Simple Past Tense

Yesterday I walk in the park.

Last month I am younger.

Are these sentences correct?

NO. Of course they are not. Using English means that you must use the past tense when you speak about things that you have done already.

Yesterday I went to the market.

Yesterday I walked in the park.

Last month I was younger.


Remember that you need to:
1) Find the verb.
2) Change the verb.
3) Check the spelling.

when you speak or write in the past tense.

Some verbs are easy: all you do is add "ed" to the end of the word. walked

Some verbs are more difficult and you must put 2 of the last letter. stopped
Some are even more difficult and change completely or even stay the same! I am = I was and I hit = I hit.

Click on the Year5/6 FEP link above to find the Powerpoint that we looked at in class.

Adverbs of Frequency

Dear Year 5 and 6 students

How often do you take a bath?
How often do you eat breakfast?
How often do you run 100km?
How often do you eat snails?

You can answer all of these questions using adverbs of frequency!

Click on the Year5/6FEP link on the HIS FROG page and you can find the work that we did in class about how to answer all of these questions.

Telling the Time:

Dear Class

It is very important that we can tell the time properly.

We have looked at the clock, telling the difference between "past" and "to" and the 24 hour clock. We now also know the difference between am and pm.

Have a look in the Resources folder to find the Power point about telling the time!
I will also put it on Slideboom with a link that you can access.

What is the time?

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Animals

Dear FEP Class

We all love animals of some kind. Some of us like pets and others like wild animals. Remember that you have a quiz about animals next Friday.

Can you name all of these animals?

Here are 2 games that you can play to help you to remember the names of animals:

http://www.anglomaniacy.pl/wildAnimalsMatching.htm

http://animalgamesonline.com/elephant-games/african-animals

Descriptions

What are adjectives?

Adjectives describe nouns (I hope that you remember what a noun is...)

Adjectives tell us more about the nouns; they may tell us what colour, size, shape, taste or texture a thing is.

Remember that we have Proper nouns, common nouns and abstract nouns.

Here is the Power point presentation that we used in class to discuss descriptions and adjectives.

In our city!

What do we have in the city?

People and pets: doctor, nurse, vet, policeman, fireman, postman, zoo keepers, librarian, teacher, chef, gentlemen, baker.

Places: Stadium, airport, museum, post office, offices, police station, fire station, supermarket, jail, zoo, village, golf course, gym, amusement park, houses, cafes, casino, jewellery shop, library, sports parks and fields, farms, fishing rod, cinema, shopping malls and much more.

Buildings: hotel, condominium, clinic, hospital, swimming pool, school, market, university, animals, electricity towers, rockets, Baiyoke Tower, clock tower, station, public toilets, park, convenience store (7-11), bakery, butchery, skyscrapers, temple, palace

Transport: Subway, car, bicycle, motorbike, aeroplane, ship, road, train, bus, highway, racing track.

Mountains, fields, river. Godzilla

Hello from FEP

Saa wat dee ka, ni hao, konnichiwa from all of us!

Hi, we are all happy at a new school.


We will talk to you again!

The Alphabet

Dear FEP Class

Here is the Power Point that I made after our lesson about the Alphabet:

The Alphabet

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I hope that you remember to use capital letters at the front of Sentences and Names!

Pronouns

Dear FEP students

Here is the Power Point presentation that we made in class yesterday. Well done to all of you for making it great.

You can have a look at it here:

PRONOUNS

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The Gingerbread Man

Dear FEP Students

Yesterday we read the story of The Gingerbread Man. It is a lovely story and here is a video of it that you can watch at home:



Try to remember all of the types of animals in the story.

New Blog

Dear DGHS Girls

This blog will remain in place and I will continue to update it for the foreseeable future. The new content will be more grammar-based and will deal with English in action and conversational English though - not much literature now.

You can drop by at this address: http://gaddthailand.blogspot.com/ every now and then to see what I am doing in Thailand.

Love
Miss Gadd

10G

Live as if you were to die tomorrow
Learn as if you were to live forever

- Mahatma Ghandi

Vitally Important Information for Everyone!

Dear English classes

While we learn a lot of English in Room 3-15, the point of all of this furious work is to prepare you for life.
School focusses a lot of attention on exams but no-one gives you a test to write when you are at work.

