June 20th

Greetings everyone,

Today, we worked on our final essays.  Everyone did a great job today.

 Do not forget to finish your final drafts of your essay by Friday and send it to me by midnight. 

Tomorrow, we will have a class discussion.

See ya then~~

June 19th - A Heatwave in English 120

Hello everyone!

It was a hot one in our class today.  I hope that the heat did not make you too tired.  Let me recap on what you learned today:

1. Reviewed Vocab
2. Learned Grammar 9-1 1st Conditional and Time Clauses
3. Did reading 9-1

There is no homework tonight, but please bring your essays to class tomorrow.  We will be working on them during the 1 o'clock hour. 

Remember:

Your final essays are due on Friday the 22nd by midnight.

Thank you everyone, and I will see you tomorrow.

June 13th

Greetings everyone!

Today's grammar was pretty tricky, but I know all of you will fully understand it by the end of the week.  We will practice using the grammar tomorrow and Friday.

Let me recap on what we did today:

• Reading 8-1 (it would be a good idea to read this for Monday!!!)
• Grammar 8-1 Review
• Exercise 8-1 #1 and #2
• Learned Grammar 8-2
• Practiced using Present Perfect Simple and Present Perfect Continuous
• How they are different
• How they are used

Since we needed more practice with the grammar from yesterday and today, we will do our peer review tomorrow morning. 

Homework

*If you have not emailed me your essay, do so tonight.

*Please do Grammar Exercise 8-2.  Please do not look at the answers because we will correct them tomorrow in class.  I want you to try your best and see if you understand the grammar so far.  Remember, cheating only cheats yourself.

I hope that everyone has a great night.

Thank you for being awesome!

June 12th

Greetings everyone!

Today was a busy day.  Let me recap on what we did:

• Finished learning the vocabulary for unit 8
• Practiced using the vocab in sentences
• Learned grammar 8-1: Present Perfect Simple for Explain Present Actions
• Practice using the grammar

We will review the grammar tomorrow, so if you have any questions, please ask.

As for your homework, you have two things to do:

1. Please read Reading 8-1

2. Please finish editing the essay you will use in tomorrow's peer review and email it to me by midnight.

Tomorrow will be another full day, so please get some rest and have a healthy breakfast.

See you tomorrow~

June 11th - Test Day

Hello everyone,

I hope that you had a good test.  Here is what we did today:

• Took a test
• Went over the scores
• Started vocabulary Unit 8

We will finish our vocabulary tomorrow as well as start the grammar for this week.  We are continuing our study of the perfect tense.

Do not forget to do your homework.  You must write 5 sentences using synonyms of the vocab words.  Use this format:

• EX. I ate some very terrible___________ pizza yesterday.  (bad)

In this sentence, terrible is the synonym of bad.  Please put a space (_______) after the synonym and the vocab word in parentheses ( ) at the end of the sentence.

Please email these sentences to me before the start of class.

Thanks!

June 7th

Greetings everyone~

Let me recap on what we studied today:

• Reviewed grammar 7-1 and 7-2
• We answered questions and practiced using the grammar
• We learned about the action verbs of Put and Take (two of Adam's favorite verbs!)
• Practicing them in class through several group exercises
• In the afternoon, we had inter-class discussions.

I will not be in tomorrow, so please do not forget to study for your test and work on editing you essays for Tuesday. 

If you want extra practice for this weeks grammar, please do THIS EXERCISE.

Have a good weekend everyone~

June 6th - Writing

Greetings everyone,

We had a very good peer editing class today.  All of you worked very hard at helping each other with your essays.  I enjoyed hearing all of your ideas.

For next week, I want you to pick one essay that you have written this quarter and start editing it.  This essay will be your final writing project.  Please email that essay to me by Tuesday, so we can have another peer editing session. 

Josh will be on vacation for the next week, so please check this blog daily for updates about class.

Thank you very much, and I hope that all of you have a wonderful night.

June 5th

Greetings everyone,

All of you had some great impromptu speeches today.  I am glad to see everyone trying there best.  Other than our impromptu speeches, we also read the story from reading 7-1 and learned about the bands The Beatles and U2.

As for tomorrow, we will be starting our peer reviews for essay #7.  Remember, these essays are due by midnight tonight.  Please email me the essays, so I can share them with all of you tomorrow.  All of the information about this essay and our final can be found on my post from last Wednesday.

Thank you very much, and if you have any questions, please email me.

Monday, June 4th

Greetings everyone,

Good work today.  All of you worked very hard on your vocabulary.  Today, during the one o'clock hour, we finished our vocabulary for our unit this week and practiced using the vocabulary with a speaking exercise.

Tomorrow, we will do the reading for this unit as well as practice our speaking with impromptu speeches.  If you want to get a head start with the reading, we will be doing the reading titled "Two Famous Bands" (Reading 7-1).

Do not forget to do your homework!