EF34 perfect tenses

 

EF34

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 11:00.

 

For November term (Q2), I‘ll be teaching the same courses as this term.

P1 8:30-10:45     EF56, Writing 567

P2 11-1:15           EF34, Writing 34

 

 

Friday, you have no school. It is Professional Development.

 

Today’s agenda:

 

·      Continue process writing – Paragraphs from homework

·      Continue verb tenses- present perfect, perfect tenses

·      Begin adjective clauses

·      Talking exercise, differences in two pictures

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Thursday

·      Continue verb tenses- present perfect continuous

·      Begin adjective clauses

·      Talking/Chatting

 

 

Monday- Test#3- process paragraph

 

 

What’s a topic that you can teach us?

 

1.    Choose a topic that you would like to teach/explain about.

2.    Plan your process paragraph – 3-4 steps, vocabulary

3.    Write your paragraph in class and for homework.

4.    Tomorrow, we can read them out loud.

 

 

Pointers for reading out loud

1.    Slow down. Take your time. It’s not a race to the end.

2.    Speak up. Big voice. We want to hear you.

3.    Eye contact. Look around. Look at people.

 

 

Good ramen place? Downtown: Marutama Restaurant

Broadway: Hokkaido Ramen

Richmond: Sampautei Ramen

 

instant ramen

 

Rice is a staple in many countries around the world.

Baking is an art.

 

 

Verb tenses-

Perfect tenses –perfect does not mean ‘perfect’ ‘great’

Jill has lived in Vancouver since 2013.

Mei has studied French for five years.

I have tried to speak more English since four months ago.

I have played guitar since I was a kid, but I have gotten more serious about in the past few years.

 

participle –

go      went           gone

live    lived            lived 

eat    ate               eaten          Bhin has not eaten meat for three years.

                                                   Bhin does not eat meat for three years. XXX

does not eat – simple present

Bhin does not eat meat.

I have taught English for 30 years.

I teach English for 30 years. XXX

I teach English.

 

present perfect + time “for five years” “since September”

Jatinder has lived in Vancouver since September, 2018.

Jatinder lives  in Vancouver.

 

take  took            taken

Elita has taken the same bus every day for two years. present perfect

Elita takes the same bus every day. simple present

 

Annie has been to Japan. She visited there in the past.

Annie has gone to Japan. She moved there.

 

Annie has been lived has lived in Japan for five years. vf

Annie has been living in Japan for five years. present perfect continuous

 

present perfect- started in the past, continues until now

 

** past perfect- rarely use, subsitute simple past

Annie had lived in Japan for five years.

Annie said that she had lived in Japan for five years. adding noun clause

 

Most times, English speakers just use simple past:

Annie had lived in Japan for five years.

Annie lived in Japan for five years.

 

Jun had worked at a coffee shop for six months. past perfect- sounds like a grammar book

Jun worked at a coffee shop for six months. simple past- more common

 

Jun was worked at a coffee shop for six months. XXX

Jun was working at a coffee shop for six months. past continuous

 

EXTRA

Had you lived in Japan?  ODD, STRANGE

Did you even live in Japan?

Have you ever lived in Japan?

 

 

**future perfect- almost never use

I will have watched an anime when you arrive home. future perfect

I will have cooked supper by the time you get home.

I’ll cook supper tonight. simple future See you when you get home.

I’ll have supper waiting for you when you get home.

 

 

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