December 16th 2019

Prepare 3 group - is working on Literature 1. (Elyo needs more time to finish Unit 5).
Prepare 2 group - is working on Writing 1. (Maxence needs another week to finish his homework.) 

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December 14th 2019

Prepare 1 group - needs more time to finish their homework.
Family and Friends 2 - is working on Unit 5 (We've got English)
Family and Friends 3 - is working on Unit 5 (A naughty monkey)

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December 9th 2019

Prepare 3 group - is working on unit 5 (school).
Prepare 2 group - needs more time to finish their homework.

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December 3rd 2019

Prepare 3 – is working on reading a non-fictional text and answering its questions this week.

Prepare 2 – is working on Unit 2 (Tastes Wonderful) for this week.

Prepare 1 – is working on Unit 4 (My Things) for this week.

Family and Friends 2 – is working on Unit 4 (Have you got a milkshake)

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-Group Family & Friends 1.  9:15-10:15

Shaé, Imraan, Eloi, Bernard, Sofia.

-Group Family & Friends 1   10:15-11:15

Leonard, Naelle, Alexandre, Laurette.

During this session we talked about power and hero.

We learned the vocabulary of different jobs in society and what they do.

In grammar part, we talked about the difference between HE and SHE, contractions(he’s and she’s), and yes no questions. For example:

He’s a teacher.

Is he a teacher?

Yes, he is.

No, he isn’t.

After singing a song related to the jobs, we talked about the sounds of M, N, O and P, as well as finding examples for them.

Group First Friends 2.  9:15-10-15.

Audren, Theo, Minh, Constant, Charlie, Carmen, Issam, Julia, Lysine, Maxime.

During this session, we talked about different parts of our home. Living room, bedroom, dining room, kitchen. We talked about where we eat food, sleep, watch TV.

Then we talked about what we find in each part of the home. For example we see a sofa in a living room and a bed in a bedroom. We will talk about more examples next session in a new lesson.

We talked about the pronunciation of CH. We said that C and H together are /CH/. We tried to find examples with this sound. Chocolate, kitchen, teacher, chair.

We talked about doing a craft with a bean, a jar, and water.

We reviewed numbers from 1 to 10 and we learned 11 and 12. We counted objects around us to make sure that we can count correctly.

 

 

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November 22nd 2019

Prepare 1, 2, 3 – Testing week!

Family and Friends 2 and 3 Catch-up Week!

 

-Group Family & Friends 1.

Shaé, Alexandre, Romeo, Laurette, Sofia.

-Group Family & Friends 1

Leonard, Eloi, Imraan, Naelle, Bernard.

Skills Time

This session was Skills Time.

We tried to talk and review the vocabulary and grammar of previous sessions.

We started by colouring and making a paper lion. We reviewed the parts of body in English.

Then we listened to a track to talk about the appearance of the animals, like their eyes, tails, etc.

We did some writing preparation and we counted the sentences separately.

We worked on short dialogues to greet others like:

This is Sarah.

Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you too.

We also worked on finding the odd word in a group of words to review the vocabulary and their categories, matching questions and answers, Yes/No questions and short answers, and sounds like C, L, B, etc.

 

 

-Group First Friends 2

Audren, Theo, Constant, Minh, Charlie, Carmen, Issam, Julia, Lysange, Maxime.

Unit 4

The focus of this session was on CAN, and some new verbs like throw, kick, jump, run.

We repeated these actions while we were listening to a song with new verbs.

Then we worked on the pronunciation of TH. We said that T and H together are TH, that sounds like Thumb, Throw, and Bath.

We also worked on the numbers 9 and 10. We reviewed numbers from 1 to 10 by counting the objects around us like our pencils.

We also tried to talk about our abilities by using I can … .

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November 15th 2019

Group F & F 3 (My Things – 3)

Please finish this chapter for next week (Nov. 21st). Thank you.

• Ysee(Needs to finish her work on time), Mathys VK, William, Theophile, Batoul, Padme, Eva.
  • Learning:
    • To identify different possessions and verbs to do with using them.
    • To understand can for request.
    • To use can for permission
    • Writing – Identify and use question marks, commas, and full stops.
  • Language
    • Computer, tv, DVD player, CD player, MP3 player, camera, turn on, turn off.
    • This is your CD. That’s our computer. That’s their CD player. Can I use your computer? Yes, you can./ No, you can’t.
    • Open, window, close, door, put on, rainy, play a CD, New, show, out in the sun, run.
    • Car, park, shark, star, scarf, after, start, art, arm, farm.
    • Stickers, posters, comics, postcards, badges, shells.

