ESL Class Blog

Group recording of Cool Words for Week 2

In today's Speaking and Listening class (Tuesday, 6/13/06) the students brought in lists of words and phrases that they had heard over the past week and wanted to learn and practice so they could incorporate them into their own English conversaton.  Of the many words they brought in, we selected 10 that they thought would be the most useful, and most fun, to practice and use. 

The phrases they chose:
It beats me, Call it a day,  It adds up (or It does not add up), It sucks, and smart ass.

The verbs they chose:
to get away with something, and to confide in someone.

They also picked one adjective:  terrific.

Each student recorded the pronunciation, definition and an example sentence for one of these phrases.  You can listen to all these words and learn the ways to use them in the following mp3 recording:  Download cool_words_week_2.mp3 

Vocabulary practice from War of the Worlds movie review

The following are vocabulary words from the paragraph on "War of the Worlds."  What do these words mean?  If any of them are nouns, are they countable or uncountable??  If any are verbs, what prepositions should come after them?  Type your answer into a "comment" for this posting.

After you write your comment, go to your own Weblog and write a short posting that uses at least 2 of these nouns and 2 of these verbs in it. You can write description of what you did over the weekend, you write a story (one that is not true), or you can write just a series for 4 sentences that use each of these words.

mythology
disaster
crisis
to address
stark
imperceptible
jellyfish
clamber
jagged
bolt
activate
eon
crunch
vaporize

Cool new words from today's class

In today's class, we generated 14 new "Cool Words" that we found while reading the blogs listed on my Typelist.  Click on each word to see it's definiton.

gee,  urban,  yummy,  dude,  paranoia,  venue,  to grab,  to yell,  to drift,  to lampoon,  to giggle,  to jeopardize