EF34
Good
morning, everyone.
We
will get started at 11:00.
Reminder:
From
today, we will all be together.
No
more online, Zoom, classes. All of the classes are in-person.
Temporary
parking code: 12003
Instructions
on the ticket machine.
1. Enter your car’s
licence plate
2. Enter the
code 12003
Today’s
agenda
1. Begin sentence
overview
2. NO TIME “Election
Day”. I emailed this to you last week.
3. Partner intros
– You introduce your partner (~1m).
4. About 10
phrasal verbs
https://www.skypeenglishclasses.com/english-phrasal-verbs/
Tuesday
·
Begin simple sentences
·
Continue with “Election Day”
·
Every class - 10 phrasal verbs
Quiz#1
on simple sentences – soon, maybe Thursday
I
climbed Laundry Mountain on Saturday.
Reptile
Expo, Delta -snakes, lizards, spiders,
gekkos, scorpions
We
need 26 people. We have 21 right now.
We
will stay hopeful and optimistic.
Cross
our fingers.
I
have not had a class cancelled in 12 years ago.
SENTENCE
TYPES THAT WE WILL BE LEARNING IN DETAIL IN THIS COURSE: over the next three
weeks
-
really important for people devleoping their writing skills, 3/4 level
Quick
overview today, starting in in detail from tomorrow
-SIMPLE
– most basic sentence, one clause
subject
+ verb ‘The snake was very
beautiful.’ SV
-SSV
subject+subject+verb ‘Vancouver and Victoria are nice cities.’
-SVV
subject+verb+verb ‘The dog was shaking
and hiding.’
-Imperatives-
command ‘Close the door, please.’
‘Come
in.’ ‘Be quiet.’ ‘Turn on the light.’ ‘Make your bed.’
-Interrogatives-
questions ‘What time is it?’ ‘
‘What
day is it today?’ ‘How are you?’ ‘Can I borrow your car?’
COMPOUND
– two independent clauses together, two simple sentences put together
‘Mai
likes ice cream. Joe likes cake.” 2 simple sentences
Join
them together: , for , and , nor , but , or , yet , so FANBOYS
SOBA
– more useful than FANBOYS
,SOBA
, so , or , but , and
‘Mai
likes ice cream , but Joe likes cake.” shows difference
‘Mai
likes ice cream , and Joe likes cake.” shows extra information
Mai
said ‘Yes’, so Joe said ‘No’. different ideas, bad relationship
MAYBE,
depends on the class ; semicolons (I usually teach this in EF56)
-COMPLEX
-adverb
clauses – because when if
since (I will teach you 10-15.)
Joan
isn’t going to play volleyball tonight because it is going to rain.
Because
it is going to rain, Joan isn’t going to play volleyball tonight.
-noun
clauses – think, feel, know, believe, remember, forget, say
Junko
said that she would be late today.
Mei
thinks that she can make some food for the party.
We
don’t know why our boss is in a bad mood today.
Shirin
forgot that she had a doctor’s appointment today. It slipped her mind.
slip
your mind (idiom) – you forget
Sorry,
I forgot to pick up my son at school. It slipped my mind. I was 30 minutes
late.
adjective
clauses – who that which
Jen’s
neighbours who are very noisy often have arguments late at night.
Mariam
has a puppy that has white paws and black ears. complex
Mariam’s
puppy has white paws and black ears. simple
He
is a runner who has prosthetic legs.
prosthetic-
artificial leg or arm or body part
Terry
Fox- famous Canadian, ran partially across Canada on one leg
statues
at BC Place
I
want to teach you how to write sentences in all three styles.
If
you can When
you learn them, your writing will be really good.
Quick
review of the sentences that we will be covering in the next few weeks.
**
10-minute break**
Free
word processors for writing on computer:
Microdoft
Word – paid
Googledocs
-online, probably most popular
OpenOffice
Windows-
Wordpad
Mac-
Textedit?
Grammerly-
(paid) grammar teaching, proofreading app
NOT
FOR CLASS! Cheating.
It
is a crutch- be careful about letting a computer fix your grammar.
Introduce
your partner from last week.
Interviews:
1.Home
2.Family
3.Job
4.Hobbies
5.Travel
6.Future
plans
I
will ask for volunteers.
Some
people- talking out loud to a group – no problem, happy to talk, not shy
Other
people- very nervous, shy, hyperventilating, crying, run out of the room
Opportunity
to talk- low cost, low stakes situation
Grab
your opportunities, especially about using English.
veterinarian
assistant
Good
job. That went really well!
Good
work volunteering to speak. You showed some courage.
For
the people who chose not to speak, my advice is to change that.
Phrasal
verbs
Every
class, teach about 10 phrasal verbs
-extremely
useful, idioms, used daily
-
many of these you will already know, some new ones
phrasal
verb
verb
+ preposition
look
(v) + at (prep) = look at
look
+ after (prep) = look after COMPLETELY NEW MEANING
look
+ forward to = anticpating The little girl is looking forward to her
birthday party.
look
up – search, look upward, be hopeful
Things are looking up for you.
look
up to- respect, admire She really looks
up to her parents.
Phrasal
verbs – heart of English If you want to
know English well, you have to know a lot of phrasal verbs.
https://www.skypeenglishclasses.com/english-phrasal-verbs/
I
am going to ask her out. – date ‘Do you want to go to a movie Friday night?’
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