Summer English Foundations 7/ Composition and Literary Studies 10 Period 1, Class 1
Good morning.
This is the Summer Period 1 (P1) (8:30-12) class for these
courses:
English Foundations 7
Literary Studies and Composition 10
Are you in the right class?
We will get started at 8:30
Today’s Agenda
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Attendance
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Welcome
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Parking
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Wi-fi for students
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Class blog
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Communication via email
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Covid protocols
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Dates, times for our class
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Course overview- handouts
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Small group chatting- icebreaker
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Sentence writing work
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IF TIME Student Questionnaire
My name is Allan Haley.
You can call me Allan.
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Attendance
**Parking**
Scan the QR code on the white piece of paper. You will need
a cell phone.
Put it your licence plate of your car.
Put in your full name.
You will be able to park in the SHEC parking lot until
August 31st, 2026.
If you did last term, you are ok.
Enter your licence plate on your car.
Not your DL- Drivers Licence
Names- confusing
First name- given name
Last name – family name, surname
Allan Haley
Allan – given name
Haley – family name, surname
sir
surname
legal name – name on your passport
Cultural- Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese- reverse of English
Mary Wong- English
Wong, Mei- Chinese
People make this mistake all the time.
quite confusing
filling out forms, applications- be cautious
The website will send you an email receipt if you tell it
to. Keep that email as a record, as proof that you signed up for parking.
You may want to sign up again if you don’t a receipt.
The email receipt will act as proof if there is a problem.
**Wifi*
SHEC students can use SHEC wifi.
Wifi: VSB-Commons
Wifi password: It’s on the white piece of paper on the wall.
Check it.
*** Class Blog ***
Everything that you see on this screen, I will put on our
class blog.
Blog- website
CLASS BLOG: haleyshec.blogspot.com
It’s on the course handout which you get in a few minutes.
I publish these notes on our blog every day at the end of
each class.
You do not have to write every off the screen as we go.
Nevertheless, making notes during class is an excellent way
to improve retention.
VOCAB retention(noun) – retain(verb), remember(verb)
Making notes helps you to retain information.
It’s hard to retain new vocabulary.
NEW VOCAB? blog – weblog- keep a written record on
the internet, online diary, publish your thoughts
older version of Substack -paid
Some people are bloggers. They write about their interests.
for examples: movies, travel, family, food, sports,
politics, music, etc
blog = web+log
portmanteau- two words put together
smog = smoke + fog – dirty air hanging over a city,
pollution
Mexico City has a lot of smog.
brunch= breakfast + lunch, 11am
web- the web, World Wide Web (www), internet
log- written record
log- piece of a cut down tree
log- written record
keep a log- nurse in a hospital, truck driver,
Uber/Lyft driver- record events as they occur
important notes, written record
Some people keep a workout log.
Your smartwatch keeps a log of your steps, heartrate, BP, amount
of oxygen in your blood?, etc.
The pilot kept a flight log.
The daycare attendants keep a log of the kids’ activities.
People who want to lose weight keep a food log.
We have a blog for the class.
I will update my blog every day after class. You can check
it and review what we did in class.
You can check the blog as much as you like. There is no
sign-in or no password. There’s no credit card. It’s all free. It’s all public
and accessible.
Our blog is a tremendous resource that you can use forever.
You can use it this quarter. You can keep using it after you
finish this course. You can use it forever, until the end of time. I will keep
it up forever.
My blog is searchable. You can search for something specific
that you are looking for.
The search bar is in the upper lefthand corner of the main
blog screen. Search for whatever you want to learn more about.
The search bar may not appear on your phone. I will appear
on a laptop, ipad, or PC.
On a phone, click on “View web version” on the bottom of the
page. It should refresh with a search bar. The search bar will be very small.
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ACTION
I will post our notes so far.
Go to the blog now. Make sure you can open it.
haleyshec.blogspot.com
Let me know if you are having trouble opening my blog.
Did it load?
If yes? Good!
If no? Let me know or ask a classmate.
Good job! Excellent job!
**Daily Agenda***
Every day I will post an ‘agenda’.
VOCAB agenda- used for meetings, business or professional
meeting,
list of items to talk about, schedule, plan for the meeting
or class
committee meeting- business, official
You can tell the Chair, “I want to put an item on the
agenda.”
MEANING There is something that I want to talk about with the
group.
VOCAB chair- leader of a meeting, keeps the meeting on-track
and moving along
-chairman, chairperson
non-gendered language- chair, not male or female
He is the chair. She is the chair of the committee.
Western approach to naming jobs- non-gendered, not male or
female
e.g. councilman - councillor
Examples of non-gendered job titles:
policeman – police officer
fireman – firefighter
stewardess/steward- flight attendant
flight crew- the whole group of attendants and pilots
waitress/waiter- server
I will be your server tonight.
postman- letter carrier
Junko is a letter carrier with Canada Post.
handyman?
VOCAB handy(ADJ)- good at fixing things around the house
She is very handy.
I am not very handy.
Mei is the chair of the meeting. noun,
person
Mei will chair the meeting
today. verb- run, organize, lead, manage the conversation between the
people
helps to keep the meeting on track, organized
lets everyone know what to expect, what is coming
He hosted a retirement party.
She hosted a Zoom meeting.
She is the hostess at the restaurant. gendered language
He is a maitre d’. fancy host, French restaurant
IDIOM on track- organized, no digression, keep on the path
Sue is on track to finish high school next year.
