This year, we'll be focusing on conversation

Students will converse with one another and the teacher will interject sparingly

Discussion topics: hobbies, career

​We continued to get to know more about one another

Discussion topics covered: travel, friends, family, favorite foods

We discussed key phrases to use when agreeing and disagreeing with someone

We learned the importance of apologizing when interrupting

We practiced our debate skills on two topics: e-reading v. books & renting v. owning our home
 

We practiced using key phrases to use when agreeing and disagreeing with someone

We practiced our debate skills on two topics: umbrellas v. rain coats & bicycles v. cars

Below are two articles on various rain types and the environmental impact of cars
 

In the spirit of celebrating Halloween early, we played a "costume" game, involving solving the mystery of who we're "dressed up as" by asking yes-or-no questions

Below are three articles I've written all about Halloween

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Today, we focused on how to talk about  stories - stories we read, hear, and watch

We learned the correct words to use to talk about parts of a story, from "narrator" to "plot"

We discussed some of our favorite stories using detailed adjectives, such as "captivating" and "devastating"

Today, we learned contemporary terms and expressions for talking about romance

We ran through dialogues between young people discussing dates, break-ups, and romance

We got to know our fellow classmates a bit better in small group discussions

We learned which prepositions are used for which directions

We learned how to describe how things are situated and located in relation to their environment

We did a blind-draw in which we described hidden state flags to our partners, who had to draw the image as we described

Some verbs and adjectives always stick with certain prepositions

Using prepositions is often intuitive for native speakers, therefore the best way to learn them is by watching, reading, and listening to native speakers

Modern English frequently uses "bad" words to mean unoffensive things

We covered how English speakers use "bad" words to display enjoyment, confusion, excitement, frustration, disappointment, and more

We watched Frost the Snowman, a classic Christmas movie

To challenge our listening skills, we played BINGO, in which we searched for certain words

We learned a little about the accent from the Golden Age of Hollywood - learn more below!