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Welcome to Mr. Bakin's web site for the

ESL Intermediate Low class at Pacoima Skills Center!

It is important to come to school as much as possible!

Happy Teachers' Day everyone!

Thursday's Lesson (Thursday, May 16, 2012)

Grammar	Third, Work on your projects! Use Transition Words and demonstrate the steps of a process! Create a PowerPoint slide show of the steps including images and narration! More Practice with Adjective Clauses
Computers	New Project! Use Transition Words and demonstrate the steps of a process! Create a PowerPoint slide show of the steps including images and narration! "Clip Art Comics" - Use "Be + infinitive" and "Be + gerund" in your comic! Do this at any time!
Stand Out Textbook
Stand Out Grammar Challenge	Lastly, work in the Grammar Challenge book some more! DO pages 34 & 35!
Vocabulary Basics	First, do these pages! Pages 41, 42, & 43
Dictionary Lessons
Reading	"Free Reading" using class library books Every student can take a class library book and read it at any time!
Other	Second, do another listening practice! Prepare for the promotional test!

Wednesday's Lesson (Wednesday, May 15, 2012)

Grammar	Third, Work on your projects! Use Transition Words and demonstrate the steps of a process! Create a PowerPoint slide show of the steps including images and narration! More Practice with Adjective Clauses
Computers	New Project! Use Transition Words and demonstrate the steps of a process! Create a PowerPoint slide show of the steps including images and narration! "Clip Art Comics" - Use "Be + infinitive" and "Be + gerund" in your comic! Do this at any time!
Stand Out Textbook
Stand Out Grammar Challenge	First, do these pages! DO pages 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 & 35!
Vocabulary Basics
Dictionary Lessons
Reading	"Free Reading" using class library books Every student can take a class library book and read it at any time!
Other	Prepare for the promotional test! Second, do a listening practice!

Tuesday's Lesson (Tuesday, May 15, 2012)

Grammar	Third, Work on your projects! Use Transition Words and demonstrate the steps of a process! Create a PowerPoint slide show of the steps including images and narration! More Practice with Adjective Clauses
Computers	New Project! Use Transition Words and demonstrate the steps of a process! Create a PowerPoint slide show of the steps including images and narration! "Clip Art Comics" - Use "Be + infinitive" and "Be + gerund" in your comic! Do this at any time!
Stand Out Textbook
Stand Out Grammar Challenge	Second, do these pages! DO pages 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 & 35!
Vocabulary Basics
Dictionary Lessons
Reading	"Free Reading" using class library books Every student can take a class library book and read it at any time!
Other	Prepare for the promotional test! First, do this writing practice!

Monday's Lesson (Monday, May 14, 2012)

Grammar	More practice with adjective clauses. Worksheet "Overview" if you were not here on Thursday of last week. New Project! Use Transition Words and demonstrate the steps of a process! Create a PowerPoint slide show of the steps including images and narration! More Practice with Adjective Clauses
Computers	New Project! Use Transition Words and demonstrate the steps of a process! Create a PowerPoint slide show of the steps including images and narration! "Clip Art Comics" - Use "Be + infinitive" and "Be + gerund" in your comic! Do this at any time!
Stand Out Textbook	Second, review the video and the new pages in the chapter. DO pages 41, 42 & 43 if you were not here on Friday!
Stand Out Grammar Challenge	First, do these pages! DO pages 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 & 35!
Vocabulary Basics
Dictionary Lessons
Reading	"Free Reading" using class library books Every student can take a class library book and read it at any time!
Other

Thursday's Lesson (Thursday, May 10, 2012)

Grammar	First, do this worksheet! More practice with adjective clauses. Worksheet "Overview" New Project! Use Transition Words and demonstrate the steps of a process! Create a PowerPoint slide show of the steps including images and narration! More Practice with Adjective Clauses
Computers	New Project! Use Transition Words and demonstrate the steps of a process! Create a PowerPoint slide show of the steps including images and narration! "Clip Art Comics" - Use "Be + infinitive" and "Be + gerund" in your comic! Do this at any time!
Stand Out Textbook	After you do the "Adjective clause" worksheet, do these pages in the textbook! Do review pages 36 & 37
Stand Out Grammar Challenge	Next, do this (after the pages in the textbook). CHECK and correct pages 28 & 29. DO pages 30, 31, 32 & 33!
Vocabulary Basics
Dictionary Lessons
Reading	"Free Reading" using class library books Every student can take a class library book and read it at any time!
Other	CASAS TEST! (If you have not done it yet!)

Click here to go to the lesson page! (View lessons about topics we're studying in class.)

Click here to go to the quiz page! (Take quizzes about things we're studying in class.)

Click here to go to the Video Quiz page to watch videos and take quizzes to see if you understand the videos!

Click here to go to the Jack Stark Dectective Agency Page to watch videos for English comprehension (NEW)

Click here to go to the video/slide show page for grammar instruction.

(NEW!)

Click here to go to the Speaking Practice Page

Click here to view student work!

A "wiki" is a new type of web page that can be easily changed. You can also just read and use the information. For now, use this webpage for the following activities:

Listen to Mr. Bakin read stories from Everyday Heroes (by Beth Johnson, www.townsendpress.com) paragraph by paragraph. You can listen as many times as you want! After you listen many times, practice reading each paragraph until you can read the story clearly!

The page numbers are from the "small" size edition of the book

Juan Angel's Story (pages 35 to 41)

Xinrong's Story (pages 101 to 108)

Oscar De La Torre's Story (pages 109 to 116)

Maria Cardenas' Story (pages 75 to 84)

Margaree Crosby's Story (pages 125 to 133)

Remember that you can save each part of the story on your own computer at home so that you can "download" it to your iPod or other MP3 player! Here's a photo of Oliver downloading Xinrong's story to his Nokia phone!

Information from the CHP about the two new laws in California about Driving and Using Cell Phones

Safety at Home Extra Assignment

(AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

What do you think of this picture of a man riding a motorcycle with his children?

Do you think this picture was taken in the United States? Why or why not?

Do you think this could happen in your home country?

Send me an email message with your answer!

What is on the bee's back?

"Pro and Con" - Is this a good idea?

Click here to read about this special bicycle. What do you think about this idea? Is this a good idea? Is it a bad idea? Imagine that you are on the city council of your city. You have to decide if you should buy a bicycle like this for every house in your city. Make a list of the reasons why this bicycle is a good idea. Make another list of why this bicycle is not a good idea. Be prepared to make a decision about whether to spend money and buy a bicycle like this for every household in your city.

"Pro and Con" - Is this a good idea?

Click here to read about this machine. What do you think about this machine? Is this a good idea? Is it a bad idea? Imagine that you are the owner of a company. You have to decide if you should buy a machine like this for company. Make a list of the reasons why buying this machine would be a good idea. Make another list of why buying this machine would not be a good idea. Be prepared to make a decision about whether to spend money and buy a machine like this for you company.