vocabulary and spelling for this week on Quizlet. 

Video for Homework - Use simple past and past continuous to describe the events in this very short video.  :)

Grammar: Too + Adjective practice.    I'm too excited to sleep!   She's too tired to go with us.

Summer 2 - What Was He Thinking?

Vocabulary and Spelling - Here's our vocabulary and spelling for this week on Quizlet. Let me know what you think! If you SIGN UP with Quizlet (it's easy through facebook), you can add my class. I can show you how.

Grammar: This week we're studying PAST CONTINUOUS.  Here's a short explanation and exercise.

Prepositions

Here's the page I showed in class today with a lot of resources about prepositions. http://englishpage.com/prepositions/prepositions.html

 It includes the phrasal verb dictionary and the verb + preposition dictionary, and MANY exercises for practice.

 

Please let me know in class if you have questions!

Summer 1 - Akio Morita

Vocabulary and Spelling - Here's our vocabulary and spelling for this week on Quizlet. Let me know what you think! If you SIGN UP with Quizlet (it's easy through facebook), you can add my class. I can show you how.

Grammar: This week we're reviewing SIMPLE PAST TENSE.  Here's a good explanation and exercises for making past negatives and questions.  If you need practice with the irregular verb forms, try this game.  

Week 18 - Unusual Lawsuits

Vocabulary and Spelling - Here's our vocabulary and spelling for this week on Quizlet. Let me know what you think! If you SIGN UP with Quizlet (it's easy through facebook), you can add my class. I can show you how.

GRAMMAR  This week we'll keep looking at PASSIVE in English.   Here's a practice exercise.  And another one.

Week 17 - Memorial Day

Vocabulary and Spelling - Here's our vocabulary and spelling for this week on Quizlet. Let me know what you think! If you SIGN UP with Quizlet (it's easy through facebook), you can add my class. I can show you how.

GRAMMAR  This week we'll look at PASSIVE in English. 

Week 16 - Amazing Athlete

Vocabulary and Spelling   - Here's our vocabulary and spelling for this week on Quizlet.   Let me know what you think!  If you SIGN UP with Quizlet (it's easy through facebook), you can add my class.  I can show you how.

GRAMMAR - More practice with comparative and superlative adjectives.    Also more with AS.... AS

Quia vocabulary - if you prefer the older version of our vocabulary, here it is.

Week 15 - Tiger Woods and Golf

Vocabulary and Spelling   - Here's our vocabulary and spelling for this week on Quizlet.   Let me know what you think!  If you SIGN UP with Quizlet (it's easy through facebook), you can add my class.  I can show you how.

GRAMMAR - Learn about comparative and superlative adjectives ... Then try this exercise with the superlatives, like The best!  The scariest!  The most important!

Week 14 - The Road that Has No End

Vocabulary and Spelling   - Here's our vocabulary and spelling for this week on Quizlet.   Let me know what you think!  If you SIGN UP with Quizlet (it's easy through facebook), you can add my class.  I can show you how.

GRAMMAR - Present Perfect - Both of these pages have an explanation and then some exercises to practice.  Here's what Present Perfect looks like...  And here are some of the ways we use it.

Old-style vocab page - if you like the old site with the matching game, here's the link to this week's words.