Cheetahs

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

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.

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.

UNIT 2 TEST WILL BE ON FRIDAY 22.11

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 practiced 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.

SB 25-26 Story: Read together, talked about the past, present, and future. Went over new words from the text: Spear, Penknife, Cheif, and past tense verbs.

Video: Watched a video on Indigenous people living in the Amazon rainforest. Had good conversation on the differences of their lives to ours, using the new grammar ‚Have to/has to“

WB 25: Activity 1 and 3

Game: played Bamboozle using have to/has too

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

Grammar: Introduced new grammar, big numbers, thousands, millions, etc

games: Guessing game: What is the popolation of prague? How many KFC’s are in Prague? Using our new knowledge of numbers to guess.

SB 23 and WB 23

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.

Mixed Classes with Mr.Will’s 5.A

introduced new unit and the vocabulary.

Watched videos on the animals, had a spelling bee, acted out the animals, and played jeopardy. Also did wordsearch with new vocab!

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“

Assigned homework pages 10 and 11 in workbook

Introduced new grammar: Past Continuous

grammar activities: Using past continuous with partner and past continuous worksheet

games: Kahoot

SB page 11 activities 1 and 2

PAGES 10 and 11 of the Workbook are assigned as HW for 14.10

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

Notebooks: We watched videos about natural disasters and in our notbeooks we came up with a survival plan for what we would do if a disaster came to Prague.

Unit 1 Vocab Words: We introduced our new Unit 1 Vocabulary: smoke, volcano, temple, theatre, statue, vase, fountain, servant, columns, and horse and cart.

Students Book: We worked through Page 16 in the Yellow Book.

Natural Disaster Project: In groups students did research on different natural disasters and presented that information to the class. They researched the following questions.
Needs to Include:
What are they?
How do they happen?
When and Where can they happen?
What can it do to a place?
How can we be safe in one?
2 Fun Facts
A Color Picture

PAGES 10 and 11 of the Workbook are assigned as HW for 14.10

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

Notebooks: We watched videos about natural disasters and in our notbeooks we came up with a survival plan for what we would do if a disaster came to Prague.

Unit 1 Vocab Words: We introduced our new Unit 1 Vocabulary: smoke, volcano, temple, theatre, statue, vase, fountain, servant, columns, and horse and cart.

Students Book: We worked through Page 16 in the Yellow Book.

Natural Disaster Project: In groups students did research on different natural disasters and presented that information to the class. They researched the following questions.
Needs to Include:
What are they?
How do they happen?
When and Where can they happen?
What can it do to a place?
How can we be safe in one?
2 Fun Facts
A Color Picture

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.

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.

Notebooks: In our notebooks students wrote past tense sentences about what they did this past summer:

I went to…
I saw…
I did…

Textbook Scavenger Hunt: Students worked in groups and opened their textbooks to try and find various things on a list.

1. 4 Unit Titles
2. 3 Character Names
3. 3 Big Questions + (page #)
4. 2 Think and Learn Titles + (page #)
5. 1 Superfact + (page #)
6. 1 Country Flag + (page #)
7. 1 Unit Song + (page #)
   
   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.