What is your favorite thing about living in the Chicago area?

What do you miss about your home country?
Make 8 sentences.

  A good place to learn by reading.  

http://www.readtheory.org/2009/pages/beginning.html  

   Try one story or two.

father = John  mother = Maria   daughter = Jane   son = Tom
knife, fork, green, blue, white, bowl, plates, table, kitchen, smiling, 
cheese, vegetables, happy, brown hair, eat, Mexican food, 
What are they doing?  How old is each person? 
Where are they?  What do the children do every day?
Make sentences about this family.  Tell a story.  
Try to write at least 12 sentences.

    Is your Windows computer slow?    

Here is what I would do:

1. Go to download.com and get

    A. ccleaner 

       http://download.cnet.com/CCleaner/3000-18512_4-10315544.html?tag=mncol;1  

    B. Glary Utilities 

        http://download.cnet.com/Glary-Utilities/3000-2094_4-10508531.html?tag=mncol;1 

Both programs are free and easy to use --- basically just click on one button

2.  Remove any programs that you do not use.

        Go to control panel on the start menu and choose

          add or remove programs (in Win XP). I forgot what it is called in Vista and Win 7.

3.  Especially get rid of all anti virus / anti malware programs like Norton, McAffe and all the others. These programs slow down computers.  Replace them with Microsoft's free program:  Microsoft Security Essentials.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/security-essentials  

4.  Go back to download.com  and get a good Defrag program

   http://dgwnload.cnet.com/Auslogics-Disk-Defrag/3000-2094_4-10567503.html?tag=mncol;2

  Running this program might take all night, but it might also speed up things by 10%.

    There is no charge for this good advice.    

Diary2 students:
Now tell me about how you love or hate computers.  Also tell me the ways that you use computers.

Farm Animals

owl (a bird with large eyes)  cow (has horns on its head)   lamb (baby sheep)  rooster (male chicken)
cat  (often a pet) hen (female chicken) pig donkey horsegoat (this goat has horns on its head)
dog (a pet) ducks (they swim in water)

Make 8 more sentences like these:

• The cow is behind the lamb.
• The ducks are next to the dog.

Prepositions to use:
 on, near, next to, beside, in front of, in back of, behind

Tell what you see in the photograph.  Here are some words:
people, old man, bicycle, stroller, mother, son, boy, toys, playing, red, blue, green, trees, grass, chair, grandfather, mother, uncle, aunt, cousin, bag, hair, walking, sitting, talking, running, standing, eating

Use full sentences.  Talk to other students.  Try to make 8 sentences.  First put your name.

Tell me about the weather in your home country.
Cold? When? Hot? Wet? Dry? What is your favorite season spring, summer, fall or winter?
What months does it rain?  Talk about the weather here in Chicago.
Try to make 6 sentences.

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The question for today is this:
     "What will you do after you finish studying English?"

      Please write 4 or more sentences.  Put your name first. 
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