AM ESOL Online 11-16-23 Agenda Unit: Everyday Life -News & Housekeeping -Conversation Practice -Writing *as Homework -Comparison words and Contrasting words - continued -Irregular Past Tense Verbs - continued =================== News Thanksgiving Dinner at the school - Tuesday, November 21st. Thanksgiving Dinner starts at 10:30 AM Remember... Free Parking Federal Parking Garage The school will validate your ticket. List for Thanksgiving? It would be nice to see you all in person. But I understand there is a reason we are all on zoom. No pressure. If you can come, great! If you can not come that is okay too. There will be... Many desserts Pie for breakfast! Full turkey dinner. ==================== Comparison Words - review Comparing and Contrasting words and phrases Try to you one or more of the words or phrases in your sentences when we practice speaking. ===================== Conversation Practice Source: ellii, Thanksgiving - 2 short silent video clips 1. https://ellii.com/video/giving-thanks 2. https://ellii.com/video/going-home-for-thanksgiving Compare / Contrast 1. How are the two videos the same? 2. How are the two videos different? 3. How will your Thanksgiving Day this year be the same or different? Vocabulary Thanksgiving Giving thanks Saying grace Blessings Abundance Grateful Expressing gratitude Eating dinner Feasting (verb)/a feast (noun) Watch each video 2x for what is the same/2x for what is different. ------------------ 1. How are the two videos the same? Ama The two videos the same because it is Thanksgiving Day The one the family pray and thanks the second one the...come in and say hi, hi. family (a group = it) family prays He/She/It prays food? (In both videos there is a dinner ready on the table.) (In both videos there is a turkey dinner on the table.) They are the same in that in the way in the manner The two videos are the same I see in both videos that ... Contrast -different Contrasting / differences / differentiating identifying differences 2. How are the two videos different? I think the one has a baby or a kid - I don't know - The top one there are three and the other one there are four now I see the picture We have a pie That one has turkey turkey turk eeee Ana They have less money don't have money They are praying for the - I don't know Teacher - for much food it a little food praying praaaaay inhg thank you Thanks giving to give thanks for our food for the turkey dinner for our family for our family being together even when there is only a little food we share on Thanksgiving Ana They are grateful for a little because many do not have Beautiful. You are using not!!!!!! instead of no. Good job. grateful grate ful graaaayt fuhl gratus - Latin NO greatful great - old English terrific Thanksgiving Grateful / Gratitude grate ful adjective feeling or showing an appreciation of kindness; thankful. "I'm very grateful to you for all your help" Similar: thankful filled with gratitude appreciative indebted obliged obligated Sentence examples: I'm grateful for my health. I'm thankful for my health. My health is a blessing. I'm happy that I'm in good health. I'm lucky that I have my health. I want to express my gratitude. Vian They are eating turkey with the drink drink juice and corn and ahn'd Vian They are meeting with the friends and family They are happy about meeting and drinking coco cola. Diturie the first family I say again... familiar teacher? ???? yes Repeat your sentence In the first video they are praying and they are grateful god gratitude for the food on the table grateful gratitude The second video maybe family, father, mother, the children, I don't know maybe parents On the table much food cooking and they are very happy hippy Happy hahp peee I see the cooking (I see the cooked turkey.) cooked k cook't turkey Larissa 2 or 3 Stephane 2 or 3 2. How are the two videos different? The first video The first video shows a family praying before eating. The second video does a family waiting before moving on the meal. moving on to the meal moving on to the next thing It is okay that ... We start with small sentences to describe the differences. It is harder to both learn and include new compare or contrast words when speaking. shows showZ Vian Break Breh-aaaaaaaaaaaaayk ======================= BREAK 10:05 - 10:25 ======================= Vocabulary .... praying = giving thanks saying grace feast feeeest a feast = large meal We are having a family 'feast' on Thanksgiving. for Thanksgiving Day. We are having a large meal with 'all the fixings' all the fixings = all the side dishes, dessert abundance a bun dance ah buhn' dahns abundance - a lot of something an abundance of food a large amount of food on the table Wow! What an abundance of food. Try making a sentence with the new vocabulary? Ama They are having different food on the table. good sentence Ana On Thanksgiving Day I will celebrate the same last year with turkey and dessert. the 'same as' last year good pronunciation Diturie Thanksgiving will be the same as last year. We will celebrate with my