March 1, 2, 4

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March 1
Reading Assessment - Criterion B

March 2
Comprehending Visual and Spoken text - Criterion A

March 4

February 23, 24, 26

February 23
p. 29 # 6 - Complete the pronouns
  
p. 29 Pronunciation - Silent vowels
         #7 - Listen and repeat
         #8 - Underline the silent vowels

p. 29 Vocabulary - preparing food
         #10 Match the verbs with the adjectives
   
Homework:  Vocabulary 
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/exercises/wordmatch/1/wordmatch.html
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/exercises/grammar/adjectives/foodadjectives/antonyms/wordmatch.html

February 24, 26
p. 30 #1 Reading - Do the Food Test
p. 31 #2 Read the text again

Countable/Uncountable Nouns
Explanation - http://www.englishpage.com/minitutorials/countable-uncountable-nouns.htm
Exercise - http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-countable-uncountable-nouns.php
Exercises - http://www.agendaweb.org/grammar/countable_uncountable-exercises.html

Study Unit 3 vocabulary.

February 16, 17, 19

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Correct Make or Do Worksheet (7 minutes)

February 16
3a Hard Rock Café

Listening
p. 28 # 1, #2 Listen and complete the notes

Exploring grammar
p. 28 # 3 Complete the table
         #4 Look at the examples . . .
         #5 Complete the dialogue
Homework: 
https://english.lingolia.com/en/grammar/pronouns/indefinite-pronouns - grammar explanation
Exercise - https://english.lingolia.com/en/grammar/pronouns/indefinite-pronouns/exercises/articles/indefinite-pronouns-mixed-exercise-1948

February 17
p. 29 # 6 - Complete the pronouns
      
p. 29 Pronunciation - Silent vowels
         #7 - Listen and repeat
         #8 - Underline the silent vowels

p. 29 Speaking #9 Think of a name for a new restaurant.

p. 29 Vocabulary - preparing food
         #10 Match the verbs with the adjectives
         #11 Complete the descriptions

Homework:  Vocabulary 
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/exercises/wordmatch/1/wordmatch.html
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/exercises/grammar/adjectives/foodadjectives/antonyms/wordmatch.html

February 2, 3, 5

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February 2 
irregular verb quiz - e, f, g 

Make or do:  http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/make-or-do.html

Homework:  
Make or do (worksheet page 1)

February 3

Writing practice

February 5

Criterion C, D - Writing Assessment

January 26, 27, 29

January 26
p. 20, Progress Check (all) 

January 27
Adventures Workbook Worksheet

Homework:  Worksheet


January 29
Criterion A Assessment

January 19

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January 19

Pop Quiz!
Vocabulary http://www.quia.com/quiz/5653959.html
Irregular Verbs B-D

January 20
Review answers
Questions in Simple Form (Present and Past)

January 22
period 6 - Assembly Workshop
period 7 - Assembly practice with all Year 8 in covered area.

January 12, 13, 15

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January 11
5 minute worksheet - Opposites (in, il, dis, un)

p. 17 #8 Complete the sentences . . .

Pronunciation
p. 17 #9, #20

Speaking
p. 17 #11 Work in pairs. Imagine the situations in exercise 8 . . .


January 12
2C Murder mystery

Listening
p. 18 #1 Look at the newspaper report and answer the questions.
p. 18 #2 Listen to the conversation
p. 18 #3 Answer the questions

Homework:  Past Continuous

January 14
Speaking
p. 19 #4 Who murdered Ivor?
p. 19 #5 Listen to the end of the story

Writing
p. 19 #6 Confession: so and because
         #7 Join sentence halves
         #8 Complete the confession   

         #9 Detectives discovered that you stole a million-dollar diamond necklace. Write your confession.

Homework: Irregular Verb Wordsearch 
                      Study irregular verbs - a, b, c, d (for a small quiz)
                      Vocabulary:  2.1 - drug dealing, kidnapping, murder, pickpocketing, robbery, smuggling, speeding, vandalism  

Past Continuous Basketball game can be found here: http://kidseslgames.com/grammar%20games/Past%20Continuous/pastcontinuous1.html
 

January 5, 6, 8

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January 5
2b Confess

Listening -  p. 16 #1 Read the police document and listen,
                            #2 Listen to the rest of the interview,
                            #3 Answer the questions,

Past Simple - Irregular verb exercises
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/verbs.htm
http://www.englishpage.com/irregularverbs/interactiveirregularverbs1.htm
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/irregular_verbs/fill_in.htm


Meng Yi
https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/tests/simple-present-1
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/pres1.htm

January 6
Exploring grammar
Past Continuous - p. 16 #4 Complete the table
                             p. 17 #5 Complete the dialogue
                                      #6 Complete the detective's questions

Past Continuous Exercises
https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/past-progressive
http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-past-progressive.php
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentcontinuous.html

December 15, 16, 18 (Woohoo! Happy Holidays)

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December 15
Exploring Grammar - Irregular verbs
p. 15 Past simple #4, #5, #6, #7, #8

