Happy Halloween! Today we did a halloween lesson filled with games and halloween activities. Students who missed the test Monday took make up the tests as well. Have a nice fall holiday, see you soon!
22.10
Happy Halloween! Today we did a halloween lesson filled with games and halloween activities. Students who missed the test Monday took made up the tests as well. Have a nice fall holiday, see you soon!
20.10
Test Day! today we did some reviewed and took the Unit 1 test. In the time remaining we played Mafia as a mixed class.
Students did very well:)
17.10
Portfolio: We started class writing three sentences, one using our grammar, While. We used the slides with two action pictures and shared our sentences out loud.
Spelling tiles: We used the spelling tiles to go over the vocabulary. Split the students into two teams and made it a game.
Sb 14 and 15: We began by doing activities 1 and 2, and talked about the photos- asked the students what they think the story is about. Went on to listen to the story and the students followed the reading. We talked about the ending and went on to activity 1 and 2.
WB 14: After break we did workbook page 14, the whole thing, in pairs. Students were encouraged to not look into the student book and work together from memory.
Game: Today we played whisper, a vocabulary game with flash cards around the room. Students were split into teams and I gave them a word which they whispered down the team, and the final member had to find the card first.
15.10
Portfolio: We started class writing two sentences, one using our grammar ‚When‘ and While‘. Shared our sentences out loud.
Spelling tiles: We used the spelling tiles to go over the vocabulary. Split the students into two teams and made it a game.
Sb 14 and 15: We began by doing activities 1 and 2, and talked about the photos- asked the students what they think the story is about. Went on to listen to the story and the students followed the reading. We talked about the ending and went on to activity 1 and 2.
WB 14: After break we did workbook page 14, the whole thing, in pairs. Students were encouraged to not look into the student book and work together from memory.
Game: Today we played whisper, a vocabulary game with flash cards around the room. Students were split into teams and I gave them a word which they whispered down the team, and the final member had to find the card first.
Final activity: Students were promised a game of Mafia if they were able to speak less Czech, and more English in class..,.which they did!
13.10
Portfolio: We started the class by unscrambling these sentences. Students wrote three sentences in their books and we finished the rest at the board together.
Old grammar review: Each student made two sentences using When + past simple/past continuous. I used this activity to lightly introduce the new grammar.
SB 13: We began with page 13 in the student book activity 1. We first did the activity then began to talk about ‚While‘. We first used the examples in activity one then moved to acting out in class. Two students would do two actions and the seated students would make a sentence. Then we moved to the grammar video of Leo the Leopard which the students watched and read out loud. We finished with the final activity on page 13.
When v.s While: We talked about the differences in these words and created crazy sentences for each. Then we moved to the board for a When vs While game.
WB 13: We did activities 1-3 in pairs, when finished each group presented the answers to one activity.
Group game: We separated into teams and did a Jeopardy game testing While, When, and sentence creation.
8.10
Portfolio: We did an unscramble the sentences activity, using the grammar taught on Monday.
Bomba: We played a quick game of bomba for review new vocabulary.
Student book: We did the song activity on page 12, activity 1 and 2. After finishing, we sang the song, boys versus girls. We also went through the song and looked for the are grammar then created new sentences.
Karaoke Wednesday: Our student of the Month chose a song in English and we sang together with the lyrics on Youtube.
Workbook: We did the followup page in the work book, page 12. We finished activity 1,2 and 3. After we went through the activities together and checked.
Final Activity: We did a review game of ‚When‘ and ‚past continuous‘ on word wall then Baamboozle. Lightly introduced our new, upcoming grammar which is When v.s While .
6.10
Portfolio: We started class with new vocabulary review. I described the new words and the students wrote them in their books, then we played popcorn spelling bee to check our answers.
Cowboy stand off: We did a quick review game of the vocabulary we introduced Monday.
Student book: I introduced new grammar on page 11 in our student book. Started by reading and doing activity 1. From there introduced past continuous in addition to using ‚When‘. Moved to activity 2 and watched the Leo the Leopard video. After that we created sentences as a class using the new grammar.
Workbook: We finished page 11. We originally started with activity 1 together with the video. Then did activities 2 and 3. We read sentences from activity 3 out loud as a class.
Game: We did a past continuous Baamboozle as a class.
Tests were handed back, Student of the month awarded, and library books given out.
3.10
Homework: WB page 10 due Wednesday
Portfolio: Today we watched this video on Pompeii to introduce the new unit. Students wrote as many words they knew from the video. Example: Volcano, explosion, vase, etc.
Student Book: Starting on page 10, we began the new unit. One student read the reading then we went through each vocabulary. We talked about each word and did matching to the photo in the book.
Spelling bee: All the students lined up and we had a spelling bee using the new vocabulary, as well as last units words.
Activity: on SB 10 we did activity 1 listening and writing. Then students typed the answers in the computer to practice.
Statue game: We played a variation of freeze dance but with statue poses.
Cowboy standoff: We broke off into teams and played cowboy standoff to go over the new vocabulary from the unit.
Students who missed the test Monday took their test today!
1.10
Homework: WB page 10 due Monday
Portfolio: Today we watched this video on Pompeii to introduce the new unit. Students wrote as many words they knew from the video. Example: Volcano, explosion, vase, etc.
Student Book: Starting on page 10, we began the new unit. One student read the reading then we went through each vocabulary. We talked about each word and did matching to the photo in the book.
Spelling bee: All the students lined up and we had a spelling bee using the new vocabulary, as well as last units words.
Activity: on SB 10 we did activity 1 listening and writing. Then students typed the answers in the computer to practice.
Statue game: We played a variation of freeze dance but with statue poses.
Past Tense bingo: We played past tense bingo using the verbs from last unit and formed sentences with them.
Students who missed the test Monday took their test today!