SMRT: Craig Koskimaki: July 2012

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Homework for August 1st, 2012

Please do Grammar 5-2 exercise 1 for homework....have a good evening.....Craig

Fashion Vocabulary Warm up

About how much money do you spend on clothes a year?
Do you like shopping for new clothes?
Do you often buy new clothes?
Do you prefer to go shopping or just browse? Why?
Do you think men should be allowed to wear skirts?
What piece of clothing do you spend your money on the most? Why?
Do you read fashion magazines?
Do you sometimes wear a hat?
Do you think it is important to wear fashionable clothes?
- Do you think it is important to be in fashion?
Do you wear jewelry?
- If so, what kind of jewelry do you wear?
- How often do you wear jewelry?
- What is your most valuable piece of jewelry
What are some of the strangest fashions you have seen?
What colors do you think look good on you?
What did you wear yesterday?
What do you think of body piercing?
- Do you have pierced ears?
- Do you know anyone with a pierced nose?
- Would you ever pierce your tongue?
What do you think of people who dye their hair green?
What do you think of women who wear high heel shoes?
- Do you think high heel shoes are bad for a person's health?
What fashions that you see today do you think will be out of fashion within two years?
What is your shoe size?
What kind of clothes are in fashion now?
What kind of clothes do you usually wear?
What's the most expensive piece of clothing you have ever bought?
What's your favorite color for shoes?
When was the last time you got dressed up?
Where are some good stores to buy clothes in this area?
Where do you usually buy clothes?
Would you like to be a fashion model?

Monday, July 30, 2012

Homework for July 31st, 2012

Please do the vocabulary exercise for Unit 5 tonight...thank you and have a good night...

Unit 4 test

Here is one you will like:
https://docs.google.com/a/canada-english.com/document/d/1DqGpr37FgHK6bhf2cQGRR6yb5uVfZlXZ1uB0QDTh-xE/edit

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Activity: jump to conclusions

Describe a situation that is open to interpretation for the students (see box for examples). When you finish, ask them to work in pairs and make as many sentences as possible as to what may have happened. For this they should use modal verb + have + past participle, e.g.

When I arrived at school today, there were papers all over the floor in the hall and the director’s office.

Possible conclusions:

There may have been a break-in.
The director might have gone crazy and thrown the papers around.
Some students may have played a joke.
The director must have been furious.

Possible situations:

You were stuck in traffic for two hours.
You heard loud dance music coming from the staff room.
No students came to class.
When you walked in, all the students started laughing.
X (a student’s name) was fifteen minutes late.

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Homework for July 26th, 2012

Please do Grammar 4-3 #1 and #2 for tomorrow.....thank you and have a good evening...Craig

Modal Verbs Quiz

http://elt.oup.com/student/headway/int/a_grammar/unit04/hwy_int_unit04_2?cc=ca&selLanguage=en

Modal Speaking Exercises

What more could you be doing to practice your English?

How would your parents punish you when you misbehaved as a child?

What could you do to make your life more exciting? Why don't you do it?

What are some things you should have done last week, but didn't do?

Should marijuana be legalized? Why or why not?

What could the opposite sex do to make your life easier?

Can you do anything creative?

Name three things you may not do in this class.

Should gay/lesbian couples be allowed to adopt children? Why or why not?

In your country, what might happen to someone who loses their job?

What must you do in your country to obtain a driver's license?

Name two things that you couldn't do last year that you can do this year.

What could you be doing right now (instead of studying English)?

How would you recommend treating a cold?

Modal Verb explanation/ exercises

http://www.shoreline.ctc.edu/lwilso/workshops/modal%20verbs/ws_modal_verbs.htm

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Homework for July 25th, 2012

Please do grammar #3 from grammar 4-1..thank you and have a good evening...Craig

Modal Verbs

Look at this link tonight and review the modal verbs:

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/modal-verbs-of-obligation.html
And watch this video to laugh and get more practice:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPXuLoBQwsQ&feature=related

Modals-must, have to, should (obligation)

http://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/intermediate/a_grammar/file03/nef_int_grammar03_a01?cc=global&selLanguage=en

http://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/intermediate/a_grammar/file03/nef_int_grammar03_a02?cc=global&selLanguage=en

Monday, July 23, 2012

Homework for July 24th, 2012

Please do the vocabulary exercise and share it with me tonight...have a good evening....Craig

Shakespeare game

http://www.agame.com/game/Romeo-Wherefore-Art-Thou.html

Shakespeare's Life

Watch this video and organize the sentences on Shakespeare's life:
http://www.quia.com/rd/59037.html

