Home of DRIVE-THROUGH ESL: October 2008

Inge's classes this week

Inge's classes this week will be at Wed and Thu at 12pm PDT and Fri 9am PDT. If you are in Europe, there will be no changes. If you are in Asia, classes will be very early in the morning.

The time in SL has not changed. It's still PDT. If the time has changed in your country classes are now one hour *earlier. Keep an eye on the calendar. Next week PDT will go back to PST, the time difference with Europe will go back to normal and it will change for Asia. What time is in your country? CLICK HERE

Sat 25 Oct. 9am PDT. Voice

TIME CHANGE This lesson was scheduled for 6am PDT. It is now 9am PDT. Teacher: Daisey Ragu Classrunner: CEM Clary Quiz Class Practise your English skills in this fun lesson. Includes word games, puzzles, tenses and team games.

Fri 24 Oct. 2am PDT. Voice

Teacher: Daisey Ragu Conversation Curious? me too.

Thu 23 Oct. 6am PDT. Text

Teacher: Seikatsu Karu TEXT IN SKYPE Class Runner: Giovanni Tweak - ITA ATTENTION: SKYPE NEEDED FOR THIS CLASS. CONTACT THE CLASS RUNNER FOR INFO BEFORE CLASS THIS CLASS IS AN EXPERIMENT. Today's class: TEXT: DRIVE-THROUGH ESL; words and idioms. Enhance your vocabulary. Learn new worlds as well as American idioms and slang. Bring questions about new words or examples of written material you in RL. Please bring a dictionary or use Google Translate tool. Do not use Blabbler. Try THIS (google account needed)

Wed 22 Oct. 6am and 11am PDT. Voice Day

Wednesday is voice day. May the gods of SL be nice. at 6am there is THIS class, taught by Daisey. It has been called Vocabulary, spelling , pronunciation but I think we need anotehr name. Suggestions? at 11am there is Reading, pronunciation class taught by Inge. Practice pronunciation and comprehension.

Yanto is taking some time off. He will be back in December. Take care Yanto.

Tue 21 Oct. 6am PDT. Text

Teacher: Seikatsu Karu TESXT (3/2) We planned for 2 but it took longer so we'll finish today. If you have missed it it's a good change to try this new type of class. Test available before class. Ask the classrunner. TESXT = test using text. Kissme brought a test last week. It has a lot to do with what Seikatsu taught. This week the class will go through it together. The notecard with the test is available now. Start reading before class starts. Ask the class runner. Have a vocabulary ready.Third class of this series.

Fri 17 Oct. 2am PDT. Voice

Teacher: Daisey Ragu Vocabulary, spelling , pronunciation This is the same lesson that was canceled Wednesday. The teacher will give you a list of words: 1st: write sentences with the words given. 2nd: when the teacher tells you to, paste the sentence in chat. 3rd: the teacher will correct spelling. 4th: read the sentence. 5th: the teacher will correct your pronunciation. Repeat as needed.

Thu 16 Oct. 6am PDT. Text

Teacher: Seikatsu Karu TESXT (2/2) TESXT = test using text. Kissme brought a test last week. It has a lot to do with what Seikatsu taught. This week the class will go through it together. The notecard with the test is available now. Start reading before class starts. Ask the class runner. Have a vocabulary ready.

Wed 15 Oct. 6am PDT. Voice

Teacher: Daisey Ragu Vocabulary, spelling , pronunciation The teacher will give you a list of words: 1st: write sentences with the words given. 2nd: when the teacher tells you to, paste the sentence in chat. 3rd: the teacher will correct spelling. 4th: read the sentence. 5th: the teacher will correct your pronunciation. Repeat as needed. This is the last class of its kind. After this, dictation only

Tue 14 Oct. 12pm PDT. Text

Teacher: Yanto Dyrrsen The English Verb Tense System 5/5. This is the last class of this series. A series of 5 classes devoted to the English Verb tense system. Beginning with the simple present tense, we'll work our way through the entire tense system via the examples that students offer for study. We'll examine both how we form the tenses and how we use them.

