EF6 July 5

 

 

·      Good morning, everyone.

This is English Foundations 6 at 8:30 am.

Are you in the right place?

We will get started at 8:30.

 

 

·      Let’s turn our cameras on, please.

Please keep your mic muted when you are not talking. Unmute when you want to say something.

This helps to cut down on the extra noise- kids, argument, dog barking, eating, TV, etc.

I don’t want to stay quiet. I want you to talk as much as you want.

If you have a question or want to say something don’t be shy. Speak up! You don’t have to raise your hand first.

 

My opinion: Talking out loud is extremely important, and many people avoid talking out loud. This is a shame. Talking is key to getting better at communicating.

Staying quiet really hurts you when you are learning a language.

 

 

·      Hopefully everybody has access to a computer – laptop, tablet, etc.

It will difficult to do this class using a phone.

 

 

·      Teacher: Al Haley

Email address: ahaley@vsb.bc.ca

First name is fine- Al

 

If you feel uncomfortable calling a teacher by their name, that’s fine. Call me whatever you are comfortable with.

·      I will call you by your first name if you don’t mind. I will try to remember your English name. The name that I will likely go with is the name on your Zoom handle.

Change your Zoom handle to your name.

 

·      Today’s agenda:

agenda – the things we will do, the plan for the meeting, class

 

1.    Zoom class

2.    Class procedures

3.    Overview of course

4.    Quizzes and tests

5.    Email protocols

6.    Homework activity

 

** Mute your mic if you’re not talking to the class.

 

·      Zoom classes-

Covid- 

All of the classes will be on Zoom.

Classes have been online since last April.

I hope we will be back in school for September, but I don’t know. Nobody knows yet. We will know soon. As soon as I know, I will tell you.

 

·      We will start at 8:30 sharp, M-F.

You can join the class early.

People are becoming used to Zoom. It may take a day or so to figure out how to use Zoom if you are new to it.

 

 

·      Everything I put on this screen will be posted to my blog afterward.

I will update my blog every day after class.

The blog is here: haleyshec.blogspot.com

Blog - new word in English– web + log  blog

web-internet, www world-wide web

 

log- written record, work log, driving log

 

Blog- online record of somebody’s writing

You can read or write a personal blog about whatever interests you: fashion, music, travel, food, etc.

·      Write it down! You need this URL: haleyshec.blogspot.com

 

·      You can check the blog as much as you like. There is no sign in, no password. It’s all public and accessible.

·      My blog is a tremendous resource that you can use.

 

o   Go to the blog now. Make sure you can open it.

o   Let me know if you are having trouble opening my blog.

o   Any trouble getting in? We’ll figure it out. Let me know.

 

Yes? Good!

No? Let me know.

 

The blog is a very useful thing for us. You can go it as much as you want. You can keep using it after this course is finished. Maybe 100 years?

Life is short. 85 years? Average life in Canada.

Why do women live longer than men?

 

·      We will use the same Zoom link for the whole course. That is the one I sent you Friday. Don’t lose it!

 

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83300710891?pwd=RXdnOUJQQWl1cDRERzZFU0p3eXNzZz09

Meeting ID: 833 0071 0891

Passcode: wN2hkg

 

 

·      Everybody’s microphone and camera works. That’s fantastic!!

 

·      If you have a question, don’t be shy. I will help as much as I can.

 

·      Class procedures

The class time is 8:30 -12. We usually won’t go for the full 3 ½ hours. I will teach/lecture/talk about 2.5 hours to three hours every day- 8:30 to about 11- 11:30.

I won’t teach for the full three and a half hours. No school has been doing that.

Then I will give you some homework to do.

After I finish my teaching and give homework, you are free to go.

I will stay on Zoom if anybody wants to talk or discuss the work.

I stay in the school until 12 working. I’ll be here to answer emails or chat on Zoom or whatever. After class is over at 12, I will go and do something else.

What are you going to do after class?

-cooking

-cleaning

-go to work

-sports?

