Week 9 (March 3 to 6, 2025) homework
Note: Please try to finish the homework before the next class. You don’t need to send it to me because we usually talk about the answers in class. Also, when you finish the homework & prepare for class, it helps me decide if you will be ready for the expectations of Level 4 or not.
Homework from class Monday, March 3, 2025:
1. Write affirmative & negative sentences with the information from this handout from class: Question practice: “Did you …………… last weekend?” Examples: Josaffat didn’t cook last weekend. Maritza cooked last weekend. Please write you sentences on another paper in blue or black pen, skip lines, and write your name at the top. I’ll collect the sentences on Wednesday, March 5, 2025.
2. Workbook page 54, Exercise J <– Click here for the audio. Listen to the extreme weather warning and fill in the sentences in your workbook. For extra writing practice, copy the exercise into your notebook. We’ll check the answers in class on Wednesday, March 5, 2025.
3. Grammar handouts: Complete the grammar handouts I gave you in class. (The links are below.) For extra writing practice, copy the exercises into your notebook. We’ll check the answers in class on Wednesday, March 5, 2025.
- Past Yes No questions short answers_DID_WAS_or_WERE.pdf
- Grammar practice quiz — Yes No questions in the past.pdf
4. Video: Online Grammar Worksheet-Past Simple Qs & Short Answers <– Click here for the video. Watch the video and listen to the questions. Write the short answers in your notebook. Some are with BE (example: Yes, it was. / No, it wasn’t) and some are with DID (example: Yes, she did./ or No, she didn’t.) The video gives you the answers. Note: The video is on D2L, so you need your myPCC username & password.
Homework from class Wednesday, March 5, 2025:
1. Workbook page 51, Exercises C & D. Complete the exercises in your workbook, or, for extra writing practice, copy the exercises into your notebook. We’ll check the answers in class tomorrow, Thursday, March 6, 2025.
2. Student Book page 133, Exercise A <– Click here for the audio. Listen to the questions and notice the pronunciation of “Did you” — it’s like “diju”. Repeat the questions to practice the pronunciation.
3. Workbook page 54, Exercise H <– Click here for the audio. Listen to the audio and write the questions for Exercise H in your workbook. For extra writing practice, copy the questions & answers in your notebook. We’ll check the answers in class tomorrow, Thursday, March 6, 2025.
4. Extra video practice:
- Simple Past Yes No Questions with Action Verbs – Simple Past Question Forms
- Simple Past Yes No Questions BE – Was Were Yes No Questions
- Note: These videos are on our D2L page. You need your myPCC username & password to access them.
**Please remember to bring your G# to class tomorrow for the CASAS reading test. We will start the CASAS test in the computer lab around 8:00 p.m., after our break.**
Homework from class Thursday, March 6, 2025:
1. Listening & writing about the past <– Click here for the AUDIO. Listen and write the questions that you hear. Then answer the questions with past tense. You can use regular past (-ed) or irregular past (<– click here) verbs. Write the questions and answers on another paper in blue or black pen, skip lines, and write your name at the top. You’ll give this to me on Monday, March 10, 2025.
2. Student Book page 134, Exercise A. Put the words in order to make a correct question. #1 is an example. You can complete the exercise in your student book, or, for extra writing practice, copy the exercise into your workbook. We’ll check this exercise in class on Monday, March 10, 2025.
3. Student Book page 117, Exercise B — Irregular verb practice <– Click here for the audio. Listen, repeat and try to memorize the base form and past form of the irregular verbs on this list. These are very common verbs that you will hear every day.
4. Extra online practice (because we didn’t have CALL today):
- English-4u.de <– Click here and scroll down to ELEMENTARY. Try the Past Simple, Past Simple Negative & Past Simple Question exercises.
- Agendaweb.org <– Click here and try the different exercises about regular past tense verbs.
- Interactive past tense game on gamestolearnenglish.com
- Interactive spelling quiz on allthingsgrammar.com <– Click here and scroll down to this image:
Try the exercise. You can also listen to the same exercise here <– Click here for the audio. - Video Grammar Quiz: Past – W/H Questions <– This video is on D2L, so you need your myPCC username & password.
5. Extra listening & reading: Honorable Grandfather <– Click here for all the chapters in one packet.
- Honorable Grandfather Chapter 4 — The Weekend <– Click here for the audio. It is on D2L, so you need your myPCC username & password.
- Honorable Grandfather Chapter 5 — Honorable Chopper <– Click here for the audio. It is on D2L, so you need your myPCC username & password.
- Honorable Grandfather Chapter 6 — A New Chinese Saying <– Click here for the audio. It is on D2L, so you need your myPCC username & password.