Sunday, September 22, 2013

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.

Sunday, September 15, 2013

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.


Sunday, September 8, 2013

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!

Monday, September 2, 2013

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.

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

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

Monday, June 24, 2013

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.

Sunday, June 16, 2013

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.

Thursday, June 13, 2013

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!

Sunday, June 9, 2013

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.  


Sunday, June 2, 2013

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.