AM ESOL Online - 2-15-23 Community: Weather and the Environment Journal Writing Adjectives of Degree - mini lesson Tongue Twisters Conversation Practice =================================== Journal Writing - Introduction Reading/Vocabulary Write a note of appreciation to someone special in your life. Google vocabulary Vocabulary: Celebrate, Appreciate, Appreciation, Note of Appreciation, Grateful, Grateful for appreciation ahp preee she aaa shun appreciate ahp preee she ate thankful special speh shuhl You are a special person' to me special = adjective special person someone special special = noun adjective noun someone special grateful gratitude to be thankful for someone or something Examples of notes of appreciation -mini lesson https://ideas.hallmark.com/articles/thank-you-ideas/gratitude-messages-what-to-write-in-an-appreciation-card/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20work%20you%20do%20is,do%20it%E2%80%94thank%20you.%E2%80%9D Note: 3 Parts 1. Greeting 2. Body - message 3. Closing/Signoff Examples of closing/signoff Warm regards Warmly, Sincerely, Thank you! Warmest thanks, With thanks, With deepest thanks, With heartfelt appreciation, With gratitude, Gratefully, Blessings, God bless, Beyond grateful, Feeling thankful, ===================== Journal Writing 10 Minutes ========================== Share our Journal Writing Stephane I will speak. I'll tell you, teacher. I write of my message Thank you message colleague for my work in Cameroon. Dear Colleague Receive this professional thank you message Their work and cooperation has been of great help. Thank you for your skill and expertise. You have real professional skills In addition to your personal qualities: Your kindness, your altruism and your good will. A big thank you to the great professional that you are! Conjunctions: and, and, and, that colleague cohl leeg I write of my message Thank you message colleague for my work in Cameroon. I write a thank you message to a colleague about/for my work in Cameroon. Cameroon Dear Colleague Receive this professional thank you message Their work and cooperation has been of great help. Please receive this professional thank you for your/their work and cooperation has been of great help. Thank you for your skill and expertise. You have real professional skills, in addition to your personal qualities: your kindness, your altruism, and your good will. A big thank you to the great professional that you are! =================== BREAK 10:00 - 10:20 =================== Rajaa to my beloved husband : I appreciate your attention and caring of our family by staying working late at night to support us ,thanks from deep heart Conjunctions: and To my beloved husband: I appreciate your attention and caring of our family by staying/working late at night to support us. Thanks from my deep heart. staying and working staying at work late at night deepest part of my heart thank you deep pool deep ocean xxx deep heart deep of my heart thank you from my heart ------------------------------ Bernice Good morning, Mami. how are you? I hope you're doing well. I want to let you know both mami and papi that I miss you, and I'm very grateful for everything you have done in my life when I was a little girl. and I have asurprise mami and papi. I gonna go to visit you soon. I love you both. your daughter Conjunctions: both/and and for when and and I am going to go to visit I'm gonna go visit you soon. gonna is casual speaking going to is proper English writing I will be visiting you soon. ------------------- Victoria Good morning Dad, it is my note of appreciation. Am sincerely grateful and want to express my heartily gratitude for adopting me when my Dad passed on. I cannot tell the difference between yourself and my Dad. The love, care and support is beyond measure. Just to let you know I am warmly grateful. Thanks a million. Conjunctions: and for when and and This is a/my note of appreciation. I am sincerely grateful express heartfelt gratitude very/so/grateful ---------------------------- Diturie In my life, the special person is my mother, she taught me as a child to respect others, I am always grateful for the culture and respect that she has taught me in my life, I am always grateful to the people who have helped me in my life. Thank you very much, my dear mother, I love you very much Conjunctions: for and that who (as = like something) Punctuation child chiiiii ehld grate ful grateful -------------------------- Esperanza Dear Cris, I want to thank you for the great moments we have lived since our adolescence until now, your presence has been so pleasant/lovely. I feel blessed with your friendship. blessed blehst I want to thank you for the great moments I feel blessed I am blessed Conjunctions: for until Punctuation ------------------- Vian My husband brought me a gift on Valentine's Day, my mother and my sister also brought me a gift, and I love them very much Conjunctions: and and ======================== Adjectives of Degree - mini lesson Introduction https://www.worc-alc.org/web/sites/default/files/2023-02/Adjectives%20of%20degree%20before%20nouns.pdf In this case, the adjectives mean something like 'definitely'. • absolute: She is an absolute darling. • real: You are a real friend. • true: He is a true villain. • complete: The party was a complete disaster. • proper: He is a proper gentleman. Review 1. She is definitely a student (real) She is really a student. She is a real student. 2. They are proper lawyers. 3. That is a complete lie. That is definitely a lie. That is a complete lie. 4. She is a true teacher. 5. The meal was an absolute triump. triump triump = a great success = victory When the team wins the game by many points. it is a great triumph. triumph triiiii uhmf ================================= Tongue Twisters (slides) Love’s a feeling you feel when you feel you’re going to feel feelings you’ve never felt before. Red Roses... Chatty Charlie... Cute Cuddly Cats... Lily the Ladybug... The Tutor.... ====================== Conversation Practice Breakout Rooms small group 1. Do you celebrate Valentine’s Day? 2. What do you do for Valentine’s Day? 3. Who are you writing your note of appreciation to? … and why? 4. What are you grateful for? ------------------------ Share our Conversation End Class