Record the stories you wrote about why you came to the United States (homework 8) and your first days in the U.S. and at school (homework 9) on the voice board below.  Diane will listen to them to ask questions or comment on pronunciation.

1.  You will have a test on Wednesday.  On the test, you need to write 3 paragraphs of 7-9 sentences each to describe leaving your native country, coming to the United States, and your first impressions of Arizona.  Also review the example stories in your textbook on the pages listed on the Test Review Study guide (click here if you were absent and didn't get it).

1.  Study the information on the handout, "Punctuating Dates".  On the back of the paper, write 4-5 sentences of your own that include dates and past tense verbs.  If you were absent and didn't get the handout in class, click here to download it.

2.  For Graded Homework #9 titled "First Days", please write two paragraphs about your feelings on two different first days:  the first few days you were in the United States and the first day you attended school in the United States. What did you do?  What did you see?  What did you think or feel about what you saw?  Did anything surprise, confuse, excite, or disappoint you?   Read the example paragraphs on pages 17 and 74 of your textbook.

If you were absent and didn't get the handout in class, click here to download it.

Please read pages 16-17 in your textbook, and then complete the questions on page 18.  Write 4-5 sentences about your first day in class in the United States on the lines on the bottom of page 18.

1.  Please read the story on page 74 of your textbook, and then complete the questions on page 75.  Write 4-5 sentences on the lines provided at the bottom of page 75 about your own experiences and feelings after you came to the United States for the first time.

2.  Study the example sentences on the handout, "Some Feelings about New Things".  Following the example sentence structures, write 1-2 sentences about your own feelings when you first arrived in the United States.

          If you were absent and didn't get the handout in class, click here to download it.

1.  Please read the story on page 71 and then answer the questions on page 72.  At the bottom of page 72, write 4-5 sentences to describe when, how (by plane, car, bus, foot) and who you traveled to the United States with.

2.  For graded homework assignment #8, please put the information you wrote in your book at the bottom of pages 69 and 72 on a separate piece of paper and add any other information you need to tell the story of why, when, and how you came to the United States.  Title this assignment, "Coming to the United States".

  If you were absent and didn't get the handout in class, click here to download it.

1.  Please read the story on page 68 and then answer the questions on page 69.  At the bottom of page 69, write 4-5 sentences to explain why you came to the United States and how you felt about this decision.

1.  Study the regular and irregular past tense verb forms on the purple handout that we discussed in class on Friday.  Write 5 groups of 3 sentences each (a question, affirmative, and negative sentence) using irregular verbs.  For example:  Did you drink orange juice yesterday morning?  No, I didn't drink orange juice.  I drank coffee.

If you were absent and didn't get the handout in class, click here to download it.

1.  You will have a test on Wednesday.  On the test, you need to write 3 paragraphs of 7-8 sentences each to describe a holiday, a typical day in your life, and a typical day in one other person's life.   Study what you wrote for your homework assignments and in your book!  You can write the same information on the test.  You can also use a dictionary during the test to help you with spelling, so please bring a dictionary you like.  Also review the example stories in your textbook on the pages listed on the Test Review Study guide (click here if you were absent and didn't get it).

1.  For graded homework #7, please write two paragraphs to describe a typical day in your life and a typical day in the life of someone you know (a friend or family member).

 If you were absent and didn't get the handout in class, click here to download it.  Click here for a handout with another example (in addition to the examples in the book).

1.  Please read the story "Life in Cuba" on page 65.  Then, write some sentences to describe what typical life in your native country is like.  What is the weather usually like?  What kind of clothes do people usually wear?  What time do people usually get up?  How do people typically get to work (car, bus, subway, bicycle, horse)?  What do people typically eat or drink? What types of houses or apartments do most people live in?  Write about anything that describes typical, normal, daily life in your hometown.  Then, write some sentences that describe what life is like in the city you live in now in Arizona.

There is no homework for Monday, 3/24.  Just remember to come to class on Monday!  We will start a new topic in class this week.

Record the story you wrote about your favorite food on the voice board below.  Diane will listen to it and comment on your pronunciation.

Record the story you wrote about your favorite activities and the favorite activities of a person you know.

Then, listen to another student's story and ask that student a question about her or his story.

1.  Study the grammatical structures on the handout "Celebrations and Holidays".  Write some example sentences on the second side of the handout for practice.   If you were absent and didn't get the handout in class, click here to download it.

