Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Simplify your essay

William Zinsser wrote an excellent essay on Simplicity.

I made a few notes.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nBjAsETbEJxww2RQ5z01P68V6QNY_-jlqwJiLBnau_U/edit

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nBjAsETbEJxww2RQ5z01P68V6QNY_-jlqwJiLBnau_U/edit

Friday, October 26, 2012


Pronouns and Possessives
subject
I
he
she
they
you
we
it
object
me
him
her
their
you
us
it
adjective
my
his
her
their
your
our
its
pronoun
mine
his
hers
theirs
yours
ours
its

Friday, October 19, 2012

Hello to my friends from Panama. a4esl.org is a good place to learn English.

Owl (a bird with large eyes)  cow (has horns on its head)   lamb (baby sheep)  rooster (male chicken)
cat  (often a pet) hen (female chicken) pig donkey horsegoat (this goat has horns on its head)
dog (a pet) ducks (they swim in water)

Make 8 more sentences like these:

  • The cow is behind the lamb.
  • The ducks are next to the dog.

Prepositions to use:
 on, near, next to, beside, in front of, in back of, behind

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Take simple English Quizzes online.
   Click here to go to quizzes.

                     Or 


Make sentences on a form

   Click here to Open Form


Sunday, September 30, 2012

Diary class I want you to try some of the quizzes on this page. Try to do as many as you can.  But read the results and learn from your mistakes.

Click here: http://a4esl.org/q/f/index.html  

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Monday, September 24, 2012

What did other people write about yesterday?

Click Here to See

Today you are going to make sentences from Scrambled Words

Click Here to type in Sentences

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Tell what you did this past weekend.

A diary is used to tell about what you did in the past few days.
So that you can write your diary, a form will open for you.
 Click on this spot to open the form. 

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Write sentences using these words:

English  study  we  school   teacher  homework  home  walk  eat  rice and chicken  friend  me  my  your   they  their   had  live  Oak Park  is  am  are
coffee   tea   drink  cook   pencil  paper  write  I  we  you   they  to  in  of   for   a  an   the
Students, today write 10 sentences about animals.
cow, horse, cat, dog, sheep, goat, chicken, pig, donkey, bird, monkey, lion, tiger,
You can use a dictionary at http://dictionary.com/ to look up definitions.

Examples:

  • The cow eats grass and corn.
  • The mouse runs from the cat.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

10 Sentences about my family.

1.  My father lives in Florida.
2.  I am 61 years old.
3.  My cousin Wade works in a hospital.
4.  My grandfather was a farmer.
5. My grandmother had a large garden.
6. My brother died last year.
7.  My daughter Beth is a teacher.
8.  My wife is a nurse.
9.  My daughter Becky is in the Air Force.
10.  I began teaching in 1975.

Monday, September 17, 2012

Hello Students!

I'm going to be communicating with my students here. Sometimes I will post information.  Other times I will post photographs or other pictures.  You can always make comments to my posts. I like to hear from you.