13.1.

Homework (HW):  AB 40/3, 41/2, 41/Do you Remember?

Pupil’s Book: Unit 4 „Disaster!“, pages 39-41

Vocabulary: Disaster, storm, island, beach, catch fire, lightning, tsunami, hurricane;

ordinals (e.g. 20th: twentieth, 25th: twenty-fifth); months of the year; recognizing long vowel sounds A E I O U

Grammar: Past continuous and Past simple (e.g. They were getting warm when the journalist arrived.)

Reading dates: e.g. 14 April 1912 (you say „The fourteenth of April, nineteen twelve“)

Activity Book: 40/1, 40/2, 41/1

Diggory Bones Unit 4 Story (PB 41)

Game: Charades with pictures and phrases on PB 37/3. Students chose and acted out a scenario (i.e. I was making a sandwich when I cut myself.) The others guessed the scenario with the correct grammar.

6.1.

Homework (HW):  AB 37/1, 37/2

Pupil’s Book: Unit 4 „Disaster!“, pages 36-38

Vocabulary: Disaster, storm, island, beach, catch fire, lightning, tsunami, hurricane;

ordinals (e.g. 20th: twentieth, 25th: twenty-fifth)

Grammar: Past continuous and Past simple (e.g. They were getting warm when the journalist arrived.)

Reading dates: e.g. 14 April 1912 (you say „The fourteenth of April, nineteen twelve“)

Activity Book: 36/2, 36/2

Brain Break: New Years Would you Rather

16.12.

Merry Christmas!

Homework (HW):  No homework

Today we had a Christmas lesson! We watched „Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer“ and talked about it. We also talked about our Christmas plans and played Christmas vocabulary games.

Vocabulary: tinsel, garland, mistletoe, misfit, reindeer, Abominable Snowman, carolers, nutcracker, gingerbread, ornaments, jingle bells

9.12.

Homework (HW):  AB 29/1, 34/1

Pupil’s Book: Unit 3 „City life“, pages 34-35

We learned about green transport all over the world: high-speed trains, cable cards, and hanging trains!

Activity Book: page 35

Vocabulary: Public transport, hanging train, cable car, electric, environmentally friendly, pollution, greener than

Grammar: Comparative and superlative adjectives (i.e. new, newer than, the newest; beautiful, more beautiful than, the most beautiful)

Brain Break: Santa Freeze Dance

Game: Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

2.12.

Homework (HW):  AB 32/4, AB 33/ “Do you remember?”

Pupil’s Book: Unit 3 „City life“, pages 31-33

Unit 3 Song (PB 31) and Diggory Bones episode (PB 33)

Vocabulary: 

Prepositions: who, which, where

Directions: right, left, straight on, (at/on the) corner, past, across, along; to get lost, turn

Places in a city: police station, theatre, bridge, street, post office, taxi, hotel, airport, restaurant, museum, castle, prison, bank, stadium, gym

Activity Book: 31 whole page; 33/1, 33/2

Quiz Game: who, which, where

25.11.

Students took their tests home today

Homework (HW):  AB 29/2, 29/3; 30 (whole page)

Pupil’s Book: Unit 3 „City life“, pages 28-30

Vocabulary: Directions: right, left, straight on, (at/on the) corner, past, across, along; to get lost, turn

Places in a city: police station, theatre, bridge, street, post office, taxi, hotel, airport, restaurant, museum, castle, prison, bank, stadium, gym

Today we practiced giving and following directions using maps (both in the book and our imagined „LeapLand“ in the classroom!

Activity Book: 28

Brain Break: Thanksgiving Freeze Dance

18.11.

Homework (HW):  No homework today!

Portfolio: Spelling dictation. I began to spell a word, letter by letter. When students thought they knew the word, they raised their hands and guessed. Words: Prize, comedy, interesting, history

Today, students took a test that covered the material from the Starter Unit, Unit 1, and Unit 2. After the test, they competed in quiz games practicing past tense verbs. Well done today!

11.11.

Homework (HW):  AB 26 (whole page)

Pupil’s Book: pages 26-27, Review Starter Unit, Unit 1, and Unit 2

Today we reviewed the vocabulary and grammar for next week’s test. 🙂

Activity Book: 27 (whole page)

Game: Quiz Game

Test on 18.11.: Starter Unit, Unit 1, and Unit 2.

4.11.

Homework (HW):  AB 22/3, 22/4

Pupil’s Book: Unit 2, pages 21-23

Today we continued learning about jobs, practiced with „going to“ for future plans, and completed Unit 2 with the Diggory Bones Story.

Activity Book: 21 (whole page), 23 (whole page)

Diggory Bones Unit Story (PB 23)

Game: Who am I? One student sits in a chair facing their classmates. They silently choose a job. The rest of the students have a total of 10 yes/no questions to figure out which job the student chose.

Test on 18.11.: Starter Unit, Unit 1, and Unit 2.

21.10.

Homework (HW):  AB 19/3; 20 (whole page)

Pupil’s Book: Unit 2, pages 18-20

Activity Book: 18 (whole page); 19/1, 2

Vocabulary: Jobs- nurse, fire fighter, teacher, dentist, actor, artist, cook, doctor, football player, journalist, manager, mechanic, pilot, sports commentator, video game designer, writer

Grammar: Plans, intentions, and predictions with “going to“

For example, What are you going to do after LEAP? I’m going to go home. What are you going to be when you grow up? I’m going to be a veterinarian.

Beach Ball Toss: Students asked and answered questions using „going to“