 

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November 13th 2019

Group Prepare 1

Please finish this chapter for next week (Nov. 19th). Thank you.

• Orane, Joannes, Yael
  • Vocabulary: Rooms; things in the home; house, flat; Possessions in your room; favorite
  • Grammar: There is/There are; Have got – affirmative;
  • Speaking: Talk about your home
  • Writing: Write about your home; write about your bedroom.
  • Listening: Photo story
  • Reading: Teenagers describe their bedroom

 

Group F & F 2 

Please finish this chapter for next week (November 19th). Thank you.

• Shams, Leo, Sara, Thais, Mathis H, Lou.
  • Learning:
    • To identify outdoor activities
    • Language:
      • ride a bike, ride a horse, skate, skateboard, play tennis, play football, teach, behind, stop. I can skate. I can’t skateboard. Can she play tennis? Yes, she can./No, she can’t. Cat, van, peg, bed, bin, fig, mop, dog, bus, jug.
    • Write sentences with can and can’t.
    • To ask and answer questions about what people can and can’t do.
    • To revise sounds made by the sounds a, e, i, 0, and u.

 

 

Workbook Fluency 1 Page 26 (black and white pages)

 

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Group F&F 1

Shaé, Alexandre, Romeo, Laurette.

 

Group F&F 1 

Leonard, Eloi, Imraan, Naelle, Bernard.

Unit 2

We started by reviewing the vocabulary of last unit which was taught before the vacation.

Then we talked about some toys like doll, car, puzzle, bike, kite, etc.

We continued by talking about the difference between « my » and « your » and asking and answering Yes/No questions like:

Is this your teddy?

Yes, it is.

Or

No, it isn’t.

We talked about the pronunciation of E, F, G, H, and we tried to find the objects around with the same sounds.

We finished the session by talking about favorite toys and colors, and doing the related exercises.

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Group F&F 2. 

Shams, Leo, Sara, Thais, Mathis H

Unit 2

We started the class by feeling and emotions vocabulary such as hungry, thirsty, happy, scared, tired, etc.

Then we talked about asking and answering Yes/No Questions as well as using contractions « we’re and they’re ».

Are they happy?

Yes, they are.

Or

No, they aren’t.

After that we practiced the pronunciation of « CH », « SH », and « TH » and we found examples.

After doing some exercise, we finished the session by doing one listening comprehension related to feeling and emotions.

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Group First Friends 2

Audren, Theo, Minh, Constant, Charlie, Carmen, Issam, Julia, Lysange, Maxime.

Unit 2

We started by talking about new vocabulary like teacher, student, friend, school bus, play ground, etc.

We asked and answered questions about what we have at school.

Then we reviewed the alphabets and we tried to find examples for each of them.

We worked on 3, 4, and 5. We tried to count the objects around us and review 1 to 5.

We finished the session by asking What’s this? It’s a …

The children asked and answered many questions and tried to make short conversations.

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-Group Family & Friends 1.  

Shaé, Alexandre, Romeo, Laurette.

-Group Family & Friends 1   

Leonard, Eloi, Imraan, Naelle, Bernard.

Unit 3:

We did a lesson on face and body. We sang songs and pointed to eyes, ears, legs, etc.

We also talked about singular and plural by showing one arm and two arms. Then we talked about where to use « this is » and « these are ».

Finally we talked about the sounds of I, J, K, and L by giving examples like Ink, Jam, Kite and Lion.

Now the children have time to answer their workbooks during the weekend and bring them back next week to check.

 

-Group First Friends 

Audren, Theo, Constant, Charlie, Carmen, Issam, Julia, Lysange, Maxime.

Unit 3:

We did a lesson on feeling and emotions by talking about the related vocabulary.

Also we talked about the sound of « SH » and examples like shoes and fish.

We continued by 6, 7, and 8 and we counted the objects around us  from 1 to 8 to review the numbers.

We asked and answered Yes/No Questions like « Are you hungry? », « Are you happy? », « Are you thirsty? », to learn how to use « yes, I am » and « No, I’m not ».

Now the children have time to answer their workbooks during the weekend and bring them back next week to check.

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November 12th 2019

Group Prepare 2 

Please finish this chapter for next week (November 18th). Thank you.

• Maxence
  • Speaking: Describe and draw an object. Ask and answer How + adjective questions.
  • Reading: The missing ring – a picture story.
  • Vocabulary: Describing things; made of. How + adjective.
  • Grammar: was / were 
  • Writing: Write a description using adjectives.

