Author Archives: mrandrewesl

A Deep Dive on Left, Right Title: Left, Right Subject: Knowing your left and right Accompanying Story: None Interactive Game: Roblox game is in the description of the video, in the link above. This song is called “Left, Right dance”. Like all of my songs, the title is purposefully descriptive. Thematic vocabulary: Left and Right TheContinue reading “A Deep Dive on “Left, Right Dance””

Title: Get Dressed Subject: Clothing Thematic vocabulary: Vocabulary related to getting dressed Like all of my songs, the title is purposefully descriptive. The song contains a variety of vocabulary related to clothing. The dance is very easy. You point to the clothing you are wearing (pants, shirt, etc), as well as the clothing you couldContinue reading “A Deep Dive on “Get Dressed””

I will be at SPEAQ on Saturday, at 3pm, presenting my unique ESL program for Cycle 1. Here is the powerpoint presentation I will be doing!

Title: What Hurts? (The Parts of the Body) Subject: The Parts of the Body Accompanying stories: The Adventures of life Pt 4: Mickey is Sick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbC-ezCoj2k The story is about how when my daughter was a toddler, she was sick with gastro, and after having recovered, she wanted to take care of us. Well, weContinue reading “A Deep Dive on “What Hurts?” (the parts of the body)”

Periodically, I will evaluate C2 (speaking) with my Cycle 1 students. This level is not yet conversational, but moreso production of the vocabulary, in the context of the interaction. Each one of my songs is thematic in that it teaches the thematic target vocabulary. This term, I evaluated the first 4 songs: Yes, No, GoodContinue reading “Cycle 1, C2 (Speaking evaluation 1)”

Title: Shapes Subject: Shapes Accompanying stories: The Adventures of life Pt 10: Family Movie Night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL1lHRSKkbM The story is about shapes, in a roundabout way. We often have family movie night on the weekend. Everyone gets a turn to chose the movie. My 3 year old son, having just discovered that you can talk intoContinue reading “A Deep Dive on “Shapes””

Title: Seasons Subject: The seasons Thematic vocabulary: Vocabulary related to the seasons, the weather and things we can do during each season Now that we have learned how to say the date, and describe the weather, we can talk about the seasons. Like all of my songs, the title is purposefully descriptive. The song containsContinue reading “A Deep Dive on Seasons”

Title: Colors Subject: Colors or Colours Smartboard Game: https://view.genial.ly/62191ed46bb09d00187c54b2/interactive-content-mr-andrew-eslcolors-season-1-colors-quiz Roblox Game: See link in description of the Youtube video. Thematic vocabulary: Vocabulary related to colors, and things that are of those aforementioned colors Like all of my songs, the title is purposefully descriptive. The song contains a variety of vocabulary related to colors. Each colorContinue reading “A Deep Dive on Colours…or A Deep Dive on Colors….they’re both right”

Classroom management is the unicorn we are all looking for. And just like unicorns, it doesn’t exist. But it does….kind of. By “it doesn’t exist”, I mean to say, that nothing works 100% of the time, for 100% of our students. But there are things that work 10%-20% of the time, and by combining them,Continue reading “Classroom Management in Cycle 1”

A Deep Dive on “The Rain or the Sun” Title: The Rain or the Sun Subject: The weather Accompanying stories: The Adventures of life Pt 12: The weather is so unpredictable. The story, based on a true story, but exaggerated for comedic purposes, talks about going on a picnic when the weather is iffy. ItContinue reading “A Deep Dive on the Rain and the Sun”