WINTER HOLIDAY ASSIGNMENT

Dear 7th graders,

First of all, allow me to wish you all happy holidays. Yup, as we are now at the very end of this semester, let us reflect on all the things we have done through all the semester. I would like to congratulate those who have done their best and would like to encourage everyone to do better and better again next semester.

As holidays are coming, let us not be too overwhelmed by the festives and soon forget about all the lessons we've learned together. This is one of the reasons why I am giving you these tasks. Please read the instructions carefully! Submit your assignment via email to englishgloriapakuwon@yahoo.com on the D-day for extra points or hand them in on the first day of school (5th January 2010)

1. BOOK REPORT
Submission day: 30th December 2009


2. THEMATIC JOURNAL
Submission day:
a. 18th December 2009 "The First Day of Holidays"
b. 23rd December 2009 "Two Days Before Christmas.Whoohoo!"
c. 25th December 2009 "Christmas is here."
d. 31st December 2009 "New Year's Resolutions"
e. 1st January 2010 "Happy New Year, Everyone!"
Please write down in no less than 300 words for each entry. Remember to involve your feelings, emotion and opinion. Impress me!!!

Good luck and wish you all the best holidays ever!.

See you at school SOON!

ATTENTION GRADE 7: List of Adjectives that you must learn for this semester!

List of Adjectives
The following List of Adjectives are in common use in the English language:

List of Adjectives
A - D List of Adjectives afraid agreeable amused ancient angry annoyed anxious arrogant ashamed average awful bad beautiful better big bitter black blue boiling brave breezy brief bright broad broken bumpy calm charming cheerful chilly clumsy cold colossal combative comfortable confused cooing cool cooperative courageous crazy creepy cruel cuddly curly curved damp dangerous deafening deep A - D List of Adjectives	D - G List of Adjectives defeated defiant delicious delightful depressed determined dirty disgusted disturbed dizzy dry dull dusty eager early elated embarrassed empty encouraging energetic enthusiastic envious evil excited exuberant faint fair faithful fantastic fast fat few fierce filthy fine flaky flat fluffy foolish frail frantic fresh friendly frightened funny fuzzy gentle giant gigantic good D - G List of Adjectives	G - M List of Adjectives gorgeous greasy great green grieving grubby grumpy handsome happy hard harsh healthy heavy helpful helpless high hilarious hissing hollow homeless horrible hot huge hungry hurt hushed husky icy ill immense itchy jealous jittery jolly juicy kind large late lazy light little lively lonely long loose loud lovely low lucky magnificent G - M List of Adjectives	M - R List of Adjectives mammoth many massive melodic melted mighty miniature moaning modern mute mysterious narrow nasty naughty nervous new nice nosy numerous nutty obedient obnoxious odd old orange ordinary outrageous panicky perfect petite plastic pleasant precious pretty prickly proud puny purple purring quaint quick quickest quiet rainy rapid rare raspy ratty red relieved M - R List of Adjectives	R - S List of Adjectives repulsive resonant ripe roasted robust rotten rough round sad salty scary scattered scrawny screeching selfish shaggy shaky shallow sharp shivering short shrill silent silky silly skinny slimy slippery slow small smiling smooth soft solid sore sour spicy splendid spotty square squealing stale steady steep sticky stingy straight strange striped strong R - S List of Adjectives	S - Z List of Adjectives successful sweet swift tall tame tan tart tasteless tasty tender tender tense terrible testy thirsty thoughtful thoughtless thundering tight tiny tired tough tricky troubled ugliest ugly uneven upset uptight vast victorious vivacious voiceless wasteful watery weak weary wet whispering wicked wide wide-eyed witty wonderful wooden worried yellow young yummy zany S - Z List of Adjectives

ADJECTIVE ORDER

Adjective Placement

When using more than one adjective to describe a noun place the adjectives in the following order before the noun.

NOTE: We usually use no more than three adjectives preceding a noun.

1. Opinion

   Example: an interesting book, a boring lecture

2. Dimension

   Example: a big apple, a thin wallet

3. Age

   Example: a new car, a modern building, an ancient ruin

4. Shape

   Example: a square box, an oval mask, a round ball

5. Color

   Example: a pink hat, a blue book, a black coat

6. Origin

   Example: some Italian shoes, a Canadian town, an American car

7. Material

   Example: a wooden box, a woolen sweater, a plastic toy

Source: http://esl.about.com/library/grammar/blgr_adjective_order.htm

Attention Grade 7: Have you done these homework?

1. Seeing the World Through the Eyes of A/An ... (personal essay, 250 words, notebook)

2. Show and Tell Project: My Beloved Thing

3. Vocabulary on Senses

4. Paragpraph Pointers

ATTENTION GRADE 7!

Dear my 7th graders,

I just want to remind you that our presentation week is coming soon. Please prepare your Power Point Presentation and save it in a USB. Make sure you have scanned your USB before handing it to me. Don't forget to follow every instruction that I've given in the classroom. We will learn together from every presentation and have fun at the same time. So do your best and let GOD do the rest. I'll see you in the classroom soon! IMPRESS ME!

cheers,
Ms.Ayi

Finally!

Finally, the blog is ready to be published and I am so excited to let my students know that I am now available to help them 24 hours a day. Well, probably that sounds too exaggerating but at least you can reach me anywhere at anytime now. I hope you find this blog easy enough and beneficial for your study and please check it regularly.

Let's learn together!

cheers,
ms.ayi