Lesson 1 follow up

My Goals

• To work on oral language
• Grammar
• Building vocabulary

Things you did well:

• You used some interesting vocabulary when describing a picture
• You looked back at the text for information
• You were able to answer literal questions and give an opinion
• You gave some detail to back up your opinion- from the text and from personal experience

Things to cover in future lessons:

Speaking:

• Speaking in full sentences
• Monitoring your speaking: noticing when what you have said doesn't sound right or make sense
• Checking the tense
• Listening for missing words and fixing the sentence
• Pronunciation
• Elaborating- adding more detail

Writing/ Grammar:

• Sentence structure 
• Consistent use of tense
• Spelling past tense verbs -ied 
• Silent E words, qu
• Contractions
• Recap tenses- past perfect, past continuous
• Adverbs
• Recap: Numbers and distances
• Checking the word order in my sentence
• Plurals 
• Checking/ editing for sense

Vocabulary:

Building vocabulary
Using sentence clues/ root words to work out the meaning of unfamiliar words
Word families