Today, we learned that most of us are learning English for family, friends, and traveling

We took a quiz on our English skills, which can be found below for your practice or reference

• ​See the questions, answers, and percentages of who got the questions correct​

We also learned a little about prepositions and we questioned whether "for" is one; learn more below

We learned about the appropriate ways of asking people about their nationalities

We learned the names of countries, cities, continents, and nationalities in English

• An interactive map in English is linked below

Examples of today's vocabulary and questions and a sample dialogue are linked below

We will talk about how to use and how to form the conditional

• We will listen to examples of the conditional being used correctly and incorrectly in English

• We'll play a game involving construction conditionals​

Further information is linked below

We will read a story that uses the conditional

• Discussion and worksheet​

• Mini self-quiz

We will play the same game as last week involving constructing conditionals

We will learn vocabulary for visiting a new place

• how to talk to people in formal and informal contexts

• how to ask for directions

If you want to practice using direction vocabulary, you can use the map and exercises linked below

We will watch 2 videos on climate change from a scientific viewpoint

• We'll learn new vocabulary and listen to different accents​

We'll discuss climate change openly: results, causes, what we can do

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Some of the most beautiful places and fun cities in the US

Discussion on personal preferences

Watch the third video below at 0.75x speed (not watched in class) as it is a great video on the parks

We will learn what a bias is and how to spot it in English news

We will read to articles on the same subject and try to identify the biases in each​

We will analyze the home pages of two large US media companies, CNN and Fox News
 

We will learn how to talk about working from home

We will discuss our opinions on remote work and how we see its future

We will read articles and present information to the class
 

We discussed what it means to be creative, who's creative, and how to be creative

We each talked about our hobbies, pastimes, and ways we're creative in day-to-day life

We practiced our creativity through drawing exercises

We were meant to talk about vacations and holidays today

Instead, we discussed workers' rights in America and what holidays/vacation time Americans have

We also discussed the American Supreme Court (SCOTUS) and judicial system

Today we will actually talk about vacations and holidays today

We'll discuss past and future vacation plans