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Agenda
Unit: Money - Banking

News & Housekeeping 
Conversation Practice - Biking to Work
Journal Writing 
Reading Bank Statements 
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Class Introduction 

Reader:
Vian

Reading Dates
(Individual responses)

Today is February 8, 2024. 
Today is Thursday, February 9, 2024.
Today is 2/09/2024. 

Today is March 5, 2024. 
Today is 3/05/2024. 

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News
Calendar

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Conversation Practice 
- Biking to Work

Reading
(Indiviual read aloud)

Vocabulary

bike /s -ed
-ing
ride /s rode
-ing
road
instead
“instead of"

When words are
pronounced the same
way... They are
called 'homonyms'.

homonyms
hom o nyms

rode - past tense of ride

road - a surface you drive a car on


instead
“instead of" - in place of

trade one thing for another thing

Focus on Wh-Questions to help comprehend the story and to write your own story. 

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Journal Writing

You can write a story about Gina

or 

You can write your own story 

a personal experience

details????

Use your imagination.

image (picture) 

imagination

i ma gin a tion

ih mah jihn aaaa tshun

imagination = picture the details 
in our mind

we use our imagination

to 'make up' a story

pretend we know the details
and use our imagination to write a story. 

Sample sentence
Instead' of going to Dunkin Donuts every morning, I make my own coffee at home 
to save money. 

'Instead' of 

going to Dunkin Donuts every morning, 

I make my own coffee at home 

to save money. 

Instead of driving my car every day to run errands I do all my errands in one day
to save money on gas.

Instead of 

driving my car every day to run errands

I do all my errands in one day

to save money on gas. 

Try a sentence? 
Tell me a sentence. 

Vilma

When I going to the supermarket to buy food
I walk, because it is good exercise and save/s my money on gas on my car.
It is good to save money of my car. 

xof my car
for my car
on my car

Vocabulary 
instead of 

Grammar
When I go to the supermarket

-ing verb
needs a be verb

When I 'am' going to the supermarket

Anyone else.....?

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Journal Writing
6 minutes

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Share our Journals

Ana

In winter I use the car a lot 
because I have to take the 
children to school, but in 
summer we prefer to walk 
to save money depending 
on the distance.

we prefer /we choose
= another way to say 'instead of'

depending on the distance

walk - long way - maybe it better to drive
walk - short way/distance - easy to walk 
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Larissa

I cook every day. When I cook I save money because I don't need to buy at restaurants. 

cook 
When 
because 

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 Vilma - new sentence? 
When I am going to the supermarket

I am walking because it is good
exercise and I am saving
my money on gas.

But if it is too sunny 
I am using my jacket instead.

You are using many present continuous
verbs. I think you make it more
difficult on yourself to use 
so many. 

Example:
When I go to the supermarket
I walk, because it is good exercise
and I save my money on gas. 

But if it is too sunny,
I use my jacket instead. 

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BREAK
10:00 - 10:20
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Stephane

To save money. I cook to save money instead of going to restaurants. This could save money, time and lives.

instead of 

Tell me more about what you
mean by the words
"and lives"

saves money
saves time
saves lives?

saves stress in my life
saves stress in our lives
enjoy to cook in my house
more relaxing

lifestyle choice 

you choose to cook at home 
instead of eating at restaurants
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Vian
Sentence?

I go exercise every day. 
I go exercise in the gym every day.
I going to the gym. 

Americans say 'go to' 

I go to exercise every day.
to - preposition  

I go to exercise in the gym 
every day. 
to preposition

I am going to the gym. 
to preposition 
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Eliana
Sentence? 
Later. 
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Valerie

In my country I walk sometimes to back home instead to take Uber.

Uber = taxi service 

In my country
I walk sometimes 
'back home'
instead of
taking an Uber (ride).

In my country
I walk sometimes 
to my home
instead of
taking Uber.
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Diturie
Later. 
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Lorvelie
she went to work every day on a bicycle to earn money she saves money to buy a good car and have a good life

Read?

Change it.... 

I went to work everyday 
on a bicycle
to earn money
I save my money 
to buy a car
and to have a good life.
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Satyendra
Kumar drives her car work
when the weather is cold
it's good experience
it's not the money that 
every day drive the car

when 
why 

Kumar drives her car
to work 
when the weather is cold.
It's not to save money, it's a good experience to drive the car every day.

Kumar drives her car
to work 
when the weather is hot or cold.
It's not to save money. It's a good experience to drive the car every day. 

Kumar 'prefers to" drive her car to work 
when the weather is hot or cold.
It's not to save money. It's a good experience to drive the car every day. 

does this say what you mean

prefers to 

She likes to drive the car.  

instead 

Kumar 'prefers to" drive her car to work 
'whether' the weather is hot or cold.
It's not to save money. It's a good experience to drive the car every day. 

homonyms
rode / road 
whether / weather 

whether (no matter when)
weather (atmosphere, wind, rain, sun, etc.)  
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Jhordana

When I lived in Puerto Rico I only used a bicycle, it was considered good exercise and also a saving. In the USA I save money when it's long trips I use public transportation and also when I go to places where parking in the center of Worcester is impossible I use the bus, it's free. I also save money by cooking at home and it is also good for our health.

Verbs

lived
used 
was considered
save 
use 
go to 
is 
use 
save 
is 

bicycle
bus 
cooking at home 

Good sentences. 

Pronunciation 

When I lived in Puerto Rico I only used a bicycle...

I live
I lived  liv'd
  
differences in past tense verb pronunciation 

v sound makes the -ed sound like just a 'd' 

liv'd

I use  uuuuuuz
I used uuuuuuz'd 

z sound makes the -ed sound like just a 'd' 

use'd  uuuz'd 
 
Worcester

Woooooooo stehr 
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Students
Send your sentences later to me - for feedback. 
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Bank Statements (ellii)

Overview
Reader:
Vilma

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Vocabulary

statement - a record of account activity

debit - a decrease in money

credit - an increase in money

billing cycle - an opening and closing date that a bank statement covers

balance - the remaining money in an account

transaction - the act of moving money from one place to another

minimum payment - the smallest payment required to avoid an interest fee

interest - a fee (percentage) owed for borrowing money

post date - the date a bank processes a transaction 

trans date - the date a transaction takes place

Vocabulary 1 and 2 completed.

Exercise 2 - Sample with review completed
Exercise 2 - Questions - incomplete
continue next class

Students do you have a credit card? Yes.
Students do you have bank accounts? Yes. 
Do we want to continue this lesson? Yes. 

Suggestion: 
Review the vocabulary in your ellii Student Accounts.

ellii.com/students


End Class
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