AM ESOL Online 10-31-23

Unit: Getting to Know You
- News & Housekeeping
- Journal Writing
-Mini Lessons: Qualifiers 
-Conversation Practice 
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31 thirty-first

NEWS

No school Nov 7th.
The teachers are having a professional development. 

Thanksgiving
AM
PM

No children - unless absolutely necessary. 

turkey at the school 

The school will provide a Thanksgiving meal. 

I do not know the times yet. 


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Conversation Practice

Source: "Memories" 
https://www.onceuponapicture.co.uk/the-collections/the-pshe-collection/

1. When is this? (What time of
year/day?)
2. What is the woman doing?
3. Who carved the heart into the
tree? Why did they do it? Why
this tree?
4. Why is she touching it?
5. Why is this picture called
‘Memories’?
6. What is she remembering?

Vocabulary
young
carve
shadow
silhouette
memory
memories
remember



Vian
Ana
Larissa
Ama
Eliana
Valerie


carve
/kärv/
Learn to pronounce
verb
1.
cut (a hard material) in order to produce an object, design, or inscription.
"the wood was carved with runes"
Similar:
sculpt
sculpture
cut
chisel
hew
whittle
chip
hack
slash
form
shape
fashion
engrave
etch
notch
cut in
incise
score
print
mark
Opposite:
erase
2.
cut (cooked meat) into slices for eating.
"he stood carving the roast chicken"
Similar:
slice
cut up
chop
dice

to carve 
carve a pumpkin
carve a heart shape into a tree trunk 
carve meat - turkey for Thanksgiving

carved cahrv'd

a carving
a carved shape
a carved pumpking 

verb
to carve, carving, carved 

shadow 

sun shines and your body creates a shadow 

On Halloween we can have scary or spooky shadows 


sil·hou·ette
/ˌsiləˈwet/
Learn to pronounce
noun
the dark shape and outline of someone or something visible against a lighter background, especially in dim light.
"she paused to see its silhouette against the dimming sky"
Similar:
outline
contour(s)
profile
delineation
form
shape
figure



memory
some kind of records 
information, pictures images in our mine
actions in our minds.

something from the past

memories



re·mem·ber
/rəˈmembər/
Learn to pronounce
verb
have in or be able to bring to one's mind an awareness of (someone or something that one has seen, known, or experienced in the past).
"I remember the screech of the horn as the car came toward me"
Similar:
recall
call to mind
recollect
think of
put a name to
place

Vian (Read again. Answer the question.( 
1.
2022
1. When is this? (What time of
year/day?)

What season is it? =
What time of year?

Winter
Spring
Summer
Fall 

Winter, November

Ama
Fall

Maybe it is Valentine's Day.

Maybe it's Halloween.

today is Halloween. 

Ana Read and answer the question.

the woman is 
remember a beautiful moment

she is in the forest 
remembering the good moment when they carved the tree

carve'd  d sound



Larissa

3. Who carved the heart into the
tree? Why did they do it? Why
this tree?


pretend
teache I don't know

I think this someone fell in love 

I think 
sentimental 
express his emotion

man not a woman 

heart carved
the man carved the heart

carv'd 
carve

Maybe the woman and the man 
because they ask about 'they' 

they (she asked about 'they')
about two people
exactly

Is this tree special? 
Why this tree?

The tree is special because he asked about this tree ... why this tree? 

why would this tree be special

maybe it about a recorded
she has recorded about this tree

she has a "memory" about this tree

???? 
Maybe she kissed the man near this tree. 
Maybe they walked together inthe forest.

Ana
Maybe they had a promise. 



Ama
4.Why is she touching it?

I think she think about the past tense in the mind
think ahead
or think back. 

remember = to think back about the past. 

I think sometimes that tree

the relationship behind (the story of) the tree

I don't know what is going on between us now
My husband was here and gave me a promise, a flower, a...\
I think back. 

I "remember"

I remember when/the time/the date/ my husband carved this heart in the tree. 


Eliana
Why is this picture called
‘Memories’?


It is called 'Memories'
because she's remembering her love history. 

remembering the past
remembering the past love

Valerie
What is she remembering?

She remember the time past in this forest with the husband or boyfriend. 

forest 

I remember
She/He/It remembers
You/We/They remember


She remembers
She is remembering

Does anyone want to add to the story? 


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Journal Writing
10 minutes
20 minute BREAK
10:02 - 10:32


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Share our Writing

Vian

Ana
She was walking and remembering a beautiful moment. 
She had with her a first love where she carved the tree and they drew a heart and promised each other love. 
She was thinking that she would like to go back in time and relive those beautiful moments. 

verbs

vocabulary
remembering
carved
promised 
drew 
would like to 

 
Larissa
1.
A young couple carved a heart into the tree in a moment of love.
They did it for memories, but what they didn't know was that tree was very special to a woman who also had a memory. 
2
"Who made this?"

verbs
vocabulary
carve / carved
memory/memories 

Ama
could be in training session

Eliana

It was a winter when she was walking in the forest between trees, suddenly she stopped in a tree, she was touching the heart carved in the tree, she was remembering her love history with a man, all the images came to her mind of promises, of what they said.
2 "If he had kept his promise, today I was married with him"

cahr v'd 
carve'd

images

ih mah jehz

keep /   kept
kehp't

verbs

Vocabulary
forest
touching
carved
remembering 
images
promises  

2 "If he had kept his promise, today I would be married with him"

I would be married 

with him
to him

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forest
It is more common in Massachusetts to say
woods

I was walking in the woods. 

woods are smaller than forests

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Writing 

Valerie

1.
The young woman was walking through the woods with her boyfriend and they were stopping in front of the tree and carved
the heart on the tree.
Years later she is going to the forest. She is shadow her dog and stopped in front of the tree and she had a lot memories. 

verbs 

vocabulary
young
carved 
forest/woods
shadow 
memories 


She is shadow her dog and stopped in front of the tree and she had a lot memories. 


to shadow (verb) 
She is shadowing her dog
=
She is following her dog. 

2. The woman thinks that "He didn't keep his promise".


Diturie
This is a woman who is thinking about the times she spent with her lover. She is remembering the years of her youth when she walked with her lover and he dedicates a heart to the tree to always have a memory of their beautiful lover that they spent together in their youth. 
 
verbs
vobulary 
memory 
youth 

love / lover (person)

young (adjective) 
young woman

youth (a time when we are young) 
phase/stage of life 


very creative students
nice stories 
sad stories too


questions
vocabulary???

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Mini Lesson: Quantifiers

A quantifier shows the quantify - amount - of a noun.

nouns
person, place, thing 

100% / all of the pizza
100% / all of the time 

week 
100% /all of the week
100% every day of the week

How much? 

How much time do you spend watching tv every week? 

Diturie
I spend the time one or two hour a day I watching the tv. 

I spend time watching tv a couple of hours a day. 

I spend 100% /all my time
cooking every day. 

I spend 50% of my time cooking every day. 

Ana 
How much time do you spend cooking every week? 
I cook every day. 

How much time do you spend cleaning every day? 

I clean every day. 

I clean everything house is one hour

for everything house is only Mon and Fri.


We would say...
the whole house/
clean 100% of the house
whole pizza
whole house 

I clean the whole house only on Monday and Friday. 

I clean the house (2 out of 7 days)

I clean the house a couple of times a week. 

End Class

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