EF23 Class 3

 

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 9:15

 

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Today’s agenda

·      Attendance

·      Collect questionaires

·      Finish course outline if necessary

·      “Making Introductions”

·      Family vocabulary

·      Talk about PLOs (Prescribed Learning Outcomes)

Distribute PLOs (Prescribed Learning Outcomes)

We will talk about them tomorrow.

·      Pass-in writing – not for marks. I want to see what your sentence writing looks like, so I can adapt what I teach you. (final 30 minutes)

·      HW   Read it over: “Overview of Sentence Types for EF23”

 

Friday

·      Continue “Making Introductions”

·      Begin sentence work

“Overview of Sentence Types for EF23”

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“Making Introductions”

 

B. Vocabulary Preview

1. nephew- boy   niece- girl

2. niece- girl

3. roommate-  a person you share an apartment with, not a spouse

4. colleague – coworker

co- together   cooperate(v)- work together, work with each other

She has good colleagues in her office.

May and her sister cooperate in taking care of their mother.

company

All ten of us cooperated to organize the party.

My company does business in India.

Many companies do business in China.

5. neighbour- a person

My neighbour is an elderly woman. a senior

neighbourhood- an area of a city

Jun lives in a nice neighbourhood.

All of the people in a neighbourhood are neighbours.

Do you live in a nice neighbourhood?

I love my neighbourhood.

Do you know your neighbours?

I know them a little bit.

6.fiance- the person who you are going to marry.

This is a French word. We use it in English.

They are going out. They are in a relationship. They are dating.

He proposed to her. He got down on one knee and asked her to marry him. She said yes. Now they are engaged.

VOCAB propose(verb) proposal(noun)

 

 

 

 

They will get married soon. future tense

I got married almost 30 years ago. past tense

They are married. present tense

**We will study verb tenses soon.

 

How long have you been married?

We have been married for one year / six months / fifty years.

 

separated- problems, not living together, maybe come back together

divorced- over, finished, kaput, game over

 

7. classmate- co-learner

8. cousin- my uncle or aunt’s child (daughter or son)

How many cousins do you have?

PRONUNCIATION

70 seventy – stress the first syllable

17 seventeen

60 sixty

16 sixteen

13, 30

14, 40

15, 50

18, 80

19, 90

 

syllable- the parts of a word

pen- one syllable

table- two syllables

 

The teenager is 15 50 years old.

 

 

 

13 thirteen

th- sound

sirteen   firteen   shirteen

 

9. mother-in-law –

in-law – related by marriage

My wife’s mother is my mother-in-law.

10. My husband’s father is my father-in-law.

son-in-law

daughter-in-law

brother-in-law

sister-in-law

We will visit our in-laws this weekend.

VOCAB in-laws- mother and father-in-law

11. uncle

She likes her Uncle Joe.

Uncle David

12. aunt

Her Aunt Linda is very funny.

 

Dialogue Reading

dialogue- conversation between two or more people

Charlie

Amy

Richard

 

Group activity:

Get into groups of three. Practice the dialogue.

We will perform the dialogue for the class.

 

EXTRA CHALLENGE As a group, write your own dialogue.

 

 

 

Let’s perform the dialogue as written.

1.Stand up

2.Speak up

 

PRONUNCIATION pleased – one syllable

IDIOM for ages – for a long time

She has lived in Vancouver for ages.

for a while- for a long time, not as long as “for ages”

We have been waiting for the bus for a while.

 

We can try a few more tomorrow.

Tomorrow, we will do the “Write Your Own Dialogue”

 

Excellent work. Good talking.

The more talking you do, the more comfortable you will feel.

You will feel less nervous.

Many people are nervous about talking in English. Everyone can get better and feel more relaxed.

Don’t worry about making mistakes. Mistakes are the only way we learn.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Pass-in writing. This is not a test..I want to see what your sentence writing looks like, so I will know what to teach you.

 

1.    Take out a piece of lined, ruled paper.

2.    Write your full name and class in the top right corner.

3.    In the centre on the top line, write Practice Paragraph

4.    Write a short paragraph of at least five sentences.

 

TOPIC: Introduce yourself.