Hallo to the students of two of the best classes at Liaogongda! I hope you all had a great summer holiday and that you are refreshed and full of energy for the new semester! I am happy to report that I have seen quite a number of the boys from your c
Read more…(1) Wednesday, 4 June:
Class 1: Visit to Shoushan
As Class 2 wouldn't have class on Monday, we won't have an official class on Wednesday (except if you insist), but we'll pay a visit to Shoushan again. It would be required from each student to chat wit
Please find attached the answers to this week's vocab paper. The correct answers are in bold.
Here are the results:
1. Firstly, congratulations to Annabel with the top score of 105% (21) though I could only give her 100% as that is the maximum! Well do
(1) News by Tara
Please LISTEN to the latest news of the week by Tara.
(2) Feedback on the orals (and voting for best performances, and best actress and actor)
(3) The Customer is always right: Discussions about a conversation with a customer. Some of y
(1) News by Tara - on Monday by Class 2 and on Wednesday by Class 1.
(2) Semester oral assessment: Role plays in pairs
Students to be creative and plan their own act or skit (or dialogue). We have practiced a number of role plays this semester to make
(1) News by Tara for Class 2 on Monday, 19 May. We won't have time for the news at the second class this week as we will be engaged in the role plays and time is of the essence. There won't be a new news item out on Monday (only from Tuesday); so, yo
Read more…(1) News by Tara
(2) Video lesson: Thoughts from Brazil
P.S.
1. Classroom: 201 Erya (If mr Li didn't book a mediaroom for Class 1, they will attend the class with Class 2 at 3.55pm on Wednesday. Pse note it is the 4th class).
2. The 3rd picture is of Rio
Read more…(2) Describing a car accident: Groups of 4/5
Groups will consist of the car driver (a sweet old lady), a shortsighted bystander, 6 year old granddaughter (optional), and the police officer.
Read more…(1) Role plays: Describing your company and job
You will talk about your future company and what your role is in the company. Pairs
(2) Continuation of school plays
Many activities take place on the school grounds like parent-teacher interviews, extra
Read more…(1) News by Tara
(2) Music lesson: "If I were a boy" by Beyonce
The grammar focus of this lesson will be on Second Conditional sentences (If I were ... I would ...) and we'll discuss gender issues and what it would be like to be a boy. Unfortunately th
(1) Listen to the News by Tara
We'll start the Wednesday classes with the news by Tara.
(2) Mini debate: English Globalization
We'll follow the same format as with our mini debate series: Reading the passage, vocabulary, discussing relevant questions, a
Note: The Missing Ring mystery solved ...
At the beginning we mentioned that there can be an 'ulterior motive'. Well, there was in this story! Emma was not a thief as she hadn't planned to take the ring! Cynthia Hummingbird, her grandmother, asked her
Read more…(1) The Missing Ring: Interviews and investigation by Detective Bossley and teams to continue In the same teams as before, except that Detective Wang Lei will join Team 5 of Inspector Liu Yan (Bossley) in Class 1; and in Class 2 Inspector Bao Zhengch
Read more…(1) Wednesday, 9th: News by Tara.
Click on 'LEARN ENGLISH for learners' at the top bar of any page; scroll down a little and click on Listening in the list; now you are on the listening page - scroll down to about the middle of the page, and click on
Read more…Video lesson: Stories from Romania
Class 1 will join Class 2 at 201 Yunhui at 1.30pm (3rd class) on Wednesday, 2nd April.
To watch the video, please go to: http://www.englishclub.com/esl-videos/lessons-from-romania/index.htm
If you want to see more of R
Read more…(1) On Wednesdays we will spend the first 5 minutes of the class to listen to Tara's news item for the week. You can use the news item of the previous week or the latest item which Tara posts every Monday evening.
Ke Song, Wu Meng, Huang Guodong, Xie
Read more…Room 203 - Woodrow Wilson High [or 203 Yunhui lou?!]
(1) Discussion of movie (The Freedom Writers) in small groups
The following questions will be discussed:
1. What is the main theme and story?
2. Was that comedy, tragedy, drama, history, fiction,
(1) http://edition.englishclub.com/category/listening-news/
A student from each class will tell us about the latest EC news by Tara. There is a written script of the news too, but I suggest students listen to the news first (and maybe even a few times
Read more…Mini-debate: Cell phones in the Classroom.
The format would be the same as the past semester as I believe it to be more effective than the usual debate format. A proper debate can only work when the participants speak the language in which the debate
Read more…(1) Music lesson: "Ka-Ching" by Shania Twain.
P.S. Would Li Xiupeng and Xiao Hao again be so kind and bring your sound systems to the classroom please?! I have the music on a USB memory stick which I will bring along. Thank you. [Pse warn me at least
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