Group Prepare 3 (My Place)

Please finish this chapter 4, Review 1 (unit 1-4) and Grammar worksheet for next week (November 18th). Thank you.

• Elyo (Needs to finish all his work on time), Swadha
  • Speaking: Present your ideas for an unusual home.
  • Reading: Our worst holiday ever! An unusual home.
  • Vocabulary: Holiday and home. Adjectives.
  • Grammar: Past continuous and past simple.
  • Writing: A description of a home.

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November 8th 2019

First Friends 2 (Our School)

Please finish this chapter for next week (November 15th). Thank you.

• Audren, Theo, Minh, Constant, Charlie, Carmen, Issam, Julia
  • Objectives:
    • To identify people, places, and things at school.
    • To recognize English sounds and spoken words
    • To ask and say what something is
    • To ask and say who someone is
    • To introduce someone
    • To say and recognize the letters Aa-Zz
  • Vocabulary
    • Classroom, friend, music room, playground, sandbox, school bus, seesaw, teacher. Boy, What’s this? It’s … Who’s this? He’s / She’s … three, four, five, seesaw, rabbit, nut, yo-yo, kite, girl, boy, chair.

 

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Group F & F 1 

Please finish this chapter for next week (November 14th). Thank you.

• Leonard, Naelle, Alexandre, Laurette, Sofia
  • Learning:
    • To identify different parts of the body
    • Language: arms, nose, face, legs, ears, put on, point to, now, that’s right. This is my nose. These are my arms. Fingers, hands, eyes, eyebrows, shoulders. Ink, jelly, kite, lion.
    • To say sentences with this and these.
    • To recognize the difference between singular and plural forms of nouns.
    • To recognize the upper- and lowercase forms of the letters i, j, k, l, and associate them with their corresponding sounds.

Listen and Read Page 20 (color pages)

Sing and D0 Page 22 (color pages)

 

 

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Group F & F 1

Please finish this chapter for next week (November 13th). Thank you.

• Shae, Imraan, Eloi, Romeo, Bernard.
  • Learning:
    • To identify different parts of the body
    • Language: arms, nose, face, legs, ears, put on, point to, now, that’s right. This is my nose. These are my arms. Fingers, hands, eyes, eyebrows, shoulders. Ink, jelly, kite, lion.
    • To say sentences with this and these.
    • To recognize the difference between singular and plural forms of nouns.
    • To recognize the upper- and lowercase forms of the letters i, j, k, l, and associate them with their corresponding sounds.

 

Listen and Read Page 20 (color pages)

Sing and D0 Page 22 (color pages)

 

 

Group F & F 2 

Please finish this chapter for next week (November 13th). Thank you.

• Shams, Leo, Sara, Thais, Mathis H, Lou.
  • Learning:
    • To learn words for feelings and emotions
    • Language: hot, cold, hungry, thirsty, happy, sad. We’re / they’re happy. Are they hot? No, they aren’t/Yes, they are. Tired, angry, scared, brave. Chair, teacher, shoes, fish, thumb, bath.
    • To make sentences describing people’s feelings/emotions.
    • To ask questions about people’s feelings / emotions.
    • To use the contracted form of are

Listen and Read Page 14 (color book)

Listen and Sing Page 16 (color book)

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November 7th 2019

Group F & F 3 (My weekend)

Please finish this chapter for next week (Nov. 14th). Thank you.

• Ysee(Needs to finish her work on time), Mathys VK, William, Theophile, Batoul, Padme, Eva.
  • Learning:
    • To identify different hobbies
  • Language:
    • Read comics, skateboard, do gymnastics, play chess, fish, play basketball, take photos, play volleyball. happy, play tennis, like + best, weekend, hip, hooray!, picture, have fun, all day, lots to do.
    •  I like reading. I don’t like fishing. Do you like playing chess? Yes, I do/No I don’t. He doesn’t like skateboarding. Does he like playing chess? Yes, he does./No, he doesn’t.
  • Writing:
    • To write sentences with likes / doesn’t like + -ing

Listen and read page 14 (color book)

Listen and sing page 16 (color book)

Listen and read page 18 (color book)

 

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November 5th 2019

Group Prepare 3 (Travel: then and now)

Please finish this chapter for next week (November 12th). Thank you.

