Thursday, 18 September 2025

EF23 Class 13

 

Good morning, everyone.

 

 

Today’s agenda

·      Attendance

·      Continue compound

Prepare for Quiz2 on Friday

6 sentences as usual

Choose 10 words of vocabulary to review. I will choose six of the words for the quiz.

·      Continue verb tenses

·      Begin simple past verb tense

·      Continue new dialogue “Calling 911”

 

 

Friday

·      Attendance

·      Quiz2- compound sentences

·      “Self-Assessment Reflection” Week 3

·      Vocab exercises

·      Listening fun

 

Monday

·      Continue simple past tense

·      Begin simple future tense

·       

 

 

**

Continue compound

Prepare for Quiz2 on Friday

Choose 10 words of vocabulary to review. I will choose six of the words for the quiz.

 

 

Example Quiz2

Write a compound sentence for each.

1.    so      park

It was a sunny day yesterday, so we went to the park.

2.    or      school

You can go to school by bus, or you can walk.

3.    but    work

She wants to go to the party, but she must work.

He works hard, but he doesn’t get/make/earn much money.

4.    and   sell

The jacket was on sale, so I bought it.

Joe sells old books, and he buys new ones.

Lisa sells clothes, and she sells shoes, too.

I bought some clothes, and I sell sold/will sell/am selling them today. vt

simple present verb tense- everyday, now, today

 

5.    but    run

The dog runs in the park, but the cat sleeps on the grass.

short, clear sentences

 

SV, SOBA SV.

 

6.    so      happy

Jun is on vacation, so he is happy.

 

 

My friend comes to my house, and she brings a gift. simple present tense- usually, habit

My friend came to my house, and she brought a gift. simple past tense

 

 

SV, SOBA SV.

Let’s practice and make sure everybody can do this.

 

Basics

Begin a sentence with a capital letter.

End your sentence with a  period or a question mark.

Capital letters

The first word in a sentence must be a capital.

I

people’s names

city, country

days of the week, months of the year

 

MY ADVICE: You can get more English in your daily life. It’s necessary for you to get better at English.

You need daily practice. It’s the only way to improve.

You must have English outside of the classroom.

 

 

We will choose ten new words to review in a few minutes.

I will choose six of them for the quiz.

1.    paper(n)

2.    call(v)

3.    eat(v)

4.    carrot(n)

5.    study(v)

6.    play(v)

7.    upset(adj)

8.    excited(adj)

9.    beautiful(adj)

10.                       book(n)

 

It’s easy when you’re looking. It’s harder to do.

 

LEARNING: We have to unlearn bad habits and learn better ones.

 

 

 

 

*SIMPLE PRESENT – usually, every day, habit, normally, truth

happening right now

You have to practice.

I live in Vancouver.

She works in the store.

We live in Canada.

She drives fast.

He drinks dark coffee.

 

NEXT WEEK -*PRESENT PROGRESSIVE/CONTINUOUS  is walking

She is walking. I am walking. We are walking.

I am reading.

You are sleeping.

She is working.

 

 

*SIMPLE PAST VERB TENSE – one event in the past, finished

-one minute ago, yesterday, five years ago, a million years ago

We took/had a break ten minutes ago.

Sarah watched the World Cup yesterday morning.

Mel came to Canada five years ago.

 

I met a lot of nice people in the class.

 

My daughter just texted me. ‘just’- close to now, very recently

My daughter texted me last week.

My daughter just texted me ten seconds ago.

 

I saw my father two years ago.

I just saw my parents last month.

She just talked to her dad yesterday.

I saw my second son two years ago, and I saw my youngest son last year.

Jun just had a coffee.

Would you like a coffee? No, thanks. I just had one.

 

**How to  make simple tense verbs.

 

regular verbs   past tense  ‘ed’

talk- talked

walk- walked

try- tried tryed ‘y’ changes to an ‘i’

study- studied

carry- carried

dry-dried

 

learn-learned

I learn English at SHEC. I learned compound sentences last week.

 

wash-washed

She washes the dishes every night. She washed a big Dutch oven last night.

 

stop- stopped

travel- travelled

learn- learned/learnt(less common)

 

 

 

irregular verbs – past tense not ‘ed’

“Irregular Verb List”

-begin/ beginned began

-break/ breaked broke 

-wake/woke

She wakes up at 6:30 every morning. This morning, she woke up at 6.

 

-eat/ate  little kids- I eated the cookie. I drinked the milk. I runned in the park.

I ate the cookie. I drank the milk. I ran in the park.

 

-bring/brought

She brings her lunch to school. Today, she brought a PB&J sandwich.

IDIOM PB&J – peanut butter and jam

jam

marmalade

compote

 

-spend/spent

 

-speak/spoke

-swing/swung

-go/went

She goes to school every day. This morning, she went to the library.

 

-run/ran

He runs 5km every day. Last night, he only ran 3 km.

 

-read/read

Shira reads the news every morning. She read about Terry Fox last night.

red- colour

 

-cut/cut

I cut my children’s hair at home. I cut my finger by mistake.

 

-meet/met

She meets lots of new people. She met Justin Beiber last week.

 

-see/saw

I see my son every day. I saw your sister in the mall yesterday.

-forget/forgot

I always forget to lock my door.

I forgot your birthday. I forgot to set my alarm.

-do/did

I always do my homework.

He did his homework yesterday.

-teach/taught ‘tot’

I taught Butter how to sit.

-catch/caught ‘cot’

He caught a cold. I caught Covid last year.

She took/caught a bus to school.

-wake/woke

He wakes up at 6 usually. Today he woke up at 9.

 

-cut/cut – same pronunciation

I cut my apples before I eat them.

I cut my finger yesterday.

-put/put – same pronunciation

-hit/hit – same pronunciation

-let/let– same pronunciation

-shut/shut- – same pronunciation

-cost/cost-– same pronunciation

-read/read- different pronunciation

She reads cooking magazines.

She read a good book about Prince Harry.

 

-understand/understood

-stand/stood

 

Let’s try Exercise 8

Ex. She broke/damaged/cracked/smashed a plate yesterday.

 

smush – The kid smushed a banana onto the dog’s fur.

She made a banana smoothie.

 

1.    They flew to Paris.

2.    I set my alarm for 7. I woke up an hour before the alarm clock went off.

3.    I sent an email.

4.    He wrote an essay.

5.    His mother took care of him when he got/felt sick.

6.    The teacher taught the class. She gave the students some homework.

7.    Matthew lost his wallet. He felt/was very upset.

EMOTIONS I was sad. She was happy.

8.    Angie had/caught/got a bad cold. She lay/stayed/was in bed for three days.

9.    The children swam in the lake last summer.

 

 

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