Thursday, February 28

Next lesson is on March 14 & Re: Short letter form Rio De Janeiro

Dear K
(and the rest of the class :)

Thanks for your letter, it is good to hear from you. We miss you. Don't worry nobody has stolen your seat.

Today we read a poem about a someone claiming to be too sick to go to school or work. You can read "Sick" by Shel Silverstein on the Poets.org website. You can also look at a subtitled reading on Vimeo

We did also read a text about a barking dog and we read sentences the pupils had written about dogs.

The class which was supposed to be on March 7 has been cancelled. However, we will have class on March 14 and Anna is our host. Will you be back then?

Our homework is to read two texts. They are online with audio and extra homework. They are both included below.

Have a nice journey.

Best regards,
Your Classmates



> Hello classmates :-)
>
> As you probably noticed there is an empty chair in the classroom, no I
> did not get cold feet. The reason is that I am at work. I will
> return to class when I come home. I am on board a ship in Brazil.
>
> Onboard we have got a teacher, who helps us learn
> Portuguese and the locals learn English. We will have classes
> every day.
>
> Sorry you don't get more from me this time :)
>
> Best regards
>
> K


Feel free to visit the links. On Rong Chang's website there are audio files and additional exercises.

Here are the texts for next time:

37. Just a Cough

The TV reporter coughed. Then she coughed again. The other TV reporter was worried. "Are you okay?" he asked. She couldn't answer. She continued to cough. She coughed and coughed. The other reporter dialed 911. "What is the emergency?" the 911 person asked. "I think my friend is dying," said the reporter. "What is your address?" asked the 911 person. "We are at 123 West Hill Street," said the reporter. "Someone will be right there," said the 911 person. But then the woman stopped coughing. She said she was fine. She said thanks to the other reporter. He said, "You're welcome." He called 911 again. He said the emergency was over. He said his friend was okay. She would not die. She was going to live. The 911 person was glad to hear that.




The teacher walked into the classroom. He said, "Good evening, everybody." The students said, "Good evening, teacher." He walked over to his desk. He put his briefcase on his desk. He opened his briefcase. He took his notebook out of his briefcase. He took his books out of his briefcase. Suddenly, he felt dizzy. The room was spinning. He sat down. What was wrong with him? He put his hands on the desk. The desk was spinning. He closed his eyes. He opened his eyes. He didn't know what to do. What was wrong? He was sitting in his chair. But he felt like he was floating in air. How could he be floating in air? He sat in his chair for another minute. His students were talking to one another. They did not know how he felt. But he didn't tell them how he felt. He didn't say anything.

Tuesday, February 26

RONG CHANG's A Barking Dog

http://www.rong-chang.com/ne/es/es036.htm - You can listen to the text on the website.

These are the difficult words:

VOCABULARY

angry
bark
front
lady
landlord
mouth
past
smart
stupid
sugar
yell


36.
A Barking Dog
- from http://www.rong-chang.com/ne/es/es036.htm
- visit the website and hear the text


The lady's dog barked too much. It barked in the morning. It barked in the afternoon. It barked at night. Every time Kevin walked past the front door, the dog barked. Every time Kevin walked past the back door, the dog barked. Every time anybody walked past, the dog barked. He told the landlord. "That lady's dog barks too much," he said. The landlord said he would talk to the lady. But he never did. Kevin wanted to shut the dog up. It was a little dog. But it had a big mouth. The dog's mouth was bigger than the dog. What could Kevin do? One day he yelled at the dog. He yelled, "Shut up, you stupid dog!" The dog barked at Kevin. The lady got angry. She yelled at Kevin. "Sugar is not stupid. Don't call Sugar stupid," she said. "He's a lot smarter than you are."

Thursday, February 14

Banana Splits

Next week's lesson will be to read about Banana Splits

Focus on page one and page two is not relevant unless you REALLY want to read it.

Please, read and re-read and be prepared to work in groups :)

Valentine's Day

Today we celebrated Valentines Day by

reading a text that was terribly difficult. It was about sperm donor regulations in Denmark... You can read it and listen to it on this BBC site.

Before the torture we had had some fun:

READ AND SING - Karaoke version without the lyrics:


LISTEN AND SING ALONG - The song, but without the lyrics onscreen


Valentine cards to and from "Great Men in History"

 

Love chemistry

Thursday, February 7

again, again: ADJECTIVE NOUN VERB ADVERB

First we did this groupwork:

ADJECTIVE
NOUN
VERB
ADVERB
is
a/an
to

 smaller
A house
run
more
High (mountain)
bridge
jump
slowly
Quick
Town
Walk
Quickly
Old
vessel
Painting
Fast
DANGEROUS (Gun)
Detective
dance
Carefully
Beautiful
Cat
Play
Very
Tall
Girl
Like
Slowly
Small
Boy
Walk
Slowly
EARLY (Yesterday )
Swimmer
Leaves
Fast

Then we did sentences with 
an adjective, a noun, a verb and an adverb
individually


Teacher is very strict tonight
The small girls dance lightly
a big man play music 
Big John is a good joiner 
The old watch stopped today
The slim boy swims fast
the big boys play football
Big London works quickly
The fat woman eats grossly

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and I have sent you an email :)