EF23 Class 4

 

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 9:15

 

Quiz – short, 20m, six sentences

example quiz

Quiz

Write a simple sentence for each word.

1. school

Maris goes to school every day.

2. park

The kids play in the park after lunch.

3. store

The store is closed today.

4. bicycle

5. pet

6. job

 

Test- longer, 45m, short paragraph

What did you do on the weekend?

past tense verbs

 

Exam – 2,3,4 hours long, huge test

 

I have sleep in my eye.

sleep(n)-

She has a sty in her eye.

He has dry eyes. He uses eye drops.

I have red eyes. My eyes are red. My eyes are bloodshot. I have allergies.

High blood pressure is dangerous to your health.

High blood pressure can cause glacoma.

My grandmother had cataracts. Cataracts cover the pupil of the eye.

iris- coloured part of your eye- brown, green, blue, hazel

pupil- centre hole in your eye where the light comes in

 

Some people use coloured contact lenses.

 

eyelashes- little hairs around out eyes, attached to eyelids

eyebrows- hairs above your eyes on the lower part of your forehead

 

Some people life to wear false eyelashes.

It is fashionable to wear false eyelashes.

fashion(n)- style

fashionable(adjective)- stylish

She is a very stylish dresser.

He is a very stylish dresser. He is a dandy-not very common

He is a sharp dresser.

She looks lovely. She looks fabulous.

She looks elegant.

elegant(adj) – simple and beautiful, classy

IDIOM put together- well-dressed for men

He is always put-together.

 

HARD VOCAB heterochromia- two different colour eyes

Huskies are often heterochomatic.

 

ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY

always

usually

often

mostly

sometimes   Sometimes, I sometimes listen to music, sometimes.

occasionally

rarely

never

 

 

either or

neither nor          I don’t like pizza. Me, neither.

 

 

Today’s agenda

·      Finish introductions of classmates

·      Finish revising examples from Friday writing- corrections

·      “Interviewing for a Job” dialogues

·      Daily pronunciation work- minimal pairs and tongue twisters

·      HW 

 

Wednesday

·      Begin sentences-

An overview of the sentence types that we will cover in this course.

·      Begin simple sentences

·      “Interviewing for a Job” dialogues

·      Teach structure of a paragraph

 

Thursday

·      Continue simple sentences

·      Teach structure of a paragraph

·      Modal auxilairies

 

Friday

·      Test#1 -short paragraph on an easy topic, at least 80 words, minimum of five sentences

·      Continue simple sentences

I will explain the structure of the quiz

Choose vocabulary for Quiz#1 on Monday

 

Monday

·      Quiz#1 – simple sentences

 

 

 

ICEBREAKER:

A.       Chat with your partners.

1.       Name

2.       Home

3.       Family

4.       Job

5.       Travel

6.       Hobbies

7.       Future plans

B. Introduce one of your partners to the class. You don’t have to talk about all seven of the topics. Choose some of them.

 

She has a fifteen-month-old baby.

Her baby is fifteen months old.

She has an infant. brand new baby

She is a toddler. baby who can walk a little bit

 

She is good at multitasking. doing many jobs at the same time

 

I would like to introduce my classmate.

I would like to VERB

I would like to go to Surrey.

I would like to eat some lunch.

 

She owns a beauty salon.

beauty salon- salon(French) – haircut and trim, colouring-dye, perm for women- curl or wave

I want to get a trim because I have split ends. My hair looks frizzy.

 

balding- losing hair

I am balding. I am losing my hair.

 

She is a lawyer. She used to be a lawyer in her country. She was a lawyer.

lawyer / liar- pronunciation

lawyer rhymes with ‘boy’ er

liar  rhymes with ‘high’ er-

lie opposite of truth

 

UBC- University of British Columbia

 

used to be(v)- was, past, not now

She used to live in Tehran.

She lived in Tehran.

She used to VERB.

She used to sing.

She used to play soccer.

She used to think that Canada was a strange country. Now, she likes it.

I used to have money, but then I had kids.

 

 

**Continue sentence writing from Friday

 

1.    I like improve my english in this course,

I would like to improve my English in this course.

I want to improve my English in this course.

 

She speaks Cambodian.

 

2.    I like speak,write, readi

I like speaking, writing, and reading.

I like hiking and camping.

I like taking photos.

I like cooking.

I like to shopping. XXX

I like to go shopping.

I like diving.

I like dancing.

I like watching football.

 

3.    I can conversation with classmate.

I can conversation(n) with classmate.

I can have conversations with classmates.

I can talk with classmates.

 

Modal auxilairies- I will teach these later this week.

can

could

may

might

must

should

will

would

shall

can + to speak

Carol can speak Spanish.

The cat can climb a tree very quickly.

Carol can speaking Spanish. XXX

 

 

4.    I like to go to the shopping.

I like to go shopping.

I like to go hiking.

“Interviewing for a Job”

Get into small groups (4-5 people)

-Discuss Warm-Up Questions

-Vocabulary Preview