Another Way to Study Questions and Negatives--Link to Older Post

Here's a unique way to learn how to make negative statements and questions--animations! Animations are cartoons, and last year I posted a link that can provide a unique review of what we did in class this week with negatives and questions.

My suggestion: Click on the link below to read the post and watch some of the animated grammar tutorials.

Animations--negative statements and questions in the past tense 

Prepositions Practice

Teacher Connie went over some rules about which prepositions of place to use in which cases. There are a lot of prepositions, and it takes time and practice (as well of lots of reading and listening to patterns of use) to become confident about using prepositions correctly.

Grammarbank.com is a website that has a lot of good lessons and quizzes on various English grammar topics. You just have to be careful what you click on. There are lots of ads hiding behind buttons that look like links to grammar lessons or exercises (if there is tiny print that says "Ad Choices" above the buttons, clicking on them will just take you to an advertisement). Scroll down past the big green "Download" button and the oval buttons under the tiny "Ad Choices" heading to find the actual lesson or exercise.

My suggestion: Click on the link below for more practice using the correct prepositions in sentences.

Prepositions practice at grammarbank.com

More Practice with Nouns, Articles, and There Is/There Are Statements

This week we did just a little review of using articles with nouns. Learning to use the correct article or quantity word such as some, fewer, a little, much, many, etc., with count or noncount nouns requires a lot of practice. The best practice is to write your own sentences and learn to spot mistakes and correct them. But until an evil teacher like me makes you do that in class, there are lots of exercises and games to help you learn.

My suggestion: Click on the link below to go to another post from last year with links to lots of practice with nouns, articles, adjectives with nouns, and statements that use There is or There are.

Review of Articles, Count/Noncount Nouns, and There Is/There Are Statements

Welcome back students and new link for Teacher Kathy's Study Stacks

Welcome to the Fall 2016 semester! I will try to update my blog regularly this semester. I hope that students who have to miss class can look on this blog to find out what we have been doing (but that's no substitute for coming to class).

I have changed my user name on Study Stack from kakcal to teacherkathy, so I updated the Study Stack link at right (under Favorite Links) to take you to my new user name on the Study Stack website. On my Study Stack page, you can find vocabulary lists from some of our class lessons to practice.

My suggestion: Click on the Teacher Kathy's Study Stacks link from the Favorite Links list on the right of this page to go directly to the teacherkathy page on studystack.com. If you want to get there the long way, follow these instructions:

1) Type www.studystack.com (or just studystack.com) into the address bar at the top left of your computer screen (NOT the search box lower on the page) and press ENTER on your keyboard. (NOTE: The address bar is the place that shows the address of the page you are currently on. The printing in it usually begins with https://www. or http://www., or simply www.//.) For some reason, if you type the studystack.com address into the search box of your search engine instead of the address bar, you may get a list of all sorts of crazy choices, and it may not even list the correct one.

You should now be on the home page of studystack.com. If you are on studystack.com but don't see the search box, click on the green and blue "Study Stack" label in the upper left corner--it will take you to the home page if you're not already on it (if you're already on it, nothing new will happen).

2) Next, type my username in the search box in the middle of the page: teacherkathy (do not use spaces or capital letters when you type, or the search will not find my study stack page). If you don't see the search box, click on the green and blue "Study Stack" label in the upper left corner--it will take you to the home page if you're not already on it (if you're already on it, nothing will happen), and you will see the search box in the middle of the page.

Once you are on the teacherkathy page, scroll down the list of stacks and find the one you're looking for. Recently, the ABE (level 5) class has been doing readings and learning vocabulary from Unit 1 of the Reading Explorer 2 book. You can find these vocabulary words by clicking on the links titled Olive Oil and Caribbean Food. Study the words with the flashcards or study table, or try some of the games and puzzles (links are toward the bottom of the page).