ESL Intermediate Low at Pacoima Skills Center

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

What happened?




ASSIGNMENT 1)
Look at the picture and write sentences about what happened.
Write simple past affirmative declarations about this picture. Answer the following questions about the picture and send them to me in an email message or as a Word document. You can also write them in your notebook and show them to me.

1) What did the driver do before the police officer stopped him? (Why did the police officer stop the driver?)

2) What did the police officer do after he stopped the driver?

3) Where was the driver of the car?

4) Where was the police officer when he was talking to the driver?

5) How did the driver feel after he received the ticket?

ASSIGNMENT 2)
Look at the picture. Write questions about the picture using Simple Past Tense.
Write one question using an action verb and three questions using "to be" like we did in class. Write your questions on a piece of paper and give them to another student to answer. Bring the questions and the answers to me. Write your name and the name of the student who wrote the answers on the paper.

Thursday, September 06, 2007

Learn more about Gandhi




This month's Easy English Times featured a quote from Gandhi about non-violence. Some students did not know who Gandhi was. Who was Gandhi?

Gandhi’s complete name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He is also known as Mahatma Gandhi. He was born in 1869 in India and got married when he was 13 years old to a girl who was also 13 years old. Her name was Kasturba Makhanji. When Gandhi was 18, he went to college and became a lawyer. Gandhi became famous throughout the world when he became a leader in the Indian movement to gain independence from England. He believed in non-violence and taught his supporters to work for freedom using non-violent methods. Gandhi was assassinated (killed for political reasons) in 1948.

Read more about Gandhi and see more photographs from his life at http://www.mkgandhi.org/ (The photo you see above is from this collection of photos.)

You can see a very short video of Gandhi and listen to him speak at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8335892845268297097