Vacation: Oct 1st - 5th :D

Hello everyone .. I am on vacation for the next week. Have a great week with Austin & hopefully I will see you when I get back after Thanksgiving!

Dinner party, anyone?

Dinner parties! - Everyone loves to eat and party ... whether it is a quiet affair or one on a grander scale. 
Have you ever gone to a dinner party? Have you ever hosted one? Would you like to host one? Where? What would you eat? 

Famous Dead  (A list and information about famous dead people) 


Tongue Twisters

Six sick slick slim sycamore saplings.

I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.

Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep.
The seven silly sheep Silly Sally shooed
shilly-shallied south.
These sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack;
sheep should sleep in a shed.

She stood on the balcony
inexplicably mimicing him hiccupping,
and amicably welcoming him home.

Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too

Today is the birthday of a very famous poet 
and artist: Shel Silverstein. 

The PAST
Irregular verbs in the simple past (list).
Regular  verbs in the simple past (list) & explanation. 

Today's pronunciation will look at verbs in the past.

Dessert!

At the end of the meal comes DESSERT ... so that's how we'll finish our week ... with DESSERT!!

Have a great weekend!

Can I take your order?

Food Jokes & Riddles
Fruit & Vegetable Riddle Challenge

Are you a master chef?

Food ... food .. food! 

Ahh ... the joys of eating, most of us like to enjoy a delicious meal, but can you cook it? Are you a good chef? What is your favorite dish to make? Eat? What are some typical dishes from your country? 


Food in every country

Vocabulary
Words to describe smell, taste, touch
Adjective List
Adjectives to describe food (list & exercise)
List of adjectives to describe taste, touch


Pronunciation CH // SH

• If Charlie chews shoes, should Charlie choose the shoes he chews?
• What a shame such a shapely sash should show such shabby stitches.

The end of SUMMER :-(

Summer is ALMOST over ...

This is the last week of summer because on September 22nd, Autumn officially begins. 

• What are the four seasons? 
• What is your favorite season? 
• What can you do only during certain seasons? 
• Does your country have 4 seasons? 
• What holidays are celebrated in each of the seasons? 
• What music do you associate with each season?

Summer
Fall / Autumn
Winter
Spring

Pronunciationv  /ch/
choose     chops    Charles    much   lunch    Church
butcher     chicken    children    cheaper    cheerful   charming
Cheshire    chump chops


Tongue Twisters

• A cheap sheep is cheaper than a cheap ship.
• The cheeky Chief Chef Chicken chatted to the Second Chef Chicken as he cooked. 
• Chipp couldn't chop chocolate chips 'cause Chip chipped his chocolate chip chopper.

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,
and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would
if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

Say what?!?!!?

Collection of Guinness Book of Records Photos 2012

World's Tallest Mohawk

What Guinness Book Record would you be interested in breaking/having?

What record do you think is the coolest? most interesting? grossest? etc.

Bad hair day!?!?

From: The phrase finder

Meaning

A day on which one's hair seems unmanageable. Also extended to mean a day when everything seems to go wrong.

Origin

This first came into prominence in the language following its use in the 1992 film Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Buffy (Kristy Swanson) to the one-armed vampire Amilyn (Paul Reubens):
"I'm fine but you're obviously having a bad hair day.".

The phrase was already known by that date but not very widely used. In July 1988 the Press Democrat, a Santa Rosa, California newspaper printed:

"Even those who emerge from the sea to casually braid their shiny wet vines into a thick coil with a hibiscus on the end also have bad-hair days.".

Whether that's where the term was coined isn't certain, although it is a strong contender. There are many hearsay reports that it is much earlier, but no hard evidence has emerged to support them.

Here are some adorable pictures of kids who've literally had a bad hair day.

Tongue Twisters

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear,
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair,
Fuzzy Wuzzy  wasn't fuzzy, was he?

Superhero - would you like to be one??

Would you like to be a superhero? Why or why not?
What would your special ability be?

10 Best songs about heroes
15 Sensational Superhero songs



Pronunciation /s/ & /z/

Tongue Twisters
The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.

A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk,
but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.

Friendly fleas and fire flies.

Sally's sandwiches

Sally's Sandwiches - pdf activity

/s/ Tongue Twisters

Twister King

• Six small slick seals. Six small slick seals. Six small slick seals. 
• Six crisp snacks. Six crisp snacks. Six crisp snacks. 
• Of all the smells I ever smelt, I never smelt a smell that smelt like that smell I smelt smelled. 
• Some shun summer sunshine. 
• Singing Sammy sung songs on sinking sand.
• Sally Swim saw Sadie Slee 
  Slowly, sadly swinging. 
  "She seems sorrowful," said she. 
  So she started singing. 
  Sadie smiled, soon swiftly swung; 
  Sitting straight, steered swiftly. 
  "See," said Sally, "something sung 
  Scatters sunshine swiftly!"

Batter up! - Sports & more sports!

In English we use a lot of different SPORTS idioms to talk about daily life. 



List of Sports Idioms - Wikipedia
Sports Idioms - quiz & definitions
Sports Idioms - quiz
Sports Idioms - BBC

Shhh!!! It's quiet!

Ever wonder what letters are pronounced in English and which are not?!?!? ... Well today we're going to look at the ones that are silent and in which words they appear.

Silent letters 1
Silent letters 2 (with audio)
List of silent letter words (long list!)

Words with silent letters (exercise)

Silent letters (excercise multiple choice)