P1 EF5 Class 21

 

Good morning, everyone.

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Midterm recommendations- explain

·      Continue compound sentences

Quiz4 Tuesday

Coordinating conjunctions/transitional terms to review:

1.       so

2.       or

3.       but

4.       and

5.       however

6.       therefore

7.       also

8.       nevertheless

9.       meanwhile

10.     for example

 

 

Vocabulary to review:

1.       look

2.       bring

3.       walk

4.       give

5.       follow

6.       issue

7.       member

8.       community

9.       level

10.     area

 

·      Continue descriptive writing- grandmother, pictures

Continue adjectives

Teach order of adjectives

Test2 – descriptive paragraph Wednesday?

 

Tuesday

·      Quiz4- compound sentences

·      Continue descriptive writing- writing from homework

 

Wednesday

·      Test2 – descriptive paragraph

 

Thursday

·      Midterm recs – first half of class

 

Friday

·      Midterm recs- other half of the class

 

Monday, June 2

First day of reg for summer term.

I am scheduled to teach P1 EF5 in the summer. This could change.

 

 

 

Midterm Recommendations-

 

We are at the halfway point in the term. We have only four and a half weeks left.

 

Registration for Summer courses will begin next Monday. You will be able to register via the South Hill website as usual. You will be emailed a link to follow in order to register.

I will show the class how to register on Monday. I will demonstrate how to register.

 

In order to register, you need a recommendation from your teacher.

The midterm recommendation is a snapshot or picture of how you are doing at this moment, based on your average so far.

 

Next Monday, I will give you a midterm recommendation for which English class you should register for in summer. If you are not going to take a class in summer, you can use the midterm rec to register for next September when registration opens for those terms.

 

This Thursday and Friday, we will have a short chat at my desk. We will talk about how things are going so far in this course and what your next course should/could be. I will put your recommendation into a spreadsheet for the advisors. By ‘so far’, I mean we have finished five of nine weeks. “So far’ means ‘up to now’.

 

I make comments about ORAL and WRITTEN for each student. The comments are based on the PLOs.

I can’t email the comments to you. The school software will not do that. If you want a copy of my comments, you can take a picture of the comments on your phone.

 

The interim/midterm recommendation will be based on the quizzes and tests you have done so far this term. Also, I will give you a spoken mark out of 10 based on how much speaking you do in class. Plus there are points for rewrites.

 

REMINDER:

Tests are worth double what quizzes are worth.

Test  X/6 = X/12

Quiz  X/6 = X/6

RW Bonus 1 pt each

Spoken1  X/10

 

The minimum average for early registration is 65%. If your average is over 65%, you can register for the next level on the first day of reg, which is Wednesday.

 

If you are between 50-64%, you will have to wait until Friday to register.

 

**At SHEC, we want the strongest students to move up first.

 

 

REMEMBER: The final pass mark at the end of course is 50%.

 

REMINDER: Teachers in BC use this vocabulary for assessment.

New BC Ministry of Education marking categories:

Emerging – first steps, beginning, not ready to move up

Developing- partial understanding, getting better

Proficient- have skills and abilities

Extending- sophisticated understanding and ability

 

 

 

 

For the final four weeks, we will keep doing tests and quizzes until the end of the course. Plus, there will be a second spoken mark for the final few weeks worth X/15. Plus, we will do a presentation worth 10 points. Also, there will be an essay.

 

IMPORTANT: You will have lots of opportunity to bring your marks up in the last weeks of class.

You will also have lots of opportunity to bring your marks down if you stop working.

 

This is just the halfway point.

 

OPTIONS for registration- Stay at your current level or move up to the next level

EF5- EF5 or EF6

EF6- EF6 or EF7

 

 

 

 

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My son took the dog for a walk, and his sister did, too.

My son took the dog for a walk; also, he cleaned his room.

 

 

MODEL QUIZ

Write an appropriate compound sentence for each.

1.    so      bring

Mei had a potluck, so we brought some pizza.

2.    and   member

We are friends, and we are members of the same gym.

 

however/nevertheless

however issue

She is very strong speaker; however, she has issues with verb tenses.

She has issues with verb tenses; nevertheless, she is a very strong speaker.

 

She is very strong speaker, but she has issues with verb tenses.

 

My husband brought a flower for me; however, it was my birthday. XXX

My husband brought a flower for me; however, I would have prefered cash.

They invited me to the meeting; however, the issue was not impartant.

 

Today is my birthday; however, my husband forgot it.

It is raining today, but I didn’t bring my umbrella.

 

There are a lot of areas for sightseeing; for example, you can visit Gastown, Second Beach, QE Park, etc.

There are a lot of areas for sightseeing; for example, Gastown, Second Beach, QE Park, etc. XXX

 

He was exhausted after work; therefore, he took a nap.

He was exhausted after work; however/nevertheless, his mom kept nagging him.

 

 

OUR DESCRIPTIVE WRITING

Focus on seeing- our sense of sight-

We will be using adjectives – descriptive words – to describe things

 

Descriptive words about how things look:

-opinion- beautiful, ugly, nice, pretty, handsome, gorgeous, adorable, cute, attractive, etc.

 

-colour- blue, dark blue, navy blue, sky blue, robin’s egg blue,

light green, forest green, seafoam green, lime green, neon green, hunters’ orange, fire engine red, burgandy, maroon, dark brown, chocolate brown, light brown, black

 

-shape- triangular, round, square, pear-shaped, fat, skinny, full-figured, slim, rectangular,  five-sided, six-sided, eight-sided (stop sign), pentagonal

 

-size – small, big, giant, huge, tiny, miniscule, skinny, immense, gigantic

 

-material- wood, wooden, metal, metallic, leather, plastic, cotton, nylon, silk, wool, down (small feathers of a goose), Gore-Tex, fleece, velvet, lace, denim (jeans), burlap

 

You need vocabulary to write good descriptions. You can use your dictionary or thesaurus to find vocabulary.

 

Dictionary- gives definitions of words

 

Thesaurus- useful tool for building and discoverng new vocabulary

- gives synonyms for words

-antonym – word with opposite meaning

 

WEBSITE:    thesaurus.com

You can use a thesaurus when you writing descriptive paragraphs in this class.

I use a thesaurus all the time when I am writing.

You can use a thesaurus to build vocabulary.

CLASS/HOMEWORK ACTIVITY:

Choose a photograph.

Brainstorm descriptive words to describe the photograph.

You can describe the entire picture of focus on just a part of it.

Write a short descriptive paragraph.

Tomorrow- play a game. We will read them out loud and guess which picture you are writing about.

Challenge: Write it yourself. Don’t use ChatGPT or a translating app.