Tueday, 23 November, 2010: A2 Class

In this lesson, we reviewed the vocabulary words about the Beethoven article.  Then, we re-read the article and talked about some points about Beethoven's life.  Finally, we talked about some jobs, and some famous people who did those jobs.  Some vocabulary from this lesson is:

deaf --> can't hear
German --> a person or thing from Germany
Belgian --> a person or thing from Belgium

We also talked about how to say years out loud in English:

Usually, we just break it up as though it were two different numbers: 1984, say "nineteen eighty-four".
If there is a zero in the year, we say "oh": 1908, say "nineteen oh eight".
For the year 2000, we say it like "two thousand".
For the years 2001-2009, we say it like "two thousand and one", "two thousand and two", etc.
For the year 2010, we go back to saying it like it is two different numbers, so we say 2010 like "twenty ten".

Don't forget your homework!
You have to find three examples each of an astronaut, a writer, a scientist, a politician, a painter, an actress, and an explorer.  Of you three examples for each job, one must be Mongolian, one must be Canadian, and one can be any nationality you want.