Tuesday, 21 October 2025

EF45 Class 33

 

Final two weeks

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Presentations 1

·      Continue dialogue “Making Home Improvements”

·      Begin adjective clauses

·      Quiz4- noun clauses (last 30 minutes)

 

Wednesday

·      Presentations 2

·      Continue adjective clauses

·      Begin essay work EF5

 

Thursday

·      Presentations 3

·      Continue adjective clauses

Quiz Monday

·      Continue essay work

 

Friday

No SCHOOL

Professional Development Day

 

 

 

Final week

Monday

·      Quiz5 on adjective clauses

·      Essay work

 

Tuesday

·      Essay

 

Wednesday

 

Thursday

·      Optional replacement quiz and/or test

Do you want to gamble with a quiz and/or test?

 

Friday-final day

·      One-on-one meetings

I will be creating final marks and comments.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Advice on Public Speaking

 

It’s very normal to feel nervous about talking to a group.

Everybody is scared or at least wary of speaking in public.

 

wary of = nervous/worried about   

 

#1 fear of most people is public speaking

 

If you feel nervous, you are in good company.

 

-when faced with an opportunity to do some public speaking

-autonomic responses – unconscious, automatic body responses, we can’t control them

-                      bad dreams before

-                      nervousness

-                      heart racing

-                      upset stomach

-                      knot in your stomach

-                      butterflies in your stomach

-                      jittery, shaky hands

-                      sweating

-                      clammy hands

-                      vision blurred

-                      tunnel vision

-                      voice cracks

-                      have to go to the bathroom

-                      red face, blush, flush

-                      mind goes blank

-                      feel faint, dizzy, light-headed

-                      crying

-                      laughing

-                      pacing, moving a lot

 

 

These are normal and predicable responses.

Most of us are all in the same boat here. We are in the same shoes.

 

IDIOM in good company, in the same boat, in the same shoes- we all share the same experience

 

REMEMBER: We’re all on your side. Everybody wants you to do well.

 

Try to relax, if possible.

 

We are interested in what you have to say.

 

If you mess up, just take a second. Take a moment. Take a deep breath.

We’ll wait.

Then keep going.

 

No need to apologize. Don’t apologize.

 

 

Four Tips/Pieces of Advice I Gave My Children for Public Speaking

 

1. Deaf grandmother- speak up, speak a bit louder than usual, slow your rate of speech down a bit, slower than usual

2. Good dog!- energetic tone, energy in your voice, animated, avoid monotone

3. Magic eye – eye contact, right between the eyes

4. Wavy hands- hand gestures, be careful of pacing

 

It gets easier with practice.

If you see a presenter that you like, copy some aspects of their style.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

**

Quiz4

Write a sentence with a noun clause for each.

1.          think         house

2.          know        cold

3.          hope         problem

4.          believe     difficult

5.          forget       city

6.          say            costume

 

 

EF23 Class 33

 

Today’s agenda

·      Attendance

·      Spoken presentations 1- talking about the person or place

·      Continue simple verb tenses- examples

 

Wednesday

·      Spoken presentations 2- talking about the person or place

·      New dialogue “Interviewing for a Job”

·      Talk about Test Paragraph Thursday

 

Thursday

·      Spoken presentations 3- talking about the person or place

·      “Self-Assessment Reflection” Week8

·      Modals/Modal Auxiliaries

·      Test2- short paragraph

 

Friday

NO SCHOOL

ProD

 

FINAL WEEK

Monday

·      Modals/Modal Auxiliaries

·      “Phrasal Verbs”

 

Tuesday

·      Quiz6- simple present, past, future and present progressive

simple, compound, complex sentences

 

Wednesday

·      Review

 

Thursday

·      Optional replacement quiz and/or test

You can replace one quiz or test with a new quiz or test.

You will get the new mark.

 

Friday- Final day

·      One-one-one final meetings

I will be writing final report cards and comments.

 

 

**

Advice on Public Speaking

 

It’s very normal to feel nervous about talking to a group.

