PM ESOL Online 11-14-23

Unit: Everyday Life
-News & Housekeeping
-Conversation Practice 
--compare/contrast
-Mini Lessons: 
Idiom - "haste makes waste"
Regular Past Tense Verbs
Pronunciation -ed/ihd sound

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News

Worcester Public Schools Calendar
https://worcesterschools.org/current-families/calendar/school-calendars/

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Demo: WPS Calendar - to identify days with no class
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Thanksgiving Dinner
at the school
Time?????????
School address
24 Chatham St
Worcester

Career - healthcare training program
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Demo: How to make an appointment online with Kristen
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Conversation Practice - Introduction

Compare / Contrast
Source: Double Exposure, ellii

1. How are the two photos
similar?
2. How are the two photos
different?
3. Do tattoos still make it
difficult to find a job or
has society changed in
this regard?
4. Why might someone
want to dress in a
unique way?

Vocabulary
alternative
punk
unique
convention / conventional 
appearance
impression
External
double exposure

conventional 

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Demo how to use 'pronunciation' feature online.
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tradition

Thanksgiving is traditional 
in America

Student responses:
Halloween is a tradition in America
July 4th is a tradition in America

Easter is a tradition in Brazil and Christmas too. 
 
Veteran's Day is a tradition in America

celebrations
holidays
hair styles
weddings

In Brazil Carnival is a tradition. 

Mardi Gras in America
in Louisana, USA

end of Lent for Christian religion/after fasting from food 
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similar = same 

Wanda
in which both are women

Max
both are young

Katerina 
both are outside in the nature

contrast

Erica 
They have different hair style

Max 
One has a tattoo and the other one does not.

One girl is smart

Nancy 
One has the sunglasses and the other one does not

Fabio 
One is smiling and the other one is not 

Romaluade
One hair is punk 
One smile is good 
She looks pretty 
One is punk 
different hair styles

makeup???

One is natural face 
and the other one is makeup 
... 'is wearing' a lot of makeup

One has "nose'piercings and the other one does not have 'nose' piercings.

Both have earrings. 
pierced earrings
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BREAK 
6:35 - 6:50  

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What do you see? 

3. Do tattoos still make it
difficult to find a job or
has society changed in
this regard?

society = the people and culture of a place or group

American society 

in this regard/ in this way / in this manner

Ana Maria
Those tattoos 

I think that at this time society has changed it doesn't matter if people have tattoos or no to get a job. 

thoughtful

society  soh si eh teee 

no  ... not

if people have tattoos or 'not' 

Keny 
Here in the US it is something normal but in my country it is difficult to get a job because the tattoo is going to mean something bad for the society. 

thoughtful 

society  so si eh tee


may, might, maybe 

unique
u nique
yoo neek
adjective
1. being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else.
"this discovery was unique in history"
Similar:
distinctive
individual
special
especial
idiosyncratic
quirky
eccentric
isolated
single
sole
lone
unrepeated
unrepeatable
solitary
exclusive
only
one and only
in a class by itself
rare
uncommon
unusual
peculiar
novel
strange
odd
one-off

Why might someone
want to dress in a
unique way?

Senta
The people have different style 
My style is classic:
jeans, dress, sweater, no piercings.

conventional - common, accepted by society 


Why would a person want wear 
uncommon clothes and hairstyles? 

unique/different/one of a kind


because?

Max
I think someone might want to dress in different ways because they might want to look different

They have a different personality. 

Senta
They identify with that style. 

(She wears her hair and clothes in a unique style to let everyone know she is punk/likes punk music.)

Diana
(Someone might want to dress in a unique way and wear something to impress people at an event.)
 
Wear to a convention to impression at an event

convention(noun) that means a gathering of people for training, lecture, a play, etc. 
Worcester DCU is a convention center. 

conventional - traditional 


Comparative Adjectives 

Do not forget our comparative adjectives.

Compare
compare two things

old older           er
big bigger          er

more modern         more...than 



One woman has larger earrings than the other woman. 

eyelashes

long

Romaulde
Her eyelashes are longer than the other woman. 

Katerina 
One photo is bigger than the other. 

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Idiom

All countries have idioms.
Idiom are words or phrases the do not always match the dictionary definition.

haste makes waste

haste = move quickly / hurry up / move too fast 

waste = trash 
or
wasted time / did not do anything good with the time they had  

He didn't put the top of the blender on securely and the smoothie splashed out and all over the kitchen making a big mess. Haste makes waste. 

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Past Tense Verb - pronunciation

Introduce rules and details of Rule #3. past tense verbs that end with 't' or 'd' pronounce the -ed sound ihd as a separate syllable

wait wait ed 

          ihd

I waited and waited so long for the bus to arrive. 

Practice homework. 

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