EF23 Class 17

 

Today’s agenda

·      Attendance

·      Review simple and compound sentences

Quiz3 tomorrow – simple and compound sentences

Choose 10 words of vocabulary to review for the quiz

·      Finish simple past tense

·      Begin simple future tense

·      New dialogue “Talking about the Weather”

 

Thursday

·      Attendance

·      Quiz3- simple and compound sentences

·      Continue simple future verb tense

Exercises

 

Friday

·      “Self-Assessment Reflection” Week 4

·      Vocab exercises

·      Listening fun

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXAMPLE

I read a book, but you don’t read a book.

 

present tense- now

I read books, but you don’t read books.

**Simple present does not mean ‘happening now’. It means usual, always, sometimes, never.

I am reading a book, you are not reading a book. present progressive- happening right now

 

simple past

I read a book, but you didn’t read a book.

 

VERB TENSES SO FAR

Simple present, simple past

 

I read a book. simple present- You read the same book every day of your life.

 

I read the Bible everyday. I read the Koran everyday. same book everyday

 

I read book. XXX

I read books. everyday

I read a book yesterday.

 

I read books, but you don’t read books.  in general, usually, every day

 

I read Original Sin last week. – simple past tense

I finished the book yesterday.

 

 

 

 

COMMON ERROR

I read a book.  right now XXX

I am reading a book. right now

I read books. usually, habit

 

He will read this book tomorrow.

She will do some reading tonight. very natural sounding

She will do some reading about technology tonight.

 

She will do some reading about technology when she gets home.

COMPLEX SENTENCE- start to study this tomorrow

when   because   if

 

I took a picture there.

I took a picture of the waterfall.

She took a picture of her family next to the Steam Clock in Gastown.

It is a pedestrian area in the summer. No cars are allowed.

VOCAB ped- foot   pedal   pedestrian

Babies walk on all-fours.

Babies crawl.

Older babies scoot.

Small children toddle. They are called toddlers.

 

 

Quiz3

SIMPLE SENTENCES- SV   SSV   SVV

COMPOUND SENTENCES- SV, SOBA SV.

Let’s choose ten words to review.I will choose six of them for the quiz.

 

 

 

 

 

MODEL Quiz3

Write an appropriate sentence for each.

1.SIMPLE  SV       dog

2. SIMPLE SSV     cat

3. SIMPLE SVV     park

4. COMPOUND but      try

5. COMPOUND and     walk

6. COMPOUND so        eat

 

1.    The dog sleeps on the floor.

2.    The cat and the dog play together on the grass.

5. Maris walks around the neighborhood, and her neighbors talk to her.

6. I am hungry, so I will eat something.

I like eggs, so I usually eat eggs for breakfast.

The kids were hungry, so they ate some snacks.

 

 

Let’s choose ten words of vocab to review for the quiz. I will use six of them.

1.    day (n)

2.    job (n)

3.    game (n)

4.    talk (n,v)

5.    live (v)

6.    open (v)

7.    fast (adj)

8.    expensive (adj)

9.    slowly (adverb)

10.                       friendly (adj)

 

Let’s take a few minutes and review the meanings of these works.

 

SV My favourite day is Friday.

Yesterday was a beautiful day.

We met a few days ago.

One day, I decided to go / went / will go to Paris.

 

I am angry today, but I look at the happy.  day

 

I will go for a walk today. day

 

I work every day except Sunday. SV

 

 

I like the job, so I am usually happy at work. SV, so SV.  COMPOUND

I lost my job yesterday, so I am searching for a new job.

I lost my job yesterday, so I will search for a new job. SIMPLE FUTURE

 

 

 

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SIMPLE PAST VERB TENSE

 

“Irregular Verb List”

catch           caught

bring           brought

take             took

eat               ate

write           wrote

 

Regular verbs

walk            walked

talk              talked

arrive          arrived

finish          finished

travel          traveled

want           wanted

 

sometimes ‘y’—‘I’

study          studied

party           partied

try               tried

 

enjoy          enjoyed  Why? WHY? vowel before ‘y’

 

It is tricky and confusing.

 

 

VOCAB

everyday (adj) – regular occurrence, describes a noun

Everyday weather in winter in Vancouver is rainy.

Doing laundry is a everyday chore for me.

 

every day (n) – every single day, noun

I do laundry every day.

It rains almost every day in winter in Vancouver.

 

I do laundry. She does laundry.

I wash the dishes. She washes the dishes twice a day.

He sweeps the floor every night before bed.

She mops the floor once a week.

I cook every day. I cook rice every day.

I wake up at 7 every day.

 

Rice is an everyday food for me. ‘everyday’ describes ‘rice’

 

every day

every morning

every night

every week

every month

every year

every Wednesday

every Saturday night

every November

every moment

He thinks about his kids every moment / all the time.

every second

Every minute, she thinks about her business.

 

We go to Victoria every year for Christmas.

 

 

 

 

You just have to learn them.

