Pumpkin Carving 2013

Pumpkin Carving 2013, a set on Flickr.

Many of our students carved pumpkins for the first time. Lynda brought in several hats and masks for everyone to try on. We were laughing so hard! The pumpkin designs were unique and everyone cut them out very carefully. Good job!

Learn about the 50 United States

Voice of America Special English

You can listen to the 4-part series about each state and its nickname:

Words and Their Stories: States and Their Nicknames, Part 1

Words and Their Stories: States and Their Nicknames, Part 2

Words and Their Stories: States and Their Nicknames, Part 3

Words and Their Stories: States and Their Nicknames, Part 4

You can practice the location of each state with the website below.  Go to the middle section "States" and you will find 9 activities at various levels to help you learn.

U.S.A. Geography - Map Games

Preposition Videos

Here are a few excellent videos to help you learn more about prepositions:

Prepositional Phrases

in, at, on

Prepositions of location & direction

Using the Past Perfect Tenses

The following links can help you understand when to use the past perfect tense in English:

Past Perfect Slide Presentation

Past Perfect Tense Youtube Video

Timelines to Understand the Past Perfect & Past Perfect Progressive

Learn English with Christmas Songs

Many radio stations play only Christmas music beginning the day after Thanksgiving.  If you listen to the radio, you will hear the same songs again and again.  There is a great website called ESOL Courses where you can watch videos of Christmas songs and do several activites which will help you learn the words.  This is also a fun way to practice pronunciation.  When you hear the songs on the radio, you will be able to sing along!