Baboons! Soccer! Oh my!

Listen to this story about baboons and the World Cup in South Africa and fill in the missing words. The story is from Breakingnewsenglish.com. See the link for this website on the right.

Save Adult ESOL Classes

Please sign this petition to preserve funding for ESOL classes and prioritize spending in New York City. The mayor wants to cut vital services to avoid unpopular tax increases. As the survey indicates, the proposed taxes are mostly trivial, such as taxing dry cleaning and increasing the fee for birth and death certificates.

Please tell the city to maintain or increase spending for adult literacy/esol classes for immigrants. Although all the proposed cuts would be detrimental to certain populations, the amount of money that would be saved is not proportional to the effect that such a cut would have on our students and their families. One of our students typically represents a change in life and opportunities for their entire family. Sometimes their communities.

Here's the petition.

Here's the survey.

Please forward to other NYC constituents.

Rubin Art Museum Trip

Some students had already left by the time we took this picture at the end of the night. What did you think of the museum?

Videos to Prepare to Visit the Rubin Museum

These are episodes from the BBC's Himalay series with Michael Palin.

Trailer

Nepal episode 3

Lhasa, Tibet episode 4

Gorges of the East episode 5

Bhutan episode 6

Rubin Museum & Cribbage

Here is the website for the Rubin Museum.

Please answer these questions:
1. What is the address of the museum?
2. What exhibitions will we be able to see on May 14? (There are 5.)
3. Although we will be going on a Friday, so it will be free, what is the normal admission fee for the museum?
4. What do you most want to see at the museum?

Here is the website for cribbage. By learning to do something, in this case play a card game, we learn to use English with a purpose. Read the instructions and play the game until you understand the how to play the game. We will play tomorrow in class. The rules of the game are here.

No Reservations!

We often have our most lively discussions about food in class. The Travel Channel has a show called No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain which shows Anthony experiencing the culture of different places through food and meals with local people.

Most of the students in our school come from three countries: Ecuador, Colombia, and Mexico. Let's learn about them. Watch each video and after each one, then we will discuss it.

Guayaquil, Ecuador

Cartegena, Colombia

Puebla, Mexico

See if you can find a video about food from your city or country. Post the link in the comments section.

First Computer class for Level 3

Hello class,

Today is the first class in the computer room. Find out which intelligence in you is strongest by going to this website and taking the quiz.

Then you can practice your modals.

Remember! May and might are possibility or a request for permission. Should is a suggestion or expectation. Must is an obligation or requirement.