Tuesday, 22 October 2024

EF45 Class 34

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Spoken presentations

Pass in writing before you do your presentation.

·      Continue verb tenses – present perfect

IF TIME

·      Begin adjective clauses

·      Essay work (EF5)

 

Wednesday

·      Spoken presentations

Pass in writing before you do your presentation.

·      Return Quiz#5

Optional RW for 1 bonus point

·      Adjective clauses

·      Essay work (EF5)

 

Thursday

·      Essay work (EF5)

·      Quiz#5- adjective clauses

 

Friday

·      Pro D

·      No school

 

Monday

·      Essay work(EF5)

 

Tuesday

·      Pass-in essay-(EF5) (EF4- optional)

 

Wednesday

·      Return essay

 

Thursday, Oct.31

·      Replacement quiz and/or test (last hour)

 

Friday, Nov. 1 – last day

Marks day

No instruction

One-on-one meetings

 


moonshine- very strong spirits

 

 

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Continue verb tenses – present perfect

 

Verb tenses:

SIMPLE- simple present, simple past, simple future

PROGRESSIVE- present progressive, past progressive, future progressive- less commonly used

 

 

Verb tense – present perfect – very useful

present perfect – started in the past, continues up to now

 

perfect – doesn’t mean ‘Perfect!’, just a word, from Latin

 

PRESENT PERFECT – started in the past, continues until now

 

VERY COMMON USAGE of present perfect

 

Molly has lived in Vancouver since 1998.

has lived – present perfect

 

Molly lives in Vancouver since 1998. Poor English level

Molly lived in Vancouver since 1998. Poor English level

 

Molly has lived in East Van since 2014. High English level

I have lived in my house since we moved from Tunisia in 2018.

 

** present perfect -two-word verb

Use the past participle

present                past                       participle

go                          went                     gone

eat                         ate                         eaten

 

I ate the cookies. She ate the ice cream. We have eaten all of the treats.

 

It is good to use a time indicator with present perfect

 ‘since 1998’   ‘since we moved’   ‘since I came to Canada’

since- from a certain time

“for 10 years” “for five minutes”

Janet has studied piano since she was a child.

time indicator - since she was a child adverb clause

 

Janet has studied piano since she was a child.  complex sentence- adv cl

 

DIFFERENT MEANINGS

Janet has studied piano since she was a child. PRESENT PERFECT

Janet studied piano when she was a child. SIMPLE PAST

 

 

GRAMMAR BOOK Janet had studied piano when she was a child.

had studied- past perfect -!!! Rarely used by native speakers.!!!

-         substitute simple past

 

Janet has studied piano since 2020. simple sentence

Janet has studied piano for two years. simple sentence

 

Janet studied piano for two years. simple past - finished

 

time indicator – since she was a child – adverb clause COMPLEX

                               -since 2006 – prepostional phrase SIMPLE

                               -for two years – prepostional phrase SIMPLE

 

past perfect- rarely used

Janet had studied piano for two years. past perfect- English speakers rarely use this. We substitute simple past.

Janet studied piano for two years. More authentic sounding.

Janet had studied piano since she was a child.  past perfect

Janet studied piano when she was a child.

 

present perfect – has studied

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Listening

 

11.                       What is one tenth of $40?  1/10 $4 10%

12.                       What object is hidden for a short time during a lunar eclipse?

13.                       Why can’t plants grow at night?   photosynthesis, chlorophil

14.                       Which produces light: a star or a planet? The sun is a small star.

15.                       How much is 14 + 15 +16? 45

 

14 / 40   fourteen   forty -stress is on different syllables

15 / 50

 

 

 

 

Quiz#5

Write a sentence with a noun clause for each.

Pass in by 9:43.


1.    believe cooking


2.    know school

3.    forget mother

4.    think lunch

5.    say  doctor

6.    feel money

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