2.  Please write one or two paragraphs (100-120 words total) to describe your favorite holiday (from your native country or the United States) or celebration (such as a birthday, wedding, anniversary, or graduation).   Explain when the holiday or celebration is, where and why it is celebrated, and what people usually eat, say, and do on that day.  Look at the example paragraphs in the book about Chinese New Year, Ethiopian New Year, and Honduran Independence Day.

 If you were absent and didn't get the handout in class, click here to download it.

1.  Please read the story about Honduran Independence Day on page 56.  Then, answer the questions on page 57.  Also, write 4-5 sentences on the lines on the bottom of page 57 to describe how people in your native country celebrate their Independence Day.  If your country does not have an Independence Day holiday, write about another national or patriotic holiday from your country.

1.  The week of Monday, 3/10 to Friday, 3/14 is Spring Break for the college.  There are no classes for this week.  The library and Information Commons in Estrella Hall will be open from 8:00AM to 5:00PM on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday if you want to use the computers at school.  All services will be closed on Thursday and Friday.  Enjoy the vacation!

2.  For homework due Monday, 3/17, please review the questions  that you discussed in groups on page 48, read the stories on pages 49-50, and complete the exercises on page 51. 

1.  You will have a test on Wednesday.  On the test, you need to write 4 paragraphs of 5-7 sentences each to describe this school and classroom, yourself (your appearance and free time activities), another person (her/his appearance and free time activities), and your favorite food.   Study what you wrote for your homework assignments and in your book!  You can write the same information on the test.  You can also use a dictionary during the test to help you with spelling, so please bring a dictionary you like. 

2.  Your substitute professor will give you a handout (click here if you were absent and didn't get it) to help you prepare.  Please complete and give this handout to her.  She will pass it on to Diane when she returns from her conference in Florida.

1.  Please write two paragraphs of 5-7 sentences each to describe favorite activities.  In the first paragraph, write about hobbies, sports, or other activities that you like to do in your free time.  In the second paragraph, write about the hobbies, sports, or other activities that someone you know likes to do in her or his free time.  For example, what does your friend do for fun?  Look at the example paragraphs on the handout Diane gave you in class on Wednesday.

 If you were absent and didn't get the handout in class, click here to download it.

1.  Please study the information on the handout "Commas with Lists of Words" and write sentences using what you learn on the second page. 

2.  Study (read, say, write) the vocabulary on the handout "Hobbies, Sports, and other Leisure Activities" and write sentences on the third page.

  If you were absent and didn't get the handouts in class, click here  and here to download them.

Extra Practice Unit 3 Describing People -  If you want more practice with speaking, grammar, vocabulary, or writing rules, please go to the links below.  If you don't know how to do the exercises at these websites, please ask Diane or someone in the Information Commons to help you after class.

Pronunciation and Speaking Practice:

Listen to the pronunciation of vocabulary for age, height, weight, hair, eyes, skin, and clothing by clicking on the links below first, and then go to the voiceboard on the right to record yourself speaking.  Diane will listen to you and give you feedback on how you are doing!

Hair Video Vocabulary

Listen & Match Sentences for Hair  

Eyes, Hair, Skin, Clothing Audio Vocabulary

Clothing Patterns Audio/Visual Sentences

Shoes and Accessories

Clothing I

Clothing 2

Clothing 3 with Video

Clothing Styles, Patterns, Materials

Age, Height, Weight Audio Vocabulary

Listen & Match Sentences for Age, Height, Weight

Important Note: If you cannot type your login name (your firstnamelastname@email.com) or password (diane) in the boxes on the right when you want to record yourself on the voiceboard, try refreshing your web browser by clicking the button near the top of the screen.  This usually fixes that problem.

If you were absent and didn't get the handout with the instructions on how to use voice boards in class, click here to download it.

Grammar, Vocabulary, and Spelling Practice:

Choosing the verb Have or Has - http://www.geocities.com/pccprep/havehas.htm

Choosing the verb Have, Has, Doesn't Have, or Don't Have - http://www.geocities.com/pccprep/haveneg.htm

Writing with forms of Have - http://www.geocities.com/pccprep/haveneg2.htm

Choosing forms of Be (am, is, are) - http://www.eslpartyland.com/quiz%20center/bepresent.htm

Tutorial on using There + Be (is, are) - http://www.virtual.yosemite.cc.ca.us/lumanr/902_stuff/there_be_files/frame.htm

Choosing A or An - http://a4esl.org/q/h/9801/cg-a_an.html

Tutorial on Possessive Adjectives - http://www.virtual.yosemite.cc.ca.us/lumanr/902_stuff/possess_adject_files/frame.htm

