English Day by Day is designed for school students to improve their performance in the English language.
Hey, today we first warmed up about what you like doing when you are not at school. Here is what we said: " to be written by Thomas G. " Then some of you were orally interrogated about super heroes. You need to prepare yourself more otherwise you will...
You will find in this post the documents that were used for your tests last Friday and the corrections that come along with them. I have finally succeeded in taking two papers from students of your class to elaborate a correction for the essays! Yahoo!...
Today, we did a quick warm up dealing with someone who was interviewed about his favorite superhero character. You can listen to the document here again: Here is what we wrote: Warm up: Favorite character: He's crazy about Spiderman. He's keen on Spiderman....
After a quick oral recap of the previous lesson, we began to study a text. It is the story of Jacob, a Jewish immigrant who fled Russia because of the pogroms. He decided to go to the US in order to save his life. The text begins when he is with the literacy...
Hey, today you took a vocabulary test that you corrected yourself. I'll check what you did and I'll give you your grades next time. Then we continued our lesson with Jacob who arrived at Ellis Island. I asked you to highlight some important information...
Today was the first English class of the year and as you had two hours in a row, we able to begin the first sequence. But before that we talked a little about burning news, i.e. Michael Jackson's burial. And here is approximately what we said : "Michael...
Today, we started with the correction of the exercise on quantifiers CORRECTION DU DEVOIR SUR LES QUANTIFIEURS I’d like some cheese… There isn’t any milk. Ex: il n’y a pas de chaises = There aren’t any chairs . Have you seen anyone in the place? There...
Today we worked on a news report called: Sales before Xmas Here are the missing words of the script of the video: Two Weeks Holiday Shopping Season Retailers = commerçants Cut = casser (les prix cassé) Are slashing < to slash = reduire Discount = < to...
I first made you write an essay about the targets and their products. 150 words minimum. Then we did: The CURRENT EVENT By Néné Camara Headline : "Indonesia braced for very big toll after thousands (of people) trapped by Sumatra Quake". big toll => deaths,...
You all have the schedule now for the papers you will have to hand me in. A new routine is set. Every one of you will have to present a current event every week. You can use any source you like, provided it is in English, a video, a newspaper article,...
First we did a recap of the lesson we did on Wednesday, October 21st: What was the video about ? A job interview The question was “Why don’t you tell me about yourself ?” The dos The don’ts A job applicant must show she/he has read the job description....
First class together. Welcome! We first talked about your exam: Modalités de l'examen : 2. Grille des niveaux de compétences requis à l'examen : 3. Then we did some brainstorming. The words were in relation with your program : WORK-JOBS You came up with...
Prise de note du mercredi 30 Septembre 2009 par Valérie Florent Current events by Safia Blimi France Telecom's deaths modern plague= fléau moderne to commit suicide = se suicider pressure,= La pression stressed out = stressé They are ill-treated obviously...
Today, we worked on how to make a question in English. So we filled in a file, you will find by clicking on the following logo. We made two remarks concerning the "wh words" How much +indénombrables ex: How much money do you have? How many + dénombrables...
Who wrote the date on the board today ?? Was it Moussa? Olfa corrected the pronunciation exercise. And we talked about Richard Wright the author of Black Boy I recommend you to read, even in French. We talked about segregation in America. And you write...
Current events 1) Strike at Mail Service Provider (Laposte) by Jeremy Adam Source: Metro On the 22nd of September they was a strike in France. Laposte workers and trade unions were on strike for three reasons : First, Trade unions denounced the fact that...
Today we met for the first time. I am happy to be your teacher and am sure we will do nice work together. I explained to you how important each of you is for this class and how much I count on you to make it happen. I hope you accept this responsibility...
Today the answer to the question I asked last time was: Yes, You had a test! A vocabulary test. I have corrected your tests and ...suspens... results : next time! Then we did a short brainstorming. Brainstorming= tempête dans le cerveau ou quand les neurones...
The language lab being too small for the class, we are now in room 157 on Wednesdays. You had to correct the mistakes you made on the presentation you had handed me in the week before. Quelques uns ont fait une présentation complète de leur camarade de...
Classe entière Hajar, Ikrame and Lucie presented their current events. Hajar spoke about the rate of unemployment in NYC and the consequenses in terms of medical coverage on the unemployed. The article was: Unemployment hits 10,3 % in New York City, from...
One session was too short to work on how to make an account and how to make fewer mistakes when writing essays in English. I handed Papers 1 back to you and we went through all this. Daphné, sorry we didn't have time for you. You will present your current...
Group 2 Group 1 You gave the class your opinions about school orally. Some said: I don’t know yet Others: I don’t mind English (ce qui veut dire qu’ils aiment moyennement l’anglais) And some others : I prefer watching TV or playing football instead of...
Today I spent some time briefing you about the document you have to fill out for next year. Fiche de dialogue pour l'orientation à rendre remplie à Mme Chadefaud mardi 9 mars sans faute. Then we worked on a song taken from a video : Isle of Hope, Isle...
I wrote the words : teenagers and firms- teenagers as consumers And you came up with interesting words and ideas : target, to target, to influence, to make someone loyal, to do odd jobs... "Brands target teenagers because teenagers love new trends, like...
Today we met again and I was happy to see you back. You told us about your vacationsl. Some went to England, one person to the USA, another to Pau, and some sayed here. Then we mentionned Michael Jackson's death and burial. We said that: He was the King...
