August 26, 2022: We are as smart as rocket scientists

A new phenomenon is taking hold across the world – “shrinkflation”. This is when companies reduce the size of their products or range of services while maintaining prices.

In this activity, you will practice having conversations in English about topics you know well. This will help you improve your speaking skills and learn new vocabulary from your classmates.

These middle school students have a warning about teens and social media

The topic of the lesson will be, “When it Rome, should you always do as the Romans do?”

Get ready to make some tough choices (in English!) this week! Using fun “Would you rather…?” questions, we’ll practice expressing our opinions, giving reasons, and maybe even predicting our friends’ answers.

We’ll be using story dice again, but instead of using Dan Harmon’s Story Circle, we’ll be using a simplified version of “Nelson’s 9 Steps for Story Writing” to wrote short stories about travel adventures.