Welcome!This is room 107, ESL.

Please find your name and take a seat.

Please,

• get out a pen or pencil and a sheet of paper. Also, please write in complete sentences using capitals and periods where needed.

Your first ESL writing assignment:

• Answer these four questions as best as you can:

• How do you want me to treat you?

• How do you want to treat one another?

• How do you think I want to be treated?

• How should we treat one another when there's a conflict?

Hello.

• I’m Mr. Briere.

• Pronounced “Bree-Air”

• I teach English.

• I have a brother that teaches music.

• Does anyone play music?

I became a teacher by

• going to MSU (Michigan State University).

• This was importantbecause I was born and raised in Michigan.

• Where are you from?

Where I taught before Birmingham

• I have taught at two schools:

• Utica High School

• Trillium Academy-->

Utica

A few things about me.

• I love to read.

• I love to write.

• I love to travel;

• I have traveled to

• Japan

• Canada

• and California’s Yosemite National Forest

Japan

• Can you spot me?

Yosemite National Forest

To summarize...

• I am a Teacher

• I am a Brother

• I am from Michigan

• I am a traveler

• I am happy to be teaching you English.

Who are you?

• Stand up

• Introduce yourself

• Give us your name, where you were born, and your favorite food.

• Remember, be loud!

Your Turn:

• Number your paper 1-5. Put your name in the top right corner. Write in complete sentences. Begin each sentence with “I am”. Then, complete each sentence by describing what you are. Turn in your paper to me when you are done.

• Example: I am _________________.

Tonight’s Homework

• Bring a photo of your family