Sue is in the process of finishing high school next year. in
the middle
The little boy gets off track with his homework. He is
distracted by his phone.
She tries hard to stay on track with going to the gym three
times a week.
We have limited self-control.
IDIOM His plan went out the window.
Everyday, we will have an agenda.
**Emails***
I sent you an email a few days ago.
Did you get it?
If you received that email from me, that means we can
communicate via email.
If you did not receive an email from me, that means I do not
have your correct email in the computer system. We will have to fix that.
Check your JUNK folder.
If you did not get the email, the office may have your
incorrect email address. You can change it with the office in the next few
days. I can’t change your email through my computer. The office has to do it.
I asked you to respond to ahaley@vsb.bc.ca with your full
name and class in the subject line of your email. Many of you responded to the
email as I requested.
I responded “Thanks, Allan”
Thank you for that. I want email communication to be
seamless between us.
VOCAB seamless(adj)- smooth, no problems, no confusion
seam – where two pieces of cloth are sewed, joined, rough
area, bumpy
seamless- not rough, smooth
Registering for this class was seamless. adjective
Taking the Skytrain using a credit card is seamless.
Raising teenagers is rarely seamless.
Immigrating to Canada was not seamless. It can be a rocky
road.
Is learning English seamless? It is very challenging. It is
also rewarding.
IMPORTANT REMINDER
When you send an email to me or any teacher, please put your
full name and class in the subject line of the email.
Then I will know who you are and what class you are in.
e.g. Joe Ahmed, EF7, P2
Sarah Wong, Comp10, P2
***Covid Protocols***
VOCAB protocol- accepted ways to act or talk
1. Use sanitizer.
Two bottles of sanitizer at the front
2. Wash your hands many times a day.
Use moisturizer/hand lotion.
You can get eczema.
3. Feel free to wear a mask if you want.
I will not wear a mask while I am teaching.
We lose the facial expressions. We lose the lip reading.
4. In general, if you’re sick, stay home.
Talking on the phone is challenging.
EUPHEMISM – a word that we use instead of the less polite
word
challenging- difficult, hard
BUSINESS TALK The business has experienced some
challenges this quarter.
She is a very challenging person. She is a challenging person
to work with.
euphemisms- bathroom, restroom, washroom
UK toilet, lav, lavatory
French – salle de ban
EUPHEMISM teacher- Interesting.
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Breaks – two ten-minute breaks
9:30 and 10:50
** Course Outlines**
English Foundations 7
Composition 10/Literary Studies 10
We will go over these today.
*** Course dates and times***
M-F 8:30-12:00
Monday, July 6th- Friday, August 7th, 2026
Holidays- no school
Monday, August 3rd- BC Day
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Absences-
If you miss more a couple classes, it will be a challenge.
The school is flexible to a point.
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IDIOM ice-breaker – warm up technique, social game
e.g. party, don’t know anybody- basic icebreaker nametag,
invite to talk
*shy(adj)- afraid of being judged by others
*introverted- don’t like social contact, tires them out,
drains their battery
*extraverted- love to be social, love being around people,
social interaction charges their battery
Small groups (5-6 people, lots of energy in the group)
Choose people who do not speak your language.
Reason #1- easy to fall into mother language, forced to
stick to English
Reason #2- getting used to different accents among English
users
chat- casual talking, relaxed, pleasant
A. Topics for chatting
with your partner(s)
1. Name
2. Home
3. Family
4. Job
5. Hobbies- things you do for fun,
like to do, free time habits
6. Special skills
7. Travel
8. Future plans What’s the dream?
Let’s do some introductions. Choose one of your partners to
introduce to the class.
unemployed(adj)- between jobs, job hunting
I am job hunting.
soccer- football
Canada and US – football-
Football is related to rugby.
The big sports in Canada are hockey and soccer.
corrupt(adj)- dishonest, stealing money, taking bribes
corruption(n)
getting money under the table – secret money
engineer- computer engineer, electrical engineer, structural
engineer, civil engineer, etc
FUNNY domestic engineer-
domestic- house, home
journalist-writing for newspaper, magazine, radio
“writing copy”
broadcaster- on screen on TV, on radio
entrepreneur(n)(French)- business person, business owner
She is an entrepreneur.
He has an entrepreneurial / business spirit.
She likes to be her own boss.
tattoo artist
She has a full sleeve of tattoos.
nurse- LPN- licenced practical nurse
-RN- registered
nurse
Canadian Armed Forces
She will enlist in the Canadian Armed Forces.
VOCAB enlist- join the army, navy, etc.
draft(v,n)- your country forces you to join the army, navy,
air force
He was drafted into the army.
Korea has mandatory service.
I came to Canada because I didn’t want to get drafted.
Canada is well-known for Peacekeeping missions.
rowing-
drawing with a pencil
Artists have different mediums.
VOCAB medium- the way an artist expresses themselves
mediums- painting, drawing. sculpture, pottery, dance,
music, writing, singing, calligraphy, etc.
font- style of letters
health care- e.g. phlebotomist- taking blood, medical lab assistant
skilled trades- electrician, plumber, carpenter,
hairdresser, makeup artist, tailor, seamstress,
Trades in Canada are in high demand.
dentist- profession, doctors
doctor- MD, medical doctor
BCIT- British Columbia Institute of Technology
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Questionaire- pass in by the end of the class today
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HW Sentence writing exercise. We will go over this tomorrow.
Please don’t use Chat GPT to do these.
