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Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Pronunciation Game: Concentration Pairs


ESL students are playing Concentration Pairs with Look in the Lake Pronunciation Cards.
DECK 1 Ducks and Dogs
a. singular
b. plural /s/, /z/, /iz/



a bat - bats
a bath - baths
a bones - bones
a bowl - bowls

a book - books
a bus - buses
a box - boxes
a cart - carts
a card - cards
a dog - dogs
a duck - ducks
a ton - tons
a tongue - tongues

How to Play the Game
This is a game for two or more players.
1. Look at the picture cards and learn to pronounce the words.
2. Take two of each picture (24-26 cards). Shuffle the cards and lay them on the table, face down.
Players take turns.
3. Turn over one card. Put it in the same spot, face up. Say a sentence with a singular noun, for example, This is a duck.
4. Turn over another card. Put it in the same spot. Say a sentence with a singular noun. If they are different, say, for example, This is a dog. A duck and a dog are different.
5. Turn the cards back, face down, in the same spots. Concentrate: try to remember where the cards are!
6. Call another player, for example, Ming, it's your turn.
7. Repeat steps #3-4. If the cards are the same, say sentences with a singular noun and a plural noun, for example, This is a dog. This a dog, too. They are the same. I found a pair of dogs! Take the pair. You have one point. Repeat steps #6-7.
8. Play until the players find all of the pairs. The player with the most pairs is the winner. Everyone tells the winner, Congratulations!
9. Review the vocabulary and plural ending sounds /s/, /z/, /iz/, for example, Ming found five pairs: a pair of dogs, a pair of bowls, a pair of bats, a pair of tons, and a pair of boxes. Kim found.... Jenny found... Laura found...

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Marsha Chan introduces the final speaking exam


The teacher explains the procedure for speaking and listening during this part of the final exam.

Hai final speaking exam

Thu Au final speaking exam

Nguyet final speaking exam

Long final speaking exam

Anh final speaking exam

Ferdoushi final speaking exam

BInh (M) final speaking exam

Loan final speaking exam

Thu final speaking exam

Minh final speaking exam

Gertrudis final speaking exam

Dao final speaking exam

Van final speaking exam

Be final speaking exam

Duc final speaking exam

Phuong final speaking exam

Huong final speaking exam

Tho final speaking exam

Alicia final speaking exam

Hoa final speaking exam

Hung final speaking exam

Binh (F) final speaking exam

Blanca final speaking exam

Ha final speaking exam

Nga (2) final speaking exam

Ngoc Anh final speaking exam

Nga (1) final speaking exam

Mui final speaking exam

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

A student in ESL 920 wrote a song and sang it at the end-of-semester party in December 2010. Here are the lyrics.

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Thank you for the wonderful party and beautiful gifts. You are very friendly kind, and generous to me. Like flowers, you will bloom everywhere in every season.


Friday, April 29, 2011

Count and noncount food items


Student teacher Matthew Chung presents a lesson using flash cards to Master teacher Marsha Chan's beginning ESL students. Mr. Chung is a student in the MAT-TESOL online program at the University of Southern California (USC). The students are learning English in the ESL Department at Mission College in Santa Clara, California, USA. http://www.missioncollege.org/depts/esl/faculty/chan/chan.html

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Colors, materials, and clothes

Students learned English vocabulary for colors, materials, and clothing. Then they brought different clothes from home. In class, on the first day, they showed their items to classmates and described them. Next, they practiced some dialogs about clothing. On another day, they used their clothes to practice clothing role-plays.

Bring a bag with 8 items of clothing and accessories.

* Bring different items for men, women, boys, or girls.
* Bring any size (small, medium, large, size 7, size 32, infants, toddlers, etc.)
* Bring different colors (black, brown, beige, gray, white, red, blue, yellow, orange, purple, green, pink, etc.)
* Bring 4 singular items (a shirt, a dress, a purse, a scarf, a jacket, a sweater, a coat, a windbreaker, a skirt, a swimsuit, a belt, a purse, etc.)
* Bring 4 plural items (a pair of ____: shoes, sandals, socks, stockings, sunglasses, shorts, pajamas, jeans, gloves, mittens, boots, etc..)
* Bring at least 5 different materials (leather, wool, cotton, silk, nylon, synthetic, fleece, denim, corduroy, vinyl, plastic, polyester, etc. ).
* Bring a copy of the model dialogs for Clothing Store Role Play. (Download and print them or copy them on paper.)
* Bring a list of the clothes in your bag. For example:
1. a pair of purple wool gloves for a woman
2. a small pink fleece hat for an infant
3. a medium size white cotton shirt with long sleeves, a collar, and seven buttons for a man

clothing (sg) = clothes (pl)

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

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