Week 18 - REVIEW!

To Build a Fire  Listen to the adapted story here. 

Here's the original story by Jack London - it's not adapted for ESL!  You can see the difference in the vocabulary.

Song Presentations - updated again

Lisbeth's song - You are My Sunshine - Anne Murray
Dijana's song - Can't take My Eyes Off You - Frankie Valli
Reha's presentation - Inna - Amazing
Nelly's presentation - Beautiful (with lyrics) by Christina Aguilera, and here's the official video of Beautiful that Nelly told us about
Sunita's presentation  Celine Dion's To Love You More 
Joel's song - Someone Like You - by Adele
Sebastiao's presentation - Never Let Go by Bryan Adams
Nancy's song - My Heart Belongs to Me - Barbara Streisand
Tere's presentation - Air Supply - Even the Nights are Better
Adele's song  I'll Be Missing You - by Puff Daddy   Here's the original by the Police
Moussa's presentation  - The Heart will Go On - Celine Dion
Marilea's presentation - Talking to the Moon - Bruno Mars
Wond's song - Earth Song by Michael Jackson
Danny's presentation - Glory of Love by Peter Cetera
Leticia's presentation - I Just Called to Say I Love You (karaoke version!) by Stevie Wonder 
Cesar's song - The Scientist - by Coldplay.  Here it is with lyrics.
Issouf's presentation - Boys 2 Men -  End of the Road with lyrics. Here's another one.
Trang's Presentation - Michael Ruff - I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know  with lyrics.  
Grace's Presentation - Goyte - Somebody I Used to Know (this one is by a cover band).  Here it is with lyrics.           And here's the original video with Goyte.
Saranya's Presentation - Matisyahu - One Day with lyrics.
Liz's song -  What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong  with lyrics
          and here you can see Armstrong singing it.

Week 17 - Memorial Day

Vocabulary - Practice this week's words and definitions.

Spelling - Listen to and practice our new spelling words. Try the games, especially the sentence games.  

Grammar - Future tense - using Will and Be Going to

Where We Are From

Spring 2012 Students

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Week 2 - ESL Class information

Vocabulary - learn our new words and their meanings.

Spelling - listen to the pronunciation and practice the spelling of our new words

Grammar - Parts of Speech - Learn about nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and more.

Week 1 - Spring 2012

This week we read "Thoughts on Education."  You can listen to it here.    Just press the PLAY button and it should begin automatically.

Practice the new vocabulary here.

18 - End of Semester

Hi everyone!  Our semester will end on Thursday, January 26th.  We will NOT have class on Monday and Tuesday next week, and then our Spring Semester classes will begin on Wednesday, February 1st.


Can you help me with ideas for next semester?  Please answer the survey questions here.   I'll use your answers to plan what we'll do in the spring.  If you prefer to tell me in person, that's great too.  Thank you!

17 - Balboa Park

Spelling - practice our new words and their meanings.

Vocabulary - Learn this week's words.

Grammar - Present Perfect with already and yet.  Here's another one that explains the rules and then has a quiz

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