Wednesday, 10 September 2025

EF45 Class 7

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Quiz1 (20m)

·      Return “Practice Paragraph RW”

1 RW point

·      NEW DIALOGUE “Interviewing for a Job”

Talk about PLOs Oral

·      Begin verb tenses

“The Seven of 12 Verb Tenses That You Will Use Most Often” HANDOUT

 

Thursday

·      Attendance

·      Continue verb tenses

·      Begin compound sentences

 

Friday

·      “Self-Assessment Reflection” Week 2

·      Vocab exercises “Multiple-Choice Synonyms 1” 11-20

·      Listening fun

 

 

 

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Prepositions – short words that show direction and place, relationships between things

 

to

in

on

 

When do say ‘in’? When do you day ‘on’?

No there are no simple rules

Prepositions are all idiomatic.  idioms

 

I came to Canada. I immigrated to Canada.

I arrived in Canada?

Why?

People who use English a lot with native speakers get comfortable with prepositions.

 

What is this?

What’s this?

 

IDIOM It is what it is. very popular idiom

We can’t change it. We have to accept it. We can’t fix the problem.

These nothing we can do about this situation.

 

Make an appointment with an advisor.

 

tricky(adj) CASUAL, talking- a bit difficult

difficult(adj) – more challenging

 

 

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“Interviewing for a Job”

VOCAB difficult, nerve-wracking

 

Read the dialogue aloud. You repeat aloud all together or individually.

 

VOCAB correspondence- writing letters

pension – money for your retirement

administrator- manager

 

VERB TENSE past perfect – formal verb tense, not used much

I have had over 10 years of experience. VERY FORMAL

I have over 10 years of experience. simple present- MORE COMMON

 

vocab on page 4?

WPM words per minute

KPH kilometres per hour

 

clerk- office worker, works with paper and on the phone

secretary, office manager

receptionist- the person who greets customers or patients

front office

concierge(higher-level hotel) and information- hotel

5,6,7-star hotel- concierge

door person in an apartment building

doorman, security

 

** 10-minute break **

 

IDIOM Canadian tuxedo – blue jeans and blue jean jacket

bowtie

tie

string tie, bolo tie

 

 

Let’s get into groups of two. We’ll perform the dialogues.

 

PLOs

ORAL LANGUAGE

EF4 A2 “achieve fluency in pronunciation, enunciation, and

intonation”

EF5 A4 “speaking clearly and audibly”

 

Goals for speaking.

 

 

personnel / personal

 

We are listening to many different accents. We have to get used to different accents.

 

 

Spanish and Farsi speakers –

skill eskill /  salary esalary / school eschool

 

three weeks of holiday

a three-week holiday

-         hyphen

 

Her daughter is nine years old.

She is a nine-year-old girl. no ’s’

 

This course is nine weeks long.

This is a nine-week course.

 

Her new phone was $500. five hundred dollars

It is a $500 phone. five hundred dollar

 

nine-year-old ADJECTIVE no ‘s’

 

The flight to Toronto was five hours.

It was a five-hour flight.

 

interpersonal skills- good with people, talk to people easily, social, gregarious-likes to talk

 

administrators-

 

success(n)  The meeting was a big success.

successful(adj)   She has been successful in her business.

 

I’m pleased to meet you. pleased, happy (adj)

It’s a pleasure to meet you. pleasure- joy(n)

 

It’s a pleasure to meet you. VERB TENSE- simple present

It was a pleasure to meet you. VERB TENSE- simple past

It has been a pleasure to meet you. VERB TENSE- present perfect

 

We can do some dialogues more tomorrow.

 

 

 

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Begin verb tenses

“The Seven of 12 Verb Tenses That You Will Use Most Often” HANDOUT

 

Which verb tenses are you familiar with already?

Which verb tense are new or challenging?

 

 

VOCAB everyday OR every day

*everyday(adj) – something that happens daily

Drinking water is a everyday necessity for me.

necessary(adj) necessity(n)

*every day (n)

I drink three litres of water every day.

 

 

Quiz1

Get dividers.

Paper out.

Phones and devices put away.

Pass it in by 12:27.

Write a simple sentence for each.

1.    SV           find

2.    SSV         spend

3.    SVV        return

4.    SV           expensive

5.    Imperative      lose

6.    Interrogative  hard

 

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