English Day by Day is designed for school students to improve their performance in the English language.
Hey, today, after speaking about the trip to London, we started a new sequence entitled "A tour of Ireland". We studied this picture to try and get a brief overview of what Ireland is and explain why Ireland is a divided country. Here is what we said:...
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Hey, today we started the class with a few minutes from the movie "Cry Freedom" about Apartheid in South Africa. Here is what we said about the extract as a warm up: Apartheid in South Africa [teit] / [tait] It's a period of segregation in South Africa...
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Hey, today you first had to "argument" your essays, i.e. highlight the important elements proving that you have done the job I expected from you (vocabulary, grammar, link words, ideas, ...). Then we made a quick recap of what we had said before the vacation...
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Hey, today in the very first part of the lesson we corrected your homework, i.e. the addition of speech verbs and / or expressions to the different cues in the text so as to reveal the feelings and attitudes of the characters. Here is what we said: "to...
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Hey, today we first talked about the following trailer: Here is what we said about it: Food revolution is a TV show presented by Jamie Oliver, a British chef. He wants to change the eating habits of American children who live in West Virginia. In his...
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Hey, today as there wasn't a lot of people in class, we still talked about love but with a different point of view... Barbie's point of view actually... Here is the document that you studied: Here is what we said about the history of Barbie and what the...
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Hey, today you first took a vocabulary test... I hope it will be better than last time... Then you had to correct your letters (finish correcting them by next lesson) and your reading comprehension test. Tomorrow, some of you will be absent because they...
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Hey, today we first talked about another propaganda poster and Lisa did quite a good job even if it wasn't perfect but she can be proud of herself Then we did a quick recap of what we had said about the text so that Nadia who was absent last time could...
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Hey, today we first talked about the funny video that I showed you. Here is what we said about it: The doc. is a humourous video from BBC1, a British channel. It deals with mobile phones. There are lots of puns on words about brand names which are also...
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Hey, today we first corrected the chronology you had to draw from the text "The London Blitz" and here is what we said about this event: The London Blitz or "Blitz Kreig" in German is a period of intense bombing. London was blasted / bombarded / bombed...
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