Tue 14 Oct. 6am PDT. Text

Teacher: Seikatsu Karu TESXT (1/2; continues Thu 16 Oct 6am PDT) TESXT = test using text. Kissme brought a test last week. It has a lot to do with what Seikatsu taught. This week the class will go through it together. The notecard with the test is available now. Start reading before class starts. Ask the class runner. Have a vocabulary ready.

ESL SL. The next bubble?

Financial markets are crumbling all over the world. In the past week, despite emergency measures taken by central banks all over the world, stock exchanges have lost 20/30% of their value and there is no end in sight to this fall. Forecast: cannibalism. In this desperate situation rumors of a raise of class prices starting January 1st, 2009 at ESL SL, Home of DRIVE-THROUGH ESL have started what some analyst call the "ESL SL bubble" Investors, knowing that fees paid before the raise will be honoured indefinitely, have started buying classes now. Many financial analysts who spend a a lot of time in SL after loosing their rl job agree that the signs are good: there hasn't been a raise in fees since the school started in 2006, so it should be a big one, providing big gains for investors. Mayhem99Jim from internet says "It's not only a short-term investment, I think fees will raise regularly from now on and classes bought in 2008 will appreciate at a pretty constant rate. This is why I put ESL SL in my retirement-plan portfolio as well." "It's a win/win situation." says krtddpukeII "It's one of the few speculative opportunities available today for investors and it will make the transition to new price easier fore students." Financial officers at the school have declined to comment.

Sat 11 Oct. 6am PDT. Text

Teacher: Daisey Ragu Story Writing [2008/10/04 7:05] Daisey Ragu: Your homework: find out who Jacob Balthazar really is! This is a text class. If it's the first time you come to Story Writing class or if you are late ask the classrunner for instructions or updates in IM. Reading is optional, only at the end. No need to test voice.

Fri 10 Oct. 8am PDT. Voice

Teacher: Inge Qunhua Excursion class Have you visited a place in Second Life where there are objects or activities you don't know the name of? It could be a destination for excursion class. Give the landmark to the class runner and tell them why it would be interesting.

Thu 9 Oct 11am PDT Text

Teacher: Inge Qunhua Description class With picture! Watch the picture and describe it. Guess what it is about.

Wed 8 Oct 11am PDT. VOICE

Teacher: Inge Qunhua Reading, pronunciation Exercise your English pronunciation. Why test voice every time? Because there are many things that can happen. SL updates, new software installation, lag, feedback, or a cable unplugged. If you have never used voice before, come to the infohub 30 minutes before class and ask the classrunner to show you the instructions to use voice and to test it when you're ready.

Wed 8 Oct 6am PDT. VOICE

Teacher: Daisey Ragu Vocabulary, spelling , pronunciation The teacher will give you a list of words: 1st: write sentences with the words given 2nd: when the teacher tells you to, paste the sentence in chat. 3rd: the teacher will correct spelling. 4th: read the sentence. 5th: the teacher will correct your pronunciation. Repeat as needed.

Tue 7 Oct 12pm PDT. Text

eacher: Yanto Dyrrsen The English Verb Tense System 4/5. A series of 5 classes devoted to the English Verb tense system. Beginning with the simple present tense, we'll work our way through the entire tense system via the examples that students offer for study. We'll examine both how we form the tenses and how we use them.

Tue 7 Oct 6am PDT. Text

Teacher: Seikatsu Koba DRIVE-THROUGH ESL TEXT Seikatsu is back. Clicky clicky text lovers.

Sat 4 Oct 6am PDT. Text

Teacher: Daisey Ragu Story Writing This is a text class. If it's the first time you come to Story Writing class or if you are late ask the classrunner for instructions or updates in IM. Reading is optional, only at the end. No need to test voice.