PM Reading Comprehension - Tuesday, April 30th

Hello everyone,

Here is what we are doing today:

• Vocabulary Journals
• Reading 3-1: Summarizing an Academic Paper
• Use of English 4-1: Active Reading

English 120 - Tuesday

Hello everyone,

Here is what we are doing today:

• Reading 5-1 

Homework:

• Finish Grammar Exercise 5-1 
• Finish Grammar Exercise 5-2
• Reading Exercise 

English 120 Monday

Hi everyone!

Today we are going to review and practice our vocabulary.

• Unit 5 - Vocabulary

HOMEWORK:

Vocabulary Exercise

PM TUE/THUR - Reading Comp 4/26/13

Good afternoon everyone!

Today, we will continue our work on Unit 3: Understanding through Summarizing.

• Uses of English 3-1
• Reading 3-1: Summarizing an Academic Paper

HOMEWORK

• Weekly Essay - DUE SUNDAY
• Vocabulary Journal - DUE TUESDAY
• Extra Credit - DUE TUESDAY
• READ!!!!!!!!!!!!

English 120 - Thursday the 25th

Greetings everyone!

Today, we are going to focus on writing.  Yay writing!

We will:

• Correct the Article Homework (see yesterday's post)
• Work on Writing 4

HOMEWORK

Finish writing 4 and bring it to class tomorrow morning.

Good luck!

PM Wednesday 24th - Slang

Howdy!

Here is the vocabulary for unit 2:

• Vocabulary

Today, let's practice out question words!

• Question Words Exercise

English 120 - Wednesday the 24th

Good afternoon!

Today, we are going to learn about articles.  Articles can be hard, so please try your best are ask questions.

• Article Lesson

Homework:

• Known and Unknown Nouns #1-10
• Unique Nouns #1-12
• Things in General #1-10

Friday's Essay:

• Writing 4

Good luck!

PM Tue/Thur Reading Comprehension 23rd

Hello everyone!

Today, we will finish the reading from Unit 2 and start Unit 3.

• Reading for Context - Metamorphosis
• Unit 3 - Summarizing

HOMEWORK

• Read 20 minutes
• Do your vocabulary journal

EXTRA CREDIT

• Amazon Reviews 

English 120 - Tuesday the 23rd

Good afternoon everyone!

We are going to read about William Shakespeare today.  Here is the link to your reading:

• Unit 4 Reading - William Shakespeare

HOMEWORK

You must do your homework tonight.  

• Finish 4-1 Exercise
• Finish Reading Questions

PM MW 4/18

Hi everyone!

We are finishing unit 2 today.  We are going to work on:

• Exercise 2 
• Exercise 3
• Reading 1

English 120 - April 18th

Good afternoon,

Today, we are finishing structure 3-1 and working on our writing.  Please look at yesterday's post for links to the lessons and homework.

PM MW Slang 4/17

What's up!

We are going to practice our greetings and goodbyes today.

Here is the exercise.

• 1-1 Hello Exercise

English 120 - April 17th

Good afternoon everyone!

Today, we are going to learn about three important sentences that will improve your writing skills.  Those three sentences are found in this week's structure:

• Structure 3-1: Three Types of Sentences
• Simple Sentences
• Compound Sentences 
• Complex Sentence (Independent/Dependent Clauses)

You will use these sentences in this week's writing:

• Week Three Essay

Good Website to Practice Listening and Reading

This is the website that I was talking about in class.  Check it out.

http://learningenglish.voanews.com/

PM TTR Reading Comp - April 16th

Greetings everyone!

We are going to finish our exercise from last Thursday and start Use of English 2-2: Context.

• 2-1 Exercise #1
• 2-1 Exercise #2
• Use of English 2-2
• 2-2 Exercise #1

Do not forget to do your homework!  Vocabulary journals and your weekly essay.

English 120 - April 16th

Hello everyone!

We had a lot of grammar today, so let's learn about how we pronounce the past tense as well as do some reading.

• Grammar 3-1b
• Reading

PM MW Slang - 4/15/13

Good afternoon,

We are going to work on slang greetings and goodbyes today.

Greetings
Answers
Goodbyes

Let's practice!

English 120 - April 15th

I hope that everyone had a good test!

Today, we will continue working on our vocabulary and practice using them in sentences.

• Unit 3: Vocabulary 3-1
• Speaking 3
• Vocabulary Exercise - HOMEWORK!!!!!

PM TTR - Reading Comp 4/11/13

Good afternoon!

I hope everyone did their vocabulary journals.  Here is what is on our agenda for today.

• Check Vocabulary Journals
• Use of English: 2-1 Grammar Cues review and exercise
• #1
• #2
• Use of English: 2-2 Context

HOMEWORK!!!!!!

• Due on Sunday - Weekly Essay
• Due on Tuesday - Vocabulary Journal

English 120 - Thursday the 11th

Hi everyone!

I hope you did your homework.  Here is what we are doing today:

• Correct Structure Homework
• Review week's grammar
• Work on Writing 2-1: Dream House
• Extra Credit for a longer paragraph.
• 5 points for a three paragraph essay
• 10 points for a five paragraph essay

English 120 - April 10th

Hello everyone!

Today, we will finish the structure for this week and then do the reading.

Here is the link to the reading:

• Reading

HOMEWORK:

• Grammar 2-3, Ex 3 
• Writing 2-1 - Planning & Pre-write

PM TTR Reading - April 9th

Hi everyone!

The SMRT page is up!  YAY!

Today, we will be doing Uses of English 2-1

English 120 - April 9th

Greetings everyone!

Today, we will study the structure from unit two and learn about this week's writing.

• Structure 1
• Structure 2
• Structure 3
• Structure 4
• Structure 5

Here is your writing for the week:

• Writing #2

English 120 - Monday the 8th

Hi everyone!

For the afternoon part of our class, we will review the new grammar for unit 2.

• Grammar 2-1: Present Simple

Then, we will work on the Grammar Exercises:

• Grammar 2-1 Exercises

Lastly, we will start working on your vocabulary exercise:

• Vocabulary Exercise

Homework:

• Grammar 2-1 Exercise #4
• Finish Vocabulary Exercise

PM TTR Reading Comp - Thursday the 4th

Good afternoon!

Today, we will learn about the vocabulary journals which are due at the start of each class.  Here is the link to today's lesson and exercise:

• Vocabulary Journal Lesson
• Exercise

You will also need to keep a vocabulary journal all quarter.  Here is your copy of the journal.  Please make a copy and share it with me.

• Vocabulary Journal Template

English 120 - Thursday the 4th

Hi everyone!

Today, we will finish the reading and work on the writing due Friday morning.

• Reading
• Writing

English 120 - April 3rd

Greetings everyone!

Here are the links for today:

• Reading 1-1

Also, please make a plan for your paragraph.  We will work on it in class tomorrow, and it is due Friday morning.

PM Reading Comprehension - April 2nd

Welcome to Reading Comprehension!  Here are the important documents for today:

• Syllabus
• Introduction to Reading Comprehension
• Questions 
• Reading List

Your homework is to pick a book for Thursday and bring it to class.

Let's have a great quarter!

English 120 - Tuesday, April 2nd

Hello everyone!

Today, we talked about ways to create a good paragraph.  There are three main parts of a paragraph:

• Topic sentence
• Supporting sentence
• Concluding sentences

Do not forget to use these types of sentences on your writing this week.  

Writing #1

The writing is due on Friday morning.