How can you better prepare yourselves for life, which is, after all, the point of school?

Have a look at these articles and bits of advice. The first article is about succeeding at university, but a lot of it applies to life as well.

Education
Secrets of the Most Successful College Students


This next article looks very intimidating but it is not!
In this article Mr Mike Brown, the CEO of Nedbank discusses a number of issues in a radio interview that was conducted on the Market Update on SAFM (listen every day at 6pm). Most of the interview is not very relevant to you but the LAST question is. Scroll to the bottom of the interview to see what one of the most successful men in the country says to young people like you!

http://www.moneyweb.co.za/moneyweb-safm-market-update/r-885

Grammar for Everyone!

Dear Classes

I have been reviewing Errors of Concord with my Grade 10 classes but here is a review of it for everyone.

An error of concord is when you create a sentence that grammatically disagrees with itself:
"He are a student." "Are" is the verb that should be used with "we, you, they" not "he."
Our biggest problem with concord is the following sentence: "There's many prizes to be won!"
"There's" is "There IS," "is" is the verb form used for the singular "he/she/it" but many prizes are precisely that: MANY prizes. So your sentence is not in concord with itself - it grammatically suggests a single prize but the words suggest many prizes.

The upshot is that you make no sense - oh dear!

Here are two songs that have errors of concord, can you identify them?





Here is a video imitating the Timbaland video.
Parody is "an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect"

Satire is "the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues"

These definitions are courtesy of: http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/

Is this video a parody or a satire?

Why not eat insects?

Here is Friday's TED video. Think of it in terms of what we we watched about the Global Food Waste Scandal.
What can you do to solve the world's food problems. All it will take is a decision to make a small change in each of our lives: Meat Free Mondays and Fish Free Fridays! It is as easy as that...or you can eat insects...

Grade 10s Very Important Information

Dear Grade 10s

Please do the first 5 exercises on Apostrophes on Page 2 of your Language Exercises booklet.
10 GLD: We will be marking the questions on "Poem for my Mother," "Let the Children Decide" and the language work on Wednesday in lesson 4.
Please will Set 1 and Set 2 go to the Lecture Theatre for lesson 3 on Wednesday and Thursday. We will be doing Poetry so please bring those booklets with you.

Grade 12s: London

Dear Grade 12s



"London" is a rather dense and sad poem so here is the Power point that I put together in case you missed any of the images.

This is also a useful, brief revision of the poem from the BBC. It has a reading of the poem and some ideas as to its meaning.

To hear a man reading the poem have a look at this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bgUMoUNgJQ&playnext=1&list=PL0E775EE82A99301C&feature=results_video

Can you spot the mistake in the reading?

Othello

Dear Grade 12s

As we move at a cracking pace through the play it is important to do some extra reading as well.

Here is the Lit Chart for Act 2.3. I will continue to direct you to these as we read. They are a good way to revise the content and themes of the play.

There is another important concept that we need to deal with in the character of Iago. While we often label him as "evil," a more useful word that we can use to describe him is "Machiavellian." I know that this seems impossible to spell, let alone say, it is important nonetheless. A Machiavellian character is driven to succeed, no matter what the personal, social or external costs. I think that we can see how Iago is Machiavellian...
This is a wonderful discussion of the Machiavellian character. Please read it carefully! All credit for this goes to britaininprint!

This is a very simple little page that outlines some points (very briefly) about Iago's character.

This is a more detailed discussion to read.

Please note that I have not written any of these articles myself and take no credit for them at all.

Poor, glued words!

Dear English Classes

There are a few problems that I am noticing across all of the grades that I teach.
One of these problems in your writing is that you stick words together that should be written as separate words.


We need to stick these words into our brains forever and remember that they are two words!

in love
in fact
in front
in between
of course
a lot
a bit
as well
each other
one another
every day
at least

Grade 10 Homework for Tuesday the 5th of March

Dear Grade 10s

Your homework for next Tuesday is a little challenging. You are required to read the articles that I gave you and then compare them in terms of content, purpose, audience, style etc.

Here is the photo that printed poorly with the Louboutin article:



This is a photo of the red soles synonymous with Louboutin:



Most unfortunately though this is what might happen to you if you wear these shoes all day: