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Summary for Lesson 1:
Hello everyone! Really excellent work for today. Here is the lesson report, along with the homework. The vocabulary list will follow shortly!
What we did today:
– An adjective game
– Reading an extract from The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall
– Defining and exploring a list of new vocabularyReport:
Both groups A and B did exceptionally well today, and impressed me with the breadth of their existing vocabulary. Almost across the board students were able to confidently answer questions, and were also able to take guesses and explore words they didn’t know.
The adjective game proved particularly useful in warming the students up and getting them to think creatively about vocabulary and language. It also provided an opportunity for the students to share their vocabulary with one another, thereby increasing their collective vocabulary bank. This game also helped the students develop their confidence when speaking up.
Literacy levels were impressive when reading the given extract, and unknown words were approached with confidence. I encouraged the students to use the context of the words (i.e. the sentence around it) to help them figure out what an unknown word might mean on their own. This skill will help them to acquire new words outside of our lessons together.
Both groups proved mostly competent when identifying whether a word was a noun, verb, adverb or adjective, although some were clearly more confident than others. It appeared that some vocabulary might have been too simple for some of the students, and so difficulty will be increased as the lessons progress.
Homework
1. Complete the crossword.
2. Learn the definitions of the vocabulary covered in this lesson.
3. Pick five words from the list above and write me a story. The story must include all five of the words you have picked. It must also include a moment of recognition, something blue, and a moment of humour.
Vocabulary:
1. Insurance – something providing protection against a possible eventuality
2. Milk-cart – a cart designed to deliver milk
3. Paraffin-heater – a heater that burns paraffin, a thick, flammable oil
4. Pane – a segment of glass in a window
5. Cardboard – a material, stiff paper
6. Fussy – hard to please
7. Weary – very tired, exhausted
8. Warden – someone in charge of a place or group of people
9. Beret – a French style hat
10. Lass – Scottish, colloquial word for a girl
11. Hunched – stand or sit with the shoulders raised
12. Chrysanthemums – a type of colourful flower
13. Queer – strange or odd
14. Announce – to declare, loudly or officially
15. Proclaim – to announce clearly or officially
16. Authority – having the power or right to give orders or make decisions
17. Engine – a machine that turns power into energy
18. Doubtful – uncertain or unsure
19. Greenhouse – a shed made of glass designed to grow plants in
20. Compensation – usually money given after a bad event or accident
21. Souvenir – an object kept to remember an event or person
22. Gutter – a shallow trough designed to carry off rainwater
23. Privet hedge – a small bush or shrub
24. Incendiary – designed to cause fire
25. Inflammable – easily catches fire
26. Effervescent – bubbly or fizzy
27. Flaxen – pale yellow, especially of hair
28. Frigid – very cold, or stiff and formal
29. Lucid – clear and vivid
30. Sceptical – not easily convinced, doubtful
31. Phosphorescent – giving off light after radiation has hit
32. Attaché Case – a small square case designed for carrying papers
33. Lush – growing well, fertile
34. Azure – bright blue like a cloudless sky
35. Aqua – blue, the colour of water
36. Melancholy – a kind of pensive sadness
37. Prosperous – wealthy
38. Knightly – like a Knight
39. Sacred – connected with God
40. Policy – a course of action adopted by an organisation
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Linxi – lesson 1 homework:
In 1958 a incendiary exploded in a town of France. Le petite it was called. The were people evacuating and berets were thrown out into a well that was were they could be safe. It was very plausible that it was set on purpose. One man name Matheo stood in his house sat on a sofa not realizing that his opposite neighbor’s house was burnt to ash. He sprang up when a needle went straight on his butt. He packed his stuff in a immense bag to fit his belongings. When his Television set was set on fire by a bullet.
