Let's Learn English: Daily Journaling Series 1 with Teacher Helen A1 CEFR

This is an English Writing flex class for students who love journaling, writing down their ideas and want to get daily writing practice and feedback. 

This class will not meet face-to-face. Each week will consist of 5 tasks to allow learners to complete a journal each day to improve their writing skills.  Learners will work collaboratively to improve their writing skills and knowledge. One of the benefits of this flex class can be that learners can take as much time as they want to review materials and the recordings. With writing, I think this can be beneficial.

English Writing Course

Week 1  - Our Lives and Families
Using the verbs - to be and to have
Using numbers one to ten.
Ways to express our likes and dislikes 
Writing about family and friends using be and have

Week 2 - Getting Together and My Things 
Writing about months and seasons
Using numbers ten to twenty in writing
Using present continuous for plans to write a letter to a friend
Using ‘would like’ to share where you'd like to go 

Week 3 - Food, Drink and Entertainment 
Practise handwriting and joined up writing for those learners that are ready
Using adjectives to describe food, drink and entertainment
Using past tense to write about things you ate and did yesterday
Write about items you collect or would like to collect
Practise forming questions and including them in your writing

Week 4 - Looking Good and Looking After Ourselves 
Describe clothing and colours
Use there is and there are to describe your room
Using modal verbs and adverbs to write about sports
Using verbs and nouns to describe habits

Week 5 - City versus Countryside
Use there is/are and there was/were 
Use commas in lists
Describe methods of transport 

Week 6 - Holidays 
Use paragraphs
Describe past, present and future 
Use a range of verbs in writing 

Each week will include vocabulary, grammar and input on ideas.  Five tasks will be set each week along with five 5-7 minute long videos. Learners will be provided with scaffolding for each of the tasks that they can follow. Each day will include input on suggested language learners may wish to use along with grammatical structures that will suit the topics. Learners are welcome to include doodles and drawings along with their journal entries.  The idea is that learners will upload their work each day to the classroom and keep a journal in English during the course. The teacher will provide feedback via the classroom on uploaded work.

Learners will be required to:

✔️Share ideas with other learners by completing 5x weekly journal tasks. 
✔️ Post 5x paragraphs a week in the Classroom for instructor feedback.
✔️ Critique and comment on classmates' paragraphs.
✔️ Respond to discussion questions in the Classroom.

A flex course allows learners to cover material during a time that is convenient for them each week.  Students are encouraged to check in with the teacher weekly via the Outschool classroom, which will allow for more engagement between the teacher and learner.  After weekly lessons, students can collaborate with their peers by replying to the announcements and lesson postings in the Outschool classroom.

Participation will include the Introduction post, discussion posts, assignments, and projects in the Classroom. This allows students to process what they are learning by collaborating with peers and the teacher.  Participation in assignments allows students to practise and reinforce learning.  This also provides opportunities for the teacher to gauge student learning and provide interventions if necessary.  Private messages or classroom comments are usually responded to within 24 hours with the exception of Mondays and Tuesdays.  

This course is taught by Teacher Helen.

The videos will be available for the length of the course. Please don’t hesitate to contact me with further questions.

I look forward to being part of your learning journey!