18-23 October, 2010: A3 Class

Lesson 2
In this lesson, we reviewed how to ask and answer about where someone comes from.  I told the class about my friends Leone, Mecca, Nancy, Mohammed, Roland, Mikael, Maria, and Dongwoo, and I had them ask me where they were from:

Where's Leone from? --> She's from Sri Lanka.
Where's Nancy from? --> She's from Egypt.
Where's Mecca from? --> She's from the USA.
Where's Mohammed from? --> He's from Kuwait.
Where's Roland from? --> He's from Germany.
Where's Mikael from? --> He's from France.
Where's Maria from? --> She's from Denamrk.
Where's Dongwoo from? --> He's from Korea.


We alsoreviewed the speaking activity which we did in our last class, and then we sorted some people based on which language they would speak based on the countries they come from:


Germany --> German
Austria --> German
Spain --> Spanish
Mexico --> Spanish
Australia --> English 
USA --> English


We ended the class by doing a punctuation/grammar exercise.  Remember that we capitalise the first letter in a sentence, the first letter in someone' s name, the word "I", the first letter in a city our country, a nationality, or a language.


We read a letter to a pen pal, and we practiced answering some questions about ourselves.


**Homework**
Using the questions you answered about yourself, and the same format as the pen pal letter we read in the book, write your own letter to a penpal.


Lesson 1

In this class, we reviewed the stress and pronunciation for some words and nationalities.  The bold syllable in the following words are the ones that get stressed (remember that the stressed syllable is the syllable that sounds louder or that gets said with more force):

Italy
Italian
Brazil
Canada
Poland
Austria
American
Mexico
Canadian
Brazilian
Chinese
Russia
Japan

We also learned how to use the verb BE in the negative form (with the word "not"):

I am not = I'm not --> I'm not Russian!
You are not = You're not  = You aren't --> You aren't Chinese.
He is not = He's not = He isn't --> He isn't from Turkey.
She is not  = She's not = She isn't --> She isn't listening.
It is not = It's not = It isn't --> It isn't from Canada.
We are not = We're not = We aren't --> We aren't checking this blog regularly.
They are not = They're not = They aren't --> They aren't passing notes in class.

Afterwards, we learned how to make a question with the verb BE.  To make a question with the verb BE, all you have to do is remember to put BE at the beginning of the sentence and put your subject after it.  So,

Altaa-teacher is from Mongolia. --> Is Altaa-teacher from Mongolia?
Marie-teacher is Canadian. --> Is Marie-teacher Canadian?
Italian shoes are really nice. --> Are Italian shoes really nice?