English Day by Day is designed for school students to improve their performance in the English language.
Today after taking a quick vocabulary test, we continued speaking about the text. Here is what we said about it: "to be written by Margarita" HW: next time, you will have a vocabulary test again + you need to complete exercise n°2 "Going Further - 1,...
Hey, today we first warmed up with reviewing what you could say about page 3 from the comic book Spiderman. Then we worked on a video document. It is the extract from Spiderman which corresponds to the comic book. You had to spot out the similarities...
Today, we first displayed the posters with the rules of the English class. Here they read: Class Rules 1- We are not allowed to speak with our friends when the professor doesn’t agree 2- We are forbidden to speak French 3- We are not allowed to answer...
Hey, with the whole class, we first did a warm up about sports and superheroes. Here is what we said: "to be written by Romain Hamon" Then we continued speaking about the 2nd page from Spiderman. Here is what we wrote: "to be written by Romain Hamon"...
After taking your usual vocabulary tests, you had to determine the roles of each person or group of people and their attitude. Here is what we wrote: The judge: He takes the final decision, he weighs the pros and cons. He gives orders to the court, he...
After making sure everyone understood the words "WORK" and "LEARN", we could continue our lesson on super heroes. We began to study the 1st page from the comic book Spiderman: Here is what we said: ACTIONS: (use present BE + ing for a description of actions)...
LAST WARNING : Nicolas, Jordan, I'm still waiting for your lessons! Today we started a new sequence entitled: "Death Penalty". We saw synonyms for this word: -> the death sentence -> the capital punishment Then, because the TV set didn't work I had to...
Hey, during the second part of the lesson, we reviewed some important vocabulary about "pain" and "fear". We also corrected Jacob's speech. Here is the correct version of the dialogue: "to be written by Guillaume..." Then, I gave you a worksheet on "how...
Hey, today after having a little conversation about TV series in English, we continued studying the movie Gattaca, but this time not with a movie extract. We read the corresponding text in your books p. 142-143. PLEASE BRING YOUR BOOKS FROM NOW ON! Here...
Today, we corrected the oral presentation you had to make about this sentence: "by the time a child reaches 16 years of age, he will have witnessed 33.000 murders..." Here is what you said: "This number seems to be wrong. It can' t be!(It' s impossible)....
Today we did a rapid recap of what we said last lesson and we continued on with the real TV. We said: "The document is a conversation between two parents who speak about real TV and children. The man whose son Nathan is an eight-year-old boy and loves...
After a warm up on "taking pictures", we continued our work on the audio document and diverging opinions about reality television. We said: "For the woman, these shows are like the Roman games when it was a game to kill people and watch people being killed....
Hey today, we worked on a picture of New York City that was first cut in halves and you had to guess where it was taken from. Here is what we said : I suppose the picture was taken in New York City because I can see monument in the background. The picture...
After introducing the rules in the English class, I gave you some baccalauréat subjects among which was the one of last year. We began studying how to complete such an exercise and here is what we said: 1) Read the whole text + the assignement. The questions...
Today was the first class I had with you guys so we introduced ourselves and I gave you out a copy of the rules that will be followed in English. We then talked a little about Michael Jackson's burial and needed to review wh- questions : Who --> porte...
Hey, today we first had a long warm up about celebrations and presents. Here is what we said about the topic: What is the best present you have ever received? The best gift I have ever been given was my car. I couldn't afford it but I really needed one....
Hey, today we first spoke about health problems because Sylvain was sick yesterday. Here is what we said during the warm up: Yesterday, Sylvain was absent because he suffered from a toothache . He was in pain. Voc: (to) suffer (from) = (to) be in pain...
Hey, today we first warmed up about your feelings at the beginning of this year. Here is what we said: Warm up: Back to school After two months' holidays... ... I feel distressed and disappointed to come back to school. I feel exhausted in the morning....
Hey, today we first had a presentation of a video clip. Julien did a pretty good job. He can be proud of what he's acheived. His song has been selected to be displayed on the blog for a week. Maeva said about Julien's choice of song: "to be written by...
Hey, today we first warmed up about going to the restaurant and here is what we said: "to be written by Thomas" Then we continued the lesson with analysis of the scripts from Super Size Me and we more specifically focused on grammar. We did a quick recap...
Hey, today we first listened to a short document about illegal downloading. You can listen to it here again: Here is what we said about it: The document deals with illegal downloading. Some artists like Lily Allen, Pink Floyd or Radiohead have gathered...
Hey, today we first started the class listening to an audio document about the success of Harry Potter. You can listen to the document again here (and to the rest of it): Here is what we said about it: Every child has already read a Harry Potter book...
Hey, These are the possible questions that the journalist asked the interviewee in the document below: - How was highschool for you? - What are your memories of highschool? - Did you enjoy going to highschool? - What are your feelings about your highschool...
Hey, today we first listen to a document about mobile phones and more precisely about Gregor's opinion about this kind of technology. You can listen to it here again: Here is what we said about it: The speaker is from Scotland. He thinks mobile phones...
Hey, today after warming up on Christmas gifts again, we worked on Isaac Isimov's biography. Here is what we wrote: "to be written by Romane" Then, we continued speaking about the story "The Fun they Had" we also listened to the first part again: Here...
