Civic Center Campus News

Hi Everyone,

Our semester started off with the sad news that our building was not safe and we could not study there.  We are looking for a new building in the neighborhood, but until then we have classes at our Mission and Chinatown Centers.  Below are the schedules.

Please check this blog for new information and for recent pictures of our students and teachers.

Denise

Civic Center Level 1-4 ESL classes 

are now at Chinatown Annex Building, 628 Washington St, SF

This is information for SPRING  CLASSES 2015 ONLY

Spring Classes: 2/3/15 - 5/22/15

*** No classes for 1 week: 3/29- 4/5 - Spring Vacation Week ***

TIME  è LEVEL ê	8:15-9:55	10:15-11:55	12:15-1:05	1:15-2:55	3:15-4:55	5:15-6:20	6:30-8:35
Literacy	Teacher KELLI CROW     ESL Literacy Room A304 CRN 44767 (Section 301) ESLN 3010	Teacher ERINN STRUSS     ESL Literacy Room A304 CRN 44766 (Section 302)  ESLN 3010

TIME  è LEVEL ê	8:15-9:55	10:15-11:55	12:15-1:05	1:15-2:55	3:15-4:55	5:15-6:20	6:30-8:35
Level 1 Beg.-Low	Teacher DAPHNE POWELL   ESL Level 1                                                                     Room A304 CRN 42253 (Section 302) ESLN  3100	Teacher KELLI CROW ESL Level 1                             Room A304 CRN 44056 (Section 307) ESLN 3100	Teacher KEVIN CROSS  ESL Speaking- 1/2                            Room A405  CRN 47110 (Section 301)  ESLF 3126	Teacher DIANE WALLIS ESL Levels 1/2                                  Room A405       CRN 45636 (Section 302)   ESLN 3140	Teacher AUDREY WALLACE ESL Levels 1/2                              Room A405 CRN 45308 (Section 301)    ESLN 3140	Teacher DIANE WALLIS Speaking: ESL 1 – 4                         Room A305 CRN 47111 (Section 302)  ESLF 3567	Teacher CINDI AUGSJOOST ESL Levels 1/2                           Room A305 CRN 46816 (Section 303) ESLN 3140
Level 2 Beg.-Low	Teacher KEVIN CROSS  ESL Level 2                                     Room A305 CRN 40961 (Section 302) ESLN 3200	Teachers CHARLES COGDILL:  1/12-3/17 CARRIE PRIESTLY: 3/18-5/22    ESL Level 2  Room A305      CRN 44058 (Section 305) ESLN 3200	(Level 2 same class é)	(Level 2 same class é)	(Level 2 same class é)	(Level 2 same class é)	(Level 2 same class é)

TIME  è LEVEL ê	8:15-9:55	10:15-11:55	12:15-1:05	1:15-2:55	3:15-4:55	5:15-6:20	6:30-8:35
Level 3 Beg.-High	Teacher BETH ERICSON ESL Level 3                                          Room A405 CRN 46175 (Section 301) ESLN 3300	Teacher KEVIN CROSS ESL Level 3                                            Room A405 CRN 40913  (Section 304) ESLN 3300	Teacher BETH ERICSON Reading- Levels 3/4 Room A404 CRN 47112 (Section 301) ESLF 3348	Teacher BETH ERICSON ESL Levels 3/4      Room A404 CRN 45584 (Section 302) ESLN 3340	Teacher DIANE WALLIS ESL Levels 3/4      Room A305 CRN 45585  (Section 303)  ESLN 3340	(Level 3 same class  é)	Teachers BRUCE NEUBURGER (M/T) DIEP LE (W/TH) ESL Levels 3/4      Room A304 CRN 46458 (Section 301) ESLN 3340
Level 4 Beg.-High	Teacher CHARLES COGDILL ESL Level 4  Room A404    CRN 40925 (Section 301) ESLN 3400	Teacher AUGUSTA (GUS) GOLDSTEIN          ESL Level 4             Room A404 CRN 45428 (Section 304) ESLN 3400	(Level 4 same class  é)	(Level 4 same class  é)	(Level 4 same class  é)	(Level 4 same class  é)	(Level 4 same class  é)

Civic Center Level 5-8 ESL, Business & VOTP Classes

are now at Mission Campus, 1125 Valencia St, SF

This is information for SPRING  CLASSES 2015 ONLY

Spring Classes: 2/3/15 - 5/22/15

*** No classes for 1 week: 3/29- 4/5 - Spring Vacation Week ***

TIME  è LEVEL ê	8:15-9:55	10:15-11:55	12:15-1:05	1:15-2:55	3:15-4:55	5:15-6:20	6:30-8:35
Int. Levels 5-6	Teacher ZUE ACKER ESL Levels 5/6                                                          Room 454 CRN 45589 (Section 304) ESLN  3560	Teacher JENNY HAMMER ESL Levels 5/6                            Room 454 CRN 45586 (Section 301) ESLN 3560	Teacher JENNY HAMMER Levels 5-8 Reading/ Vocabulary                 Room 454 CRN 47114 (Section 301)  ESLF 3568	Teachers ERINN STRUSS & DANIEL LAI ESL Levels 5-8                      Room 454 CRN 46177   (Section 302)   ESLN 3580		Teacher RICK KAPPRA Speaking- Int.-Low Levels 5-8 Room 454 CRN 47113 (Section 301)  ESLF 3567	Teacher RICK KAPPRA ESL Levels 5-8              Room 454 CRN 46608 (Section 303) ESLN 3580
Int.-High Levels 7-8	Teacher JENNY HAMMER ESL Levels 7/8                                                              Room 211 CRN 45980 (Section 301) ESLN 3780	Teacher VENETTE COOK ESL Levels 7/8                     Room 211 CRN 45981 (Section 302 ) ESLN 3780	(Levels 7/8 – same class  é)	(Levels 7/8 – same class  é)		(Levels 7/8 – same class  é)	(Levels 7/8 – same class  é)
TIME  è LEVEL ê	8:15-9:55	10:15-11:55	12:15-1:05	1:15-2:55	3:15-4:55	5:15-6:20	6:30-8:35
Other ESL Classes			Teacher VENETTE COOK ESL Computer Skills Lab All Levels Room 408 CRN 47109 (Section 301)  ESLF 3020		Teacher DANIEL LAI ESL Levels 5-8                            Social Communication Room  454 CRN 41034 (Sect. 301) 1/12- 3/17 CRN 41355 (Sect. 302)  3/18-5/22 ESLV 3819	Teacher STEVEN LIEN Keyboarding (Typing) Levels 2-8 Room 408 CRN 45368 (Section 301)  ESLB 4822	Teacher STEVEN LIEN Intro to Microsoft Office & Keyboarding (Typing), Level 2-8   Room 408 CRN 47398 (Section 301) ESLB 3822
VOTP (Restricted to enrolled students. Only students who already registered for this class in Fall ’14 or Spring ’15 can come)	Teacher VENETTE COOK Computers for Work                                              Room 408 CRN 47107 (Section 301) 1/12- 3/17 CRN 47108 (Section 302) 3/18-  5/22 ESLB 3821	Teacher VIVIAN IKEDA Clerical Skills for VESL Room 408 CRN 47289 (Section 301) ESLV 3801

...Until We Meet Again

Well, this is it:  the very last post of the semester and of 2014.

 

The idioms we've had the past couple of weeks are:

 

• to be snowed under
• to work your fingers to the bone
• to bring home the bacon
• to be a number cruncher

We had these tongue twisters (https://soundcloud.com/alemany-teach/fall-2014-final-pronunciation):

           Four furious friends fought for the phone.

            There was a young fisher named Fischer
            Who fished for a fish in a fissure.
            The fish with a grin,
            Pulled the fisherman in;
            Now they’re fishing the fissure for Fischer.
 

            Freshly fried flying fish

             Freshly fried fresh flesh

            A flea and a fly flew up in a flue.
            Said the flea, “Let us fly!“
            Said the fly, “Let us flee!“
            So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
            Friendly Frank flips fine flapjacks
 
            Fat frogs flying past fast at five to five (4:55)

            Flee from fog to fight flu fast!

            Fred fed Ted bread, and Ted fed Fred bread.

            I am not the pheasant plucker, I’m the pheasant plucker’s mate. I am only 

            plucking pheasants ’cause the pheasant plucker’s running late.
 

  We talked a lot about punctuation.  If you want to practice go here.

Here are some words we learned.

 

 

Remember, you can always contact me at dselleck@ccsf.edu.