He wished good bye to his hometown and went to the rescue truck. He went to Paris and hid in a privet in case a bandit of his town came and shot him. Though people on the truck told that that was very doubtful. He saw the people on the roads hunching while shivering to the frigid weather. He would like the authority to give them homes, but he wasn’t the president. He offered them a stay at his home and got used to them. They also told each other stories and play games. One day, everything changed a friend of the group was a serial killer and asked them to meet them, Matheo told them it was a trap, but they didn’t care and when they got home they were scythed, and fell and died of cancer.
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Summary for Lesson 2:
Really excellent work from everyone today! I presented the students with an extract that was significantly more challenging that last week’s. They approached the extract with both energy and curiosity, and were often willing to take a guess at the vocabulary that proved particularly difficult.
I began by quizzing the students on the vocabulary covered in last week’s lesson. All students participated fully and responded well to the questions put to them, clearly demonstrating that they had revisited and revised the vocab. It is important, however, that the students do not consult the vocab list with definitions or an online dictionary when participating in this quiz at the beginning of the lessons. If you’re not sure of the meaning of a word it lets me know what we might need to focus on in future lessons! I don’t expect you to have memorised every single word before each lesson – learning new vocabulary takes time and is accumulative, so it’s okay not to know something.
The comprehension questions proved a little tricky – it might be advisable for the students to familiarise themselves with the extract before each lesson in order to aid understanding of the extract.
1. Peculiar – different to what is normal or expected; strange
2. Prevailing – current; existing at a particular time
3. Odour – a smell, usually unpleasant
4. Subordinate – lower in rank or position
5. Savour – taste and enjoy to the full
6. Chemist – someone who works with chemicals
7. Laboratory – a room or building designed for scientific experiments
8. Sceptical – not easily convinced; having doubts or reservations
9. Profound – (of a state or quality or emotion) very intense
10.Dabble – take part in something in a casual or superficial way
11.Slatternliness – untidy and dirty through habitual
13.Merit – as a noun, the quality of being good or worthy, and as a verb to deserve or be worthy of something
14.Discern – recognise or find out
15.Foster – encourage the development of something
16.Consummate – adjective, showing a high degree of skill and flair
17.Manuscripts – a book or document written by hand
18.Litter – verb, to discard, make a place untidy with rubbish
19.Slatternly – dirty or untidy
20.Atmosphere – pervading tone or mood of a place
21.Erudition – the quality of having or showing great knowledge
22.Declare – to proclaim or announce
23.Plaintive – sounding sad or mournful
24.Cooing – the sound a dove makes, soft murmuring
25.Melancholy – sad in a pensive way
26.Prominent – important or famous
27.Splendidly – in a magnificent or very impressive manner
28.Entitled – believing oneself to be inherently deserving of privileges or special treatment
29. Apt – appropriate, suitable
30. Quarantine – Enforced isolation
31. Belligerent – Hostile or aggressive
32. Dispute – Argument or disagreement
33. Pioneer – A person who goes before others and opens the way for them
34. Deceit – Dishonesty or deception
35. Conspire – plan together secretly
36. Shun – to avoid
37. Oblique – indirect or evasive; misleading or devious
38. Famine – extreme shortage of food
Homework:
Homework
– Revise today’s terms
– Write a story that contains every single one of the words learnt today. This is a big task, but it can be done! Feel free to make the stories as bizarre as you need to!
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Vocab lesson 2 Homework
In Pennsylvania a prevailing chemist named Sir James McGowan was standing by his windowsill listening of the cooing of the doves on his birch tree. He was overjoyed that he won the Oscar award, the greatest merit he had received. Bang! Bong! He turned around. He was entitled for the protection, since he was a relative of the billionaire, Robert James McGowan. A father of his. He still could discern the look of him. Though his father was in Paris for a business trip. He then remembered the provoking sound. He pulled out a pistol and called a guard for protection, and went into his laboratory, he has been ransacked, his priceless manuscripts were lying on the floor next to the guard. His laboratory was slatternly and full of littler. It was implausible that he was a target for robbers, but the guard looked unscathed.
