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.