-hiking

-swimming

-go for a walk

-play frisbee with a friend

-kayaking

-walk a dog

 

 

 

·      Overview of course

Course dates: Monday, July 5 – Friday, August 6 (final day)

Five weeks of class

Holidays –  BC Day, August 2- no school, provincial holiday, long weekend

 

EF6

·      When you are successful in this class:

English Foundations 6 --- move up to

English Foundations 7/Composition 10 and Literary Studies 10- same class

EF7 and English 10 is the same class at South Hill

 

·      English 10 is now called Composition 10 and Literary Studies 10

·      EF7/Composition 10, Literary Studies 10 – taught together, very similar courses

 

·      Government rules:

·      English Foundations 7 is for Graduated Adults. A Graduated Adult is a person who had finished high school anywhere in the world.

 

·      Composition and Literary Studies 10 (English 10) is for people who have not finished high school anywhere in the world.

·      e.g. under 19, turned 19 and aged out of regular high school in Vancouver, left school young for many reasons: family trouble; health problems- physical, pychological; war in their country; political unrest; got a job to support their family; not allowed to go or were not able to go to school when they young

 

·      There are many many reasons why people come to adult education.

In Vancouver School Board Adult Education, everyone is welcome.

In my class, you are welcome. I’m very glad that you are here. We’ll have a good time and learn a lot.

 

·      After EF7/CompLit10 – English 11 – English 12

English 12 is the highest level English class for high school.

Colleges and universities require English 12, for the most part.

You can apply for post-secondary with English 12.

post-secondary – college, university

 

 

·      e.g.

·      EF6 Summer

·      EF7/10 September-November

·      Eng11 November-January

·      Eng12 February-April

FINISHED!

 

·      Plus, you will need other courses- Math?, Science?

·      All post-secondary programs will have their own entry requirements. You can start to research what prerequisites your postsec requires.

 

We have advisors who can help you figure out what programs are available and what the prereqs are.

 

·      GOOD QUESTION: What are your goals for adult education?

-         read and write well

-         finish high school

-         improve English

-         go to post-secondary

-         get a better job

 

·      We have academic advisors at South Hill Education Centre (SHEC) who can help you when it come time to figure post-secondary options.

·      https://www.vsb.bc.ca/Student_Learning/Adult_Education/Contact_us/Pages/South_Hill_Education_Centre.aspx

·      Make a plan. Follow your plan.

If you don’t have a plan yet, do some deep thinking about it.

What is it you want to do?

 

          5 minute break

 

 

 

·      EXTRA HELP WITH WRITING Composition and Writing 567 – supplemental course, extra writing instruction

September

 

·      ** THE THINGS WE WILL BE STUDYING IN THIS CLASS

FOCUS OF MY CLASS

o   writing

-         very important, most important for school, high school, college, university, job, life

·      Being able to write well is a wonderful gift that you can give to yourself. I can help. I will teach you.

 

·      THREE SENTENCE TYPES

-SIMPLE

-COMPOUND

-COMPLEX

I will teach you these in great detail.

We will do five quizzes on sentence.

Quiz#1 simple sentences

Quiz#2 compound sentences

Quiz#3 complex sentences- adverb clauses

Quiz#4 complex sentences- noun clauses

Quiz#5 complex sentences- adjective clauses

 

 

·      PARAGRAPHS- different kinds of paragraphs

-         narrative writing

-         descriptive writing

-         process/expository writing

-         persuasive writing

-         literary paragraph

Test#1 -paragraph (150-200 words)

Test#2 -paragraph (150-200 words)

Test#3 -paragraph (150-200 words)

Test#4 -paragraph (150-200 words)

 

·      ESSAY –  several paragraphs together, five-paragraph essay

Essay#1

 

o   reading

-         short stories

-         poems

-         news articles

-         No novel for this class

 

o   listening and speaking

·      I will speak at a normal pace, slightly slower than if I were talking with my friends. It helps people to understand if you speak a bit slower than usual. For expert examples, listen to CBC radio. 690 am. Listen to how the announcers speak. They speak at a nice relaxed pace. News, interviews, interwsting subjects

 

Commercial radio announcers tend to talk much more quickly.

          e.g. KISS FM,

 

 

·      The online class feeling is different. I like to have people in a room, talking with each other, looking at each other.

