I have a dream

A short part of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech:

spelling words

List of spelling words:
COPY and PASTE this to the SPELLING SITE, and you can practice typing the words:
http://www.esldesk.com/spelling/word
(Click "Build Test" after you put the words in.)
dentist
appointment
excuse
busy
cancel
eating
watching
popcorn
something
napkin
molar
need
telephone
makes
emergency
months
chew
broken
serious
tomorrow
morning
haircut
wife

What is it?

Do you know what kind of flower this is? Why is it important?

Spelling Test....

Will Lev be able to find a job? Will Elizabeth be able to learn Japanese? Here is the vocabulary for our Thursday (that's tomorrow!) spelling test. COPY and PASTE this to the SPELLING SITE, and you can practice typing the words:
http://www.esldesk.com/spelling/word
(Click "Build Test" after you put the words in.)
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
England
English
Brazil
brother
Canada
Chinese
India
mother
uncle
wife
Russian
Spanish
Japanese
office
salary
difficult
car
fluently
car
computer
language
manager
nervous
problem

Job Interviewing....

This week we will be thinking about JOB INTERVIEWS: Please listen to the interview dialogue (Quia Activity). There is another new activity: 50 States. Look at your map, and try to write all the states!

(Source: Janedoeceofiles.com)

If you want to look at more job interview questions, visit this page: http://www.pohly.com/interview-1.html

There are many questions there; look at about 5 questions a day this week, and think about possible answers.
CITIZENSHIP NEWS! President Obama just nominated a new Supreme Court Justice. You can see the video here:
 

Fast food and more...

Today we will do computer time first. We will do the "Fast Food" Dialogues in class - please practice them during computer time!

If you finished Part I, please do part 2 of irregular verbs: "60 Useful Irregular Verbs" (Part 2) at the Grammar (Quia) website.

Did I take your picture for the video? You can put it on your blog or use it for your profile picture - photos can be found at http://picasaweb.google.com/lizzyesl/PhotosForVideo#

If you have not been interviewed by Anton yet, today is the day to do it.

Spelling Test!

Joe and Jill hope you do well on the spelling test today! We'll be doing the "Fast Food" dialogues too.
For those of you who finished the past tense challenge at Quia, here is another great challenge page:
http://www.groovetoenglish.com/irregularpast.htm

Tuesday....

For typing practice, please write some or all of our dictation about Jill Biden in your blog. You can select what sentences you want to type.

Don't forget to work on the restaurant listening dialogues and your spelling! Ooohhh....BUSY!

For here or to go?

After you watch the video (below), listen to these conversations and work with a partner on one of them:

http://www.eslfast.com/robot/topics/restaurant/restaurant16.htm Later this week you will "perform" your conversation with your partner. GOOD LUCK!