December 16
Christmas Activities, exercises, games

Various online activities: http://www.esolcourses.com/topics/christmas.html
More activities: http://www.esolcourses.com/links/christmas.html
Games: http://www.eslgamesplus.com/christmas/
Christmas activities: http://iteslj.org/Lessons/Seasonal/Christmas.html


December 18
No classes - Happy Holidays

December 8 (National Holiday), 9 11

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December8 - National Holiday

December 9
Modern Family episode - (Production practice and  Dress Rehearsal)
December11
2a Crazy Criminals

Reading
#1, p. 14 - Read and listen
#2, p. 14 - Read stories

Vocabulary- Crime stories: Verbs
#3, p. 14 - Find verbs

December 11
Exploring grammar - Past simple
#4, #5, #6 #7, #8, #9

Research "crazy criminal" stories on the internet.  Choose 1 to share with the group

November 24, 25, 27

November 24, 25
Criterion B - Reading Assessment

November 27
Criterion C-D - Writing Comprehension

November 17, 18, 20

Homework:  Commas - Basic Uses:  http://www.iue.edu/hss/writingcenter/documents/Commas.pdf

November 17
Oral Presentations - Criterion C, D

November 18
Commas - Basic uses

November 20
Freaky Friday - Watch the film (Use Google Chrome as your browser)

http://www.moviesub.net/watch/freaky-friday-2003/302.html

November 10, 11, 13

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http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=1456
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/substantiv.htm
http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-plural.php

November 10, 11

November 13
Oral Presentations - Criterion C, D   

Exercises for Meng Yi

http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topicsmenu/beginners.html

November 3, 4, 6

 November 3
Progress Check 1
p. 12 #1 Adjectives describing personality
         #2 Adverbs of manner
         #3 Present simple
         #4 Present continuous
         #5 Present simple and present continuous

Homework:  Prepositions of time (in, at, on)
Look at the image below, then do the exercises
http://www.agendaweb.org/exercises/grammar/prepositions/time-3
(http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/structures/prepositions_at_in_on_time.htm)


*Click on the image to make it bigger.

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November 4, 6

Oral Presentation prep - Criterion C, D
Topic - Describe the "perfect" friend.

To create an infographic try this:  http://www.easel.ly/

Homework: Prepositions of time (in, on, at)
Look at the image above, then click on the link to do the exercises.

 https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/prepositions/exercises?02
https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-games/prepositions-time

October 20, 21, 23

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October 20
Vocab quiz

Adjectives
http://www.quia.com/quiz/5517580.html

Adverbs
http://www.quia.com/quiz/5517822.html

Study skills - Reading tips
p. 11 #3 Look at the advice about reading.
         #4 Find words 1-8 in the text in exercise 2.
         #5 Read the text again and answer the questions

October 21
Writing - Describing people: using modifiers
p. 11 #6 Look at the text again
         #7 Complete the text with the words in the box.
         #8 Write about a friend

Homework:  Finish Practice Writing 

October 23
Written Assessment - Criterion C & D

October 13, 14, 16

October 13
Today we looked at a new tool called - Hemingway Editor (http://hemingwayapp.com).

Another writing tool is called: StoryToolz  (http://storytoolz.com) - Check it out when you get time.

October 14
Present simple and present continuous
p. 9  #5, #6

Vocabulary  - Adverbs of manner
p. 9 #7, #8, #9, #10

Homework: Workbook exercises 1b 

Class  Notes:  October 14 

Present Simple usage

·     Generally true

·     Permanent things (more or less)

·     Routines/habits

·    What happens in books, plays and/or films

·    Timetable

·    State verbs 

    Adverb - modifies a verb
    answers the question "how" 
    lots of adverbs end in "ly" (loudly, quietly, quickly, happily)

October 16
1c Chalk and Cheese
Speaking
p. 10 #1 Work in groups

Reading
p. 10 #2 Guess which sentence is true

Homework: Study Unit 1 Vocabulary (1.1 adjectives, 1.2 adverbs)
                     Workbook exercises 1c

October 6, 7, 9

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October 6
Exploring grammar
Present simple
p. 7 #5 Look at exercise 2. Complete the table
       #6 Complete the text
       #7 Complete the sentences
       #8 Put the words in order
Homework:

October 7
Referencing Workshop

Homework:

October 9
Listening
p. 8 #1 Look at the picture and listen to a conversation about body language.
       #2 Complete the sentences about body language

Exploring grammar
Present Continuous
p. 8 #3 Look at the examples
       #4 Write true and false sentences about the picture

Homework:  https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpre-prepro

exercise 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 

October 2

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October 2
Unit 1 is entitled Personality

Have a look! 
p. 5  Find the pages where you:

Vocabulary - Adjectives describing personality
p. 5 #1 Copy the adjectives in the box.
       #2 In pairs, check your answers
       #3 Listen and repeat the words in exercise 1

Speaking
p. 5 Work in pairs

Reading
p. 6 #1 Read and Listen
       #2 Look at Jenny and Matt's handwriting

Pronunciation - Word Stress
p. 6  #3 Listen and Repeat
       #4 Add the words to columns a-c.

Homework:  Present Simple 
Online exercises
https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/tests/simple-present-1 
http://www.agendaweb.org/verbs/present_simple-exercises.html
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/questions/simple_present2.htm