In this class, we reviewed how to give phone numbers. If your phone number is something like 9917-5498, I think it sounds a little more normal to give four numbers before the dash (not two big numbers), and then just two numbers after the dash. For example, for 9917-5498, I would say "nine nine one seven fifty-four ninety-eight". If your phone number contains a zero (0), instead of saying the word "zero", English speakers often say "oh", since the number zero (0) looks a lot like the letter 'o'. So, for example, if my phone number is 8875-1408, I would give it as "eight eight seven five, fourteen oh eight".
We also reviewed the differences in pronunciation between -teen and -ty numbers. Remember that if the number ends in "-teen", we pronounce the /t/ as a /t/, but if the number ends in "-ty", we actually pronounce the /t/ as a /d/. So, the number "fifteen" sounds like "fifteen", while the number "fifty" sounds like "fifdy".
We also reviewed the colours: blue, red, orange, grey, brown, white, pink, yellow, black, purple, and green.
We practiced putting the colours in alphabetical order. Remember that "alphabetical order" means the order that letters come in in the alphabet (the ABCs). If we have two words that start with the letter 'b', we have to look at the word that comes after the 'b' to decide which goes first in alphabetical order, so, for example, "blue" comes before "brown" in alphabetical order. If we have two words that start with the same two letters (like 'bl'), then we have to look at the third letter to decide which word to put first, so "black" comes before "blue" in alphabetical order.
We finished the class by learning the words "this" and "that". We say "this" for things that are very near to us (if we can touch it, for example), and we say "that" for things that are very far from us (so it is necessary for us to point at it).
Vocabulary: We also learned the word "hoodie". A hoodie is a sweatshirt that has a hood on it, like this:
A1 Class:
In A1 class, we re-read the article "Larger than Life" and talked about the comprehension questions. on the following page. We also talked about how to pronounce the letter /v/ (remember to bite your bottom lip as you make this sound!) and I promised that I would post some tongue twisters for practice in making this sound. I have done this in a separate post, so please check it out!
We finished the class by reading the children's story "The Paper Bag Princess" by the Canadian author, Robert Munsch. The story is about a beautiful princess whose castle and clothes are destroyed by a dragon who also kidnaps her boyfriend, the prince. The pincess sets off to rescue the prince, and she does so by outsmarting the dragon. When she finally rescues her boyfriend, he is displeased because her hair is tangled, she is dirty, and she is just wearing a paper bag, and he tells her to come back another day. She decides that even though he is very handsome and he is a prince, that he is not a nice guy and she doesn't want to marry him, after all. I think this is a wonderful story for all girls of any age, from any culture. Oh yeah, and I think it would be a wonderful Halloween costume, if the weather were more agreeable! :)
B1 Class:
In this class, we re-read the article "Sink your Teeth into this" and then we talked about jobs that we wanted to have when we grow up. Then, we learned some adjectives to describe these jobs. The adjectives we learned were:
interesting --> engaging or exciting and holding the attention or curiosity
exciting --> producing excitement; stirring; thrilling
dangerous --> full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe; able or likely to cause physical injury
stressful --> full of stress or tension
boring --> dull, tedious, tiresome, not interesting
relaxing --> release from the effects of tension, anxiety
difficult --> not easy
demanding --> requiring or claiming more than is generally felt by others to be due; calling for intensive effort or attention; taxing
tiring --> to reduce or exhaust the strength of, as by exertion; make weary
rewarding --> affording satisfaction or valuable experience; worthwhile
We spent the remainder of class using these adjectives to talk about our dream jobs.
B2 Class:
In this class we reviewed the aphabet and numbers. We practiced the difference in pronunciation between the -teen numbers and the -ty numbers. Remember that if the number ends in "-teen", we pronounce the /t/ as a /t/, but if the number ends in "-ty", we actually pronounce the /t/ as a /d/. So, the number "fifteen" sounds like "fifteen", while the number "fifty" sounds like "fifdy". We also started to practice giving out phone numbers.
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