18.11

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.

15.11

PAGES 25 of the Workbook is assigned as Homework for 18.11

Intro: We began class by finishing and presenting our Ecosystem Projects.
Ecosystem Project: Students chose an ecosystem (Desert, Rainforest, Tundra, and Savanna) and researched the following questions about them:

Where are they?
What kind of plants are there?
What kinds of animals are there?
What is the climate (weather)?
2 Fun Facts


Hotseat: We played a game of hotseat to practice our Unit 2 Vocabulary.

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.

Notebooks: In our notebooks we wrote rules that our classmates would have to follow if certain numbers on a dice were rolled:
1: You have to sing the ABCs.

2: You have to compliment your partner.

3: You have to dance for 10 seconds.

4: You have to stand on one leg for 10 seconds

5: You have to do 5 push ups.

6: You have to spell a Vocab Word

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 25 in our Student’s Books.

12.11

PAGES 25 of the Workbook is assigned as Homework for 18.11

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

Notebooks: We looked at big numbers and practiced writing them as words in our notebook.
Example: 15,492 = fifteen thousand four hundred ninety two

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

Ecosystem Project: Students chose an ecosystem (Desert, Rainforest, Tundra, and Savanna) and researched the following questions about them:

Where are they?
What kind of plants are there?
What kinds of animals are there?
What is the climate (weather)?
2 Fun Facts

Student’s Book: We worked through Page 30 and 31 in our Student’s Books.

05.11

PAGES 22 and 23 of the Workbook are assigned as HW for 11.11

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

Notebooks: Students wrote and discussed wether they would have rather vist the African Savanna OR the Amazon Rainforest and 3 reasons why.

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

Student’s Book: We worked through Page 22 in our Student’s Books.

Halloween Party: We did some Halloween related activities and ate some candy.

25.10

  • UNIT 1 TEST REVIEW: We reviewed for our Unit 1 Test in our notebooks.

    UNIT 1 TEST: We wrote our Unit 1 Test.

    Have a great fall break!

21.10

  • OUR UNIT 1 TEST WILL BE ON THURSDAY OCTOBER 25th.

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

    While Practice: Students would come to the front and act out actions at the same time for 10 seconds. When they finished the rest of the class would make a sentence.

    Example: While Tim was sleeping, Sara was flying a plane.

    Notebooks: In our notebooks we looked at two pictures and wrote sentences using While to describe what we saw.

    Example: While Spiderman was swinging, Cinderella was cleaning her house.

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

    Example: While John was reading a book, his sister was watching TV.

    Students Book: We worked through Page 14 and 15 in the Yellow Book.

    Unit Story Act Out: We practiced our lines and acted out our Unit Story in two groups.

16.10

PAGES 12 (Activity 1) and 13 of the Workbook are assigned as HW for 21.10

Intro: We began class with a game of Hotseat to practice our vocabulary.

Notebooks: In our notebooks we watched this video and wrote down 4 things Spongebob was doing. This helped practice our past continuous grammar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plfR2HEQuYQ

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

New Grammar: We introduced our second grammar point of the unit: Using „While“ to speak about two things happening at the same time in the past.

Example: While John was reading a book, his sister was watching TV.

Students Book: We worked through Page 13 in the Yellow Book.

End of Class Game: We ended class with a game of Mafia. Where students have to work together to find our who the „murderer“ is.

11.10

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

07.10

  • 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: Students imagined that they had a time machine and could travel to either Dinsosaur Times, Roman Times, or the Future. They wrote which they would want to visit and three reasons why.

    New Unit: Introduced the new unit with a video and presentation on Natural Disasters.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9klE-iUxX0c

    New 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 10 in the Yellow Book.

04.10

We practiced for and wrote our Unit 0 Test.

Students will bring each test home after all students in the class have taken the test and all tests have been graded.