Update on Blogging+ Creating Self Study Tests Online

I am fortunate to have picked up new private students as well as picked up afternoon hours Wednesdays and Fridays in Loudong teaching PE and Art. I also want to start studying my Chinese again. That means I don't have the leisure time to create online self reviews/tests and personal pages for my private students for each week. I am hoping that can do it by themselves.

Here are the 2 websites I use to create self tests, and review games.

Studystack
Quizlet

Its very user friendly, create a free account, input the new vocabulary word and the definition, then save it. Voila! Easy!

For definitions, I use the Cambridge English-Traditional Chinese Dictionary. Its great for showing several definitions, sentence examples and is pretty comprehensive. It has more words than the pocket electronic dictionaries and is a good resource for your English homework and self study.

For entertainment as well as educational purposed, use YouTube to find videos related to your week's subject of study.

Some Channels for ESL study are:

Bookbox English: They have read along stories that are mostly world folk tales and fables.

Rachel's English (American English) I highly recommend this channel!

Best English Learning Videos

Let's Talk, with American Accent Training

ESL and Popular Culture (British English)


See you next class!

Arctic Animals

Vocabulary Self Review/test

Speaking practice:
1. How do Arctic animals adjust to the long winter? Name 4 different ways.

2. In Taiwan, can you think of any animals that uses camouflage to hide?

3. What animals did the reading mention? Which are you favorite and why? Which animals are your least favorite and why?

4. Which children's game does the reading open with? Do you like to play this? Why or why not?

5. The reading opened with a question, not a statement, why do you think the author chose this?



Extra:
National Geographic Photo Gallery
Games
Arctic Animals Memory (online game)

Brandon Class 3

Reading 1: Plant Fossils
Vocabulary Review/Self test

Extra: All About Fossils
Bill Nye's Fossils (Episode 79)
Art Project: Make your own fossils


Reading 2: Father and Two Daughters (by Aesop)
Story lesson: You can't please/satisfy everyone.

Brandon class 2

Toy figure collection

Reading 1: "Collection" by Bianca Wall
Vocabulary: unusual, valuable, interest,  sort, meaningful, knowledge/skill
Self Review/Test

1. Do you collect things? What do you collect?
2. Why do people collect things?
3. Three collections are mentioned in the article. Which one interested you? Why?
4. Which collection is the strangest among the three?

Reading 2: "Rain"
Vocabulary: streams, gathers, flow, oceans, vapor
Self Review/Test

Brandon's Page

 April

Class 1: Bones/Wise Animals/The Goat and the Wolf

Class 2:
Collections and Rain

Class 3: Plant Fossils and A Father and Two Daughters

Class 4: The Empty Desert, Trees and Three Tradesmen

Class 5: Arctic Animals

Class 6: Insect Camouflage

How to Self Study English

Wise Animals/The Goat and the Wolf/Bones

An orangutan using a tool

Class 1 Review and Test

Conversation:  Side by Side book 1, Unit 3

Reading 1: Fun Readers 3, "Bones" by Oscar Ortega

Vocabulary: mystery, at first, notice, solve, clue, difficult

Reading 2:  Reading On's "Wise Animals" and Aesop's "Baby Goat and Wolf"

Vocabulary: tool, clever, language, understand, sign, protect, decided

Watch: Koko the Talking Gorilla

Class 2:
Conversation:
Reading 1:  The Turtle's Flute
Vocabulary:

How is the story Turtle's Flute and The Goat and Wolf the same? How are they different?

Reading 2: "Rain in the Sky"
Vocabulary: