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.