If you go to townsendpress.net, you will find lots of reading practice. I opened up all of the exercises for you to practice. This is FANTASTIC reading practice.
I have also opened all of the vocabulary exercises for you.
I'm not your reading teacher, but I know how much reading helps build your other language skills!
Friday, November 30, 2012
Attention Students
All blog work must be completed in order for me to appeal you should you not pass the class on your own.
Looking ahead to next week
Thursday, December 6:
Grammar Final Exam (emphasis on chapters 16, 17, 19, 20,
22 and 23)
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
Blog Writing #26 : Mixed Conditionals (due Monday, 12/2)
If you were me (of course, in reality, you're not), what would you have
done differently with the class (I mean from the beginning until now)?
Musical Lesson: Unreal Conditionals
This is really cute. I wish I had had enough time in class to show this to you, but I didn't. It illustrates our lesson very well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHacDYj8KZM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHacDYj8KZM
If you had a million dollars, would you share it with your teacher?
Abdulaziz, the story I was telling you today in class was about the Dubai royal family. Look how much cash they were carrying. I wish I could ask them for a loan...
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/armed-gang-steals-millions-dubai-royal-family-143315536.html
See? I knew there were some people on this planet who carried lots of cash! Now, had I asked them for a million dollars, it would have been a REAL POSSIBILITY to get the money (before they were robbed, that is).
This would make a good commercial for Visa or American Express. You can see it now: "If only they had been carrying Visa instead of cash, they wouldn't be in this situation today" (mixed conditionals).
Of course, I don't know if even the royal family can get such a high credit limit!
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/armed-gang-steals-millions-dubai-royal-family-143315536.html
See? I knew there were some people on this planet who carried lots of cash! Now, had I asked them for a million dollars, it would have been a REAL POSSIBILITY to get the money (before they were robbed, that is).
This would make a good commercial for Visa or American Express. You can see it now: "If only they had been carrying Visa instead of cash, they wouldn't be in this situation today" (mixed conditionals).
Of course, I don't know if even the royal family can get such a high credit limit!
Musical lessons: Unreal conditionals
"Time in a Bottle," by Jim Croce
A very old song but a very good one to teach this lesson!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSp0PEBuzEc
If I could save time in a bottle
The first thing that I'd like to do
Is to save every day
Till Eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you
If I could make days last forever
If words could make wishes come true
I'd save every day like a treasure and then,
Again, I would spend them with you
But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them
I've looked around enough to know
That you're the one I want to go
Through time with
If I had a box just for wishes
And dreams that had never come true
The box would be empty
Except for the memory
Of how they were answered by you
But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them
I've looked around enough to know
That you're the one I want to go
Through time with
A very old song but a very good one to teach this lesson!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSp0PEBuzEc
If I could save time in a bottle
The first thing that I'd like to do
Is to save every day
Till Eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you
If I could make days last forever
If words could make wishes come true
I'd save every day like a treasure and then,
Again, I would spend them with you
But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them
I've looked around enough to know
That you're the one I want to go
Through time with
If I had a box just for wishes
And dreams that had never come true
The box would be empty
Except for the memory
Of how they were answered by you
But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them
I've looked around enough to know
That you're the one I want to go
Through time with
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