PM ESOL Online 9-05-23

Agenda
Unit: Getting to Know You
❏ News & Housekeeping
❏ attendance, welcome new students, 
❏ Journal Writing
❏ Idioms
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Introduction

Worcester Adult Learning Center
wesite

https://www.worc-alc.org/web/

worc-alc.org

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Worcester Public Schools website

calendar

https://worcesterschools.org/current-families/calendar/school-calendars/

multiple languages

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Journal Writing
What did you do this summer to improve your English?
Examples:
-Read a book written in English
-Listened to a book on CD
-Spoke English using an app on your phone
-Wrote something every day in your journal
-Watched a Youtube video or movie in English

2. What would you like to learn about this year?

3. Identify one activity you liked from last year. Why?

4. Identify one activity you did ‘not’ like from last year. Why?


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Journal Writing
10 Minutes

Break 6:30 - 6:45 
15 minutes

I will see you back on zoom at 6:45 
Ready to share your journal writing in class. 
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Share our Journal writing 

Question 1

Ana Maria
I studied Duolingo to improve my English. 

Diana
I watched Youtube videos and movies in English. 

action videos

Edmond
watched Youtube movies in English. 

What type of movies did you watch?

Hallmark movies for Christmas

Jennifer 
I watched movies
alphabet on Youtube 

How to understand making making sentence (two words or three together).

Senta
I watched Youtube video 
I listened some in the Youtube 
I watched the movie in Youtube
Christian movie
Romantic movie

Wilfort 
I watched a video in interactive English.
Summer Book Club
The summer program gave me a big booster.

Max
I went to the film and watch the movie.
Read a book in English. 

Angelica
I watched movies in English with Spanish subtitles. I read children's stories to improve my English.

Good place to start learning English. 


Fatoumata 
I start to do an apprenticeship in manufacturing so I am doing class online
I learning chemistry, math, biology the summer online. Talk to the teachers. 

Question #2
Ana Maria
to speak and write English 

Diana
pronunciation, and speak and write

Edmond
reading, writing/to write, good conversation, and listening

Jennifer 
I want to learn how to read and write.

Senta
more this year 
conversation
reading
grammar 
(making sentences)

Wilfort 
more phonetics/phonics/
phonology
how to make a paragraph

Zuleyma
1. was practice speaking with my friends and my family would English 
2.good pronunciation and more vocabulary

Max 
more English because it will help me a lot every day
conversation 

Angelica
everything about English this year
but I would love to learn about grammar the correct way to write a sentence

Fatoumata
to be more fluent in English 
pronunciation 

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Save your writing. We will review Question 3 and 4 on Thursday.

Now let's do something fun. 

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Idioms
are expressions or sayings that create a picture in your mind but the words usually mean something different. 

Example:
Did the cat catch your tongue?

"Woke up on the wrong side of the bed"

grumpy 
angry, not happy
a mood/moody

to be mean
mean 
a mean person 

Mommy will not give me more candy. Mommy is being mean to me. 
not nice to me 

The waiter kept us waiting at the table for our check for 30 minutes. I think that was mean of him. 

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Return to Journal Writing questions and responses....

Question 3

Ana Maria
all activities I like 
were interesting

Diana
Journal writing, because I understand writing and reading 

Edmond
to (go to) graduation with my son in college 

Jennifer
breakout rooms
(conversation practice)

Senta
journal writing 
(reading a question and then writing the answer)

Wilfort
the most was conversation practice because with out practicing we cannot learn any language. 

Zuleyma 
the summer class in person because many different activities (outside in the garden went to see the library and meet very different people in person)

Fatoumata
Fanning Building
game / pictionary or guess the word / or be the person making the guess
helps you to practice 
conversation 

Question 3
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End Class
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