Archive for: 2nd grade videos

• Topic: Actions, Rooms at Home, Words & Sentences
• Vocabulary:  reading, watching TV, painting, cooking, writing, sleeping, drinking, eating, walking, running, dancing, singing, bedroom, living room, bathroom, kitchen, dining room
• Grammar:  This lesson will contrast the use of the present simple for habitual actions versus the present progressive for on-going actions.  It will also look at a few verb and noun collocations.

• I paint every day. / I am painting now.
• She cooks every day. / She is cooking now.
• We watch TV every day. / We are watching TV now.

 Verb & Noun Collocations

• Watch – TV
• Listen – Music
• Do – Homework
• Paint – Picture
• Cook – Lunch or Dinner
• Read – Newspaper

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• Topic: Weather words & sentences
• Vocabulary:  rain, sun, cloud, hot, snow, wind, cold, wet, rainy, sunny, cloudy, snowy, windy
• Grammar:  This lesson focuses on forming weather adjectives from nouns.

• wind/windy
• cloud/cloudy
• sun/sunny

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• Topic: Vegetables words and sentences
• Vocabulary:  tomatoes, carrot, broccoli, lettuce, potato, mushroom, tomato, cabbage, cucumber, onion, chili pepper, garlic, eggplant, kilogram, dollar
• Grammar:  This lesson focuses on ‘How much’ for uncountable nouns and ‘How many’ for countable nouns. This lesson will also review a few contractions.

How much - with uncountable nouns

• How much water?
• How much milk?
• How much bread?

How any- with countable nouns

• How many tomatoes?
• How many onions?

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• Topic: Transportation words and sentences
• Vocabulary:  walk, car, taxi, bus, subway, train, van, bike, plane, truck
• Grammar:  This lesson will focus on asking a number of ‘how’ and ‘when’ questions using these question words

 ‘How’ questions

• How do you come to school? (if you want to know the means)
• By  bus.
• How long does it take? (if you want to know the amount of time)
• It takes ten minutes.
• How old are you? (if you want to know the age)
• I am three years old.
• How are you? (to ask about someone’s well-being)
• I am fine.

‘When’ questions

• When is your birthday? (Time of the year  question)
• It’s on May 10^th.
• When does the plane arrive? General time question)
• It arrives in five minutes.
• When do we go home? (Time question)
• At three o’clock.

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• Topic: Jobs – I want to be
• Communication Objectives: In this lesson, children will learn to talk about what they want to be when they grow up.  The lesson will focus on jobs and occupations vocabulary.
• Language Objectives:  To learn to express future job intentions using ‘want to’.

• Dialogue Story:  Freddie is at home when he notices smoke rising from Bob’s house. Mom orders Freddie to call the fire department. They come in time to put out the fire and rescue Bob and Sally who are trapped inside the house. Freddie phones his dad who is a doctor, to come home and attend to them. Mom is also a trained nurse and her expertise comes in handy. Impressed by the timely intervention of the firefighters, a doctor and a nurse, the children express their intentions to do these jobs when they grow up.
• Sentence Structures:
  • When I grow up, I want to be a firefighter.
  • I want to be a doctor like your dad.
  • I want to be a nurse.

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