In this class, we talked about personal descriptions and words to describe appearance. We also did a listening exercise and played a short game. We also talked about adjectives that pair with prepositions.
Preposistions:
good + at + skill --> I wish I were good at languages.
good + to+ person --> A doctor should be good to his patients.
friendly + with + person --> John is always friendly with everyone.
afraid + of + person/thing (you are scared because of that person/thing) --> I am afraid of the dark.
afraid + for + person/thing (you feel fear on the behalf of another person/thing) --> I'm afraid for you when you walk alone at night.
jealous + of + person --> I used to be jealous of my brother (but I'm not anymore).
kind + to + person --> I try to be kind to my parents.
patient + with + person --> A teacher should be patient with her students.
rude + to + person --> The girl was rude to the waiter.
Vocabulary:
beard--> the hair on a man's chin
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| Different types of beards |
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| Different types of moustaches |
We also learned that Marie really does not like it when her students do not listen to her. Hopefully this was a one-time thing. Also, it has come to my attention that some of the girls think it was only the boys who misbehaved. In fact, it was only the boys who had the misfortune of talking when for me it was the last straw. Pretty much everyone was disregarding my requests to raise their hands, wait for permission to speak, and to not speak while I was speaking, not just the boys. In fact, I'd say that the boys were pretty well-behaved for most of the class, and it's just too bad that they happened to be the ones disregarding my rules when I had finally had enough.
A3 Class:
In this class, we reviewed the words for countries, nationalities, and capital cities. We also did a LISTENING exercise, which means that you have to listen to what I say and fill in the blanks (not try to find the information on your own from a different page in the book).
Then, we looked at a website called "e-friends" and we read about two different members on e-friends: Olga and Kim. We talked about difficult vocabulary. Some of the vocabulary we talked about was:
"I hope to..." --> I want to...
"contact someone" --> Send an email or letter, or call them on the phone
"Want to... ?" --> Means the same thing as "Do you want to...?"
"Drop me an email." --> A very casual way to say "Send me an email."
Please, in the future, if there is a word you do not understand, instead of keeping silent and not saying anything, please please please say that you do not understand. That way, I will be able to explain it to you, and you will actually learn, but if you pretend to understand when actually you don't, you're not going to learn anything at all and class will be frustrating for everyone.
B1 Class:
In this class, we learned about the present simple. Remember that the present simple is used for routines (the things that you do everyday in the same order), habits (something that you always do), and permanent states (something that will never change). We practiced the present simple with seven verbs: BE / DO / GET / KNOW / LET / EAT / LIKE. Then we practiced making yes/no question and answer pairs in the present simple.
I am / do / get / know / let / eat / like
You are / do / get / know / let / eat / like
He is / does / gets / knows / lets / eats / likes
She is / does / gets / knows / lets / eats / likes
It is / does / gets / knows / lets / eats / likes
Orgil is / does / gets / knows / lets / eats / likes
A horse is / does / gets / knows / lets / eats / likes
We are / do / get / know / let / eat / like
You are / do / get / know / let / eat / like
They are / do / get / know / let / eat / like
Tsambaa and Bayaraa are / do / get / know / let / eat / like
Horses are / do / get / know / let / eat / like
To make a question from a sentence that has the verb BE, we just have to switch the verb and the subject around. It works like this:
She is Russian. --> Is she Russian?
To make a question from a sentence that has any other verb, we have to add the verb DO at the beginning of the sentence. Make sure that your added verb DO agrees with the subject (so, if the subject is he / she / it / a name / or a singular noun, the form will be does). It works like this:
Tergel eats buuz. --> Does Tergel eat buuz?
Homework: Look at the article "Sink your teeth into this" and make one more question based on the text in the article, just like what we practiced doing in class.
B2 Class:
We started the class with a listening excercise in which we had to fill in some blanks. One important thing to remember (which is something that even many native speakers of English have problems with) is that the word "no" means the opposite of "yes"; the word "now" means "at this very moment (and it sounds different than the word "no" or "know"); and the word "know" refers to knowledge that you already have in your brain.
The listening exercise also turned out to be useful questions and phrases that any non-native speaker of English should know and should never feel ashamed to say. Here they are:
What's this in English?
How do you say ikh delguur in English?
What does fiddle mean?
I'm sorry, I don't know.
I'm sorry, I don't understand.
Can you repeat that, please?
Can you speak more slowly, please?
After we talked about the useful phrases for non-native speakers of English, we talked about some countries and their capital cities. Here they are:
Britain --> London
Japan --> Tokyo
Turkey --> Ankara
Russia --> Moscow
Poland --> Warsaw
Greece --> Athens
Mexico --> Mexico City
Egypt --> Cairo
USA --> Washington, D.C.
Then, we learned how to ask and answer where a city is. The question and answer pair should look like this:
Where's [CITY]?
It's in [COUNTRY].
So, we can ask:
Where's Cairo?
And we can answer:
It's in Egypt.
Please be careful, though, because the word "in" may be small, but it is still important, and if you don't say it, it will sound strange to native speakers of English. If we say "It's Egypt" in answer to the question "Where's Cairo?", we are saying that Cairo = Egypt, not that Cairo can be found inside the large piece of land known as Egypt.
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