| Teachers to Teachers Write to teachers2teachers@usa.com www.teacherstoteachers.com is the address of this web site. |
| Our Philosophy We are all students. We are all course members. There are facilitators and course members. (It's hard to call a 45-year-old executive who has major responsibilities a "student." He's a "course member.") There are "seminar participants." |
| Every day is a special day! A lesson plan for almost every day of the year.... |
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| There is usually something interesting happening in the room or in the school or in Florida that is more real than what is in the book or that we can connect to with the material in the book..... that's why I like to take my class OUT of the class room... Students can say,"I remember when we learned the past form of "stretch" because we went outside and we stretched our hands to the sky!" |
| I like to approach each class as if it were my last class. I think of it as the last class that I will teach on the planet. A lightning bolt will hit me two hours after I walk out of the class, so I need to transmit something and the students need to produce something. Something needs to happen in their brains and they need to ask that special question that will push them to find more information... and they will find the confidence to ask another question, and then another.... Soon they are answering questions by other students and eventually they are leading a group. |
| Eventually we will have a link to each day -- a lesson for each day, a quote for each day, and you print it out. Remember which months have 30 days: put two... (click here) |
| Visit the home page of a Professor of Liberal Arts and read some FREE lectures. Good for building a stronger and more flexible vocabulary and you can get a college education, too. www.nova.edu/~alford |
| www.wildperuadventures.com see the fun website that my friend Chachi set up... See Peru like a local! |
| Schedule for each class day BEFORE THE CLASS STARTS 1. Who did you talk to yesterday? What did you learn? 2. write three new words on the Vocabulary Page (on the noticeboard). 3. write three sentences with blanks on the white board.: EXAMPLE through threw tough It was _______ to find work in 1932. I went ________ the door. Yesterday I _______ the ball. 4. Write a question for Steve to answer. EXAMPLES Where you born? What did you ate yesterday? 5. Describe an article that you read yesterday OR a TV show you saw. "I read something interesting yesterday" or "I saw an interesting piece of news this morning." Create some questions for students in another class. "What did you see on the news?" "What are you doing after class?" "Do you want to go to Key West with our group?" REMINDERS ================================= Take a deep b___________ at 9:45 am and 11:45 am B___________ deeply. Pick ____ papers on the ground Drink w_ter Push ___ your chair Stretch your arms ____ at 10 and 11 a.m. ================================= in out breath breathe smile up |
| Homework for each class day 1. Check the web page for the classwork of the next class. (Click on the date above). 2. Send an e-mail to Steve englishlesson@mail.com 3. Talk to someone and ask three questions. 4. Write a postcard. 5. Call a classmate by telephone and ask one question. 6. Write a composition. "Describe a beautiful place in your country." or "Where do you want to visit in the USA? Why? When? Who will you travel with?" Look at www.oocities.org/teachers2teachers/reallife.html and oocities.com/teachers2teachers/travelrecommendations.html HOMEWORK ON WEDNESDAY Study for the test on Thursday: You will write about the words on the Vocabulary Page. |
| THINGS TO DO IN THE CLASS MONDAY How was your weekend? DICTATION: From a collection of TV commercials on video Lunch: Meet the new students at lunch TUESDAY Meet the new students Take photos and remember each other DICTATION: From a video that Steve edited. (Steve posts the photos during the dictation) Plan a field trip. You need to complete the form on www.oocities.org/talkinternational/fieldtrip.html WEDNESDAY Write a TV commercial. Sell a location in Florida or a product that you and your partner create, or tell us why we should visit your city. PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE THURSDAY TEST TODAY -- the test will ask questions about the words on the vocabulary test. The test will also have a dictation and a short composition. DICTATION: A video edited by Steve. GIVE STEVE A COMPOSITION (Steve corrects the compositions and looks at the tests during the Dictation) Take photos of other classes. Write about those students. "He's from France. He will become a pilot." Put the photos on the Internet. Create an interesting page on www.oocities.org/talkstudents/july-2001.html [month-year.html] FLORIDA password FRIDAY Add a story to "The Silly Man" series OR Add information to the Orientation web pages www.oocities.org/talkinusa/orientation.html OR Look at the Fort Lauderdale Photo Book and write a caption for a photo. Field trip day! (IF YOU COMPLETED THE PAPERWORK) We can go to a picnic table (where the smokers go on the garage's roof) or we can go to a nearby restaurant (schuberts or Tommy D's) |
| Rules for Pronunciation The Name of the letter A day rain eight hate E street eat me Pete I fight night site bite O go hope snow know no U cute union through thru two to shoe blue threw UGLY SHORT A hat cat E pet pen I fish it thin in pin O hop stop shop hot pot U cut up tough dog saw log jaw paw AW pause AU house mouse loud cow how now [OO] book cook foot should would could EXERCISE Place the PAST forms of verbs in the correct category Did you eat ? Yes I _________ a hamburger The hamburger was ______ by me. street hate name me |
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| Visit a tour of TALK School The entire tour is informal and it was created by students and teachers. You can make the same for your students by using oocities.com... click HERE for INSTRUCTIONS |
| 365 Lessons (A lesson for each day of the year CLICK here ...lessons |