Dictation -- Months

Click the picture below and practice your listening. Type what you hear. You can adjust the speed, you can repeat many times. 

 

Practice typing!

Before you start typing on a laptop, click the picture below and learn about the home row key first. 

Now, take your laptop, click the picture below and start practice typing!

Grammar - Irregular Simple Past verbs

 

Practice: Send an email

Send an email on Gmail

Watch the video below and learn how to send an email on Gmail.

After watching, try to send an email to your teacher and tell your teacher about your last weekend.

Your subject line will be: My last weekend.

Teacher's email address: xxu@themcc.com

How was your last weekend?

 

Let's write about your weekend. How was your last weekend? What did you do on Sunday? What did you do on Saturday?

Write 7 sentences about your last weekend on your notebook. 

Use simple past tense.

Here is how your can start:

I had a wonderful weekend. I visited ...

Reading an email

 Read the email and answer the questions. You can write your answer on the notebook.

Spelling Bee Game

Click the picture below, play Spelling Bee Game. Try Easy first, then go for Hard.

Write an email

Part A. Read the help sheet above. Copy the questions below to your notebook. Then write your answer.

                1. What is your email address?

                2. If you need to write an email to your teacher, what is your teacher's email address?

                3. Give 2 examples of Greeting/Opening of the email.

                4. Give 2 examples of Closing of the email.

Part B. Write an email to your teacher on your notebook. 

Your teacher's email is abcteacher@email.com

Your email's subject is about: make an appointment for a meeting. 

In your email, tell your teacher when do you want to make the appointment, why do you want to make the appointment. 

Parts of an Email

Click on the picture below, learn and practice parts of an email. Remember to finish all the exercises.

 

Reading an Email

Read the email below. Write down the 6 parts of this email on your notebook. 

Parts of an email: 

1. To (recipient)

2. From (sender)

3. Subject

4. Opening (greeting)

5. Main idea

6. Closing

Grammar -- Simple Past regular verbs spelling rules

Read and understand the spelling rules above. Write down the past form for the verbs below:

Grammar -- Past simple

1. What did you do this past long weekend? Read the activities below and use them to write sentences. Write 6 sentences on your notebook. Give details about time and places in your sentences.

Example: I went shopping at Walmart on Saturday in the morning.

2. You can ask your friends questions using Past Simple. Read the time phrases about past below, and write 5 questions on your notebook using this structure: What did you + verb + time in the past?

Ask your classmates your questions.

Example: What did you eat last night?

3. Listen to the story: Marcello in the United States, and write it down on your notebook. You can listen as many times as you need. After that, read the story and answer the questions below. Write full sentences for your answers on the notebook.

Questions: 

1. When did Marcello go to the United States?

2. What did Marcello want?

3. What kind of classes did he take?

4. What was easy for Marcello?

5. What did Marcello speak with his classmates?

6. What did Marcello do with his classmates after class?

Ask questions to your English teacher

Complete the questions below. Write your answer on your notebook. 

Ask these questions to your English teacher in the conference.

1. _______ there class _____the afternoon?

2. ________ I need to stay in class all day?

3. _______ you give me extra ________?

4. _______ you help me with ________? 

5. ________ I progress to level 4?

6. ________ I better in _________?

7. __________there a test _____________?

8. _________ you teach ____________topic?

Parent Teacher Conference Dialogue

Think about what questions do you have for your child's teacher. Write down 3 questions on your notebook. Then, practice this dialogue. 

Test your learning -- Yes/No questions

Click the picture below, and complete the little test about Yes/No questions.

Ask Yes/No questions!

Watch the video below, and learn how to make Yes/No questions. After watching the video, make 10 Yes/No questions by yourself. Write your questions on your notebook.

Mother's Day!

Watch this video about Mother's Day. After watching, ask the same questions to your children and see what do they say.

Listening -- Parent Teacher Conference 2

Listen to the Parent Teacher Conference, then, answer the questions.Write your answer on your notebook.

 

Listen and Read -- Meeting the Teacher

Listen and read the dialogue. Practice your intonation and pronunciation.

Listening -- Parent/Teacher conference 1

Listen to the parent and teacher conference, then, answer the questions below. Write your answers on the notebook.

1.    What does the mother call the teacher?

a)    Miss Harris

b)    Mr. Harris

c)    Mrs. Harris

2.    What does the teacher and mother talk about?

a)    Science

b)    Her son Kevin.

c)    Kelly

3.    What is good to hear for the mother?

a)    Her child is good at science.

b)    Her child participates.

c)    Her child is scient.

4.    What is the teacher concerned about?

a)    The child’s writing.

b)    The child looks at the stars.

c)    The child’s reading.

5.    According to the teacher, what is helpful for the child?

a)    Sleep in the evening.

b)    Read with her mother every night.

c)    Eat at night.

6.    What will the mother do to help her child?

a)    Be busy with her work.

b)    Talk to the father.

c)    Manage her time to read with the child.

7.    What is the mother concerned about?

a)    Her child is too smart.

b)    Her child has low grades for class participation.

c)    Her child listens in class.

8.    According to the teacher, how can the child improve her grade?

a)    Improve focus and listen to the teacher.

b)    Be energetic and smart.

c)    Talk to the mother.

9.    What do the teacher and the mother want for the child?

a)    Do well.

b)    Be happy.

c)    Both a) and b)

10. When will the teacher and the mother meet again?

a)    Next semester.

b)    In a couple of months.

C) Next month.

Vocabulary about School and Classroom

Click on the links in blue below and practice the vocabulary about school and classroom.

Don't forget to do all the Match up exercises.

1. School rooms and places

2. In class

3. School subjects

4. Actions in the class

5. School jobs

School and Education

Watch the video below and learn the education system in Canada. 

After watching the video. Listen to Tom and his father talking about school. Choose the best answer. Write you answer on your note book.