English Day by Day is designed for school students to improve their performance in the English language.
Hey, today we first corrected the short text you had to fill in as well as the translation exercises. Here they read: Prepositional verbs: Ana was born of Mexican parents. As she was fed up with poverty she decided to leave her native country. She was...
Hey, today we first warmed up about Aurélie's boyfriend and about giving and receiving gifts. Here is what we wrote: "to be written by Delphine H." Then we continued speaking about the text and here what we said: "to be written by Delphine H." HW: for...
Today, we listed some expressions that you will need to know all year long. You need to know them for next time. Then, we did a little "guessing game" with famous characters of whom you had to draw the portrait. Here are some vocabulary words that you...
Today, after speaking about your physical education class as a warm up, we continued our lesson on body parts and pronunciation. Warm up: Before English, we have 1 hour of history and 2 hours of P-E = physical education We play ping pong or badmington...
Part 1: Le concept Il s'agit de la même chose qu'en français. A savoir que la voix passive se caractérise par le fait que le sujet grammatical de la phrase n'est pas le sujet qui fait l'action du verbe auquel il est rattaché. Il faudra distinguer donc...
Today we reviewed how to present a super hero with two of your classmates who spoke. Then, we continued working on your grammar and we determined when to use the two present tenses in English. Here are the rules in French: "to be written by Camille" HW:...
Today, we began correcting the latest test I gave you about the child who was forbidden to go to the cinema by his father. We'll finish correcting it next time. As usual your behaviour was horrible and there's nothing to be proud of. Most of you do not...
Hey, today we first warmed up about the tragedy in Haiti and here is what we said: Last week, there was a terrible / huge earthquake that was 7 on the Richter's scale in Port-au-Prince, the capital city of Haiti. The death toll is not precise yet but...
Hey, today we learned how to present and describe a picture. There are some strict rules which you need to abide to. I. Present: - The different type of visual documents: a picture, an ad, a photo, a painting, a cartoon, a drawing, a graph, a poster......
Today we worked on your mock exam and here is what we wrote: "to be written by Sarah T." Finally we concluded the class by stating in English some rules on how to behave. The class rules are: "to be written by Sarah T." Remember : how to express interdiction...
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...
Hey, we first talked a little about Saint Valentine's day and here is what we said about it: On this day, boyfriends are supposed to be romantic. They are supposed to buy presents / gifts to their girlfriends. According to Juliette, the perfect present...
Today we continued studying the text entitled "The Bionic Man". We corrected the vocabulary hunt you had to complete and here are important words to remember : - (to) trade information - mind-machine communication - a chip - an experiment - (to) upgrade...
South Korean scientists say they have succeeded in cloning cats with a special protein (RFP) to make them red fluorescent under ultraviolet rays . A team lead by Kong Il-Keun, an animal cloning expert at Gyeongsang National University, produced two Turkish...
Today, we first talked about school level as a warm up. Here is what we said: "to be written by Amine" Then, we worked on the portrait of Peter Parker. Here is what we wrote: "to be written by Amine" HW: I asked you to make a poster about a super hero...
Hey, after doing a quick blind test about Afro-American music, we spoke about the different music genres with Afro-American roots. We also commented on the pictures pp. 50 and 51. Here is what we wrote: Picture 2 p 50: - This scene probably takes place...
Today, you first took a test and we recapitulated what we had said last time. Then we added some information about the situation and about the characters: The Irish civilians act together against the army. They might have set a trap against the soldiers....
Hey, today we first spoke about Ashleigh Hall, a young British teenager who was raped and murdered after meeting a freak from Facebook. Here is what we said about what is now called "Ashleigh's Rules": "to be written by Marine" Then we continued speaking...
Today, after having a little chit chat about super powers, we finished studying the document about robot soldiers. We filled in your worksheet with elements from the document making a brief summary and trying to go into details. For next time, you need...
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...
Hey, today we spoke a little about your music tastes and worked on how to express "likes" and "dislikes". Please, bannish "love" and "like" from your vocabulary. Here is what we wrote: "to be written by Jordan..." Then I asked you to react about real...
Today you took your vocabulary and lesson tests. I'll try to give them back as soon as possible. In the second part of the hour, I had some of you read the text with the correct pronunciation. You had to check if the readers were correct or not. You did...
Today, after the three fire drills in a row, you were finally able to have a normal hour of class. We watched the trailer from the movie "Gattaca" again and we finished filling in the blanks of the chart I had given you. We practised on "breath groups"...
Today we first warmed up about topical issues / burning issues and in particular the news about the 13-year-old child: Yesterday, a 13-year-old child took the gun of his father in order to kill his teachers and his classmates. Luckily, the police arrested...
Today, we corrected some of the important mistakes in your letters. Here is what we talked about: - Former le prétérit: "to be written by Tristan..." - La place et l'utilisation des adjectifs: "to be written by Tristan..." We saw again how to express...
