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.

Tuesday, 23 November, 2010: B1 Class

In this lesson, we reviewed the conversation from our book from yesterday.  Then, we filled in information in a box about the Battle of Hastings, and we practiced making sentences in the simple past about the Battle of Hastings.  We also practiced making wh-questions in the simple past:

To ask about a subject:
Who called Marie?  John called Marie.
To ask about an object:
Who did Marie call?  Marie called her mom.

Then, we practiced making wh-questions by playing a little board game.  Congratulations to Team 8b Girls, who won the game!

Don't forget your homework!
You lucked out again-- you don't have any homework!

Monday, 22 November, 2010: A1 Class

In this class, we did some partner talking.  Some vcabulary from this lesson was:

queue --> British English for "line-up"
line-up --> when people wait patiently one after the other in a line or row for their turn for a service
bushes --> like small trees
exhaust fumes --> the smoke that comes out of the pipe at the back of your car
personal space --> the area around yourself.  Different cultures have very different ideas about what is acceptable for personal space.  In Canada, we like to have a lot of personal space, but in most Asian countries, personal space seems to be a much smaller area around your body.
mall --> a big building where there are many stores to shop in

Don't forget your homework!
Ha!  You actually don't have any homework today!

Monday, 22 November, 2010: B2 Class

In this lesson, there were only three students present, so rather than look at our textbook, we looked at the first story in the book "Can You Believe It?".  Some vocabulary fromt his lesson is:

heater --> the thing that makes your car or home warm
heat --> hot
terrible --> very bad
mechanic --> the man who fixes cars (the car doctor)
worse --> more bad (bad --> worse --> worst)

Monday, 22 November, 2010: B1 Class

In this class, we did a page from Unit 2 in our books.  We grouped words according to whether they were nouns (person, place, or thing) or verbs (action words).  Some vocabulary that came up in this lesson was:

re-enactment --> to act out a scene which has already happened previously
re-living --> to remember or reminisce about an event
medieval --> has to do with the Middle Ages (from the year 400 to the year 1500)


Don't forget your homework!
You're lucky-- you don't have any homework today!

Monday, 22 November, 2010: A3 Class

In this lesson, we looked at the first story in the book "Can You Believe It?".  Some vocabulary fromt his lesson is:

heater --> the thing that makes your car or home warm
heat --> hot
terrible --> very bad
mechanic --> the man who fixes cars (the car doctor)
worse --> more bad (bad --> worse --> worst)

In our next lesson, we will review the story and learn some more new vocabulary, and hopefully practice some speaking.

Don't forget your homework!
You don't have any homework from this lesson, but if you don't already have an English-Mongolian dictionary, please buy one!  I do my best to explain vocabulary to you, but if after I have explained a word, you still don't understand it, you will have to look it up in your dictionary.

Monday, 22 November, 2010: Grade 1

In this class, we practiced the letters of the alphabet and the sounds that each letter means.  We also reviewed the vocabulary that we learned from Robert Munsch's story "I have to go".  We also learned a new word today: "temper tantrum".  A temper tantrum is exactly what the little boy who wouldn't stop crying because he couldn't have his way did.