Things to do today- Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015

Do you celebrate Valentine’s Day? If you are planning to go to a restaurant, make sure to make a reservation because it gets very busy! :)

Things to do today:

-Finish signing up / registering for seminars if you have not already!

-Listen to all three conversations about how to make restaurant reservations, click on the link below to listen:

http://www.eslfast.com/robot/topics/restaurant/restaurant02.htm

Have you ever made a restaurant reservation over the phone? Think about some reasons why it is important to reserve a table at a restaurant! (for example, should you reserve a table for a special occasion or holiday? Is it always busy at that restaurant? Should I reserve if I have invited a lot of people for dinner? etc)

-With a partner, practice speaking one of the Making Reservations Conversations that you just listened to! --> http://www.eslfast.com/robot/topics/restaurant/restaurant02.htm

-Don’t forget to sign up on www.chirbit.com because we will be using it to record our voices for now on! We are now using this site to record because it keeps your recordings (and all your hard work) for years! **We are not using Vocaroo.com anymore because it only keeps your recordings for 3 months L **

-Imagine you want to make a dinner reservation for a special occasion:

1. Read Sonia's Reservation Experience and identify 3 difficulties and 3 steps to solve them. Make sentences from 5 new vocab words.

2. Role play the dialogue with a partner. Then record on Chirbit. 

(Make sure to include important information such as number of people, the time, the date and your name!)

3. Study the comment slip (on my reservations experience post) with your partner, and then write one for yourselves. Publish everything you do on your blog.

4. When you finish, go and comment on 3 other classmates' blogs and tell them you have done so.   

 -Look at Monday’s (yesterday) task: If you didn’t get a chance to yesterday, try writing 5 or more sentences using the present perfect progressive tense in your blog. Look down below for the rules & examples to help you write your own sentences! If you have time, share your sentences with your classmates by reading them out loud to each other.

Examples from last class:

I have been living in Canada for my whole life.

I have been learning English for 2 years.

She / He has been living in Canada for 2 months.

It has been snowing since this morning!

I have been standing in the rain for 1 hour!

RULES:

(I, They, We) HAVE BEEN verb+ING

(She, He, It, Name of person, Object) HAS BEEN verb+ING