WEST ROWAN MIDDLE & OVERTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL'S ESOL Brooke Bridges Contact Info: (704) 638-5561 ext 220 (WEST Middle) (704) 639- 3000 ext 254 (Overton Elementary) email: bridgebr@rss.k12.nc.us
*****GREAT NEWS!!!******* We now have Rosetta Stonee for learning english. Students will come to the computer lab during the reading block to work on level 1 or 2 for Rosetta Stone. In February and March we will have annual ESOL testing. We have a new test this year: ACCESS: students will be tested for listening, reading, writing, and speaking. I am the ESOL teacher for 2 schools: West Middle & Overton Elementary School West Middle: Tuesdays and Wednesdays Overton Elementary: Mondays, Thursdays & Fridays Mondays will be divided between West Middle and Overton. This year the IPT = Idea Profiency Test NC will no longer use the IPT test. ESOL program fosters the learning of English in four domains: Listening Speaking Reading Writing 
| part of speech | function or "job" | example words | example sentences | | Verb | action or state | (to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, must | englishclub.com is a web site. I like englishclub.com. | | Noun | thing or person | pen, dog, work, music, town, London, teacher, John | This is my dog. He lives in my house. We live in London. | | Adjective | describes a noun | a/an, the, some, good, big, red, well, interesting | My dog is big. I like big dogs. | | Adverb | describes a verb, adjective or adverb | quickly, silently, well, badly, very, really | My dog eats quickly. When he is very hungry, he eats really quickly. | | Pronoun | replaces a noun | I, you, he, she, some | Tara is Indian. She is beautiful. | | Preposition | links a noun to another word | to, at, after, on, but | We went to school on Monday. | | Conjunction | joins clauses or sentences or words | and, but, when | I like dogs and I like cats. I like cats and dogs. I like dogs but I don't like cats. | | Interjection | short exclamation, sometimes inserted into a sentence | oh!, ouch!, hi!, well | Ouch! That hurts! Hi! How are you? Well, I don't know. |
The above can be found in more detail at englishclub.com.
Here's a glossary of English Grammar terms. http://grammar.englishclub.com/grammar-glossary.htm Glossary of English Grammar Terms- Active Voice
In the active voice, the subject of the verb does the action (eg They killed the President). See also Passive Voice. - Adjective
A word like big, red, easy, French etc. An adjective describes a noun or pronoun. - Adverb
A word like slowly, quietly, well, often etc. An adverb modifies a verb. - Article
The "indefinite" articles are a and an. The "definite article" is the. - Auxiliary Verb
A verb that is used with a main verb. Be, do and have are auxiliary verbs. Can, may, must etc are modal auxiliary verbs. - Clause
A group of words containing a subject and its verb (for example: It was late when he arrived). - Conjunction
A word used to connect words, phrases and clauses (for example: and, but, if). - Infinitive
The basic form of a verb as in to work or work. - Interjection
An exclamation inserted into an utterance without grammatical connection (for example: oh!, ah!, ouch!, well!). - Modal Verb
An auxiliary verb like can, may, must etc that modifies the main verb and expresses possibility, probability etc. It is also called "modal auxiliary verb". - Noun
A word like table, dog, teacher, America etc. A noun is the name of an object, concept, person or place. A "concrete noun" is something you can see or touch like a person or car. An "abstract noun" is something that you cannot see or touch like a decision or happiness. A "countable noun" is something that you can count (for example: bottle, song, dollar). An "uncountable noun" is something that you cannot count (for example: water, music, money). - Object
In the active voice, a noun or its equivalent that receives the action of the verb. In the passive voice, a noun or its equivalent that does the action of the verb. - Participle
The -ing and -ed forms of verbs. The -ing form is called the "present participle". The -ed form is called the "past participle" (for irregular verbs, this is column 3). - Part Of Speech
One of the eight classes of word in English - noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction and interjection. - Passive Voice
In the passive voice, the subject receives the action of the verb (eg The President was killed). See also Active Voice. - Phrase
A group of words not containing a subject and its verb (eg on the table, the girl in a red dress). - Predicate
Each sentence contains (or implies) two parts: a subject and a predicate. The predicate is what is said about the subject. - Preposition
A word like at, to, in, over etc. Prepositions usually come before a noun and give information about things like time, place and direction. - Pronoun
A word like I, me, you, he, him, it etc. A pronoun replaces a noun. - Sentence
A group of words that express a thought. A sentence conveys a statement, question, exclamation or command. A sentence contains or implies a subject and a predicate. In simple terms, a sentence must contain a verb and (usually) a subject. A sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop (.), question mark (?) or exclamation mark (!). - Subject
Every sentence contains (or implies) two parts: a subject and a predicate. The subject is the main noun (or equivalent) in a sentence about which something is said. - Tense
The form of a verb that shows us when the action or state happens (past, present or future). Note that the name of a tense is not always a guide to when the action happens. The "present continuous tense", for example, can be used to talk about the present or the future. - Verb
A word like (to) work, (to) love, (to) begin. A verb describes an action or state.
Please review the new flashcards for English Proverbs and the meanings behind them.
Table of English Parts of SpeechThis is a summary of the 8 parts of speech. You can find more detail if you click on each part of speech.
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