Everybody is scared or at least wary of speaking in public.

 

wary of = nervous/worried about   

 

#1 fear of most people is public speaking

 

If you feel nervous, you are in good company.

 

-when faced with an opportunity to do some public speaking

-autonomic responses – unconscious, automatic body responses, we can’t control them

-                      bad dreams before

-                      nervousness

-                      heart racing

-                      upset stomach

-                      knot in your stomach

-                      butterflies in your stomach

-                      jittery, shaky hands

-                      sweating

-                      clammy hands

-                      vision blurred

-                      tunnel vision

-                      voice cracks

-                      have to go to the bathroom

-                      red face, blush, flush

-                      mind goes blank

-                      feel faint, dizzy, light-headed

-                      crying

-                      laughing

-                      pacing, moving a lot

 

 

These are normal and predicable responses.

Most of us are all in the same boat here. We are in the same shoes.

 

IDIOM in good company, in the same boat, in the same shoes- we all share the same experience

 

REMEMBER: We’re all on your side. Everybody wants you to do well.

 

Try to relax, if possible. We are interested in what you have to say.

 

If you mess up, just take a second. Take a moment. Take a deep breath.

We’ll wait.

Then keep going.

 

No need to apologize. Don’t apologize.

 

 

Four Tips/Pieces of Advice I Gave My Children for Public Speaking

 

1. Deaf grandmother- speak up, speak a bit louder than usual, slow your rate of speech down a bit, slower than usual

2. Good dog!- energetic tone, energy in your voice, animated, avoid monotone

3. Magic eye – eye contact, right between the eyes

4. Wavy hands- hand gestures, be careful of pacing

 

It gets easier with practice.

If you see a presenter that you like, copy some aspects of their style.

 

EXTRA TIP: Reframe in my mind- no group, just individuals

Everybody is on your side.

 

 

 

**

Continue simple verb tenses- examples

simple future

are going to

will

 

“Our Upcoming Family Vacation”

will go

will drive

will take

will sit

will sit

will read

will bring

will visit

will take

will swim

will collect

will build

will be

 

“My Plans for the Weekend”

will be

will play

will watch

match = sports, soccer game

 

tournament- games all day, big competition with many teams, many teams all day

 

league- a group of teams that play each other, play all year, all season

 

will pick up

will meet

will go

will sing

will wash

will go

will take

will rent

 

buddies- friends, pals

 

SIMPLE PRESENT, PAST and FUTURE

Monday, 20 October 2025

EF45 Class 32

 

Final two weeks

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Talk about replacement quiz and test.

·      Return Test3

Optional RW for 1 point

·      Practice noun clauses

Choose vocab for quiz, noun clauses

·      New dialogue “Making Home Improvements”

 

Tuesday

·      Presentations 1

·      Continue dialogue “Making Home Improvements”

·      Begin adjective clauses

·      Quiz4- noun clauses (last 30 minutes)

 

Wednesday

·      Presentations 2

·      Continue adjective clauses

·      Begin essay work EF5

 

Thursday

·      Presentations 3

·      Continue adjective clauses

Quiz Monday

·      Continue essay work

 

Friday

No SCHOOL

Professional Development Day

 

 

 

Final week

Monday

·      Quiz5 on adjective clauses

·      Essay work

 

Tuesday

·      Essay

 

Wednesday

 

Thursday

·      Optional replacement quiz and/or test

Do you want to gamble with a quiz and/or test?

 

Friday-final day

·      One-on-one meetings

I will be creating final marks and comments.

 

 

**

Test3 Paragraph narrative or descriptive (last 60m)

Phones and devices put away.

I will give two topics: one narrative, one descriptive. You can choose which one you want to write about.

Paragraph at least seven sentences.

A. Write about a difficult decision you had to make in your life.

B. Describe the photograph.

 

 

 

 

#1 priority – Good sentences.

Simple, compound, and complex sentences.

-         punctuation

-         verb tense

-         verb form

-         articles

-         spelling

-         prepositions

-         basic sentence structure S+V

-         word form- vocabulary

There’s a lot to learn and practice.

