Blue Whales

TEST THIS WEEK

Test review today: Talked more about telling time, watched parts of this video on it and did this worksheet about it in groups. Used interactive clock to tell times, played this game in pairs.

Vocabulary review: went through the vocab again: definitions, spelling, writing, and photos

SB 38/39: We read the story in small groups, than did activity 1-4. The students all told me about the story and acted some parts out.

WB 38: Act 1 and 2

Games: Did runnning jeopardy in three teams, not only do they have to get the answer right but they run around the classroom, its a fun one. here

vocabulary tiles: We worked on spelling in groups with the tiles

SB pages 36 and 37.

SB 36: We sang with the class, boys versus girls. Then a freeze dance. Did activity 1 along side WB page 36 activity 1 and 2

SB 37: Introduced new grammar point telling time, should be a review for the kids.

Activities: We did a few telling time activities on the board, interactive clock, and some team work here.

Homework page 34 and 35 due next Wednesday

Introduced new grammar: Going To

Book Work: We did page 35 activity 1

Played a Bamboozle with new grammar here: https://www.baamboozle.com/game/41814

Did worksheet in pairs using going to: https://www.teach-this.com/images/resources/island-adventure-2.pdf

Introduced new unit vocabulary. Talked about ‚rock n roll‘, watched videos for each new word.

Games: Spelling bee, Charades, and Bamboozle for music.

Students who missed the test last week completed it today in class whilst other students did a worksheet.

Test! We took the test and the kids did super well on it.

UNIT 2 TEST WILL BE ON WEDNESDAY 20.11

Intro: We began class with a game of Scattegories to warm up our brains.

Notebooks: In our notebooks we wrote down our dream vacation destination and three things we have to bring and two things we don’t have to bring on holiday with us.

New Grammar: We introduced our second grammar point of the unit: using have to and don’t have to to speak about rules and obligations.
Example:
We have to bring boots to the jungle.
She has to clean her room before dinner.
I don’t have to leave early today.

Unit 2 Vocab Words: We practiced our new Unit 2 Vocabulary: beak, toucan, jaguar, branch, creeper, anteater, sloth, anaconda, beetle, pool

Student’s Book: We worked through Page 26 and 27 in our Student’s Books. We read and listened to the Unit 2 Story.

Grammar: Did SB 24, talked about how to create questions, turning has to/have to negative, and sentence creation. Did WB 23 Activity 1.

Guessing game: Students were given a white board, I asked questions like „What is the population of Prague?“ The students wrote a number and said it to me, the student closest to the real number won.

Jeopardy: Students broke up into three teams, we did a Jeopardy about Have to/Has to obligations. The jeopardy went over sentence unscrambling, sentence creation, negatives vs positives, and fill in the blank.

Book work: Did SB 24 full page: students in pairs practiced the dialogue in front of the class. We talked about what the dialogue means using ‚has to/have to‘.

Practice: In pairs students made their own dialogue talking about a made up video game or their favourite game, done in front of the class.

New grammar: taught the new grammar, practiced with a quiz and jeopardy teams

Introduced new grammar, using big numbers

Did SB act 1 and WB 1 and 2

Games: We played number bingo and Number red light green light

Talked about the amazon rainforest, the animals that live there, the things that come from there, types of rain forests, climate change ,etc

WB 22- HOMEWORK DUE NEXT MONDAY 🙂

Whats new: Introduced and went over new vocabulary

SB page 22 activities 1 and 2

Practiced spelling and old grammar, lightly introduced new grammar coming this week.

Took test today. Did some test prep with a wordwall and some book work.

Took test, played word games, and watched Halloween Mr.Bean!

TEST WEDNESDAY for blue whales and FRIDAY for Cheetahs

Portfolio: Difference between past simple and past continuous

Student book pages 13- introduced new grammar (WHILE) and practiced grammar on the board with sentence creation and wordwall.

grammar practice here: https://www.cambridgeone.org/nlp/teacher/org_cup_bxE_6Y0H3ReVpj4m2xvuU/product/sm2edpe5/view/item/1608020486260%2F1608020538399%2F1608024387366

SB pages 14-15: We read together in groups and did the activties together.

WB 14 activities 1 and 2

Final Game of Jeopardy!

Homework Due Monday

Today we did grammar review: Past Continuous v.s Past simple

SB and WB page 12 – we listened to the song and sang, and did the activities with it.

Jeopardy – we played in teams of three, covered past continuous and past simple, also question formations and negatives.

Lightly began to introduce the second grammar point using the word „while“

Relearned the new Grammar: past continuous

Grammar Activities: Told stories about the weekend using new grammar, past continuous worksheet, Past continuous kahoot, and board work

Took test for Welcome Unit

Introduced new Unit, Unit 1- Disaster

Did some vocabulary games for the new words

Reviewed for TEST Monday 7.10

review games: Jeopardy, Kahoot, Sentence Creation, Vocabulary spelling

SB 8: Searched for past tense verbs, Read the story together, and completed the matching activities

WB 8: Activities 1 and 2

Grammar and Vocabulary review with Superminds book games

Checked homework

introduced new grammar: Simple past tense questions

Book Work: SB and WB page 7

Team sentence unscramble: https://www.liveworksheets.com/w/en/english-second-language-esl/1463635

wordwall: https://wordwall.net/pt/resource/37468882/english/past-simple-questions-and-negatives

Went outside to play games with the vocabulary

grammar review: We played Past tense bingo, Past tense wordwall, and Made sentences using simple past tense

Book work: SB 6 and WB 6- We sang together and filled in all activities

Games: We did Jeopardy in teams : https://jeopardylabs.com/play/simple-past-231

Homework: Workbook page 5 due next Monday!

review: went over what the students learned last week with Mr.Will.

vocabulary review: Had them teach me the words that they learned from Mr.Will. Did some spelling and memory games with the new words.

new grammar: began to introduce the new grammar on page 5 in students book (simple past tense)

grammar games: kahoot and story creation: What did you eat yesterday, what did you watch last week, etc.

Intro: We began class with a game called Scattegories where students have to come up with words that start with a certain letter and fit into categories.

New Unit: We introduced our new unit „The Science Lesson“ with some videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ASLLiuejAo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHnVVEqKmYA&t=268s

Notebooks: In our notebooks students became mad scientists and came up with an „invention“ to solve a problem they have:

Go Homeinator: Shoot yourself with the Go Homeinator and it instantly takes you home and puts you in your bed.


Unit 0 Vocab Words: We wrote down and practiced our Unit 0 Vocab: goggles, shelf, apron, explosion, bubbles, liquid, instructions, powder, test tube, gloves.

Students Book: We worked through Page 4 in the Yellow Book.

Poster: As a class we began finalizing our poster which will hang in the main hallway of the school.

First Day back

Introduction: I introduced myself to the students and they introduced themselves to me!

Games: played two truths and a lie to get to know each other better.

Poster: learned about our class mascot and coloured our animals for the poster.

Portfolio and rules: handed out portfolios and went over classroom rules.