 

Until then:  

 

And I wish all of you a very HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Feliz año nuevo

新年好

Chúc mừng năm mới

明けましておめでとうございます

с Новым годом

नया साल मुबारक

feliz ano novo   

ปีใหม่มีความสุข 

bonne année

መልካም አዲስ አመት 

  سنة جديدة سعيدة

I can't believe it's December!

It's almost winter and we've finally gotten some rain here.

During the past two weeks we've had these idioms:

• to let someone down
• to make it
• back talk
• to skate on thin ice
• to straighten up
• to be chicken
• to be a chicken
• to chicken out
• to turn out
• fraidycat
• there's something to that

We practiced these words.


And we worked on the following tongue twisters:

1.    Give Mr. Snipe’s wife’s knife a swipe.

2.   Will you wash Wendell on Wednesday, William?

3.   Who washed Washington’s white woolen underwear when Washington’s wash­er­woman went west?

 4.   Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.

 5.   While we were walking, we were watching window washers wash Washington’s windows with warm washing water.

6.   Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.

 7.   Welsh wristwatches wear well in wild Wales.

  8.  Of all the felt I ever felt
      I never felt a piece of felt
     Which felt as fine as that felt felt
     When first I felt that felt hat’s felt.
 

Click on this link to hear me pronounce them: https://soundcloud.com/alemany-teach/friday-december-5-2013

Happy Thanksgiving Week

Since we've been concentrating on job interviews this week, we don't have a lot of vocabulary.  You can practice (a rather strange assortment of words) here.

This week's idioms were:

• to be bummed out
• to throw in the towel
• to give someone a hard time
• to let someone have it
• to clean up (pronoun) act

I will take next weekend off for Thanksgiving  and be back in December.  Until then I hope everyone has a happy Thanksgiving.  Thanksgiving, in my opinion, is the best holiday we have, and it's a holiday for everyone everywhere because it is not from any religion or any culture.  It is simply a day to say thank you for everything you have:

your family

your health

the roof over your head

the food on your table

your friends

your work

your school 

your ability to read in at least 2 languages

and ....

And , I want to say Thank you to you for reading this.

Let's Get A Job!

This week we've been talking about jobs in the US, applications, and job interviews.  Click here for our vocabulary (there's a lot!)

Also this week we had these idioms:

• to crack me up/ to crack up
• to blow it
• to be ripped off/ to be a rip off
• to have it in for someone
• to be on the same page

And, here are this week's tongue twisters.  They make no sense, but they're a lot of fun!

1.     Seven slick slimy snails, slowly sliding southward.

2.    Chicken in the car and the car can go, that is the way you spell Chicago.

3.    The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.

4.    If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?

5.    If you understand, say ""understand"". If you don't understand, say ""don't understand"". But if you understand and say ""don't understand"". how do I understand that you understand?

6.    Whether the weather: Whether the weather be fine, or whether the weather be not.

7.    Whether the weather be cold, or whether the weather be hot, We'll weather the weather whether we like it or not.

Here's the link to hear me pronouncing them:  https://soundcloud.com/alemany-teach/tongue-twisters-4

Back to Business

This week we discussed ways to interrupt in meetings -- and had a lot of fun doing so.  Here is the vocabulary we studied.  Remember if you can't get to the premium activities,  log in as VOTPstudent.  Your password is 750.  You should be able to do all the games and take the vocabulary test too.  If you have a problem, please tell me or email me at dselleck@ccsf.edu.

We also studied these idioms & expressions over the past week:

• to put something on the back burner
• to have a pity party
• to rub (it) in
• to be on a slipper slope

It's Been An Exciting Week...

in San Francisco!

First the Giants won the World Series and there was a GIANT parade Friday for them. And to give you a taste of a Giants game and why Giants fans don't stop believing, here's Steve Perry singing:  

 Friday was also Halloween.  In honor of Halloween we read this is class:

Two Witches 

       By Alexander Resnikoff

　

There was a witch.

The witch had an itch.

The itch was so itchy.

 It gave her a twitch.

Another witch admired the witch, so she started twitching though she had no itch.

Now both of them twitch, so it's hard to tell which witch has the itch ,and which witch has the twitch.

If you want to hear me reading the poem, click  here.

And this week in class we had the most wonderful presentations from all the students.  All I can say is:

• Way to Go!
• You Knocked Them Dead!
• You Rock!

We'll be back to our regular work next week and more vocabulary.