Possessive Adjective Practice - http://a4esl.org/q/h/fb005-bp.html

Age, Height, Weight Listen & Spell - http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/stonebrink/ESL013/Description/speak1.swf

Hair Picture Sentence Matching - http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/stonebrink/ESL013/Hair/HairpicMC.htm

Hair Picture Phrase Matching - http://www.quia.com/mc/695354.html

Hair Listen & Spell - http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/stonebrink/ESL013/Hair/speak1.swf

Hair - Listen & Match - http://www.elllo.org/yeartwo/march20th/main_hair.htm

Clothing - Complete the sentence - http://esl.vcc.ca/eslvoc/ESLWEB/clo1jbc.htm

Clothing - Read a story & answer questions - http://esl.vcc.ca/eslvoc/ESLWEB/readclth.htm

Clothing Quiz - Read a question & choose grammatical answer - http://www.geocities.com/pccprep/jillq2.html

Using Commas in a Series (List) http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/index_tj.asp?objID=ABC301

1.  Please write a paragraph of 100-120 words to describe one of your favorite foods.  Include information about when you eat this food (any time?  only on a certain holiday?), where you eat this food (your home? a restaurant?  another person's home?), who eats this food (only you?  your family?  is it a popular food in your native country or in the United States?), what ingredients are used to prepare the food, and why you like this food.  Please study the examples in your textbook on page 37 and on the handout Diane gave you in class on Friday before you start writing.

  If you were absent and didn't get the handout in class, click here to download it.

1.  Study the vocabulary on page 39 of your textbook.  Look at the example sentences near the bottom of the page.  Write 4-5 sentences to describe some of your clothing on the lines at the top of the page.

1.  Please write a paragraph of 100-120 words to describe one of your friends.  Include information about what your friend looks like (height, weight, hair, eyes), your friend's personality, what kind of clothes your friend likes to wear, where you first met, what you like to do and talk about together, where your friend lives now, and any other information you would like to share.

 If you were absent and didn't get the handout in class, click here to download it.

2.  Please study the information on the handout, "Describing Clothing"

 If you were absent and didn't get the handout in class, click here and to download it. 

1.  Study the first side of the green handout "Describing People" Use this information to help you write a short paragraph to describe yourself (what do you look like?).

          If you were absent and didn't get the handout in class, click here to download it.

1.  If you scored lower than 18.5/20 on Homework 2 About My Street and Neighborhood, please rewrite the story to correct the mistakes.

2.  If you scored lower than 9/10 on any of the 3 paragraphs on Test 1, please rewrite the paragraph to correct the mistakes.

3.  Please read the story on page 20 of your textbook again, and then answer all the questions on page 21.  Write a paragraph on the lines provided in your textbook to describe Estrella Mountain Community College.  If the space in the book isn't big enough for your paragraph, feel free to write it on a separate piece of paper instead.

Please follow the instructions that Diane tells you to complete the speaking assignment below.

 If you were absent and didn't get the handout in class, click here to download it. Remember, don't put anything in the Screen name box.  Put your firstnamelastname@email.com in the Login box and the Password is diane

Extra Practice Units 1 Family & 2 Street/Neighborhood -  If you want more practice with speaking, grammar, vocabulary, or writing rules, please go to the links below.  If you don't know how to do the exercises at these websites, please ask Diane or someone in the Information Commons to help you after class.

Speaking Practice - Family and Countries Vocabulary/Pronunciation Practice:  Click here

Tutorial & Speaking Practice - Introducing Yourself, Talking about Age, and Prepositions of Place.

Click on the triangle in the middle of the picture below to start.   Your username is the same for this program (firstnamelastname@email.com), but the password is diane1, not just diane.  For instructions on how to use this program, click here.

Listen & Write - Listen to the story "My Family" and type in the missing words: http://members.iinet.net.au/~adelegc/listening/my_family/my_family.html

Listen & Write - Listen to "Ying Jie's Story" and type in the missing words:  http://members.iinet.net.au/~adelegc/listening/ying_jies_story/ying_jies_story.html

Listen & Write - Listen to "Min's Story" and type in the missing words:  http://members.iinet.net.au/~adelegc/listening/min/min.html

Listen & Write - Listen to "Ima's Story" and type in the missing words: http://members.iinet.net.au/~adelegc/listening/imas_story/imas_story.html

