Today’s Agenda
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Attendance
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Quiz1 (20m)
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Return “Practice Paragraph RW”
1 RW point
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NEW DIALOGUE “Interviewing for a Job”
Talk about PLOs Oral
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Begin verb tenses
“The Seven of 12 Verb Tenses That You Will Use
Most Often” HANDOUT
Thursday
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Attendance
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Continue verb tenses
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Begin compound sentences
Friday
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“Self-Assessment Reflection” Week 2
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Vocab exercises “Multiple-Choice Synonyms 1” 11-20
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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
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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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