Games and other fun things to do

Here's one last post before we finish Spring semester.
1.
First is a website with ESL games to play. 
We'll try Falling Clouds in class. It's a grammar game - put the words in order.
The easy games are Fast Hand and SpeedBalls. They are both vocabulary games.
2. Next is a YouTube site with music for learning English. It has songs for children.
3.
This YouTube website has popular English-language songs with English lessons to help you learn.
4.
You can also listen to VOA's classic rock series. It is an interesting program about rock & roll music, but has no pictures. It is more difficult than the other websites listed here.
5.
STARFALL is the reading website we used earlier this semester. You can practice reading at this site. Choose the kind of reading you enjoy. Then listen to and read with the story.

Enjoy your summer, and practice using the computer. Good Luck.

Let's Use EXCEL 2010

Let's try a new lesson:

How to use:  EXCEL 2010 Tutorial for Beginners.
This video will show you how to make an Excel spreadsheet.

We'll also look at this EXCEL page and practice it in class.

EXCEL is difficult for me to use, but I'll do my best to show you.

This website gives vocabulary for EXCEL. We will learn some of the most important words used in this program. I'll also give you a vocabulary paper to practice.

I'll give all students our EXCEL practice papers this week. Learn the vocabulary and using EXCEL will be easier.

Here's some computer vocabulary practice - remember what you learned before. You can practice #1, #3, and #4 first. We'll try #2 (the crossword puzzle) in class this week.

This computer parts exercise is easy to use - click on the part and the computer word will appear.

This listening practice should be easy, after using EXCEL.

And don't forget to relax:           
 Battleship                                                   
 Four Seasons
 Chinese Matching Game
 Newspapers around the World

Here's a very useful dictionary. We'll learn how it works in class.


 

Using iTunes and other listening practice

We'll learn about iTunes this week and next week. 
This program is available for free.
You'll find the iTunes icon on your computer desktop.

Read this page to learn how to download iTunes to your home computer.

We are going to use PODCASTS and iTUNES U. Both of these apps are free in iTunes. 

Here's a website address where you can practice listening to English.  We'll learn how to use it in class.

Microsoft Publisher 2010 and more ESL lessons

Have you finished your Publisher greeting card yet? 
If you have, please send a copy to my email (teacherlinda12@gmail.com) and I will print a color greeting card for you. 

Here's a free ESL book - you can use it online, or print a copy of it. 
Be careful - there are 174 pages. We can't print it at school.
There is also a youtube.com channel with English 900 lessons. 

And here's a webpage with English grammar lessons. 
I think it looks good. Try it and let me know what you think.

 

Spring Break - Have Some Fun

Hope you enjoy our Spring Break, from March 23 to April 1. 

We'll meet back in class on Tuesday, April 2. 

On Wednesday, April 3, we'll have the CASAS Post-Test. Don't worry about that now. 

1. Here's a book you can read about time. 

2. And here's another book about different kinds of houses and their rooms.

3. You can read more stories at these websites:

•      immigrants' stories 
•      songs, stories and abc practice 
•      listen and read along 
•      tv show with subtitles   

4. Play games at these websites:

•      www.jigzone.com
•      Chinese matching games

Practice Your English Here

Here are some web addresses to learn English:

1. LearningChocolate vocabulary practice 

Choose the vocabulary you want to learn. 
First, listen to the words (click on the 'listen' icon). 
Next, do the matching exercises at the bottom of page. 
Click on the listen icon, then drag it to the correct word above.
If you are right, you will hear the word. 
Do as many exercises as you like. 

2. Language Guide vocabulary practice

Start by choosing your native language (Chinese) at the top of the page. 
Next, click on English as the language you want to learn. 
You will see many topics to study. 
Choose the topic you want to learn.  
When you point the mouse at the word or sentence, you will hear it.

3. English songs on Youtube 

Here you can listen to songs and see the lyrics (words). Open google.com and go to translate to see what the words mean.

4. Phonics and Reading - beginning English 

Learn the abc's and phonetic pronunciation here. Try these: 
     1.ABC's
     2.Learn to Read
     3.It's Fun to Read
     4.I'm Reading
or choose MORE on the right. Try CALENDAR.

If you already know how to use these websites, 
keep working on your WORD story and save it to your flash drive. On Tuesday we will learn how to attach your story to email. 

Before Spring Break we'll also look at this online book. See you soon. 
 
    
 

More English Practice and WORD

Here's a good English listening website

To use it, click on Select a Category
Click Beginners

Author: 
ABC

Work:

An ABC Song

Now click START (lower right)

On the next page, click the PLAY button and listen to the song

We will learn how to do this in class.

Now we'll start our WORD document:
1. Open WORD
2. Change the font size to 18 (or bigger)
3. Title:  My favorite ______ (at top of page)
4. Open Chrome or Firefox: google.com/images
5. Type the name of what you like in the search box - ask the teacher if you don't know how to spell the name
6. click on the picture you want
7. copy/paste to WORD document OR drag picture to desktop and insert (put) in document (Insert -- Picture -- Desktop -- ________ )
8. write on document below picture:
    a.  name of ______
    b. why you like this ______
    c. how to use/display/prepare this ______
    d. how often you use/display/prepare this ______
    e. is this thing good for you/bad for you and why
9. Type your name and today's date on bottom of paper

Save your WORD document in a flash drive. When you are finished, tell your teacher. She will check the spelling and punctuation. 

Everything OK? Print the document.