• Elyo (Needs to finish his work on time), Swadha
  • Speaking: Talk about an adventure you would like to have.
  • Listening: Asking the hotel receptionist for information.
  • Reading: The story of Amelia Earhart. Tourist information leaflets.
  • Vocabulary: Travel and adventure.
  • Grammar: Past simple
  • Pronunciation: Silent letters.
  • Writing: A paragraph about Amelia Earhart’s time on the island.

Group Prepare 2 (Great sounds)

Please finish this chapter for next week (November 12th). Thank you.

• Maxence
  • Speaking: Talk about your favorite music and when and where you listen to it. Talk about the kind of school you would like to go to.
  • Listening: Asking about a music school open evening
  • Pronunciation: Email addresses, phone numbers and names.
  • Vocabulary: Types of music; musical instruments. Words that go together.
  • Grammar: Like, don’t like, hate, love + -ing and quite and really; spelling the -ing form.
  • Writing: Write about what you and your family like and don’t like doing

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October 11th 2019

First Friends 2

This group needs more time to finish their English work.

• Audren, Theo, Minh, Constant, Charlie, Carmen, Issam, Julia, Lysange, Maxime.

October 10th 2019

Group F & F 3 

Please finish this chapter for next week (Oct. 17th). Thank you.

• Ysee, Mathys VK, Amaury, William, Theophile, Batoul, Padme, Eva, Lou
  • Learning:
    • To identify different countries
    • To understand a short story
    • Egypt, the UK, Russia, Spain, Thailand, Australia, the USA, Brazil
    • Language: I’m from Egypt. Where are you from? He’s from Brazil. Where is he from? They’re from Russia. Where are they from? It’s nice to meet you. How are you?
    • To write sentences with be

Listen and read page 8 (In the color pages)

Listen and sing page 10 (in the color pages)

Listen and read page 12 (in the color pages)

 

Group F & F 1 

Please practice the greetings, the days of the week, counting, colors and numbers. Please finish this chapter for next week if possible (Oct. 3rd). Thank you.

• Leonard, Eloi, Imraan, Naelle, Bernard.
  • Learning:
    • To identify common school things
    • To understand a short story
    • Language: Pen, eraser, pencil, ruler, book, train, bag, folder, door, window, bookcase.
    • To ask and answer to question What is this?
    • To write answers to the question What is this?
    • To understand the meaning of open and close
    • To identify the upper and lower forms of a, b, c, and associate with their corresponding sounds.
  • Listen and sing  (color pages) page 10 song 14

    Listen and singing  (Color pages) page 11  song 16

    Listen and read  (color pages) page 12  song 18

     

     

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October 9th 2019

Group F & F 1

Please finish this chapter for next week (October 16th). Thank you.

• Shae, Alexander, Laurette, Romeo, Julia
  • Learning:
    • To identify common school things
    • To understand a short story
    • Language: Pen, eraser, pencil, ruler, book, train, bag, folder, door, window, bookcase.
    • To ask and answer to question What is this?
    • To write answers to the question What is this?
    • To understand the meaning of open and close
    • To identify the upper and lower forms of a, b, c, and associate with their corresponding sounds.

Listen and sing  (color pages) page 10 song 14

Listen and singing  (Color pages) page 11  song 16

Listen and read  (color pages) page 12  song 18

 

 

Group F & F 2 

Please finish this chapter for next week (October 16th). Thank you.

• Shams, Leo, Sara, Thais, Mathis H.
  • Learning:
    • To identify common school things
    • Language: Classroom, table, computer, peg, pencil case, board, poster, picture, drawers, cupboard, wall, sit, with, swimming pool.
    • These are, These are, and Those are.
    • Revising: the letters of the alphabet
    • To identify upper and lower forms of letters
    • To identify the words
    • Reading: read a text describing pictures; read for specific words.

Listen and read  (color pages) page 8  song 08

Listen and sing  (Color pages) page 10  song 10

Listen and singing  (Color pages) page 11  song 11

Listen and read  (Color pages) page 12  song 14

 

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October 8th 2019

Group Prepare 1

Please finish this chapter for next week (Oct. 15th). Thank you.

• Orane, Joannes, Yael
  • Vocabulary: Camera, phone, photo, friend, name, teacher, Countries and Nationalities
  • Grammar: Determiners: my, your, his, her; present simple be – affirmative singular
  • Pronunciation: From
  • Speaking: Draw a picture and talk about yourself; play a game
  • Writing: Write about yourself (name, age, nationality)

Homework:

Listening page 9 (Black and White pages)

 

 

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October 7th 2019

Group Prepare 2 

Please finish this chapter for next week (October 18th). Thank you.

