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.  

China's Terracotta Warriors at Asian Art Museum

There is an exhibit of China's Terracotta Warriors at the Asian Art Museum.
(Chinese introduction to Terracotta Warriors)

Click on the links below to hear:

Introduction (in Mandarin)

multimedia tour (with video)

Crossbow Trigger Mechanism (with video)


Do you know which English words sound the same but have different spelling and meaning?
Play the game here.


Find English for Work practice here 

And you can watch a youtube channel called English at Work

We will look at some of these videos in class.

Email Vocabulary Practice and more

Yesterday we learned five words about email. There are 15 words on the handout.

Today we will practice the next 10 words. 

When you finish, open your email and look for these words. 

We will look at email in class to find the 15 words.
You can also practice here

Next, we will make a WORD document and attach it to email. Some of the students know how to do this. 

1. Open WORD
2. Change the font size to 18
3. Title:  My favorite food  (at top of page)
4. Open Chrome: google.com/images
5. type the name of the food 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 put in document
8. write on document below picture:
    a.  name of food
    b. why you like this food
    c. how to prepare this food
    d. how often you eat this food
    e. is this food good for you/bad for you
  
  

Send an email to your classmate

Let's keep practicing email. 

Here's the assignment for today:
1. Open your email
2. Compose (= write) an email to a classmate and your teacher (teacherlinda12@gmail.com)
3. Tell them what you did this weekend (Feb 23/24) 
4. Send the email
5. We will look at your emails in class

Practice English at this address:
http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~vcook/alemlab.html

You can listen to more immigrant stories at this address:
Stories about immigrants in the U.S.A.

Here's a pronouncing dictionary. We'll see how it works in class.

Email Vocabulary

Today we'll read Hanna's story

Then we'll practice our email lessons. 

How to Use Gmail

Do you need an email account?

This semester we will use gmail at www.google.com.
You can learn about gmail at the above address. We will practice in class, too.

[If you have yahoo email, you can use it in our class.] 

We won't use other email companies at school because we sometimes have problems with other emails.

When everyone has an email address, I will make a list of our class email addresses and we will practice using email.

First we will learn email vocabulary.

Save "My Dream House" to USB flash drive

Is everyone getting ready for Chinese New Year on Sunday?

Let's learn some New Year vocabulary.

Look at these pictures about 5 lucky foods.

Here's a website about the holiday. It helps me understand some of the traditions.

After you make your "dream house", copy/paste into a WORD document. Here are 3 steps to do this from the Internet:

 1. Click PrintScrn key

 2. Open a WORD document

 3. Click ctrl v (paste)

Now your "dream house" is in the document. Here are 5 steps to make your house big.

1. Double-click inside the picture

2. Picture Tools > format > crop 

3. Use your mouse to push the black lines in and crop (=cut) the picture 

4. After you crop the picture, select it (click inside the picture) and stretch to make it big

5. Print a copy

 We will practice this in class  

 

Use Microsoft Office WORD to make Tables

We'll practice WORD and how to copy/paste this week. Put words, translations and pictures in a table.

Let's learn how to use Keyboard Shortcuts:

ctrl   c  =  copy
ctrl   v  =  paste
ctrl   x  =  cut
ctrl   z  =  undo
ctrl   a  =  select all


Here's a memory game with classroom words.

Relax and listen to this song: What a Wonderful World

Use WORD to make vocabulary tables

Monday is ML King Day - no school. 

On Tuesday, January 22, we will start to use the WORD program. 

The teacher will give you a WORD Tools page to learn. Look at HOME and FILE. We'll practice these today.
  
1. Click here to learn about Microsoft WORD 2010 in English. You can translate it to Chinese with Google translate. We'll do this in class.

2. Go to this website to find words you want to learn. Next, you'll put these words in a WORD table.

3. Learn about FILE: Save, Save As (use first time), Print
                         
                        HOME: font, size, bold, italic, underline, ...


4. Need to relax? You can build a house at this website:
    My Dream House  (Use Firefox to open this website)


Look at this website for a break - it has a lot of information.

Keyboarding etc.

Learn to use the keyboard

When you're ready, choose a typing program:

1. powertyping - click on qwerty typing lesson to start, or you can review the keyboard at qwerty keyboard.

2. sense-lang typing - click on lessons to start 

3. typing games - we'll practice some of these games
4. Punctuation - learn these words in English

Learn about Microsoft Office 2010. 

We will learn a. WORD

                     b. EXCEL

                     c. PowerPoint

                     d. Publisher

Don't forget to relax and play a game.

Welcome to Class

Welcome to Learn English with Computers, Spring 2013

This week we will learn to use the keyboard. 

Click on this link to start:

keyboarding practice

We will also practice learning to use a mouse here:

how to use a mouse

When you're ready, put the parts of the keyboard in place

We'll do this together in class.

Ready for a vocabulary matching game?

Relax and have fun.