Tuesday, August 23, 2011

How to surf a wave in one day!

Please click on this link if you came to my lesson about extreme sports. Please read the handout about surfing a wave in one day and watch the video after.

Good luck, and hang ten!

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-surf-a-wave-in-one-day

Monday, February 28, 2011

Vocabulary about Your Social Life!

Can you make a sentence with one of the expressions below with one of the pictures?
-After, watch the video to compare your answers to mine!

A couch potato, to hang out, to run into someone, to check something out, to catch up with someone, to grab something, to have a quiet night in.









Saturday, February 19, 2011

Difficult Words Connected to Clothing.

To suit,to fit, to get dressed, to wear, to look+adjective, to look like+ noun....

How do you know which one to use?

Make a sentence with each picture using the verbs and language structures from above, and compare your answers by watching the video with my answers.

All of my examples are grammatically correct!











Monday, February 7, 2011

'Presently'

-remember, we can use the present continuous to talk about current/present changes in the world..for example, More and more people are blogging!
-After you read the text, watch the video and see what the actual name of this piece should be called...it isn't presently!

‘Presently’
Ed is playing the piano,
People are having unprotected sex,
An opportunity is passing you by,
Justice is being prevented in a court of law,
The light from the star m-5 is heading toward Earth,
The light that left m-5 a thousand years ago is heading to your house,
Guilt is turning someone inside out,
Van Halen is planning an international tour,
You are sitting too close,
People who can’t read are bumming,
The truth is being obscured,
Science is building better tomato,
Pigs are becoming lunch,
Someone is working too hard for minimum wage,
Mike is thinking about a solo project,
Oysters are being robbed of their sole possession,
A man is wandering the streets of the town you live in,
A tired man with a wounded heart is sitting in his coach seat on an eastbound transatlantic flight is wondering how to say ‘dog,’ ‘howl,’ ‘moon,’ in French just in case it comes up,
Time is having its way with you,
Forces are aligning against you,
Someone is walking on a nude beach for the first time,
Our government is doing things we think only other countries do,
Your memory is getting longer, while your life is getting shorter,
People are doing it for money,
We must be going.

Remember try to read the text to 'presently' first before watching!


Warning!! please read the text before watching the video!!!
please read the text slowly..