Good morning, everyone.
This is the Period 2 (12:00-2:15 am) class for these
courses:
English Foundations 4
English Foundations 5
We will get started at 12:00.
Teacher: An Haley
Email address: ahaley@vsb.bc.ca
Class blog: haleyshec.blogspot.com
Today’s agenda:
·
Check on book deposits
·
Email protocol, emailing attachments
·
Questionaire
·
Finish chatting
·
Begin sentence overview
·
HW Finish
book deposits for tomorrow
Wednesday
·
Classmate introductions- volunteer BONUS PT
·
Begin Goalsetting module
·
Begin sentence types- simple
*** Book Deposit ***
Book deposit $100 ($80 refundable)
At the end of the course, you return the books; then you get
$80 back.
The total is actually $20.
I don’t want this to be an economic barrier to anybody. If
you’re broke, come and talk to me, and we can figure something out.
SLANG
broke – no money
loaded/flush - lots of money
My uncle is loaded.
My uncle is broke.
HIGHER LEVEL VOCAB
low-income, poor, living in poverty
rich, wealthy
fortune – a lot of money, jewels, gold
fortunate (adjective) – lucky
unforunate(adj) – unlucky
fortunately (adverb) –
I lost my phone yesterday; fortunately, I found it this morning.
; fortunately, -
HIGHER LEVEL ; semicolon
vsb.schoolcashonline.com
NOTE: Use the name and email address that you used to
register for your SHEC courses.
I’d like to give out some books Thursday. Try to do the book
deposit tonight. If there are any problems, we can solve them tomorrow.
First book Know More English Thom Sunega
*** Email protocol, emailing attachments
When you send me an email, please put your name and class in
the subject line of the email. Then I will know who you are.
Email attachments
You can email a document to somebody.
Feel free to try it for homework. If this is new to you and
you’re not sure what to do, you should learn how to do it. It is not that hard,
and it is super useful.
Feel free to email me an attachment. I will email you back.
***Questionaire***
TALKING WORK:
Opportunity to chat.
-make smalltalk
-chitchat
-IDIOM chewing the fat – casually talking with a friend
SLANG chill- relax I’m
chilling at home.
TALKING What are you going to do tonight? Just chill.
WRITING I’m just going to chill.
small group chatting- opportunity to use some English is a
casual setting
It’s all about confidence.
social network- networking – loose connections with people
10-minute break
Small groups of 3-4 people.
A. Interview your
partners.
1.
Name
2.
Home
3.
Family
4.
Job
5.
Travel
6.
Hobbies
7.
Future plans
B. Make notes.
C. Prepare to introduce one of your partners for tomorrow.
SENTENCE TYPES THAT WE WILL BE LEARNING IN
DETAIL IN THIS COURSE: over the next three weeks
- sentence types, really important for people
developing their English writing and skills, 4/5 level
Quick overview today, start to go into detail
Three main sentence types: simple, compound,
complex
*SIMPLE SENTENCES – most basic sentence, one
clause = subject + verb
clause- group of words with a subject and a verb
subject- noun or pronoun
verb- action word, state of being
Kinds of simple sentences:
-SV subject + verb
The snake was very beautiful. SV
Covid 19 is a big worry for all of us. SV
This pen was a gift from my sister. SV
Dora drank some water.
-SSV subject+subject+verb
Vancouver and Victoria are nice cities.
The dog and the cat are friends.
North Vancouver and Chiba,
Japan are sister cities.
-SVV subject+verb+verb
The dog was shaking and hiding.
The little girl was playing and was laughing.
I went to my son’s house and played with my grandchildren.
We were laughing and having a good time.
SSVV
The husband and wife are arguing and fighting.
The husband and wife are holding hand and
smiling.
SV
SSV SVV SSVV
-Imperatives- command, tell someone to do
something
‘You Close the door, please.’
‘Come in.’
‘Be quiet.’
‘Turn on the light.’
‘Make your bed.’
‘Watch out.’
You watch out. Watch out.
You come in. Come in.
Head’s up! Be careful.
Take a shower.
Look up.
Sit down.
Turn around.
Watch your head!
Wash your hands.
Wear your mask.
Be quiet.
Shut up!
Keep your voice down.
Speak up.
Help me.
Go away.
Go ahead.
-Interrogative- question
What time is it?
What day is it today?
How are you?
Can I borrow your car?
How much does
that cost?
Where is Room
202?
SIMPLE SENTENCES-
SV SSV
SVV SSVV Interrogative Imperative
* COMPOUND
SENTENCE – two independent clauses together, two simple sentences put together
Mei likes ice
cream. Joe likes cake. 2 simple sentences
Join them
together: FANBOYS
7 words that we
use for compound sentences:
, for , and
, nor , but , or , yet , so
FANBOYS – easy to
remember
Some of the
FANBOYS word are not used very much for compound sentences: for nor
yet
We are going for
a hike tomorrow, for it will be a nice day. UNUSUAL
We are going for
a hike tomorrow because it will be a nice day. COMMON, AUTHENTIC ENGLISH, REAL,
NATURAL-SOUNDING
‘for’ in simple
sentences are commonly used- I have a
gift for you.
The most useful
words for compound sentences are these:
, so , or
, but , and (98% of the time)
SOBA , so , or
, but , and
SOBA – more
useful than FANBOYS
, SOBA , so , or
, but , and
How to make a
compound sentence
Mei likes ice cream. Joe likes cake. 2 SIMPLES
Mei likes ice cream, but Joe likes cake. COMPOUND shows difference
Mei likes ice
cream, and Joe likes cake. COMPOUND
shows extra information
Canada offers
many human rights, but my country does
not.
Other ways
to make compound sentences: EF56 (maybe in this class, too)
; semicolon
; TRANS,
Canada offers
many human rights; however, my country does not.
* COMPLEX
SENTENCE
1.adverb clauses
– because when if since (I will teach you
10-15.)
Shirin is
drinking coffee because she is tired.
Because she is
tired,
Shirin is drinking coffee.
*Some teachers
will tell you to not start a sentence with ‘because’. You can smile and say
‘Thank you.’
Your choice.
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.
2.noun clauses –
brain- think,
feel, know, believe, remember, forget, learn
tongue- say,
yell, whisper, talk, remind
that why how
Junko said that
she would be late today.
You said that
this is my classroom.
Mel 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.
Nasrin is
learning how to drive.
We just learned how
to make noun clauses.
3. 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
I have a pen that
has red ink.
I have a pen which
my grandmother gave me.
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
whom - very formal,
noone uses it
FOCUS OF THE
FIRST FEW WEEKS OF THIS COURSE:
I want to teach
you how to write sentences in all three styles.
It is really
important to learn these sentence styles.
These are the
sentences styles what you will need for school, university, college, work,
business, life in Canada.
If When you learn them, your writing will be
really good.
MY ADVICE: Learn
it now. Don’t wait until English 10, 11 ,12 to learn how to write sentences. The
time is now!
You can do it!
It’s hard, but
you can do it.
Review, review,
review!
Practice,
practice, practice!
Do you have
something you practice everyday?
Mastery comes
from steady daily practice.
Do you have a
goal?
It will take
steady daily work.
You will be
amazed at what you can accomplish in six months or a year.
For me, it’s
music.
mandolin -25
years
pedal steel
guitar -eight years
electric guitar-
two years
persistence,
perseverance – keep working, don’t quit
Pursue your
goals. Chase after your goals.
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