family. I am grateful for my family and that we are all together. grateful graaaaaayt fuhl Larissa 1. The same celebration, Thanksgiving, the same saying grace, blessings, grateful, the same expressions the family are happy the family are celebrating how the ... same with happy with each other how they can they celebrate as best they can 'as best they can' 'as best as' they can equative adjective he is as hungry as she is he runs as fast as she runs as... as single / plural one family one family (group/it) one family is two families (2 groups/they) two families are the families are When we speak English we do not always include the verbs or speak in complete sentences... this okay. When we write, remember to write complete sentences. --------- Your Thanksgiving Day Americans have many different 'traditions' on Thanksgiving Day. Eating dinner with family. Enjoying a family feast. Watching the Thanksgiving Day parade on TV. Going to watch a parade. Watching football on TV. Going to a football game. Shopping online for Black Friday deals. Going to the mall to shop for Black Friday sales. It is okay to say your Thanksgiving Day is different than what we see in the videos. =============== Eliana This year I will celebrate with my husband's family it the same the last year. with the family of my husband wife's family family of my wife you would be understood If writing ... complete sentences it is the same as last year. Junior I will be celebrate my family a different Thanksgiving Day of the last year. 'than' the last year than last year will (be) will be celebrating I will celebrate I will 'be' celebrating Larissa I celebrate the same every year dinner with my family. you would be understood 'every year' it helps to put words like ... today yesterday tomorrow every day every year at the beginning or end of the sentence. It depends on what you want to emphasize - every year or same dinner I celebrate the same dinner with my family every year. Every year I celebrate What do you want to emphasize every year or the same dinner the same dinner Ama I like to shopping every year with my family I like 'to shop' every year... like = verb I 'like to' 'go shopping' with my family every year. to go running to go shopping to go to something/somewhere to go to do something to go to sleep to go to bed to go to school to go to class to go to church ============ Journal Writing Homework Write your answers for the 3 Questions. Send your writing to the teacher over Thanksgiving break. Text REMIND email No zoom class next week. Compare / Contrast 1.How are the two videos the same? 2. How are the two videos different? 3. How will your Thanksgiving Day this year be the same or different? Try to use comparing words (same) and contrasting words (different). Try to include a new vocabulary word. Vocabulary Thanksgiving Giving thanks Saying grace Blessings Abundance Grateful Expressing gratitude Eating dinner Feasting (verb)/ a feast (noun) =================== Irregular Past Tense Verbs definitions, pronunciation, use in a sentence begin / began begin - present began - past I begin taking music lessons today. present I began taking music lessons yesterday. past begun They began to take lessons last year. The begun taking lessons last year be/was/were/been we almost never hear the word 'be' in a sentence without a helping verb be verb I'll be back. Will you be there? Will they be coming back? was and were - past I was back. You were back They were back. I was hungry You were hungry They were hungry been - past often seen with a helping verb has/have for example She had been shopping for hours and hours. I had been hungry for days. Ama be, was, were, been I am be coming soon. I am coming soon. I will be coming soon. I'll be coming soon. I'm coming soon. was - past I was here. What did you do yesterday Yesterday I was cooking for my grandkids all day because they did not have food on the fridge. I cook vegetables and rice and beans. choose to make a choice Junior I choose you because I need you. present I chose you because I think /thought you are the best for me. past choose chohz come / came (subject is implied/missing) Please come to me. She comes to me. She came to me. She comes to the airport. present She came to the airport. past I come to school every day. I came to school late today. dig / dug The dog is digging in something/in the dirt. I dig a hole in the garden. I dug a hole in the garden. dream / dreamt (past) Every day I see you in my dreams (noun). I dream (verbs) He/She/It dreams You/We/They dream I dream of you every night. present I dreamt of you every night. I dreamed of you every night. I am dreaming of you I dream of you. I dreamt of you. ========================== Reminder: NO class next week. Come back Tuesday, November 28. Reminder: Thanksgiving Dinner at the school, Tuesday, November 21 at 10:30 AM. Free Parking at the Federal Garage, walk up Highland Street to Chatham Street and the school. Worcester Adult Learning Center 24 Chatham Street Worcester, MA 01609 ===========================