Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Hello students,
1. Finish the work from Pam the Trash Cat and Picnic at the Lake. These stories are to practice short “a” and long “a”. There are two papers you took home. You took home the two stories, and you took home true/false practice about the stories.
Click this link: Pam the Trash Cat Story
Click this link: Pam the Trash Cat True/False
Click this link: Picnic at the Lake Story
Click this link: Picnic at the Lake True/False
2. Listen and read Pam the Trash Cat and Picnic at the Lake.
Click this link: Pam the Trash Cat Audio
Click this link: Picnic at the Lake Audio
3. On Friday, we can have a small party at the end of class, around 10:30. If you want, bring food and drinks (no alcohol!). Bring games. Email or text Davida music that you like, so we can all listen together. Davida will bring games. We will also play Kahoot! on the computer, so bring your laptop or charged phone so you can participate.
4. Finish the Unit 8 Packet and bring it to class so we can talk about the answers. Click this link for the audio: https://eltngl.com/sites/englishinaction3/student
5. Forward Davida your fee waiver form email. Here is the link to the form: http://bit.ly/esol-fee-waiver
Davida already got emails from Satu, Basem, Nyanjur, Hamse, Esperanza, Minh, Qiao Ling, and Shaohua. Thank you! You do not need to do anything else. Talk to Davida if you need help.
You will take your packet and textbook home over the weekend to study. You will put your Unit 8 packet in the blue box on Monday, December 8. You will return your textbook on Monday, December 8 if you borrowed one.
The Unit 8 Packet will be due on Monday, December 8.
The Unit 8 Test will be on Monday, December 8.
The test will have:
- listening and answering questions
- positive and negative adjectives
- reading and answering questions
- writing negative sentences in the past tense with the BE verb
- writing questions in the past tense with the BE verb
- writing questions with how was/how were
- choosing the correct word: was, were, wasn’t, weren’t
We will take the test at 8:30 on Monday. Come to class on time or early! After you finish the test, you can practice conversation with the volunteers outside. Davida will talk with each student about their test and winter registration. Davida will register you for winter term and make sure you are ready.
Winter term will start on Monday, January 5.
Thank you to all of our wonderful volunteers Joan, Arthur, Michael, Enya, and Terri! 
Thursday, December 4 is the last day to go to Fran’s conversation group. Enjoy!
Some students went with me to the winter craft fair today. What did you make?
- Practice with prepositions. First read about the prepositions in, on, and at. Then complete the exercise. Click this link: Prepositions
- Learn about animals. Then do four exercises. What do you remember? Click this link: Animals
- Read a strange story about two sisters and a cat. There is a lot of new vocabulary. The story is in the past tense. Listen to the story at the same time as you read. After you read and listen, complete the three exercises. Click this link: Two Sisters and the Cat
OR if this story is too difficult, try this story about a garden. The story is in the present tense, but the questions are in the past tense. Listen to the story at the same time as you read. There are three exercises to complete after you read and listen to the story. Click this link: Val’s Garden