He was sure that the robber has stole something, it was probably something prominent. He searched up at the chimney, burnt rope, cigarettes and lighter was found. The thieve escaped by rope, burnt it then grabbed a cigar. He asked an elder about a thieve walking pass, when he pulled a burnt out cigar, the same brand as the one as he has foreseen, he knew something was forthcoming, definitely. He placed a tracker on his leg when helping him tying his shoe laces. He now fostered a detective to track the man down. It was peculiar indeed, very queer. Although he had a consummate of skill he wasn’t good at everything. He could smell the queerness in the atmosphere around him. He heard a plaintive mourning, while a melancholy tune played on the streets. Two men were declaring to each other that their tune was better than the others.
His erudition shows that they were trying to hide from his eyes, though he always had his eyes on them… He was now beginning to be sceptical, with guesses all around his head. Splendidly, the detective he had hired gave him apt news of the old man being disguised as a young thieve. That gave him an mysterious sense of that man. He tracked him going to Queen way alley, He arrived there in a car and smelled an odour, a profound odour it was, he savored the smell. He took half a dozen guards and marched in there were soldiers all subordinate. They dabbled and fought and finally arrested the thieves, and saw what they had stole, his Oscar award. Then it was back at his shelf safe and sound. At least he never need to do it ever again.
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Report for Lesson 3:
Excellent work from everyone today! The students actively participated throughout the entire class, and I’m very happy to see that their willingness and confidence to take a guess at unfamiliar vocabulary is increasing with each lesson.
The students did well in the recap test at the beginning of the lesson, and were able to recall the meanings of words from the previous two lessons. Special thank you to those who joined us this week but still participated in the test! I would like to reiterate that, during these beginning of the lesson tests, it is really important that the students are not looking at definitions online or in their handout as this prevents me from getting an accurate picture of their progress.
The students engaged really well with the extract this week, and I was very happy to hear that a few of the students are now set on reading the full text! I would like to see some more homework responses from students this week, as the last two lessons have been quite sparse. Otherwise, I am very happy with the progress the students are making!
Vocabulary
1. audacity– aggressive or outright boldness
2. rhetoric – study of the technique for using language effectively
3. Violently – using physical force intended to hurt or damage something or someone
4. Tempest – a raging and violent storm
5. Awe – a feeling of respect mixed with fear or wonder
6. Ancient – belonging to the very distant past
7. Fury – wild or violent anger
8. Characteristic – typical of a particular person or place
9. erosion – the process of wearing or grinding something down
10. Assassin – a person hired to kill another person
11. envisage – form a mental image of something that is not present
12. Fortify – strengthen
13. vapour – a visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance
14. Faithful – remaining loyal
15. Alarmed – frightened or disturbed
16. Penetrate – to into or through something with force or effort
17. audacity – aggressive or outright boldness
18. deprivation – the disadvantage that results from losing something
19. Scorn – feel or express contempt or dislike for
20. Causeless – without cause, for no reason
21. Conspicuous – clearly visible; obvious
23. Tremulous – shaking or quivering slightly
24. Utmost – most extreme; greatest
25. Discouraged – having lost confidence or enthusiasm
26. Immovable – something that cannot be moved
27. Torrent – a strong or fast moving stream of water
28. Determined – having made a firm decision to do something
29. Yield – give in
30. Exultation – elation or extreme happiness
31. Strain – make an unusually great effort
32. Asunder – In separate parts, usually torn
33. Abdicate – to give up a position or right to power
34. Susurration – whispering or rustling
35. Elixir – A magical or medicinal potion
36. Affable – Friendly or welcoming
37. Hinder – Make it difficult for someone to do something
38. Accuse – Make a claim of wrongdoing against someone
39. Spontaneous – Occurring as a result of sudden impulse; without premeditation
40. Monotone – Something in which everything has one tone
41. Apathetic – Feeling or showing little emotion
Homework:
– Revise today’s terms
– “When eventually we face our fears, we often realise that we had nothing to fear in the first place.” Do you agree? Use examples to illustrate your views, either from your own life and experience or from the lives of others.
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