 

Optional RW for 1 point. Pass it in today or first thing tomorrow.

Getting better. Keep working. Keep practicing.

 

 

She is wearing a hat. He is wearing a ring.

She is wearing makeup.

 

 

 

**

Presentations

Pass in your writing (a few paragraphs) first thing on the day you are doing your talk.

I am going to sit in the back.

We can come up to the front one by one and talk to the class.

You can have some notes, but do not read off the page.

We might ask you some questions about your topic.

We will give some positive feedback on slips.

 

These will be fun and interesting. You will feel a bit nervous, but you’ll be fine.

 

**

 

 


Noun Clauses

 

Next kind of sentence- complex sentence with a noun clause

 

Sentence styles:

-SIMPLE   SV   SSV   SVV   SSVV   Imperative   Interrogative

 

-COMPOUND      SV, SOBA SV.

EF56 level

SV; SV.

SV; TRANS, SV.

 

-COMPLEX

- adverb clauses   because   when   if   unless   although   until   after

- noun clauses    TODAY, this week

- adjective clauses   next week

 

 

Noun clauses

-used with verbs that have to do with thinking or your brain/mind:

e.g. think, know, hope, understand, believe, feel, remember, forget

 

-used with verbs that have with speech

e.g. say, tell, remind, whisper, shout, yell

 

We most often use these pronouns: that why how

 

Two pools of words:

A-VERBS: think, know, hope, understand, believe, feel, remember, forget, say, tell, remind, whisper, shout, yell

 

B-PRONOUNS: ‘that’ ‘why’ ‘how’

 

To write a noun clause take an “A” and put it with a “B” word.

A+B=noun clause

 

*think + that

Sarah thinks that it will rain tomorrow.

 

*believe + that

Mei believes that she will pass her driving test.

 

*know + that

Sarah knows that English is very important for her success in Canada.

 

*hope + that

Mei hopes that she will win the lottery.

 

*know + why

Molly doesn’t know why the baby is crying.

 

*know + what

Do you know what time it is?

 

* say + that

He said that the rock is too heavy to move.

 

*believe + that

She believes that she can be successful in Canada.

 

*understand + what

Do you understand what I mean?

 

*feel + that

Joan feels that her daughter is not doing as well as she could be in school.

 

 

 

CONTINUE

Two pools of words:

A-VERBS: think, know, hope, understand, believe, feel, remember, forget, say, tell, remind, whisper, shout, yell

 

B-PRONOUNS: ”that’ ‘why’ ‘how’ OTHER WORDS who, whatever, whenever, if, whether, etc.

 

Choose ten verbs to review for the quiz. I will choose six of them.

We will choose ten vocab words to review. I will choose six of them.

 

e.g. Write a sentence with a noun clause for each.

1. know      job

I know (that) you will get a great job.

 

I know that finding a job is very hard.

 

Three types of dependent clauses:

adverb clauses

noun clauses

adjective clauses

 

usage

She is happy because she got a new job. adverb cl

She wonders if she will like her new apartment. noun clause

She was talking to her neighbour who is 90 years old. adjective clause

 

Keeping them straight is a challenge.

 

 

 

He hopes that he will find new friends in Vancouver.

 

EXCEPTION

She knows how to knit.

We know how to get to the party.

He knows how to talk to people.

 

 

Let’s choose some verbs to review.

1.    think

2.    know

3.    hope

4.    believe

5.    remember

6.    forget

7.    say

8.    tell*

9.    shout

10.                       yell

 

say  She said that she would be late today.

tell She told me that she would be late today.

Mei always says that she is busy.

Did you say that you were from Iran?

Did you say that you were Iranian/Persian?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let’s choose some nouns to review.

1.    book

2.    house

3.    city

4.    problem

5.    car

6.    cold

7.    horse

8.    difficult

9.    colourful

10.                       costume



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New dialogue: Making Home Improvements

Let’s get into small groups (4-5 people)

Discuss Brainstorming and Vocabulary Preview