 

 

 

 

 

Simple present

Simple past

 

Our new verb tense for this week:

-simple future- one event in the future

-         five minutes in the future, ten years in the future

 

 

Easiest way to make simple future ‘will’

will + INFINITIVE  ‘ to eat’  NO ‘to’

will + to eat

will eat

 

will ate   will eating   will to eat

will eat   That’s it!

 

**Later- modals – can could should might will

 

The verb does not change with the subject.

S will eat lunch at 12.

I will eat lunch at 12.

You will eat lunch at 12.

She will eat lunch at 12.

They will eat lunch at 12.

We will eat lunch at 12.

Jun will eat lunch at 12.

will eats

 

IDIOM butter somebody up – give compliments

 

 

e.g.

Doris will go to Metrotown in five minutes.

Doris will eat dinner at six o’clock.

Doris will wash her clothes on Saturday morning.

Doris will visit her mother next week.

 

Jun will try

June will study

She will exercise

He will visit us.

We will travel.

will + to go

 

 

BIT HIGHER LEVEL

Another way to make simple future:

be going to

be going to  is are am

 

Doris is going to go to Metrotown in five minutes.

Doris is going to eat dinner at six o’clock.

Doris is going to wash her clothes on Saturday morning.

Doris is going to visit her mother next week.

 

I am going to go

He is going to go

We are going to

 

EASIEST WAY TO MAKE SIMPLE FUTURE

will + SIMPLE VERB

will go                   “Joe will go to the school at 12.”

will going   will went   will to go

will move             “Sarah will move to Surrey next month.”

will eat                 “I will eat in a restaurant tonight”

 

will walk               “I will walk Butter around the park after class.”

                               “I won’t walk Butter around the park after class.”

will walks

will walked

will to talk

will walking

will walk

 

will drink              “He will drink a cup of coffee with some friends on Sunday.”

will visit                “I will visit my sister in Holland next month.”

will play                “She will play the piano/guitar/oud/arhu in the

evening.”

“He will play with his granddaughter in the evening.”

 

“She will go to Hawaii.”

“She will go to Hawaii in January.”

 

 

EF45 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ‘will’ and ‘be going to’

will – decide right now

be going to – already decided, already planned

 

We are going to go to Paris in two months. already planned

We will go to Paris in two months. sounds ok, but not as natural

 

will -decide right now

I will help you.

I will have a large coffee and a chocolate donut, please.

 

Some grammar books talk about % percentages. That never made sense to me. I teach it my way. If you learned it a different way, and it makes sense to you, stick with that.

 

 

IMPORTANT NOTE ‘gonna’ Ok for casual, friendly talking- no good for school or writing, or business

going to – good for writing, school, business, etc.   more formal

 

Same as ‘wanna’  want to

Same as 'cus’ because

MY ADVICE: Use the real words, especially in school and work.

 

Casual talk from teenagers can be tough to follow.

 

Can you get me some water?

I will. I‘ll do it. – decided on the spot

I need a drive to work.

I’ll do it. – decided on the spot

Tonight, I am going to pick up my daughter at work at 11. already decided, planned

 

90% of the time

will- decide right now

be going to- decided already

 

BOSS: I need somebody to move these boxes.

WORKER: I’ll do it.

 

TEACHER: Did you finish your homework?

STUDENT: I’m  going to finish it tonight. my plan

 

Continue tomorrow

 

 

 

TWO WAYS TO MAKE SIMPLE FUTURE

-         “will” –easiest way

-         “be going to”

 

e.g.

Alex will go to the doctor.

Alex is going to go to the doctor.

 

It will rain this afternoon.

It is going to rain this afternoon.

 

gonna- casual talking, not for school writing

going to- for school writing

 

EF45- THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ‘WILL’ AND ‘BE GOING TO’

‘be going to- You already decided. You already planned it.

‘will’- You decide right now.

 

I am going to go to the cinema with my friends this afternoon. We planned it yesterday.

 

I am going to work this weekend.

I am going to volunteer at the student food bank Wednesday.

NEGATIVE

I am not going to work this weekend.

I am not going to drive to Calgary.

 

EASIEST, SIMPLEST WAY TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ‘WILL’ AND ‘BE GOING TO’

 

 

--CONTINUE TOMORROW--

 

 

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New dialogue “Talking about the Weather”

 

It feels sticky out.  hot and wet, humid

Vancouver is very rainy. We call it “Raincouver”.

 

Montreal is very snowy.

The sky is grey and cloudy. It is overcast.

VOCAB overcast(adj)- cloudy

Today is sunny but a little cool.

hot   warm   mild   cool   chilly   cold   freezing

She couldn’t see through the fog.

The mountain is misty.  air is very wet, almost rain

Her eyes were misty. She was about to cry.

 

dew(n)- the water on the grass or plants in the morning

The dew burned off by lunch.

His car is covered in dew.

WINTER Her car is covered in frost.

VOCAB – frost – thin layer of ice

 

It is mild.  not hot, not cold, very pleasant, nice weather

We had a mild spring last year.

The first day of fall/autumn was September 22^nd.

 

She has a mild personality. not hot, not cool

He has a fiery personality.

She has a cold personality.