·      -speaking- You talk as much as you want. Chime in. Join the conversation. Don’t be shy. Ask as many questions as you want.

·      “Sorry. I have a question. May I ask a question?” YES!! You don’t have to ask. Don’t be shy.

·      I will be paying attention to who talks and who is silent.

·      Don’t be a Silent Sam or a Quiet Quan.

·      Be a Talking Tim and a Chatty Cathy.

 

·      On Zoom, we are missing visual cues, subtle body language

·      We will do our best to connect.

·      Usually we have a lot of fun in class.

 

·      Quizzes and tests

Marks for this course

Quizzes:     around 5 quizzes, worth 3 points each

-         worth about 30% of your final mark

 

·      sentence work based on grammar we have been learning,

·      The quizzes are all six sentences. Very short.

We will do out first quiz later this week.

 

·      - Tests:       around 4-5 tests, worth 6 points each

-         worth about 60% of your final mark

paragraph writing about a story, article, topic of discussion

(150-200 words)

 

·      - Essay:       one essay at the end of the course, worth 10 points

-         worth about 15% of your final mark

longer writing , several paragraphs, (300-350+ words)

 

·      -Extras 2-5%

 

SUMMARY

·      Quiz- about 30%

·      Test- about 60%

·      Essay- about 15%

·      Extra- 2-5%

 

·      Pass mark in BC is 50%.

 

 

·      All quizzes, tests, essays

-         timed, deadline will be posted

 

·      e.g. “Email me the quiz by 11:30am.”

 

·      I will not accept late work. The deadline is the deadline. If I receive it one or two minutes late, I will probably accept it. Anything later than that, I won’t take it.

 

·      If you need a lot of flexibility with time, self-paced courses may be a better choice for you.

 

Email attachments

·      test or quiz must be in an email attachment

·      readable by Microsoft Word

·      Files like this: .doc .rtf .txt

·      Do you know what this means? No. Yes.

 

This is a bit complicated, but we can walk through it together.

·      If you have Microsoft Word, use that.

Who has MSWord? MS Word is part of MSOffice

 

·      If you don’t have MSWord, you can use WordPad if you are using Windows.

Save your file as RichTextDocument  .rtf

 

·      For Apple computers, I don’t know.

What writing program comes with Apple computers?

I can’t read PAGES files.

I cannot correct PDF files. I can read PDF, but I won’t be able to give you any feedback.

 

·      Googledocs can be made to work- save the file on your computer and attach it to your email to me.

·      Go to File-Download  Save as docx

 

·      Send me the file

Attach the file to your email.

 

·      I will get your file. I will open it and comment on it.

Then I will send it back and you can read the comments.

 

·      In the Subject line of your email, you must put your name, class, time and quiz or test number.

·      For example: Joe Chen, EF6, 8:30, Test1

·      If you do not put this information in the Subject line of your email, I will not know who you are or what class you are in.

·      I will not be able to mark your work or record a mark for you.

 

·      Also, you should title your quiz or test with the same information. Then I have a record of your quiz or test if we ever have to go back to review it.

 

·      Name the file:

·      Name, Class, Time, Quiz or Test #

·      e.g. “SarahChen EF6 First email”

·      ** It will be very difficult to try to do this class on a phone.

 

 

 

·      Docs in SHEC folder

·      “Email protocol and attachments”

·      “Email format”

 

 

Homework

Write a short paragraph of 50 words introducing yourself.

Send it as an attachment in an email.

Remember to write name and class in the subject line of the email.

Deadline- 12:00

 

I will read your paragraph and respond with some comments.

If you can read my comments, then everything is good.

If you can’t read my comments, then we will keep figuring it out.