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English Day by Day is designed for school students to improve their performance in the English language.

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2009-2010 - 2nde 5

Immigration Oral TEST + Letter

Immigration Oral TEST + Letter

Hey, congratulations on your oral test! you did a good job! All the volunteers have obtained good grades. And as you know, the oral mark is very important in the English class... nearly half the points! keep it up! Warm up: G.20 is a meeting of important...

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Definitions and Hypotheses

Definitions and Hypotheses

Hey, today we wrote definitions for the following terms in your lesson copybooks. You need to know them by heart! Here is what we said: - Ellis Island: It's a symbol of liberty / freedom but also of stress. It was founded in the 1890's . Immigrants had...

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The video of the pogrom

The video of the pogrom

Hey, today, after taking a quick oral test about the lesson that Felix did quite well, we corrected some sentences that you had to translate. We saw that possibility/probability could be translated with the modal auxiliary " MAY ". Be careful whether...

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Immigration - The end

Today we finished filling in the chart and commenting on it. Both : sert à annoncer deux choses. ex : Both war refugees and immigrants from the Third World now want to enter the US. used to : sert à dire que quelque chose est passé et a changé. (to) be...

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No class today...

Due to many fire drills and a problem of classroom availability... we couldn't have class today... Sorry about that. Of course, I'll see a group of you tomorrow and the rest on Friday. Since then, take care and I hope I'll have a solution for next Wednesday....

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Immigration - Facts and Figures

Immigration - Facts and Figures

Hey, today we first spoke a little about the swine flu and here is what we said: "I would like the swine flu to spread in the 2nde5 so that the highschool would close and we wouldn't have class!" (how bad I am...!). Vocabulary : - swine flu - an outbreak...

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New York's population - Immigration : Reasons, Goals and Problems

Today, we finished studying the document about New York City's population. Here is what we said: " The Chinese may have gone to the US in order to find gold. They may have wanted to make a fortune." Rappel : - Expression du doute sur un fait passé : Sujet...

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New York's Population - The American dream

Today, we listened to an audio document entitled "The American Dream - New York's population" in which you could learn a little bit more about New York City's population and districts. We made a chart about the immigrants who went to the US, the districts...

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Classroom English + Guess who ?

Classroom English + Guess who ?

Hey, today we studied a little bit of new classroom English expressions so that you can express yourselves in English as often as possible in the class. Among the new expressions were : Dire qu'on ne sait pas : - I'm afraid I don't have a clue. - I'm...

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Presentation + New York's picture

Presentation + New York's picture

Today we could really start the lesson since everybody was there. We only began commenting on the picture below (that was in half at the beginning). We said that : "The picture was taken in New York City because I can see New York's skyline in the background....

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