Friday, January 1, 2016

WeChat ESL Class on January 9, 2016 The First Man and the Garden of Eden

A. High Lights of your week
B. Breaking News in the world
C. Short Story: Colds
 a). Reading 
Pedro has a cold. His nose is stuffed up, he coughs a lot, and he has a sore throat. He felt fine last night, but now he is very sick. Pedro wants to go home and rest, but he can’t. He is an accountant and payroll is due today. He needs to print and sign payroll checks so the employees get paid on time. Pedro’s boss went on a business trip to Springfield, Illinois. He won’t be back until next week. Before he left, he asked Pedro to take care of the office. There are twenty office workers, and they are all very busy. Hopefully, they won’t catch Pedro’s cold. If the employees catch colds, they might take several days off work. 
 b). True or False 
1. ________ Pedro is sick. 
2. ________ All twenty office workers are busy. 
3. ________ Pedro’s boss is on vacation. 
4. ________ An accountant needs to be good at math. 
5. ________ Employees get payroll checks. 
 c). Yes or No – Share your opinion. 
1. ________ Pedro should stay at work. 
2. ________ Pedro should go home immediately and eat chicken soup. 
3. ________ The employees should avoid touching their nose, eyes, and mouth. 
4. ________ Pedro should cover his mouth when he coughs. 
5. ________ It’s okay if the employees get paid late. 
d). Writing – What do you do when you have a cold? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________


D. American Idioms:
 1. Add Fuel To The Fire: 

 2 Against The Clock: 

 3. All Bark And No Bite: 

 4. All Greek to me: 

 5. All In The Same Boat: 

 6. An Arm And A Leg: 

 7. An Axe To Grind: 

 8. Apple of My Eye: 

 9. As High As A Kite: 

 10. At The Drop Of A Hat: 

E. Bible Story: Genesis 2:4-25

The First Man and the Garden of Eden

This is the story about the creation of the sky and the earth. This is what happened when the Lord God made the earth and the sky. This was before there were plants on the earth. Nothing was growing in the fields because theLord God had not yet made it rain on the earth, and there was no one to care for the plants.

So water came up from the earth and spread over the ground. Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and made a man. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nose, and the man became a living thing. Then the Lord God planted a garden in the East, in a place named Eden. He put the man he made in that garden. Then the Lord God caused all the beautiful trees that were good for food to grow in the garden. In the middle of the garden, he put the tree of life and the tree that gives knowledge about good and evil.
10 A river flowed from Eden and watered the garden. The river then separated and became four smaller rivers. 11 The name of the first river was Pishon. This river flowed around the entire country of Havilah. 12 (There is gold in that country, and that gold is pure. A kind of expensive perfume and onyx are also found there.) 13 The name of the second river was Gihon. This river flowed around the whole land of Cush. 14 The name of the third river was Tigris. This river flowed east of Assyria. The fourth river was the Euphrates.
15 The Lord God put the man in the Garden of Eden to work the soil and take care of the garden. 16 The Lord God gave him this command: “You may eat from any tree in the garden. 17 But you must not eat from the tree that gives knowledge about good and evil. If you eat fruit from that tree, on that day you will certainly die!”

A Companion for Adam

18 Then the Lord God said, “I see that it is not good for the man to be alone. I will make the companion he needs, one just right for him.”
19 The Lord God used dust from the ground and made every animal in the fields and every bird in the air. He brought all these animals to the man, and the man gave them all a name. 20 The man gave names to all the tame animals, to all the birds in the air, and to all the wild animals. He saw many animals and birds, but he could not find a companion that was right for him. 21 So the Lord God caused the man to sleep very deeply. While he was asleep, God took one of the ribs from the man’s body. Then he closed the man’s skin where the rib had been. 22 The Lord God used the rib from the man to make a woman. Then he brought the woman to the man. 23 And the man said,
“Finally! One like me,
    with bones from my bones
    and a body from my body.
She was taken out of a man,
    so I will call her ‘woman.’”
24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife. In this way two people become one.
25 The man and his wife were naked, but they were not ashamed.
#### Match the following words with their meanings. Write the correct letter on the line. 
1. exclaim                                a. used to being with humans 
2. suitable                                b. curved bone near the lungs 
3. tame                                    c. say with excitement 
4. rib                                       d. but not 
5. except                                  e. good, right, acceptable 
Use the words above to complete the following sentences. 
1. God told the man to eat from all the trees __________one. 
2. The man gave names to the _____________ animals. 
3. God took a ___________ from the man‟s side.  
4. God made a ________________ person to live with the man.  
5. The man _________________ that he liked his new partner
#### Answer the following questions. Then discuss your answers. 
1. What was the world like in the beginning? 
2. What did you learn about God in this lesson? 
3. What did you learn about people in this lesson? 
4. What did you learn about the relationship between God and the first people in this lesson? 
5. How do you define a marriage? What is a suitable helper?

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