Unit 3 Quiz

Make a copy:
https://docs.google.com/a/canada-english.com/document/d/1hWeBwN5yhl1LgfT9J55mk88Z4-fIz2DhuRaqXshJy2A/edit

Friday, July 20, 2012

Grammar Review on weekend

Please look at the grammar review on the weekend and if you have any questions please ask...Craig

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Homework for 20th of July, 2012

Please do exercise #4 from grammar 3-3

Past Tenses Quiz

Check your understanding of past tenses:
Quiz Past Tenses

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Homework for July 19th, 2012

Please do structure 3-3 complex sentences for homework and share it with me...thank you..
Have a good evening.....Craig

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Exercises for tonight

Please review these exercises for tonight.....thank you and have a good evening....Craig
http://elt.oup.com/student/headway/int/a_grammar/unit03/?cc=ca&selLanguage=en

Monday, July 16, 2012

Vocabulary Homework

Choose 5 vocabulary from the list and make 5 sentences using that vocabulary. Thank you
and have a good night....thanks....Craig

Weather

http://iteslj.org/questions/weather.html

34 questions

http://a4esl.org/q/h/mc006-ck.html

Passive voice

Passive or Active Voice?

Unit 2 Quiz

Here you go!
https://docs.google.com/a/canada-english.com/document/d/1sbL3h2c4WFujCOqWrMcxcB5dO8LcxCxCTAc8QVG79-Q/edit

Friday, July 13, 2012

Jobs and activities

http://elt.oup.com/student/headway/int/b_vocabulary/unit02/hwy_int_unit02_5?cc=ca&selLanguage=en&mode=hub

http://elt.oup.com/student/headway/int/f_everydayenglish/hwy_int_dialogue01?cc=ca&selLanguage=en&mode=hub

Interview a classmate

http://spol.unica.it/didattica/Giordano/Lingua%20Inglese%201/General%20English/Unit%202.1-Refer%20to%20times%20in%20the%20past.pdf

apartments for rent/ repairs

http://elt.oup.com/student/headway/int/a_grammar/unit02/?cc=ca&selLanguage=en

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay2D8chFBKw&feature=related

http://elt.oup.com/student/headway/int/a_grammar/unit07/?cc=ca&selLanguage=en

http://www.esl-lab.com/live/liverd1.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaq6pX7q15s&feature=related

Problems and repairs:
http://www.issbc.org/janis-esl/subtopichouseprobs.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzL6Ww7xUWc&feature=relmfu

http://www.esl-lab.com/vocab/v-housing.htm

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Homework for July 13th 2012

Please do structure 2-4 and 2-5 for tomorrow...thank you....Craig

State and Dynamic verbs exercise

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/stative-verbs-exercise.html

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Structure Homework

Please do 2-1 & 2-2 of the structure section...thank you and have a good evening....

A little quiz on Present Simple & Present Continuous

http://elt.oup.com/student/headway/int/c_stopandcheck?cc=ca&selLanguage=en

Monday, July 9, 2012

Unit One Quiz

Here is the unit one quiz for everyone to do....please make a copy....
https://docs.google.com/a/canada-english.com/document/d/1Qqer8OLJ8WEtQGg1jknJ1bhdYLEeDciUAD2wbEVM5mY/edit

Find the question

Tomorrow.	Yes, I do.	Yes, I will.	No, I won’t.	No, I don’t.
Yes, I can.	No, I can’t.	Yes, I did.	No, I didn’t.	Yes, he does.
No, she doesn’t.	Yesterday.	Because I’m tired.	In the morning.	In the evening.
Yes, I should.	No, I shouldn’t.	In the sky.	On the wall.	Yellow.
Short.	Water.	English.	At 12:00.	In the kitchen.

Friday, July 6, 2012

Questions

http://elt.oup.com/student/headway/int/a_grammar/unit06/?cc=ca&selLanguage=en

http://elt.oup.com/student/headway/int/a_grammar/unit01/?cc=ca&selLanguage=en

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Homework for July 6th, 2012

Please compose a paragraph for tomorrow with 5 sentences: Topic sentence, 3 supporting sentences and 1 concluding sentence.....thank you a have good evening.....Craig

Exercises on word order

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/word-order/exercises?06

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/word-order/exercises?07

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simple-present/form/exercises?04

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simple-past/exercises?06

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/present-perfect-simple/exercises?07

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Homework for July 5th, 2012

Please do the vocabulary exercise for homework and share with me tonight.....Craig

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Homework for July 4th, 2012

Please look at the vocabulary for tomorrow' s class....Craig Koski