EF67 First day intro

 

Good morning, everyone.

 

This is the Period 2, P2, (12:00-2:15) class for these courses:

 

-English Foundations 6

-English Foundations 7

-Composition and Literary Studies 10

 

Please take a course outline from the front table.

We will get started at 12:00.

 

People will be coming in late, especially on the first day.

Nevertheless, I will start class at 12:00 every day.

 

 

Today’s agenda:

·      Welcome

·      Dates, times for our class

·      Parking

·      Covid protocols

·      Class blog

·      Course overview- handout

·      Communication – via email

·      Spoken- icebreaker

·      Questionnaire

 

IF TIME- may be over two classes

 

Allan Haley

 

IDIOM on their last legs, on his last legs

-ready to break, ready to die

Her iPhone4 is on its last legs.

Her grandmother is on her last legs.

She has one foot in the grave.

My dog had two paws in the grave.

 

DAILY AGENDA

Everyday I will post an ‘agenda’ -the topics to be covered that day

agenda – agenda for a business or school meeting (official, formal meeting)- list of topics to be dealt with in the meeting or class

 

NEGATIVE MEANING -a person’s agenda (what they want to do)- plan, goal against the goal of the group

“She has an agenda about coaching the kids’s soccer team. She is coaching the team in order that her son will have more playtime”

 

agenda- plan, schedule, the things that you want to talk about

e.g. an agenda for a business or any kind of official meeting/ strata council, government meeting

 

Teacher: Allan Haley

Email address: ahaley@vsb.bc.ca

 

You can call me by my first name: Al

 

I sent an email to you yesterday. If you received that email from me, then that means we can communicate via email. If you did not receive the email from me, that means I do not have your email in the computer system. We will have to fix that.

 

Did you get my email?

YES?  NO?

 

Many of you responded to my email as I requested. Thank you for that. I want communciation between us to be seamless.

Please follow these instructions when sending emails.

1.Send your confirmation email to my email address: ahaley@vsb.bc.ca.

2.Write your full name and class in the SUBJECT LINE line of your email. For example: Joe Chen EF6

 

I replied to your email : “Thanks. See you in class tomorrow.”

 

VOCAB seamless(adjective)- no problems , no confusion, no barriers, smooth

e.g. Registering for this class was seamless.

Tapping into the Skytrain with a Compass card is usually seamless.

Becoming a Canadian citizen is not a seamless process.

 

seam – where two pieces of cloth are sewed, joined, rough area, bumpy

seamless- not rough, smooth

 

 

***Everything that you see on this screen, I will put online at the end of each class.

 

 

***COURSE DATES***

Course dates: Tuesday, September 5^th – Friday, November 3^rd (Final day of class for Quarter 1)

-         one week break

Quarter 2 begins November 13 or 14

 

Q1 Sept-Nov

Q2 Nov-Jan

Q3 Feb-Apr

Q4 Apr-Jun

Summer July-Aug (five weeks)

 

 

Class time: Monday to Friday, 12:00-2:15

Our classes are two and a quarter hours long (2 hours and 15 minutes).

 

Nine weeks of class

Approx. 110 hours?

appox. the same as a regular secondary course

 

Holidays – Non-instructional Days

Monday, Sept 4 - Labour Day

Monday, Oct. 2 – National Day of Truth and Reconciliation

Monday, Oct. 9 – Thanksgiving Day

Friday, Oct. 20 – Professional Development

 

*** New Parking Procedures***

Scan the QR code. Make an account.

Your parking pass will be good for the whole of Quarter 1.

 

 

*** School wifi***

VSB-Commons

PW: AeQACYUf

Let me know if it doesn’t work.

 

 

*** Covid 19 protocols: masks, clean hands***

COVID – on the upswing, increasing

 

Prevention

#1- Feel free to wear a mask if you are concerned.

I will try to remember to wear a mask when I walk around to talk to people in class.

 

I won’t wear a mask when I’m teaching.

problem with masks – can’t see our faces, lose a lot of non-verbal communication- facial expressions, lip reading

This is the reason why talking on the phone can be so challenging.

 

Covid prevention- regularly – wear a mask, wash your hands, spray your hands, spray your desk

 

long-Covid- long lasting effects, go on for months

 

FREE MEDICAL ADVICE: Are you vaccinated? If not, get vaccinated. They are safe and effective.

 

 

*** CLASS BLOG *** IMPORTANT ***

Everything that goes on this screen, I will put up on our class blog.

haleyshec.blogspot.com

 

You do not have to make notes as we go; neverthless, research suggests making notes during class is an excellent way to improve retention.

 

VOCAB retention – retain, remember- remembering what you heard or read

 

NEW WORD blog – weblog- keep a written record on the internet, online diary, publish your thoughts, writing- any topic: fashion, kids, music, cooking, computers, travel

 

 

 

weblog

web- internet, World Wide Web  URL www.

log- written record

nurse in a hospital, truck driver- record events as they occur

 

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

I will update my blog every day after class. You can check it and review what we did.

You can check the blog as much as you like. There is no sign in, no password. It’s all public and accessible. People from all over the world visit my blog.

Our blog is a tremendous resource that you can use. You can use it this term, and you can keep using it after you finish this course, forever. I will keep it up until the end of time.

My class blog goes back 11 years.

My class blog is searchable. You can search for something specific that you are looking for.

 

The search bar is in the upper lefthand corner of the main blog screen. Search for whatever you want to learn more about.

 

NEW VOCAB? upper lefthand, lower righthand

e.g. The coffee cups are in the middle righthand cupboard.

 

 

***ACTION***

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

haleyshec.blogspot.com

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

Any trouble getting in? We’ll figure it out.

 

If yes? Good!

 

If no? Let me know.

 

***Break***

We will take our 10-minute break around 1 or 1:10 every day.

 

 

***NAMES***

I prefer Allan

If you are uncomfortable calling a teacher by their first name, then call me whatever you feel comfortable with.

 

English – Professor Jones- only for university

 

 

I would like to call you by your first name if you don’t mind.

If you have an English name that you prefer, just let me know, and I will try to remember.

‘nickname’

I can’t change your name in the computer system. I will try to remember.

 

 

***10- minute break***

 

***Attendance***

 

***Continue the course intro tomorrow***

 

 

IDIOM         Ice-breaker – warm up technique, social game

e.g. party, don’t know anybody- basic icebreaker nametag, invite to talk

shy- STRONG WORD shame, afraid of being judged by others

*introverted- don’t like social contact, tires them out, drains their battery

*extraverted- love to be social, love being around people, social interaction charges their battery

 

Small groups (4-5 people)

Choose people who do not speak your language.

Reason #1- easy to fall into mother language, focred to stick to English

Reason #2- getting used to different accents among English users

 

A.      Chatting with your partner(s)

1.    Name

2.    Home

3.    Family

4.    Job

5.    Hobbies

6.    Special skills

7.    Travel

8.    Future plans