Tuesday, February 21

As Samantha's email noted, we reviewed conditions "If I had", "Unless you", "If he weren't", and so on, with a game that had teams try to construct a suitable second clause. This might have worked better with some previous drill, or with other preparation up front. The second half reviewing words related to crime and the courts, went somewhat more smoothly.

I'm inviting all of the Spring ESL 4 teachers to try posting to this blog. What I have in mind is less to let the teachers know what happened in the previous class, for which email will serve well enough, but for us to let the students know, as far in advance as possible, what will be covered in each next class, including

• vocabulary
• grammar
• sample calculations, if the lesson includes them (as some of the Unit 2 lessons do)
• any other suggestions for preparation that might be helpful

This certainly may work better for the Tuesday class, where teachers and students have more time to prepare; yet if we are predictable enough it might work for the other classes also.