Listen & Match - Click on a button to hear a sentence about a family member, then drag the button to the picture it matches:  http://www.estrellamountain.edu/faculty/stonebrink/ESL013/Family/familyp24DD.html and http://www.estrellamountain.edu/faculty/stonebrink/ESL013/Family/familyp25DD.html

Quiz - Capitalizing Proper Nouns:  http://www.dowlingcentral.com/MrsD/quizzes/grammar/cap.htm

Quiz - Countries, Nationalities, Languages:  http://a4esl.org/q/j/ck/fb2-nationalities.html

Quiz - Identifying Singular, Plural, and Possessive Nouns:  http://www.quia.com/quiz/826719.html

Tutorial and Quiz - Possessive Rules:  http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/index_tj.asp?objID=ABC601

Quiz - Change the Noun into a Possessive:  http://www.quia.com/quiz/826724.html

Quiz Game - Identify the correct possessive form:  http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/stonebrink/ESL012/possessives/turtlemc3quiz.swf

Quiz Game - Type in the apostrophe where needed:  http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/index_tj.asp?objID=ABC601a

Quiz - Identifying Correct or Incorrect Use of Possessives:  http://www.eflnet.com/grammar/possessives.php and http://www.better-english.com/grammar/possplu.htm

1.  You will have a test on Friday.  On the test, you need to write 3 paragraphs of 6-8 sentences each.  One paragraph is about your family, one is about another person's family (you choose who - it can be a neighbor, friend, sister, brother, etc.), and one paragraph is about your street and neighborhood.  Study what you wrote for your homework assignments and in your book!  You can write the same information on the test.  You can also use a dictionary during the test to help you with spelling, so please bring a dictionary you like.

1.  Please write a paragraph of 100-120 words to describe your street and neighborhood.

 If you were absent and didn't get the handout in class, click here to download it.

1.  If you did not already write 4-5 sentences on the bottom of page 7 in your textbook to describe your street or neighborhood (the area around your home), please be sure to do that for Friday.

2.  Please study the information on the handout, "Prepositions of Place" and write in answers where it asks you to.

 If you were absent and didn't get the handout in class, click here to download it.  Here's the powerpoint show of the same material.

1.  If you received a score of 18.5/20 or lower on your "My Family" paragraph, please look at the mistakes Diane marked, look at the information on the Editing Symbols handout, and then write the paragraph again on a separate piece of paper to correct the mistakes.  If your score was higher than 18.5, you do not need to write the paragraph again.

          If you were absent and didn't get the handout in class, click here to download it.

2.  Read the story on page 6, and then complete all the questions on page 7.  Write 4-5 sentences about your street or neighborhood on the lines at the bottom of page 7 in your textbook also.

1.  After you study the first and second side of the white handout "Singular, Plural, and Possessive Nouns", complete the handout Diane passed out in class on Friday (change the sentences into ones with possessive nouns).

          If you were absent and didn't get the handouts in class, click here to download them.

1.  Study the first side of the pink handout "Using the verb Be with Age - How old...?"  Complete the exercises on the second side.

          If you were absent and didn't get the handout in class, click here to download it.

2.  Study the first side of the blue handout "Where are you from?  Where were you born?"   Complete the exercises on the second side.

          If you were absent and didn't get the handout in class, click here to download it.

2.  Study the first and second side of the white handout "Singular, Plural, and Possessive Nouns".  

          If you were absent and didn't get the handout in class, click here to download it.

4.  Write a paragraph of 100-120 words to describe your family on a separate piece of lined 81/2 by 11 inch paper.  Be sure to use the American academic style of writing.

        If you were absent and didn't get the handout in class, click here to download it.

1.  Study the first side of the yellow handout "A Few Basic Capitalization Rules".   Complete the exercises on the second side.

          If you were absent and didn't get the handout in class, click here to download it.

2.  Study the first two pages of the white handout, "Country Names and Nationalities".  Complete the exercises on the third page.

     If you were absent and didn't get the handout in class, click here download it.

3.  Study both sides of the green handout, "ESL012 Important Vocabulary and Questions" and "Some Basic Writing Vocabulary".  We will talk about some of these words on Wednesday.

If you were absent and didn't get the handout in class, click here  and here to download it.

Click here to watch a four-minute movie that shows how to walk from your classroom in Ocotillo Hall to Diane's office in Estrella Hall.

Click here to download Course Syllabus

Click here to watch an eight-minute movie about some of the Student Support Services at EMCC.

Click below to watch a short movie that explains how to login to Blackboard:

             Explanation in English                  Explanation in Spanish