Next Monday’s Test

Hi everyone next Monday’s test is going to include questions on:

- Giving advice (using 2nd conditional, should, have (got) to, have (got) to, need to, and must)

- Present Tenses: Present Simple, Present Continuous, Present Perfect, Present Perfect Continuous

- Past Tenses: Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect, ‘used to’

- Future Tenses: ’will’ and ‘going to’

- Much, many, some, any

- Adjectives- base, comparative, and superlative, -ed, and -ing

- so and such

- 1st and 2nd conditional

- passive structure.

Test Results (Chapter 13)

Guys, I’m very proud of you this week.  You achieved an average 86% in your test (see the graph).  Congratulations!  This week’s top students are:

1) Byungjoo (Justin) from Korea;

2) Hyunjoo (Jessica) from Korea;

3) Pook from Thailand.

Your writing was good – you used the Present Perfect Continuous very well. 

Next week’s test is going to be a little bit more challenging: there will be questions about everything in Pre-Intermediate.  This is because I want you to be well prepared for Intermediate.  We’ll do some revision of  the book this week 

The other thing that you really need to fix is your speaking.  You’ve said to your afternoon teacher that you want to practise your speaking, but she said today that many students don’t speak in class.  Remember that if you want to improve your speaking you need to speak.  Class is the best place to do it    So don’t worry about making mistakes or looking silly – just smile and keep trying 

See you tomorrow.

Test Results (Chapter 12)

Hi everybody!  Your test average this week = 78%.  Remember tomorrow there is a speaking test!  Come armed and prepared    One student, so far, has given me an article.  That’s not looking very goood    If you’re serious about improving your speaking- which every student should be- then you should do tomorrow’s test. 

 This week’s top grammar test results were:

1) Justin from Korea;

2) Sumin from Korea;

3) Larissa from Brazil and Hisanori from Japan.

Very nice! 

PS – Justin sent me an email today that I thought was very funny.  It said:

“Today our class was very calm and a little boring.  I missed sugar daddy :)  See you tomorrow teacher!!”  Thanks Justin!  I’ll give you a hug tomorrow  ;D

Test Results (Chapter 11)

This week’s grammar test has definately been surprising.   The class average was 77% (see the graph).  Here are the top students in this round:

1) Hasinori

2) Justin

3) See Won

I want to give special congratulations to Hasinori.  In one week his grammar score increased by 15% and he’s now #1 in class!!!  If Hasinori can do it, anyone can do it. 

Sophie (HG) was also surprising; she only came to class one day last week but she got a good score and did really well in the writing question. 

Touk the Thai also did very well.  He got questions right that the best students got wrong.  That’s very good, Mr Touk

See you all in class.

Grammar – The 2nd Conditional

Here’s the next week’s grammar explanation sheet on the 2nd conditional.  Please read it if you can on the weekend because we only have four days to study this week.  If you’ve want to do the speaking test on Wednesday, please email me an article this weekend! 

Thanks, Haydn (재미호주인).

Grammar – Active and Passive Tenses

Here’s this week’s cheat sheet on active and passive tenses.  Enjoy yourselves reading it    Very nice!

Expressions of Emphasis: so and such a/an, Chapter 10 Vocab, and Speaking Test

Hi all,

Grammar and Vocabulary

Here is a very very very very very short summary of so and such an/ an.  Also here is the vocabulary for Chapter 10.  This week’s speaking test was interesting:  both the average class grammar mark and the average class speaking mark were 79%.  So your speaking and grammar are at the same level    Let’s try and get that up to 85%+!

The next speaking test

With the next speaking test, I’d like you to choose an article about something you studied at university.  For example, Sophie studied geography and zoology at university so she should give a presentation on that subject.  Why?  Because if you know about a subject well then you’ll be more confident talking about it    So please think about your presentation this weekend and give me something by Friday of next week.

Have fun and enjoy your weekend!

Haydn.

PS- Sadly, it was Satoshi’s last day at Ability today.  Thanks for being in my class Satoshi: it was great having a Japanese sugar daddy in class and hopefully we’ll see you again in the future.

Grammar – First Conditional

Hi everyone,

Here’s a summary of this week’s grammar, the First Conditional (using expressions like if, as soon as, while, and until).

Haydn.

Giving advice and suggestions

Hi everyone, remember what I said in class this morning: when making suggestions or giving advice using words like should, can, could, need to, must, and have to, we normally start a sentence with I think or I reckon.  This is more polite because giving advice can make people angry  

Also, remember that advice is a noun and advise is a verb.  You give advice to or advise someone.  Advice is also an uncountable noun, and we normally say give someone a piece of advice, or a word of advice    The past participle and past simple of ‘advise’ is ‘advised‘. 

Have a good night!

Expressions of Obligation – Has/have (got) to

Hi all,

Here are the notes on expressions of duty and obligation, like has/have (got) to from Chapter 8 of your book. 

Very nice