Good
morning, everyone.
We
will get started at 11:00.
Today’s
agenda:
·
Continue with “Braille”
·
Present perfect verb tense
·
Begin sentence combining
·
Spoken
Thursday or Friday
·
Test#4- Paragraph about “Braille” (125-150
words)
·
Passive voice
Don’t worry. bu yo dan xing – Mandarin
polyglot – person who speaks multiple languages (4-5,6)
bilingual – speak two languages
trilingual – speak three languages
motivation – true stories, real experiences
focus, purpose, direction- mature, wiser
fluent English
not translating any more
For most college and university programs, you need English
12 with a good mark.
We have advisors in this school who can help you figure out
what programs are available and what the prerequites are.
“Braille”
Take turns reading aloud.
1820s eighteen
twenties
1950s nineteen fifties
I was born in the late 60s.
sixties
You were born in the early 80s.
He was born in the mid 70s.
I am in my mid-50s.
She is in her late teens.
He is in his early 30s.
present – gift
Louis – French
institute – school , organization for teaching, training,
BCIT (British Columbia Institute of Technology)
write (v) I like to write poetry.
writing (v) She is writing a birthday card for Justin Trudeau.
written (adj) He is not confident with written English.
written (v) – past participle
Three forms a verb:
simple past participle
go went gone
eat ate eaten
write wrote written
take took taken
drink drank drunk
He eats a salad every day.
She ate a green salad yesterday.
She has eaten all of the salad that was in the
fridge.
has eaten – present perfect, started in the past, continues
to now
The salad was eaten by her. – passive voice
was eating – past progressive
I was eating my supper when the phone rang.
*participle – used for passive voice and perfect tenses
present perfect – very useful – started in the past,
continues to now
live lived lived
I am living in South Vancouver.
I have lived in South Van since 2004. – present perfect
He has worked as a barber for two years.
She has enjoyed hiking for about five years.
Nichole has studied English since she was in high
school.
I have been playing guitar since I was a young teenager.
Your daughter has swum competitively for five years.
swim swam swum
Your daughter has swum competitively since she was a
kid.
I have lived here for one year. present perfect
perfect- doesn’t mean ‘perfect’, great, wonderful
Write a few examples of present perfect sentences on your
own.
I have registered in EF4 for next term.
She has studied violin since she was six years old.
He has driven a truck for five years.
drive drove driven
**You can find these online.
Tomorrow – passive voice
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