• Maxence
  • Speaking: Ask and answer questions in the role of a young sports star.
  • Listening: Two more descriptions of a sport and a game
  • Reading: Two young sports stars; Descriptions of unusual sports and games.
  • Vocabulary: Sports with play and go
  • Grammar: Present simple and adverbs of frequency: always, often, often, sometimes, never.
  • Writing: Write about a sport or a game

Homework:

Listening for #8 and #9 page 9 (Black and White pages)

 

Group Prepare 3 

Please finish this chapter for next week (October 18th).

• Elyo (Needs to finish his work on time), Swadha
  • Speaking: Describe the geography and weather; Ask and answer about animals
  • Listening: A description of the UK
  • Reading: The Earth: The Changing Giant Panda
  • Vocabulary: Geographical Features, Animals
  • Grammar: Verbs we do not usually use in the continuous
  • Pronunciation: The sound ‘th’
  • Writing: A text about an animal; prepositions about, around, between, including.

Listening page 11 Problem 4 (Black and White pages)

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September 26th 2019

Group F & F 1 – Hello

Please practice the greetings, the days of the week, counting, colors and numbers. Please finish this chapter for next week if possible (Oct. 3rd). Thank you.

• Leonard, Eloi, Imraan, Naelle
  • Learning:
    • To greet people.
    • To ask and answer the question: What is your name? How old are you?
    • To act out a story.
    • To recognize and use numbers one to ten.
    • To say the days of the week.
    • To identify different colors

Classbook songs (color section)

• Hello, Hello song page 5.

• Days of the week song page 6.

 

Group F & F 3 – My Family

Please review the family member names, comparative (grammer), months in a year and numbers 10-100. Please finish this chapter for next week (Oct. 3rd). Thank you.

• Ysee, Mathys VK, Amaury, William, Theophile, Batoul.
  • Learning:
    • The names of the story characters
    • To review family words
    • To revisit comparative and past simple of be
    • To Identify the months of the year
    • To review the numbers 10-100

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September 25th 2019

Group F & F 1 – Hello

Please practice the greetings, the days of the week, counting, colors and numbers. Please finish this chapter for next week (Oct. 2nd). Thank you.

• Shae, Alexander, Laurette, Romeo (Thursday represented), Julia
  • Learning:
    • To greet people.
    • To ask and answer the question: What is your name? How old are you?
    • To act out a story.
    • To recognize and use numbers one to ten.
    • To say the days of the week.
    • To identify different colors

Classbook songs (color section)

• Hello, Hello song page 5.

• Days of the week song page 6.

 

Group F & F 2 – Welcome back

Please practice the greetings, the days of the week, counting, colors and writing numbers. Please finish this chapter for next week (Oct. 2nd). Thank you.

• Shams, Leo, Sara, Thais, Mathis H., Padme, Eva, Lou

 

• Learning:
  • To revise family words
  • To identify people from their descriptions
  • To describe people’s appearance
  • To act out a story
  • To greet people and ask questions about them
  • To introduce someone to a friend
  • To say the days of the week
  • To ask and answer questions about toys and colors
  • To write numbers down 10-20 in digit form

 

Listen and read page 4

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Jump Song

Listen and point (numbers) page 7

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September 24th 2019

Group Prepare 1 – In the classroom

Please practice writing the days of the week, writing numbers and the months. Please finish this chapter for next week (Oct. 1st). Thank you.

• Orane, Joannes, Yael
  • Vocabulary – The alphabet; numbers 1-20; days of the week; things in the classroom; colors; months
  • Grammar – What’s your name? How old are you? How do you spell it? c / year; singular and plural nouns; this / that is …, These / Those are …; What color is …?
  • Pronunciation – The alphabet
  • Spelling – Numbers, Days of the week

Workbook # 1 – The Alphabet

Workbook # 7 – Listening

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September 23rd 2019

Group Prepare 2 – Get Started

Please finish this chapter for next week (Sept. 30th). Thank you.

• Swadha (sick), Maxence
  • Things in the classroom
  • There is / There are
  • Have got
  • The alphabet
  • Speaking: Questions in the classroom
  • Simple present
  • dates

Group Prepare 3 – Chapter 1

Please finish this chapter for next week (Sept. 30th).

• Elyo
  • Speaking: Say which activities you would like to try
  • Listening: A teacher talks about a school challenge
  • Reading: Students’ letters about themselves
  • Vocabulary: Adjectives describing personality
  • Grammar: Present simple and present continuous
  • Writing: Write a paragraph about yourself

• Listening for 9, 10 in your workbook.